Results 1-20 of 973 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Michael Moore

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: VAT Returns (3 Nov 2009) has video

Michael Moore: Will the Minister give us an assurance that he will devote enough management time and resources to this stage of reforms, so that we can avoid the utter chaos experienced by many of my constituents with more recent reforms? As a result of the latter, for many people it is taking months to get thousands of pounds of tax that is their due repaid.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Common Agricultural Policy (29 Oct 2009) has video

Michael Moore: What recent discussions his Department has had with the European Commission on reform of the common agricultural policy.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Common Agricultural Policy (29 Oct 2009) has video

Michael Moore: Previously the Secretary of State has acknowledged the difficulties facing hill farmers in my constituency and elsewhere in the UK, which have not been eased by the implementation of sheep identification tags. Those farmers are deeply alarmed by the DEFRA vision for the future of agriculture. In the context of the recent Calman commission recommendations that Scottish and other devolved...

Textile Industry (21 Oct 2009)

Michael Moore: The textile sector is a huge and important part of Britain's manufacturing economy, but there is sometimes a tendency for people to talk it down. I am absolutely not in that camp. I think that British textiles remain at the forefront of the industry and are among the finest anywhere in the world, particularly the sector that I represent—the Scottish cashmere industry in my constituency...

Textile Industry (21 Oct 2009)

Michael Moore: As ever, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Gale. I hope that we will give you an easy time over the next half hour. I am not sure that I would express the same sentiments to the Minister, because I have a few hard questions for him. However, I am grateful for the opportunity to bring before the House the hugely important issue of the difficulties faced by the textile...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: East Africa (21 Oct 2009) has video

Michael Moore: The situation in east Africa, particularly in Ethiopia, is dire. We welcome the additional support that the Government have offered to the Governments there but, as the hon. Member for Loughborough (Mr. Reed) highlighted, it is 25 years since the famine that killed a million people. Is it not a scandal that the World Food Programme has barely half the funding that it needs to feed the 100...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Oct 2009) has video

Michael Moore: It is nearly 30 years since the Conservatives decided that pensioners did not deserve the same annual increase in their incomes as people who were in work. Does it not pain the Prime Minister that after 12 years of a Labour Government, pensioners are being told that it may still be six years before the earnings link is restored?

Royal Assent (21 Jul 2009)

Michael Moore: Can the Minister explain why it would not be in order to have a debate on a substantive motion in this place?

Royal Assent (21 Jul 2009)

Michael Moore: The hon. Member for Chorley (Mr. Hoyle) opened the debate this afternoon at breathtaking speed. He did not quite leave himself breathless, but I was impressed by the number of different subjects that he was able to cover in the relatively short time that is available to us today. I have common cause with him about the Government's incredible approach to the future of tax offices, which, in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Building our Common Future (6 Jul 2009)

Michael Moore: May I, too, thank the Secretary of State for an advance copy of the statement and the White Paper? However, I echo the shadow International Development Secretary's plea for a full debate on this substantive issue as soon as possible. In a world of enormous disparities of wealth and life experience, we clearly have huge moral responsibilities to provide official development assistance, as the...

Bill Presented — Sustainable Energy (Local Plans) Bill: National Express East Coast Franchise (1 Jul 2009) has video

Michael Moore: In the 1,500 square miles of my constituency there is not a single railway station, which makes the one at Berwick-upon-Tweed, in my right hon. Friend's constituency, of great strategic importance to my constituents. Will the Minister give a specific pledge that under Government control and the new contract, services to and from Berwick-upon-Tweed will not be altered unless they are improved?

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Afghanistan (24 Jun 2009) has video

Michael Moore: Mr. Speaker, may I add my congratulations to you on your election on Monday, and may I wish you many happy years occupying the Chair? Following the Secretary of State's previous answer, may I ask him, in the context of the United States' major reassessment of its strategy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan, and of the tragic loss of life following the recent drone attack, how we are going to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Digital Britain (16 Jun 2009) has video

Michael Moore: After 12 years of this Government's broadcasting policy, my constituents are still left with a second-class mobile phone network and, having switched over to digital television, half of them are now getting the second-class "Freeview Lite" service. Although I, too, welcome the new commitment to super-fast broadband across the whole country, will the Secretary of State give us an assurance...

Bill Presented: Clause 16 — Rates and rebates from September 2009 (13 May 2009) has video

Michael Moore: I wish The Telegraph did.

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Afghanistan (13 May 2009) has video

Michael Moore: I, too, send the condolences of my right hon. and hon. Friends to the family of the solider who died this morning, and remember those who have given their lives in Afghanistan. I join the Secretary of State in paying tribute to the bravery, professionalism and dedication of all our armed forces in Afghanistan, and also to the members of his Department who work in incredibly difficult...

Business of the House (2 Apr 2009) has video

Michael Moore: In recent days, European Commission officials have been briefed by Scottish fishing leaders about the impact of the reduction in effort days at sea on this year's fishing, particularly as it affects my constituents in Berwickshire. Given the seriousness of the situation, there is now an issue about the financial sustainability of the industry, quite apart from the issue of the sustainability...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (2 Apr 2009) has video

Michael Moore: In recent days, there have been some suggestions of introducing some flexibility into the new regulations on the electronic identification of sheep. Will the Secretary of State confirm that, and does he recognise that there is now an urgent crisis in the hill farms of the UK, which the regulations will make much worse?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Credit Insurance (26 Mar 2009) has video

Michael Moore: For many world-class textile businesses in my constituency, the lack of credit insurance is now a very serious issue. In addition to the monitoring that the Chief Secretary is doing, will she look at the increasing amount of information that we are getting to the effect that the banks are restricting their own facilities and their lending to these companies because there is no credit...

Oral Answers to Questions — International Development: Gaza (Reconstruction) (25 Mar 2009) has video

Michael Moore: Two months on from the end of the conflict, as hon. Members have pointed out, the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains absolutely desperate. We all accept that we must take every measure to avoid aid being diverted by Hamas to other ends, but the Secretary of State himself has expressed concerns about the Israeli Government, who are allowing through only about a fifth of the humanitarian...