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Bills Presented: Education and Health (19 Nov 2009)

Dennis Skinner: I must apologise for not being here at the beginning of the debate, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The simple reason for my absence was that I was attending a memorial gathering at St. Martin-in-the-Fields for Professor Peter Townsend, who passed away earlier this year. It was a tremendous gathering of people who will remember him from his days at the London School of Economics and for being very much...

Energy and Climate Change: Power Cuts (5 Nov 2009) has video

Dennis Skinner: Does the Secretary of State agree that the negligence suffered by Britain's energy supplies was during the '80s and '90s, when the Tories blasted a hole and closed 150 pits? We are now importing 54 million tonnes of coal a year from countries that we do not even trust because of that action. May we have a guarantee that now that the world price of coal is going up, we will use coal technology...

Nato: Royal Mail (20 Oct 2009)

Dennis Skinner: Is the Minister aware that it takes two sides to cause a dispute? Is he aware that the ballot result was 70 per cent. in favour? That is democracy, and it is set against employers who have inflamed the situation by deciding to recruit 30,000 agency workers. I know which side I am on. I am on the side of those who deliver the mail.

Nato: Transfer of Prisoners (20 Oct 2009)

Dennis Skinner: No. It was so boring that I did not bother.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Cancer Services (13 Oct 2009) has video

Dennis Skinner: Does my right hon. Friend agree that he cannot say often enough that the real reason why we have been able to reduce the problems with cancer and many other illnesses, particularly heart disease, is the money that we invested in 2001 and the 1 per cent. increase in national insurance contributions, every penny of which went straight to the NHS? That had never been done before in any Budget....

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: G8 Summit (13 Jul 2009)

Dennis Skinner: Yes, they are all Tories.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: G8 Summit (13 Jul 2009)

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Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: G8 Summit (13 Jul 2009)

Dennis Skinner: Did my right hon. Friend remind the other leaders, when they were discussing the recession at the G8 meeting, that he had had a little bit of practice because on 16 September 1992, we had a terrible day, Black Wednesday? The economic adviser to the then Chancellor of the Exchequer is sitting over there—the Leader of the Opposition. Is my right hon. Friend aware that the reason that I...

Business of the House (9 Jul 2009) has video

Dennis Skinner: As the Leader of the House will recall, some months ago I raised the matter of Bolsover district council's need to replace 108 prefabricated bungalows, which were built after the end of the second world war. We had a meeting with the previous Housing Minister, who has now gone. We need to debate the issue because Bolsover district council had been led to believe that if it did not own its own...

Energy and Climate Change: Newspapers (Surveillance Methods) (9 Jul 2009) has video

Dennis Skinner: Has the Minister noticed the relaxed attitude of Opposition Front Benchers in relation to this matter, which contrasts with the indignation that they showed when the police interfered and intervened in the office of the hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green)? Is it because they have something to hide, and is it because they are trying to hide Mr. Andy Coulson, who should be getting the sack?

Business of the House (25 Jun 2009) has video

Dennis Skinner: May we assume that the listening and consultation applies to Labour Members as well as to the Opposition? Does it explain the absence of the Postal Services Bill, which has not arrived in the House? Is that because Ministers have found the strength, having listened to scores, indeed hundreds, of Labour MPs, to ensure that the part-privatisation of Royal Mail does not go ahead? If that is the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Sure Start (15 Jun 2009) has video

Dennis Skinner: When my right hon. Friend has been to Amber Valley and visited the Sure Start centre there, will she continue to Creswell and Langwith? There, she will see two more Sure Start success stories. We have got not only health visitors but national health service dentists in both places. We want to ensure that that is replicated throughout the country, so let's keep out the Tories with their cuts.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Inflation (9 Jun 2009) has video

Dennis Skinner: Notwithstanding the progress that has been made arising from the G20 and all the rest of it— [ Interruption. ] This is serious— [ Interruption. ] We won every seat in Bolsover last week, six out of six— [ Interruption. ] Not in my area. I was on the streets speaking to voters and getting them out— [ Interruption. ] You are no good at maths, either. Will my right hon....

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (21 May 2009) has video

Dennis Skinner: Now that it appears that my right hon. Friend is going to deal with Jody Scheckter's problem with his anaerobic digester, there is a farmer in my constituency—I will not give his name, but I have already written to her about the matter—who wants some help, too. His only claim to fame in the sporting field, compared with that of Jody Scheckter, is that he has a grandson who is a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Parliamentary Standards Authority (20 May 2009)

Dennis Skinner: Does this statement mean that from here on in, Members of Parliament will not take part in votes to increase their allowances or anything else? I fervently believe that this is a better day for Parliament. On one of the days when we had a debate on increasing the allowances by a considerable amount, some of us voted against, and some of us did not take the money either, but I believe that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (13 May 2009) has video

Dennis Skinner: Amid all the gloom this week are two good news stories. One is the minimum wage, which is 10 years old and still going strong. The second is that economic pundits—even the OECD—now concede that the sunny uplands are in sight after the slump. George Soros says that recovery is on its way. He knows all about money and slumps, because he was the man who took £2 billion from...

Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform: Post Office (7 May 2009) has video

Dennis Skinner: Does the Minister agree that Post Office and Royal Mail are inevitably linked? Can he comment on the suggestion that the Network Rail system should be used to get over the problem of selling off certain parts of Royal Mail? Will he ensure that there are other ways of developing that idea and that they are discussed later on, including at the national executive committee meeting in a...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Waste Disposal (26 Mar 2009) has video

Dennis Skinner: Is the Minister aware that there is a new waste disposal unit in Bolsover, on the old Coalite site? It is doing exceptionally well; there were queues there on Sunday. I propose that the shadow Business Secretary get hold of the Tories' inheritance tax plan and dump it in the waste disposal unit at Bolsover.

Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform: Hooper Report (19 Mar 2009) has video

Dennis Skinner: Will the Minister confirm that the argument in previous answers to questions has been that the Government will privatise Royal Mail and a foreign firm will come in? Can he explain to me how it is that now that we have an economic tsunami lapping on every shore, in Holland, let us say, Dutch TNT can find money that nobody else can find? If the economic recession is hitting everybody, where is...

Prayers: Statutory Redundancy Pay (Amendment) Bill (13 Mar 2009) has video

Dennis Skinner: The hon. Gentleman should chair the Committee for the Bill.