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Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Devolution (Northern Ireland) (8 Feb 2010)

Nicholas Clegg: I, too, congratulate the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Minister, the Taoiseach, the Irish Foreign Minister and, as the Prime Minister said, all their predecessors, on the considerable amount of work they put in to everything that led up to this very significant deal between the DUP and Sinn Fein. I also join the Prime Minister in recognising...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (3 Feb 2010) has video

Nicholas Clegg: I would like to add my own expressions of sympathy and condolence to the families and friends of Corporal Liam Riley and Lance Corporal Graham Shaw from 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, who tragically lost their lives serving so bravely in Afghanistan this week. I would like to return to the issue of defence spending. The Government are about to make a statement on the future defence...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (3 Feb 2010) has video

Nicholas Clegg: Look at what we have: we have troops in battle without proper equipment and guillotined defence budgets in a world that has changed out of all recognition since the cold war, yet the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition want to spend billions of pounds of taxpayers' money replacing and renewing a nuclear missile system designed to flatten Moscow at the touch of a button. How are we...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Security and Counter-terrorism (20 Jan 2010) has video

Nicholas Clegg: I thank the Prime Minister for his statement. The changing and evolving threat to Britain's security not only calls for constant vigilance, but demands regular review and debate in the House. The Prime Minister can always count on the support of those on the Liberal Democrat Benches in introducing proportionate and well thought through measures to reduce that threat, while of course...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (20 Jan 2010) has video

Nicholas Clegg: I add my expressions of sympathy and condolence to the families and friends of Corporal Lee Brownson and Rifleman Luke Farmer from 3rd Battalion The Rifles who tragically died while serving so bravely in Afghanistan last week. I thank the Prime Minister for what he said about the aid and relief efforts in Haiti. Everyone is shocked to the core by the sheer scale and ferocity of the terrible...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (20 Jan 2010) has video

Nicholas Clegg: I thank the Prime Minister for the little economics lecture, but there is a simple principle at stake. Tens of thousands of British companies are crying out for that money to protect jobs, and instead RBS wants to lend it to a multinational with a record of cutting jobs. When British taxpayers bailed out the banks, they would never have believed that their money would be used to put British...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (13 Jan 2010) has video

Nicholas Clegg: I want to add my own expressions of sympathy and condolence to the family and friends of Captain Daniel Read from the Royal Logistic Corps, who tragically lost his life serving in Afghanistan on Monday. I also want to add my expressions of sympathy and condolence to the family and friends of Rupert Hamer, the distinguished defence editor of the Sunday Mirror who died in an explosion on...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (13 Jan 2010) has video

Nicholas Clegg: The point is that this is not just a question for Sir John Chilcot; it is a question for the Prime Minister's own conscience. When the decisions were taken to launch this illegal war, he was not only in the room-he was the one who signed the cheques. He should insist on going to the inquiry now. People are entitled to know before they decide how to vote at the general election what his role...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (6 Jan 2010) has video

Nicholas Clegg: I also add my own expressions of profound sympathy and condolence to the family and friends of the brave British soldiers who have lost their lives serving in Afghanistan since the House last sat: Corporal Simon Hornby, Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, Lance Corporal Christopher Roney, Lance Corporal Tommy Brown, Rifleman Aidan Howell, Sapper David Watson and Private Robert Hayes. I would...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (6 Jan 2010) has video

Nicholas Clegg: The Prime Minister talks about justice. He has not delivered justice or fairness in the tax system. He is the one who scrapped the 10p tax rate. It is his rules that allow a City banker to pay less tax on capital gains than a cleaner pays on wages. He is about to hit millions of average earners with higher national insurance bills. Where is the fairness, where is the aspiration, in any of that?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Afghanistan and the EU Council (14 Dec 2009) has video

Nicholas Clegg: I would like to thank the Prime Minister for his statement, and of course to add my expressions of gratitude to our armed forces who are serving so bravely and selflessly in Afghanistan. With families across the country preparing to come together for the Christmas holidays, may I also pay tribute to the families and friends of our servicemen and women? The enormous sacrifices they are also...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 Dec 2009) has video

Nicholas Clegg: I should like to add my own expressions of sympathy and condolence to the family and friends of Lance Corporal Adam Drane of 1st Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment, who tragically lost his life serving in Afghanistan on Monday. We will remember him, as we remember all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice serving in the mission in Afghanistan. Yesterday, the Prime Minister said that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 Dec 2009) has video

Nicholas Clegg: Again, I do not get an answer, I get a list. [Interruption.] Labour Members can shout as much as they like, but it does not change the facts. Here is a list: child poverty is going up again- [Interruption.]

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 Dec 2009) has video

Nicholas Clegg: Here is a list that they do not like to hear. Child poverty is going up again. Inequality is going up. Last winter more people died of the cold than did a decade ago, and a child born today in the poorest part of this country will die a full 14 years before a child born somewhere else. That has not changed in 10 years. Will the Prime Minister now be honest? He has failed on fairness.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (2 Dec 2009) has video

Nicholas Clegg: I would obviously like to add my own expressions of sympathy and condolence to the family and friends of Acting Sergeant John Amer of 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, who tragically lost his life serving in Afghanistan on Monday. President Obama's speech last night on his new strategy in Afghanistan is immensely important. He has set a very tight timetable indeed for this new military...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (2 Dec 2009) has video

Nicholas Clegg: Will the Prime Minister confirm whether the powers around Afghanistan-Russia, China and, yes, even Iran-might be involved in the London conference to which he just referred? Without regional backing, it will be very difficult to create stability within Afghanistan. President Obama was silent on this crucial regional dimension in his speech last night. Will the Prime Minister tell us whether...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Afghanistan and Pakistan (30 Nov 2009) has video

Nicholas Clegg: I welcome the Prime Minister's statement, and of course join him in recognising and commending the enormously impressive work and selfless bravery of our armed forces in Afghanistan. I also join him in welcoming the soldiers from 19 Light Brigade and others who are in the House of Commons today. It has finally become mainstream to talk about the need for a big shift in our strategy in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (25 Nov 2009) has video

Nicholas Clegg: I would obviously like to add my own expressions of sympathy and condolence to the family and friends of Sergeant Robert Loughran-Dickson of the Royal Military Police, who tragically died serving in Afghanistan last week. I also add my tribute to PC Bill Barker, who lost his life in the line of duty dealing with the terrible floods in Cumbria. Our hearts go out to his wife and four children....

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (25 Nov 2009) has video

Nicholas Clegg: As I think the Prime Minister must know, the matter is not just for the inquiry, because his Government have just issued a protocol-I have it here-to members of the inquiry, governing the publication of material in the final report. If he reads it, he will see that it includes nine separate reasons why information can be suppressed, most of which have nothing to do with national security....

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [1st Day] (18 Nov 2009) has video

Nicholas Clegg: I would obviously like to add my own expressions- [ Interruption. ]