Results 1-20 of 843 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Stewart Hosie

Onshore Wind Turbines (Proximity of Habitation): Clause 3 — Management of the civil service (3 Nov 2009) has video

Stewart Hosie: No Labour Members are even here. Where are they? Our party has a better turn-out.

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Banking Reform (3 Nov 2009) has video

Stewart Hosie: The original decision to merge the banks certainly reduced competition on the high street; I hope that today's announcement on the disposal of parts of the banks' retail networks will help return competition to the high street. However, the statement also referred to the disposal, for example, of Intelligent Finance from Lloyds and of the insurance division of RBS, which are both important...

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

Stewart Hosie: With the Government's fiscal stimulus ending, quantitative easing ceased, the VAT cut being reversed and departmental cuts already in the pipeline, there is deep concern that this removal of assistance from the economy will force unemployment even higher. Is this therefore not the time for the Government to make the earliest possible statement that they will permit a further year's...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Afghanistan and Pakistan (14 Oct 2009) has video

Stewart Hosie: Public opinion on Afghanistan is, at best, hanging by a thread, because of the anxiety about corruption, because of the ongoing concerns about the loss of military and civilian life and because the public do not know what success in Afghanistan will look like. Will the Prime Minister tell us today not a time scale, but how he will define what success in Afghanistan will look like, so that the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Issue of Writ (21 Jul 2009)

Stewart Hosie: I beg to move, That the Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough Constituency of Glasgow North East in the room of Michael Martin, who since his election for the said Borough Constituency has accepted the Office of Steward or Bailiff of Her Majesty's Manor of Northstead in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Issue of Writ (21 Jul 2009)

Stewart Hosie: I thought that I was being consensual, Mr. Speaker. I beg to move the motion.

Business Before Questions: New Writ (21 Jul 2009) has video

Stewart Hosie: I beg to move, That the Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ—

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Schedule 56 — Penalty for failure to make payments on time (8 Jul 2009)

Stewart Hosie: As the Minister said, the Bill extends the temporary VAT cut. He suggested that there was evidence that it is working. Even now, at the stage of this short Third Reading debate, there is still extraordinary denial. The temporary VAT cut will protect fewer than half the number of jobs that the same amount of money would have protected had it gone into direct capital investment. The tragedy is...

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 20 — Bingo duty (8 Jul 2009)

Stewart Hosie: We have had a good debate again. We should have these bingo debates more often. They seem to engender real information and real passion from real Members from real communities, which is always a good thing. The hon. Member for Barnsley, Central (Mr. Illsley) delivered another excellent defence of bingo clubs and communities, and an excoriating critique of the Government's assessment of the...

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 20 — Bingo duty (8 Jul 2009)

Stewart Hosie: Can the hon. Gentleman think of any other Government assessment where it is possible to be out on three figures by 100 per cent., 25 per cent. and 20 per cent. on the basis of rounding?

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 20 — Bingo duty (8 Jul 2009)

Stewart Hosie: That is absolutely right. The closure of the club in Montrose was a tragedy for the town and for the borough. The jobs have been lost and my hon. Friend is right that it is difficult for those people to find replacement jobs. In the current climate, it is also nigh-on impossible to identify any other business that would seek to reinvest in such community facilities given the rate of returns,...

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 20 — Bingo duty (8 Jul 2009)

Stewart Hosie: That is absolutely right. We see the large clubs, the well-run clubs and the millions of pounds that are required to be and are invested and reinvested year after year, on a cycle, to refurbish them and bring them up to speed so that they continue to provide the good quality facilities that we all have in our constituencies. We do not want to see any of that investment lost. Of course, it is...

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 20 — Bingo duty (8 Jul 2009)

Stewart Hosie: I do not have forecasts, but I suspect that the industry will be anxious that its pressure on the Government is successful so that we can avoid the eventualities to which the right hon. Gentleman refers. However, I am sure that the profitability of all clubs, and their investment profile over the next few years, is being looked at. In the recent past, 40 or so clubs have closed with 4,000 or...

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 20 — Bingo duty (8 Jul 2009)

Stewart Hosie: I understand the black-hole argument perfectly clearly, but it does not apply here. The tribunals and the first High Court decision told us that the Government were not entitled to that VAT in the first place, and the Appeal Court ruling may confirm that. If the argument is that some of the Red Book's revenue yield forecasts will have to be changed, I refer him to what many Opposition Members...

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 20 — Bingo duty (8 Jul 2009)

Stewart Hosie: What I am trying to do is prevent members of the Conservative Front Bench from wriggling out of their responsibilities to the bingo sector—and, more importantly, to bingo club members up and down the country. It is vital that we keep the assets and the jobs, and all the income and duty yields from national insurance, income tax, corporation tax and business rates. For all those reasons,...

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 20 — Bingo duty (8 Jul 2009)

Stewart Hosie: I beg to move amendment 4, page 12, line 15, leave out subsection (2).

Care Homes (Domestic Pets): Clause 20 — Bingo duty (8 Jul 2009)

Stewart Hosie: I am delighted once again to make the case for bingo and speak out against the Government's damaging tax increases. We discussed this only a few weeks ago, on 13 May, and I have reread the report of the debate. The then Exchequer Secretary said: "We have had a small, boutique, but extremely well proportioned debate".—[ Official Report, 13 May 2009; Vol. 492, c. 977.] She was right. It...