Results 1-20 of 482 for speaker:Michael Ellis
- Written Answers — Health: Herbal Medicine (15 May 2013)
Michael Ellis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress he has made on implementing a statutory register of herbal medicine practitioners; and when he expects such a register to be in place.
- Written Answers — Justice: Prison Accommodation (25 April 2013)
Michael Ellis: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what spare capacity there was in prisons in the (a) UK and (b) East Midlands in January (i) 2010 and (ii) 2013.
- Prime Minister: Abu Qatada (24 April 2013)
Michael Ellis: Does the Home Secretary realise that she has massive support from the British people for the work she has been doing to get rid of an odious man from this country? She has that support because people recognise the frustrations involved in the processes, thanks to the Labour Government’s human rights legislation. I congratulate her on the mutual legal assistance arrangements with Jordan,...
- Tributes to Baroness Thatcher (10 April 2013)
Michael Ellis: It is an honour to speak in this debate. It has been six hours very well spent. I would have waited 60 hours to speak in this debate. My late noble Friend Baroness Thatcher was a true British patriot. She fought for Britain unashamedly and was devoted to this country. She devoted her life to public service and set an example to me at a very early age and to many of my colleagues who have...
- Royal Assent: UK Border Agency (26 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: I congratulate the Home Secretary on her statement. Should not UKBA now join the long list of Labour’s immigration failures, including the Human Rights Act 1998, an immigration backlog of 450,000, out-of-control and increasing net immigration and a total lack of control of eastern European immigration?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Draft Data Communications Bill (25 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: Does the Home Secretary agree that the Joint Committee, on which I sat, confirmed the desperate need for new laws in this area—for one, to catch paedophiles and other types of criminals and terrorists—and so agreed with the Government’s policy of introducing such new laws?
- Ways and Means — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (22 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
- Ways and Means — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (22 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that, under 13 years of the Labour Government, less social housing was built than at any time since the early 1920s? We are now having to catch up.
- Ways and Means — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (22 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: I start by congratulating the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In speech after speech, Labour Members seem to have forgotten the note left by the outgoing Treasury Minister—
- Ways and Means — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (22 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: Oh yes, the old note that was left: “There is no money left.” That is the legacy Labour left this country. After 13 years of a Labour Government that brought this country to its economic knees and a position worse than that of Greece, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Treasury team have picked the country up from where it was left, and will continue to do so.
- Ways and Means — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (22 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: Exactly. The Labour habit of spending money that the country cannot afford almost brought this country to ruin. The lack of an apology grates, but it is difficult for Labour Front Benchers to offer one, because the team that wrecked the country’s economy and trebled the national debt are still on the Opposition Front Bench. The Budget has been welcomed by the International Monetary...
- Ways and Means — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (22 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: In common with most Labour Members, the hon. Gentleman’s understanding of the economy is limited. The reality is that the country’s debt is the responsibility of the Labour Government. However hard Labour Members try to transfer the blame on to the Conservatives, we did not spend that money. When the current Government took over, £1 for every £4 spent from the public...
- Ways and Means — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (22 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: I will give way to the hon. Gentleman.
- Ways and Means — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (22 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: The chambers of commerce have accepted that this is an excellent Budget. Of course there are issues that need to be addressed, but we are dealing with a dramatic deficit. Not everything can be done overnight. The measures that we have taken on fuel duty mean that it will be £7 per tank cheaper to fill an average car, such as a Vauxhall Astra, than it would have been under Labour’s...
- Ways and Means — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (22 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: I am quite happy to answer that question. I will not be getting a tax cut and I have been driving the same car—a Toyota Prius with several dents and scratches—since well before I was elected to this House. However, I would not want to spoil the situation for the millionaires on the Labour Front Bench. There are a fair few of them, driving around in their Mercedes.
- Ways and Means — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (22 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: Not only does Toyota build cars in the UK, but thanks to the measures taken by the Government, this country is exporting more motor vehicles than it is importing for the first time since 1976. That is a measure of the manufacturing improvements made by this Government. It is just one of this Government’s excellent measures, which is why I support the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the...
- Ways and Means — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (22 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
- Ways and Means — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (22 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: Is it not rather churlish of the hon. Gentleman to make such references, as the Government have been considerably more generous than the Labour Government were in 13 years in office in affirming a 0.7% rate of gross domestic product for international development, which is more generous than almost any other country, yet the hon. Gentleman stands up and—
- Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Lebanon (22 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the security situation in southern Lebanon.
- Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: amendment of the Law (21 March 2013)
Michael Ellis: Does my hon. Friend acknowledge, as the Opposition clearly do not, that the OBR is forecasting 600,000 more jobs in the coming year than had previously been anticipated?