Results 1-20 of 400 for speaker:Alec Shelbrooke
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: What is the hon. Gentleman’s reaction to the hon. Member for Lewisham West and Penge (Jim Dowd), who said that their party should support a referendum on Europe?
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: I rise to support the Gracious Speech. Without any shadow of a doubt, we live in a global economy. We have heard many speeches about the cost of living based on the domestic policies that are set nationally, and there is indeed an important debate to be had about that. However, like my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest East (Dr Lewis), I regret the fact that we will not discuss...
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point. That is a recent example of a country that we helped to liberate, but it led to issues for our embassy and that of the US. That paints a picture. However good the intentions to solve a crisis may be, the question is: what comes next? That is not to say that we should shirk our responsibilities towards humanitarian aid. More than 1...
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: My hon. Friend is eloquently putting the case for those who doubt that global warming is down to climate change, and I am sure that many support his views, but does he agree that moving to a more renewable energy environment is important for energy security as much as anything else?
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: As a reformed smoker, perhaps it would be helpful if I told the hon. Gentleman that the branding of cigarettes did not make me start smoking. Smoking became an addiction and unfortunately I got hooked, but what was on the packet had nothing to do with it whatsoever.
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: Absolutely not.
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: What would be the direct effect on the cost of living in this country if an al-Qaeda-led Government in Syria got together with the Shi’a-led Government in Iran and took a direct look at the democracy in Iraq, which is diametrically opposed to their beliefs?
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: rose—
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: My right hon. Friend mentions the creation of 1.2 million private sector jobs. Does he agree that that is probably why, it has now been revealed, that the country avoided a double-dip recession?
- Cost of Living (14 May 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: Does my right hon. Friend agree that, whether or not people are sceptical about climate change, reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and carbon is equally as important to energy security as it is to climate change? This policy is very important in making sure that we have energy security in this country.
- Point of Order (25 April 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Yesterday it was reported that the right hon. Member for Belfast North (Mr Dodds) has been taken seriously ill. Is there a mechanism by which the House can send its best wishes to his family, and wish our fellow parliamentarian a speedy recovery?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Topical Questions (25 April 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: My right hon. Friend has been exceptionally communicative and has taken the time to discuss HS2 and the route with the constituencies affected, but that is in stark contrast to HS2 Ltd, which still has not responded to a letter I sent it on 22 February. Does he agree that a Government agency, such as HS2 Ltd, should at the very least be engaging more proactively with Members of Parliament?
- Prime Minister: Abu Qatada (24 April 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: May I warmly thank my right hon. Friend for all the work that she has done? She has already managed to remove one extremist, Abu Hamza—he has slung his hook off to America—and I have every faith that her work will continue. However, my constituents are frustrated not only because it is so difficult to unpick Labour’s Human Rights Act, but because of reports of the benefits...
- Business of the House: Sittings of the House (Wednesday 17 April) (16 April 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: Who caused the skint?
- Business of the House: Sittings of the House (Wednesday 17 April) (16 April 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: Keep going, keep going.
- Business of the House: Sittings of the House (Wednesday 17 April) (16 April 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
- Business of the House: Sittings of the House (Wednesday 17 April) (16 April 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: There was I under the impression that the hon. Member for Bradford West (George Galloway) was a great orator. In the context of his last comments, I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would wish to congratulate this Prime Minister on ensuring that Parliament is not absent for four months, and on bringing the House back in September for those two sessions of Prime Minister’s questions...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: G8 Foreign Ministers (15 April 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: I was a strong supporter of the arms trade treaty and I congratulate the Foreign Secretary on the work done by his office in ensuring that it became a reality. The world will be watching how that is engaged with in the situation in Syria. I wish to highlight to the House and the country something important that the Foreign Secretary said, which was that time is not unlimited in finding a...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Heart Surgery (Leeds) (15 April 2013)
Alec Shelbrooke: In the week after surgery at the heart unit was suspended, my wife and I met a constituent in Rothwell whose child was due to go in for surgery. She was completely and utterly exhausted and overwrought with worry and concern. Many people were concerned not just about the suspension, but about the distances that they would have had to travel if Leeds had not reopened. That possibility, which...