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Written Answers — Treasury: Mass Media (27 Feb 2009)

Angela Eagle: For information on the last three years, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 28 November 2008, Official Report, column 1981W, to the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt). Prior year information is not readily available and could not be provided within the disproportionate costs threshold.

Written Answers — Treasury: Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers (26 Nov 2008)

Angela Eagle: ...Official Report , column 98WS. For press officers I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave on 6 November 2008, Official Report, column 680W to the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt). Information for each year since 1997 could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Details of the Treasury's administration costs spending is published in the Resource Accounts and the...

Public Bill Committee: Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill: Clause 17 - Destitution: definition (9 May 2002)

Ms Angela Eagle: .... As soon as Government change existing wording, everyone automatically assumes that there is a sinister motive for it. It is right that, in any legislature, such sinister motives should be hunted for. I assure hon. Members that there is no difference between the old and new definitions. I am sorry if people were alarmed and thought that there was, and am glad to be able to put the record...

Rural Policies (16 Jul 1997)

Ms Angela Eagle: ...voters on the previous Government's 18 years in office. Conservative Members have presented a caricature of the urban-rural debate. I understand that people have very powerful feelings about fox hunting and some issues which may be coming before the House in private Members' Bills, but this debate should rightly have been about the issues raised by, for example, my hon. Friend the Member...

Rural Policies (16 Jul 1997)

Ms Angela Eagle: ...be the last peaceful one? These are not the activities of people to whom we should listen seriously. Conservatives Members need to realise that the majority of people in the countryside are anti-hunting. We must also remember that hunting is not a town-country issue—it is a moral issue, which is why there will be a free vote for Labour Members, should the Bill be debated. In the...

Rural Policies (16 Jul 1997)

Ms Angela Eagle: ...Conservatives brought us BSE, transport deregulation and the poll tax, which decimated the incomes of many rural people. They have no representation in Scotland and Wales. Their concern about fox hunting and many issues that people in rural Britain feel are irrelevant sits pretty ill. If they want to get back on to the Government Benches within a reasonable time, they must modernise. They...

Orders of the Day — Interpretation (1 Feb 1994)

Ms Angela Eagle: ...new British disease, the self-destructive sickness of national cynicism when his own Government treat Parliament and the electorate with such contempt? Instead of launching juvenile McCarthyite witch hunts about the new enemy within in an early bid for the succession, he should look to his own Government's behaviour for an explanation of the cynicism now abroad towards politicians. I can...