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Business of the House (25 Jun 2009) has video

David Heath: I am a generous sort, and I like to give credit where credit is due. I entirely applaud what the Leader of the House has just said—that from now on, she is going to consult before putting motions before the House; she is going to listen to what people say, and then react to those requests. Hallelujah! That is what we have been asking for for years. If that has happened in respect of the...

Orders of the Day: Clause 5 — Registration regulations (29 Oct 2007)

David Heath: ...work on the Bill. May I commend, too, Lord Hilton, who is a constituent of mine? He is a Cross Bencher, so does not speak on behalf of my party, but he played a significant role in the Bill's consideration in another place. I certainly do not intend to urge my right hon. and hon. Friends to vote against the amendments, which we broadly support. Like the hon. Member for Ashford (Damian...

Orders of the Day: Clause 5 — Registration regulations (29 Oct 2007)

David Heath: The hon. Gentleman is about to tell me that he voted against ID cards.

Business of the House (26 Apr 2007)

David Heath: The Leader of the House said that he deprecates and deplores the leaks about anti-terrorism operations. Will the Home Secretary come to the House on Monday to confirm that a police investigation has been launched along the lines that the Leader of the House described? Further on the Home Office, may we have a debate on printing facilities in the Home Office and whether they are fit for...

Business of the House (29 Mar 2007)

David Heath: ...that we are in the process of transition from Camelot to Spamalot. [ Laughter. ] To return to the serious issue of the changes in the machinery of government, and as the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) said, there is a statement on the Department for Constitutional Affairs in the other place. It is not acceptable for a statement to be made about a Government Department in the...

Business of the House: Conventions (Joint Committee) (10 May 2006)

David Heath: ...to politics in this country. The day that we have justiciable manifesto is the day that we finally reach the asylum. Judges should not assume responsibility to interpret manifestos—if they did so, the proposal for compulsory ID cards would have been an instructive test case.

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (21 Mar 2006)

David Heath: Is it not at least arguable in constitutional terms that the other place is preserving the principle of the Salisbury convention by holding the Government to the manifesto promise that the ID card would be voluntary?

Business of the House (17 Nov 2005)

David Heath: ...and is still hugely underperforming, and that it is time that we had a replacement for the Child Support Agency to stop our constituents being affected adversely? Notwithstanding the fact that the Identity Cards Bill is in another place, may we have a debate on the likely efficacy of identity cards in the light of the comments of Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, who said...

Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill (18 Oct 2005)

David Heath: ...method of working that Select Committees use. Three matters of principal concern have arisen since the end of the Standing Committee, the first of which is costs. Hon. Members on both sides of the House have repeatedly raised the question of costs throughout the passage of the Bill because it is critical to our understanding of what the national identity card system will mean. Some of us...

Business of the House (16 Jun 2005)

David Heath: ...on a regular basis, for a debate that might be called, "New policies announced by Ministers but of which details have unaccountably never been given to the House"? There we could, for instance, consider the ambitious plans announced for first-time buyers, which we still do not know anything about, and discover when the free travel for pensioners on buses will be implemented, which is a...

Public Bill Committee: Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill: Clause 108 - Fingerprints (18 Jan 2005)

Mr David Heath: Generally in the course of the Committee's consideration of the Bill, I have been encouraged by what the Minister has said. I have no fundamental disagreement with her on the provision, but she has caused me some concern simply by her reasons for rejecting my amendment. Had she simply said that the words were otiose, as the hon. Member for Beaconsfield suggested, I should have been perfectly...

Antisocial Behaviour (15 Jul 2003)

Mr David Heath: ...this debate and the one that he had intended to have, both of which concern pertinent subjects. I am sure that his suggestion that the Palmers are the scourge of the Nottinghamshire countryside with their speeding and arson was inadvertent. I am also sure that he inadvertently mentioned identity cards. His remarks were nevertheless illuminating because his example suggested that the...