Westminster Hall debates
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
- [Mr Andrew Turner in the Chair] — Commonwealth Trade (39 speeches)
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the sitting be now adjourned.—(Mark Simmonds.)
- Hospital Food (Animal Welfare Standards) (14 speeches)
I am grateful for the opportunity to discuss this important issue, and I thank you, Mr Turner, for allowing me to open the debate, in which I will call for the introduction of mandatory animal...
- Food Poverty — [Sir Alan Meale in the Chair] (71 speeches, 1 annotation)
It is a pleasure, Sir Alan, to serve under your chairmanship for the second time. I thank the Speaker’s office for the opportunity to raise this serious issue. It is less than two weeks...
- Affordable Social Housing (Walsall) (10 speeches)
I have asked for this short debate because of my continued concern about the acute shortage of affordable social housing. I understand why the Minister for Housing, the hon. Member for Hertford...
- Literacy and Drugs (Custodial Sentences) (13 speeches)
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Alan. Prison works. It locks people up effectively so that they cannot then commit a specific crime. Yet for many years, prison has failed...
