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🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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I wish to start by thanking all those who have helped me during my time as a Member of Parliament. I thank you, Mr Speaker, for your stewardship of this House, your dedication to our parliamentary democracy and your unfailing courtesy to all sides, even when provoked. It is customary, of course, for the new Speaker to give up his previous party when he becomes Speaker. You, of course, had...
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I have spoken today about what endures beyond anyone’s time in office and I want to leave here as I came here, with an unquenchable faith in the future—the future of a country that we can build and share together, a future in which we help shape the world beyond our shores, and a future in which we always demand the best of ourselves. That is a future worth fighting for.
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Across each generation during the long march of our country’s history, we the British people have always had to choose how we engage with the world. In particular, we have had to decide, century by century, how and on what terms we engage with our nearest neighbours in Europe. This generation is no exception. I acknowledge the current strength of anti-European sentiment in the country and I...
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My view is that the hon. Gentleman does not speak for many Conservative Members, some of whom are present, and he should accept that Britain is linked geographically, historically, economically and culturally, as set out in the Bruges speech, to the rest of the continent. We cannot meet and master the challenges of the future for a country like ours unless we accept that co-operation was...
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I have given way once, and I have to get through this. There is no doubt that millions of our fellow citizens now feel more insecure than ever because of the bewildering pace and destructiveness of what seems to them to be an out-of-control and uncontrollable global economy. They are looking for someone or something to shelter, insulate, protect and cushion them from these bewildering and...
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I asked for this debate on the constitution this evening because in the run-up to the election, when other issues—the national health service, the economy, national security and defence—will clearly be pre-eminent considerations, it is doubtful whether there is any other way over the next two months that this House can give detailed consideration to a set of constitutional challenges...
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I will give way after this. I have to ask Government Members this: can you imagine Scotland, or possibly Wales and Northern Ireland, being enthusiastic about sending MPs to this place indefinitely if they have to withdraw when the real vote on the Budget—the consent vote, or the veto motion—is being taken on this central economic legislation once a year: income tax rates in the Budget...
More of Gordon Brown's speeches and debates
✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to leaders in South Sudan on the recent abduction of children from a school in Malakal.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) when he expects to publish the consultation document on remediation work at Dalgety Bay, Fife; (2) if he will allocate funding for the removal of radiation particles and the repair of the beach area at Dalgety Bay, Fife; (3) how long the period of consultation he proposes is for the review of remediation work at Dalgety Bay, Fife.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the reason is for the time taken for his Department to publish COMPARE’s report on radium contamination at Dalgety Bay.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will visit Dalgety Bay to discuss the time taken to clean up radiation contamination there; (2) when he was first made aware of health risks at Dalgety Bay; (3) if he will publish the advice received by his Department on health risks of the radiation contamination at Dalgety Bay.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he plans to publish the remedial action plan for Dalgety bay; and when he expects to begin a consultation on that plan.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer with reference to the publication by the Office for National Statistics entitled Scotland-Household Taxes and Benefits: update, if he will publish the data contained in that document on non-cash benefits from public spending, cash benefits and taxes paid by decile groups as it relates to Scotland.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish, using the 2011-12 data for higher rate taxpayers, how many and what proportion of the taxpaying population were in each taxpaying category in each region and nation of the UK; and what tax receipts accrued to the Exchequer from each such group in the last year for which data are available.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will set out a timetable for remedial action work to begin and be completed at Dalgety Bay; (2) if he will discuss with the Defence Infrastructure Organisation detailed options for cleaning up the radiation contamination at Dalgety Bay; (3) for what reasons his Department was not represented at the Dalgety Bay Forum on 30 January 2014;...
More of Gordon Brown's written questions
