🗣️ Speeches and Debates
-
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I echo the sentiments expressed by the retiring Member, the right hon. Member for North West Hampshire (Sir George Young). Yesterday, while I was asking a question, you intervened, Mr Speaker, because a Conservative Member shouted, “SNP gain”. I could have said, “Well, that’s exactly what the Conservative Members want—more SNP Members down here”,...
-
I was the chair of the all-party group on haemophilia from 2001 to 2010, and what we got then was an interim settlement as well, because no one would face up to the fact that these people should be compensated, not just given an ex gratia payment or some more money to go away quietly. We are told that all documents were looked at, but in the time that I have been involved in this campaign we...
-
A young couple in my constituency—[Interruption.]
-
A young couple in my constituency were persuaded by Mr Steven Macsporran of the Advice Centre for Mortgages to put a legacy they had into a flat to rent in Turkey. He was an agent for ROPUK. They got no flat and lost £47,000. The Financial Ombudsman Service said that it could not give any advice because it was unregulated advice. Does the Prime Minister agree that that company, and companies...
-
I am not.
-
The Budget statement was very interesting, because it was an attempt to rewrite the Chancellor’s last five years. It is strange that the Chancellor forgets where he started, what he promised, and what he tried to do. He came into office five years ago with austerity max. That was his solution. He was going to drive out the deficit by slashing public sector expenditure—and he was applauded...
-
The hon. Gentleman makes an assertion that every analyst I have read denies. The lack of investment—the amount of money held in corporate bank accounts that is not being invested—is a major problem for this economy, so where does he get the evidence of this rising confidence in investment?
-
My neighbour Helen was able to live in her own home for many years with degenerative multiple sclerosis because of the independent living fund, until sadly she died. How can the Prime Minister and the Government morally justify taking away the fund from the most disabled people in our communities, so that they might end up being institutionalised, not independent?
More of Michael Connarty's speeches and debates
✍️ Written Questions and Answers
-
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent officials in his Department work on the availability of off-patent drugs to be used in new indications.
-
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his Department's priorities are for provisions to be included in the forthcoming Modern Slavery Bill.
-
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the potential funds that will accrue to the public purse from the "Europe for Citizens" programme.
-
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the UK recognises as EU citizens all Latvian and Estonian citizens of Russian ethnic grouping born in Latvia and Estonia at the time of or since the EU accession of those countries.
-
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how the UK Border Agency designates citizens who live and may have been born in Latvia and Estonia, whom the Governments of Latvia and Estonia continue to designate as Russian by cultural and language testing.
-
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps he is taking to encourage small and medium-sized businesses to participate in the debate on Scottish independence.
-
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much was paid to Scotland under the Barnett formula as a consequence of his Department's expenditure on (a) roads and (b) railways in each of the last three years for which information is available.
-
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much the Barnett consequential for Scotland from the expenditure of £600 million on the Northern Hub rail upgrades will be.
More of Michael Connarty's written questions
