Former MP for Calder Valley
When all that is finished, who will own the licence, the agency or the individual?
Did my right hon. Friend hear any complaints about the national lottery when she visited my constituency a few Fridays ago, and met business women and some of the ladies and gentlemen who have benefited from the £2 million of lottery money and millennium money that my constituency has received in the past few years?
Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
On a point of order, Madam Speaker. I do not wish to quarrel with your decision on the point of order made earlier by the right hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Sir D. Steel), but it has been the practice recently for hon. Members to obtain a Minister's statement from the Vote Office as soon as he stands up in the House and fax it to their friends. Consequently, those...
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The helpful document on compensation from the Minister of State says: The Government has also agreed to make payments … This agreement does not extend to small-calibre pistols held in stock by dealers nor does it extend to ancillary equipment relating to them as there will continue to be a demand for such equipment. My right hon. and learned Friend took as examples transport and catering....
Is it not a fact that Northern and Yorkshire health authority is one of the best in Europe, and are not the Labour party's politically motivated attacks on the health service now leading directly—it is Labour's responsibility—to difficulties in the recruitment of nurses and other hospital staff?
