Andrew Lansley: .... Coleman), who spoke about his constituency with obvious affection and knowledge. I am sure that the House will look forward to his forthcoming speeches. The hon. Member's references to Stamford Bridge and the comments of the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston (Ms Hughes) have taken us on an FA tour in these maiden speeches. I hope that that augurs well as the Government pursue the...
Alan Johnson: ...of his work as a dedicated constituency Member. I do not have time to pay tribute to all my other predecessors, but a mark of the eminence of my city is that other Hull Members include the poet Andrew Marvell, who pleaded to his coy mistress by the tide of Humber. His couplet But at my back I always hearTime's wingèd chariot hurrying near should be a maxim for speakers in the Chamber....
John Grogan: ..., reputedly, Oliver Cromwell was the last non-Tory to get a look in locally. True enough, in October 1905, there was a brief electoral experiment in pluralism when a Liberal by the name of Joseph Andrews was elected in a by-election. Unfortunately for him, he lost his seat three months later in the general election of January 1906. Even more unfortunately for him, the House did not sit in...
Andrew Love: .... The report concluded: In our view the new British Library could be used as a model of how not to manage a major construction project. I was attracted to the fifth report, "Highways Agency: The Bridge Programme" because of experience of the programme in my constituency. About a year ago, the Highways Agency commenced remedial works to a bridge on the A10 which is the largest trunk road...
Edward Garnier: ...to fight them on conditional fees? I urge Labour Members to read the hon. Gentleman's speech in his Adjournment debate on 5 November. The professor of law at Warwick university, Professor Lee Bridges, wrote to The Guardian at the end of last month. He said: One estimate suggests that if conditional fees replace legal aid, this will result—in personal injury cases alone—in as much as...
Andrew MacKinlay: ...desperately needed for United Kingdom Ltd and all the regions of England. It will cross the Thames in my constituency. Like a bootlace, it runs under the river to the east of the Queen Elizabeth II bridge. It will go through the piers of the bridge in its westward approach to London, and at West Thurrock and Purfleet it will carve through a number of important small and medium businesses....
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Andrew Robathan: Does my hon. Friend see any analogy with the bridge built between the Prime Minister—a product of independent education—and the Deputy Prime Minister, who, of course, is not?
Linda Gilroy: ...local connotations. In my constituency, they are called plums after the plum tree from which some people say Plymouth gets its name. Most LETS involve only up to several hundred members. They bridge the gaps between voluntarism, the market and public sector provision. Like a well-known beer, LETS have the capacity to reach the parts that neither the state nor the formal market economy can...
Andrew Lansley: ...ask, "May I see who the candidate is?" I know that that is true for literature, for canvassing and for elections generally. Voters wish to know who the candidate is. They may be able to cross the bridge of the idea that they are being offered several different candidates, each of whom is related to the same party. However, to be divorced wholly, in effect, from the ability to choose a...
Andrew Lansley: ...for this opportunity to raise a matter of the greatest concern to my constituents and those of neighbouring constituencies. I am very pleased that my hon. Friend the Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) and the hon. Member for Cambridge (Mrs. Campbell) are in their places. I am grateful that the Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Ms...
Alasdair Morgan: ...the case of the excess profits that are clearly being made by the concessionaire? Would it be appropriate to use such a tax to buy out the contract? The Bank of America now owns 97 per cent. of the bridge and is presumably clawing back 97 per cent. of the profits from its concession. It is currently being sued in the United States to the tune of £1 billion by the city of San Francisco and...
Harry Cohen: ...have not been consulted on many aspects of the project, their complaints are often ignored, and the local environment has been devastated with little recompense or remedial measures. However, the bridge parapets are a considerable shock, being low and dangerous. Where Blake Hall road, Wanstead and Gainsborough road, Leytonstone cross the speeding motorway below, the parapets are only...
Andrew Robathan: ...; and the Tudjman regime in Croatia is, in the opinion of many, as bad as the Milosevic regime in Serbia. Does anyone remember Vitez, which was mentioned earlier? Does anyone remember the beautiful bridge in Mostar that was destroyed by Croatians who fought the Bosnian Muslims and ethnically cleansed them from the west bank of the river? Does anyone remember how, in Krajina, more than a...
Jeremy Corbyn: ...My hon. Friend the Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone) referred to the rule of law in the future. He conceded the point made by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Medway (Mr. Marshall-Andrews) that there is no legal basis whatever for the bombardment of Yugoslavia that is taking place. If there was a legal basis, presumably Britain and the United States would have returned to...
Andrew Wilson: ...Also, after Paul Martin's outrageous attack on the people of Bearsden this morning, the Minister for Children and Education may want to defend his constituents at the next Labour group meeting and bridge the yawning chasm inside the Labour party group. I thank the Executive for its courtesy in allowing Opposition front benchers foresight of the statement and for not announcing some of the...
Keith Raffan: ...and the commercial sector. We also have the Dundee-Glasgow-Edinburgh biotech triangle. Might I add that I strongly support the plans for an applied research centre for biotechnology in Dundee to bridge the gap between the academic and commercial biotech sectors. Several Mid Scotland and Fife MSPs, including me, were extremely impressed when, recently, we visited the University of St...
Andrew Love: ...method better? I believe that it is necessary to have a robust public sector comparator in order to make the choice. Let us cast our minds back to the original PFI, which featured in the Skye bridge project. Those involved made little effort to choose a public sector comparator, because they had already decided that they wanted to build the bridge, and only private finance was available....
Andrew MacKinlay: ..., uttered from a sedentary position, "How will we pay for it?" Of course, if it were done as a big bang now, it would be enormously difficult. We must recognise that much water has gone under the bridge, but we should not have abandoned the principle or the objective. To the extent that there is a marginal difference between me and the Government, I believe that we should have been more...
Andrew Wilson: ...with the citizen. Perhaps more important, the tax in no way tackles the crisis in local government funding; it raises an extra £100 million—not a nightmare scenario, minister. That sum in no way bridges the cut included in this year's settlement, which the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities has analysed. The cut is more than twice that amount, so the tax does not tackle the...
