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Bob Spink MP urges restrictions on MPs’ outside interests and independent evaluation of whether relatives are appropriately qualified for jobs in MPs’ offices

Conservative Bob Spink MP has initiated this EDM: "That this House should undertake root and branch modernisation of the way… Read more »

2 February 2008 at 6:48 am | 2 comments

Contributions to the debate on Derek Conway MP’s misconduct

Sir George Young MP (Chairman of the Committee on Standards and Privileges): "At the heart of this case was whether… Read more »

1 February 2008 at 9:17 am | 3 comments

Boris Johnson quickly corrects the Prime Minister’s ‘inadvertent misleading of the Commons’

What the Prime Minister said during PMQs: "In the London area alone, there are 6,000 more police than there were… Read more »

31 January 2008 at 9:40 am | 10 comments

Why do criminals in police cells cost four times as much to feed as NHS patients?

Andrew Rosindell MP: "Can the Secretary of State for Justice explain why a patient in an NHS hospital has only… Read more »

30 January 2008 at 11:25 am | 14 comments

Derek Conway apologises to House after using allowances to pay his son for work that was “invisible”

Derek Conway MP: "With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a personal statement to the House. The Committee… Read more »

29 January 2008 at 8:05 am | 7 comments

Government defeated in vote for Second Reading for Michael Fallon’s Planning and Energy Bill

The Telegraph’s Jonathan Isaby notes how the government were defeated in this vote on Friday because they wrongly calculated that… Read more »

28 January 2008 at 3:50 pm

Michael Fabricant wants tea trolleys and biscuits for tired travellers arriving at UK airports

Michael Fabricant MP has initiated this EDM: "That this House supports a proposal initiated, funded and operated by Waitrose, to… Read more »

28 January 2008 at 8:37 am | 14 comments

Contributions from Conservative MPs to the debate on their pay

THERESA MAY MP, Shadow Leader of the House: "I want to comment on why the issue of whether MPs vote… Read more »

25 January 2008 at 8:35 am | 14 comments

Iain Duncan Smith raises concerns about impact of overseas players on English game

Highlights of Iain Duncan Smith’s speech at a Westminster Hall Debate he initiated on overseas footballers in British football. This… Read more »

24 January 2008 at 8:36 am | 8 comments

Hague and Heathcoat-Amory’s statements on the EU Treaty

William Hague MP: It is all too typical of the Government’s management of our affairs that the House of Commons… Read more »

22 January 2008 at 9:16 am | 9 comments

Highlights from George Osborne’s response to the Chancellor’s statement on Northern Rock

On the pre-briefing… "May I thank the Chancellor for finally telling Parliament what the Prime Minister told his press pack,… Read more »

22 January 2008 at 12:01 am | 11 comments

Angie Bray AM: Nuisance noise at tube stations

I recently led a delegation, including Assembly Member Tony Arbour and Val Weedon of the UK Noise Association, to Putney… Read more »

21 January 2008 at 1:47 pm | 3 comments

Damian Green urges Government to take immediate action against human trafficking

Damian Green MP begs to move: "That this House believes that human trafficking is the modern equivalent of the slave… Read more »

17 January 2008 at 11:03 am

Michael Gove MP on the benefits of education

Michael Gove speaking yesterday in the commons (Hansard): "Some people argue that the goal of ever-higher participation in education is… Read more »

16 January 2008 at 4:07 pm | 6 comments

Paul Goodman challenges Labour on its failure to explain its £6m “Preventing Violent Extremism” programme

Paul Goodman MP: "Further to the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) about the… Read more »

11 January 2008 at 9:06 am

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