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Posts Tagged: Sir George Young MP

Sir George Young indicates that if you can get 99,999 friends to sign an e-petition, you’ll soon be able to get it debated in Parliament

By Jonathan Isaby Thursday lunchtime sees the weekly session of Business Questions and as ever, today saw Sir George Young… Read more »

2 December 2010 | 19 comments

Sir George Young MP: The Coalition is renewing the health of Parliament, giving backbenchers and select committees more power

Sir George Young MP, Leader of the Commons. We are now six months into the new Parliament and, for the… Read more »

26 November 2010 | 7 comments

Peter Bone suggests confirmation hearings for newly appointed Cabinet ministers

By Jonathan Isaby Peter Bone has this week already put a few noses out of joint by suggesting that Whips… Read more »

22 October 2010 | 14 comments

The Government is considering new legislation to clear Parliament Square of remaining protesters

By Jonathan Isaby Back in July, most of Parliament Square was cleared of protesters who were effectively camping there permanently…. Read more »

15 October 2010 | 12 comments

Sir George Young MP: We want fixed term for Parliament not Governments

Sir George Young MP is Leader of the House of Commons. I was first elected as an MP in February… Read more »

14 May 2010 | 100 comments

Sir George Young condemns the Government for failing to introduce a new backbench Business Committee to determine the parliamentary agenda

Just last month MPs backed plans for a Backbench Business Committee to determine the parliamentary agenda, but Harriet Harman failed… Read more »

7 April 2010

The detailed questions which the Government has to answer about the lobbying scandal as put by Sir George Young this afternoon

I touched on what Sir George Young said in the Commons in response to Harriet Harman in the LeftWatch post… Read more »

22 March 2010 | 9 comments

Sir George Young welcomes the passing of the “Wright reforms” to give more power to backbenchers over Commons business and committee chairmanships

This afternoon, MPs have voted for a series of reforms, as proposed by the Wright Committee (chaired by Labour MP… Read more »

4 March 2010 | 5 comments

Sir George Young invites Harriet Harman to dispute his predicted timetable for the general election

At Business Questions yesterday, shadow Leader of the House Sir George Young set out his prediction of the timetable by… Read more »

5 February 2010 | 14 comments

Sir George Young suggests that Harriet Harman is trying to block Commons reforms by using procedures giving a veto to any individual MP

MPs are due to debate proposals to modernise Commons procedure on February 23rd which have been drawn up by a… Read more »

28 January 2010 | 9 comments

Have we really got “the laziest MPs for 30 years”?

This morning's Sun believes the answer to the question is yes, illustrating its piece with the image reproduced here on… Read more »

28 January 2010 | 40 comments

John Bercow calls for “national leadership” to Save General Election Night

In his interview with Carolyn Quinn for The Westminster Hour earlier in the month, John Bercow ignalled his support for… Read more »

19 January 2010 | 13 comments

Sir George Young successfully presses Harriet Harman to support the campaign to Save General Election Night

When Sir George Young first raised the campaign to Save General Election Night at Business Questions, the response from Harriet… Read more »

18 January 2010 | 5 comments

For MPs, Christmas – quite literally – will come earlier than ever this year

As this Labour Government continues to limp on for what I anticipate will be its final few months, the government… Read more »

27 October 2009 | 10 comments

Sir George Young raises the Save General Election Night campaign at Business Questions

36 hours after Labour MP and blogger Tom Harris tabled the Save General Election Night early day motion, and the… Read more »

15 October 2009 | 11 comments

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