"Is the Minister satisfied that appropriate and, as necessary, enhanced security measures are in place over the festive season?..." Mark Reckless - View Speech
"I am grateful to the Prime Minister for spending so much time in Rochester and Strood. Dr Phillip Barnes, the acting chief executive of Medway Maritime hospital, said this morning that what our hospital needs is a period of patience and stability. Does the Prime Minister agree?..." Mark Reckless - View Speech
"Surely, humility and modesty should be our watchwords in this debate, if only because the reductions we have made to the size of our armed forces across the Army, Navy and, I am afraid, Air Force are so significant; yet we do not seem to have made the same reduction …..." Mark Reckless - View Speech
"I chair the all-party parliamentary group on Georgia. The Prime Minister referred to NATO beginning its capacity-building missions. He is held in very high regard in Georgia since his visit shortly after the war with Russia. Will he say a little more about the enhanced partnership, which will put Georgia …..." Mark Reckless - View Speech
"When the Prime Minister gets Britain’s new deal in Europe, with
“big and significant improvements on the previous terms”
and
“after long and tough negotiations”,
so that he can say,
“I believe that our renegotiation objectives have been substantially, though not completely, achieved”—[Official Report, 18 March 1975; …..." Mark Reckless - View Speech
"Q6. The Prime Minister and his Chancellor closed the gaping loophole left by the last Government that allowed the rich to avoid stamp duty. Is it not time to close the other disgraceful loophole that they left, which allows overseas residents to buy up the best housing in London without …..." Mark Reckless - View Speech
"With even Boris now admitting that his Thames estuary airport plan has no support, does the Prime Minister welcome Sir Howard Davies’s statement that some plans will not even pass first base environmentally?..." Mark Reckless - View Speech
"Q14. Does the Prime Minister agree that what this Government do, as when they helped us save the Medway Insolvency Service, is represent the interests of ordinary, decent trade unionists, who too often are lions led by donkeys?..." Mark Reckless - View Speech