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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 11 Jan 2018
Business of the House

"Will the Leader of the House please update us on the forthcoming business?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 11 Jan 2018
Business of the House

"I am excited already, Mr Speaker.

I thank the Minister for turning up and taking Business questions, and for setting out Government business. I know that the Leader of the House has an important engagement. As the Minister said, the hon. Member for Northampton North (Michael Ellis) has done an …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jul 2017
High Speed 2: Electronic Deposit of Documents

"I thank the Deputy Leader of the House for his explanation of the changes to the Standing Orders for the purposes of this hybrid Bill. Hybrid Bills are a rarity in the House: a public Bill proposing a law that affects the private interests of a particular person or organisation. …..."
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Written Question
Landfill Communities Fund
Monday 6th March 2017

Asked by: Valerie Vaz (Labour - Walsall and Bloxwich)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding his Department has provided to the Landfill Communities Fund in each of the last five years.

Answered by Jane Ellison

The taxpayer-funded, credit element of the Landfill Communities Fund has contributed the following amounts to the fund over the last five years for which full data is available:

2011/12 - £68.7m

2012/13 - £66.1m

2013/14 - £79.6m

2014/15 - £61.7m

2015/16 - £52.3m

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 25 Jan 2017
Palace of Westminster: Restoration and Renewal

"It is a pleasure to serve under you as Chair, Mr Flello. So did I. It is very good for us, I understand.

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) and the other members of the Joint Committee, who worked very hard in the lead-up to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 25 Jan 2017
Palace of Westminster: Restoration and Renewal

"I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. I have to say, gently, that it is the tradition to be in the room at the start of the debate, but I take on board that, particularly given her previous role, she understands the medical reasons—I have a cough today and …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 07 Dec 2016
Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

"It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mr Crausby. I apologise for being late, first, because it is my birthday and there were too many candles, and secondly, because there was a huge amount of traffic in Parliament Square—a matter that I will take up with …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 02 Nov 2016
Good Parliament Report

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Moon. I thank the hon. Member for Aberdeen North (Kirsty Blackman) for securing this debate. During my first appearance at business questions as shadow Leader of the House, I asked the Leader of the House to consider having a debate …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 31 Oct 2016
Electoral Commission (Motions)

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Wilson. I thank the Deputy Leader of the House for his speech; I join him in thanking Jenny Watson, outgoing chair of the Electoral Commission, for all her hard work.

For both appointments, the process of selection and interview has …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Jul 2016
Summer Adjournment

"I should like to start by thanking the Backbench Business Committee for the return of this popular general debate. I want to emulate the hon. Member for Southend West (Sir David Amess), who always gives us a tour of his constituency in these debates. It is good to see him …..."
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