Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alan Whitehead and John Bercow

Wednesday 26th April 2017 Commons Chamber

[Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test) (Lab)]

Q12. I invite the Prime Minister, instead of going to Milton Keynes, to visit me in Southampton and take a tour of Southampton’s schools. If she does, she will find that those schools are in despair about the cut in pupil funding of 10% in Southampton, which is £475 per pupil or equivalent to the loss of almost 400 teaching jobs across the city. She will also find one school that is inviting parents to clean the school toilets—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. The hon. Gentleman has got his point across with considerable force.

Implementation of the 1995 and 2011 Pension Acts

Debate between Alan Whitehead and John Bercow

Tuesday 11th October 2016 Commons Chamber

Mr Speaker

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I call Douglas Chapman. Is the fella not here? No.

Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test) (Lab)

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I present this petition on behalf of hundreds of residents of Southampton, the WASPI women of Southampton and the constituents of Southampton, Test in the same terms as my hon. Friend the Member for Worsley and Eccles South.

The Petition of residents of Southampton Test.

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Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alan Whitehead and John Bercow

Thursday 14th July 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

The Deputy Leader of the House has other important responsibilities and she knows that. As far as the men sitting on the Front Bench are concerned, they all look absolutely fine and are doing the right thing—simply nodding in the appropriate places.

[Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test) (Lab)]

I thank the Minister for her kind comments this morning. I, too, enjoyed our exchanges—and the chocolate peanuts.

The CMA’s final report has been characterised as blaming sticky customers for not switching and condoning penalties on them if they continue not to switch. Does the Minister agree with that analysis?

Town and Country Planning (Electricity Generating Consent)

Debate between Alan Whitehead and John Bercow

1st reading: House of Commons
Wednesday 4th May 2016 Commons Chamber

[Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test) (Lab)]

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Have you received immediate notification of a statement by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on the admission by the chairman of Arriva in France that 400 dossiers relating to parts of reactors meeting required standards have been falsified, and on the extent to which those falsifications were present in the generic design assessment process for the operation of Arriva reactors in the UK?

[Mr Speaker]

I have received no indication that the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has any plans to make a statement to the House on that extremely important matter. The hon. Gentleman may be dissatisfied by that news. If he is, he has manifold ways in which to pursue the matter through the use of the Order Paper and the facility of this Chamber. Knowing his experience and dexterity, I feel sure that he will use all the instruments available to him.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alan Whitehead and John Bercow

Thursday 25th June 2015 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

That is a fascinating reply, but it is not altogether adjacent to the issue of wind farm applications, from which I think the Minister was led astray, good naturedly, by the hon. Gentleman.

[Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test) (Lab)]

Will the Minister confirm that, under existing secondary legislation, her Department is obliged to issue renewable energy certificates to all applicants until March 2017? Will she also confirm that her Department will continue to issue renewables obligation certificates after March 2016 in the event that her proposed legislation to bring them to an end is not on the statute book by that date?