Business of the House Debate

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Department: Leader of the House

Business of the House

Alex Chalk Excerpts
Thursday 18th July 2019

(5 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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The hon. Lady raises an important point about representation within Parliaments and about Members of Parliament taking their seats once they have been elected. I think that, perhaps, an Adjournment debate might be the right approach to ventilate that matter.

Alex Chalk Portrait Alex Chalk (Cheltenham) (Con)
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Can we have a debate about British Telecom’s hapless delivery of broadband under the Building Digital UK taxpayer-funded programme? Constituents of mine in Cirencester Road have been waiting for cabinet 129 to be fixed up. They were promised that it would be done by the end of June. There has been delay after delay and broken promises. Can we have a debate to hold BT to account?

Mel Stride Portrait Mel Stride
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Once again, this might be a good subject for an Adjournment debate, when the very specific issues—not least around cabinet 129—can be aired with the appropriate Minister.