Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alun Michael and John Bercow

Wednesday 1st February 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. There are far too many noisy private conversations taking place in the Chamber. Let us have a bit of expectant silence for Mr Alun Michael.

[Alun Michael (Cardiff South and Penarth) (Lab/Co-op)]

T6. On 7 July 2010, the Prime Minister joined me

“in welcoming the peaceful and credible elections in Somaliland”—[Official Report, 7 July 2010; Vol. 513, c. 361],

and promised to increase engagement and aid as a consequence. Will the Secretary of State tell us what his current priorities are in relation to helping economic and social development in Somaliland?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alun Michael and John Bercow

Monday 17th October 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

We are all greatly enlightened by the Minister of State’s observations.

[Alun Michael (Cardiff South and Penarth) (Lab/Co-op)]

15. What steps he plans to take to promote the involvement of primary schoolchildren in IT and internet-related activities.

Points of Order

Debate between Alun Michael and John Bercow

Monday 6th December 2010 Commons Chamber

[Alun Michael (Cardiff South and Penarth) (Lab/Co-op)]

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am sure that the Home Secretary wants to be accurate in her replies to the House and in view of a woolly reply that she gave to an earlier question, when I asked whether she stood by the pledge by Ministers to end by Christmas the holding in prison of children involved in removal cases—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Let me anticipate what the right hon. Gentleman is likely to go on to say. I note the difference between the commitment that he is seeking and what the Home Secretary said, but as a very experienced Member of the House and former Minister, he knows that I am not responsible for the content of answers. What the right hon. Gentleman is about, of course, is trying to remind the House and his constituents of his dissatisfaction that his point was not answered as he would have wished. I think he has accomplished his objective, and we will leave it there.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alun Michael and John Bercow

Monday 28th June 2010 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. No blame is imputed to the hon. Member for Pudsey (Stuart Andrew). It is simply that the grouping of his question with Question 19 was not something of which I had notice, and it is not a grouping to which I would ordinarily agree, for reasons of progress down the Order Paper.

[Alun Michael (Cardiff South and Penarth) (Lab/Co-op)]

T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alun Michael and John Bercow

Tuesday 22nd June 2010 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. We will now move on to topical questions, in which, I remind the House, we have always expected faster progress. That means short questions and short answers.

[Alun Michael (Cardiff South and Penarth) (Lab/Co-op)]

T1. If he will make a statement on his ministerial responsibilities.