Elections for Positions in the House

Debate between Charlotte Leslie and John Bercow

Thursday 26th March 2015 Commons Chamber

[Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West) (Con)]

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. The hon. Members for Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley), for Walsall South (Valerie Vaz), for West Lancashire (Rosie Cooper) and for Easington (Grahame M. Morris) raised points of order yesterday on my Prime Minister’s question about the Health Committee—I was not given prior warning of that. Can you confirm that it was in order for me to raise the issue of the Health Committee’s publicly minuted decision—[Interruption.]

[Mr Speaker]

Order. The hon. Lady must be heard.

[Charlotte Leslie]

It was a publicly minuted decision not to prepare a report on NHS public expenditure. Secondly, I have not, as was claimed last night, been referred for any investigation. Can you advise me on how I might put this false information straight?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Charlotte Leslie and John Bercow

Wednesday 25th March 2015 Commons Chamber

[Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West) (Con)]

Q12. The Prime Minister knows that I have often been unhelpful to the Government in the Health Committee, but as a member of that Committee it is my duty to be impartial. Does he share my concern that the objective scrutiny role of the Select Committee system has been fundamentally undermined by Labour’s refusal even to discuss a draft report, having heard evidence of decreased administrative costs since the health reforms, privatisation slowing since 2005, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership not posing a threat to the NHS, no charges or top-ups introduced, and no plans to do so, and does he agree—[Interruption.]

[Mr Speaker]

Order. The remainder of the question—I know that it is finishing very soon—must be heard.

[Charlotte Leslie]

Thank you, Mr Speaker. The Committee heard evidence of no charges or top-ups being introduced, and no plans to do so, and does the Prime Minister agree that refusing even to discuss that flies in the face of our public—[Interruption.]

[Mr Speaker]

Prime Minister.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Charlotte Leslie and John Bercow

Wednesday 6th November 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Actually, I think the question was about tribunals, if memory serves.—[Interruption.] No it is a good idea to remember the essence of the question that was put.

[Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West) (Con)]

Q13. Judicial reviews can be valuable in enabling communities to have their say, but what steps is the Prime Minister taking to prevent what is happening in Bristol, where a small, unrepresentative group is using judicial review, costing the local taxpayer thousands of pounds, to prevent the building of a badly needed stadium for Bristol Rovers football club, which Bristolians badly want, and which would bring game-changing benefits to our city?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Charlotte Leslie and John Bercow

Tuesday 19th June 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I call Charlotte Leslie.

[Charlotte Leslie (Bristol North West) (Con)]

I think I actually had Question 9, so my apologies for standing up inadvertently.

[Mr Speaker]

No, it was not that the hon. Lady was standing up inadvertently. It is that I am calling her to stand up advertently, on the basis that I alternate between the two sides of the House. Her opportunity is now and the nation wishes to hear her.

[Charlotte Leslie]

T9. Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. In the midst of difficult, apprehensive and gloomy times in the eurozone, what measures are the Government taking to ensure that we are engaging as proactively as possible with exciting emerging markets in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Mozambique?