Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between David Ruffley and John Bercow

Monday 15th July 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Extreme brevity will allow us to accommodate two more questions.

[Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds) (Con)]

Thank you, Mr Speaker. The Home Secretary is listening to those of us who are worried that some British citizens are being extradited under the European arrest warrant on flimsy grounds. Will she indicate when she will bring forward amendments to the Extradition Act 2003 to deliver greater protections for British citizens?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between David Ruffley and John Bercow

Monday 22nd April 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds) (Con)]

The poet Ted Hughes said of children:

“When they know by heart fifteen pages of Robert Frost”

or

“Swift’s Modest Proposal… They have reefs, for the life of language to build and breed around. A ‘globe of precepts’ and a great sheet anchor in the maelstrom of linguistic turbulence”.

In the light of those words from the late poet laureate, will my right hon. Friend confirm—[Interruption.]

[Mr Speaker]

Order. We have heard the words of Hughes, but I want to hear the words of Ruffley.

[Mr Ruffley]

Members of the Labour party, the enemies of rigour, want to shout down any defence of standards. Will my right hon. Friend please confirm that he will ensure that there is a role for rote learning in the schools of tomorrow?

Industrial Action

Debate between David Ruffley and John Bercow

Wednesday 30th November 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Many Members are seeking to catch my eye. There is another statement to follow, and I remind the House that we have an Opposition day debate too. There is therefore a premium on brevity, the exemplar of which will be Mr David Ruffley.

[Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds) (Con)]

Three out of four of my constituents work in the private sector for middling incomes, and they tell me that they would have to put one third of their earnings into their pension to get the benefits that people on strike today enjoy on retirement. Does the Minister agree that the public sector pensions settlement is not only incredibly affordable but incredibly fair?

Public Disorder

Debate between David Ruffley and John Bercow

Thursday 11th August 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I am very keen to accommodate the interest of colleagues, but we are now starting to get mini speeches. It is entirely understandable, but it absorbs a lot of time. May I appeal to colleagues for brevity—a legendary example of which I know will now be provided by the hon. Member for Bury St Edmunds (Mr Ruffley)?

[Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds) (Con)]

Her Majesty’s inspectorate of constabulary has said that £1.5 billion a year can be made in police efficiency savings. Will the Home Office mandate collaboration to ensure that those savings are delivered, thus protecting the front line, which is what we all want to do?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between David Ruffley and John Bercow

Wednesday 17th November 2010 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. There is far too much noise, which is indisciplined and discourteous. I, for one, want to hear Mr David Ruffley.

[Mr David Ruffley (Bury St Edmunds) (Con)]

10. What the development outcomes were of the G20 summit in Seoul; and if he will make a statement.