Water Industry: Financial Resilience
Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Lord Cryer(1 year, 5 months ago)
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John Cryer
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I think the Minister may have inadvertently misled the House. She said clearly that Thames Water has not been paying out dividends. The reality is that Thames Water has not been paying out dividends in the usual way, but it did pay dividends last year to the parent company, so it has been paying out dividends.
Business of the House
Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Lord Cryer(3 years, 5 months ago)
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Mr Speaker
I will just put on the record Derian House Children’s Hospice in Chorley, which provides a high-quality service to support families.
John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead) (Lab)
The Leader of the House will be aware of the continued internment, persecution and torture of Chinese Muslims at the hands of the state in that country. This is not a criticism of the Foreign Secretary, because he has come to this House and made a number of statements on the situation there, but not for quite a while, and on the basis that the situation in China is not only not getting any better but certainly getting worse, from everything that we can gather, may we have a statement or even a debate before the summer recess?
Covid-19
Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Lord Cryer(4 years, 8 months ago)
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Mr Speaker
Order. I will let this run for about one hour, so if we can speed up questions—[Interruption.] It might helpful if we try to help each other and not hold each other up.
John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead) (Lab)
Many of us have thousands of constituents who are either on zero-hours contracts or are self-employed. I have raised this question before, but unless the Government can offer those people some sort of minimum income guarantee, they will quickly be facing repossession and homelessness.
Business of the House
Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Lord Cryer(4 years, 10 months ago)
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John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead) (Lab)
The Leader of the House will be more aware than most that the situation on the perimeter of the Estate becomes extremely threatening at times, with abuse and threats to Members, and particularly women Members in my experience. Has he given any thought to the reintroduction of Sessional Orders?