Iraq: Coalition Against ISIL

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Robert Flello

Friday 26th September 2014 Commons Chamber

[Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South) (Lab)]

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I briefly seek your guidance. A number of hon. Members have been in the Chamber since half-past 10 but are probably not going to be called. A number of hon. Members in the Chamber have not been here all day and are making interventions. Can we have a ruling on that?

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)]

The ruling is that that is not a point of order.

Accident and Emergency Waiting Times

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Robert Flello

Wednesday 5th June 2013 Commons Chamber

[Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South) (Lab)]

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way; he is being very generous with his time. He is absolutely right: areas such as Stoke-on-Trent have had their budgets slashed and destroyed year on year under this Government. In Stoke-on-Trent, which is the third hardest hit area, the local authority is expected to spread the money it does have even more thinly across a population that is not only deprived, but ageing. The sniping and comments from those of the Government Front Bench are totally inappropriate. Does my right hon. Friend know when the Government got the NHS to write to accident and emergency departments to ask for their plans?

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)]

Order. A lot of Members want to speak, so we need very short interventions.

NHS Funding

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Robert Flello

Wednesday 12th December 2012 Commons Chamber

[Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South) (Lab)]

I enjoy every moment in which a blow is landed on the Government; they squirm and try to come back. Will my right hon. Friend comment on how much of the budget is being thrown away and wasted on top-down reorganisation, redundancy payments and everything else that is going on?

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)]

We need short interventions. There are a lot of Members who wish to speak. I am a little bothered by the comments made; I am sure that the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) did not want to suggest that the Prime Minister conned people.