Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Mark Spencer and John Bercow

Thursday 4th June 2015 Commons Chamber

[Mark Spencer (Sherwood) (Con)]

rose—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I note the ingenuity of the hon. Member for Sherwood (Mark Spencer), but Nottinghamshire is a little distance away from Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.

Prayers

Debate between Mark Spencer and John Bercow

Friday 23rd January 2015 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

That is characteristically solicitous of the right hon. Gentleman, and I am sure that it will be appreciated by the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve) and the right hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mrs Gillan), not to mention the hon. Member for Christchurch (Mr Chope). In answer to the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield, I note his point and it is certainly something that the Procedure Committee could usefully consider. I know that he will not take it the wrong way when I say that he might not have had cause to raise this point before now, but because the way in which this operates affects him adversely, it is now a source of grievance in a way that it might not previously have been. However, that does not automatically negate its value, and it might even be thought that he has done us a public service in highlighting it. I hope that the hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mr Walker) will be similarly minded when he hears of the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s concern.

[Mr Mark Spencer (Sherwood) (Con)]

I beg to move, That the House sit in private.

Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 163).

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Mark Spencer and John Bercow

Thursday 25th October 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Mark Spencer (Sherwood) (Con)]

What message would the Minister give to my local authorities, which are taking land out of food production to develop on the green belt when there are perfectly adequate brownfield sites available in the borough?

[Mr Speaker]

Order. That is tangentially related indeed to the question, which is not to be encouraged. I am bound to say that a brief reply of a sentence will suffice.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Mark Spencer and John Bercow

Tuesday 6th September 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Progress is very slow, and it needs to get faster.

[Mr Mark Spencer (Sherwood) (Con)]

The Minister will be aware of how rapidly fuel and energy prices have increased. Am I right in thinking, however, that if the Chancellor had not taken action in the Budget, fuel prices would be 6p a litre higher today?