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Debate between Mike Thornton and John Bercow(9 years, 5 months ago)
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Mr Speaker
The hon. Gentleman was standing, so presumably he was standing in the hope of being called. I do not know why he is so surprised.
Mike Thornton
Sometimes I worry I might forget where I am.
Some of the most heart-rending cases in my surgery on a weekly basis involve people who have had mental health difficulties and feel let down by the national health service and other organisations set up to help them. Does the Deputy Prime Minister agree with me that it is time we did more?
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Debate between Mike Thornton and John Bercow(10 years, 5 months ago)
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Mr Speaker
Order. Nearly 50 colleagues are seeking to catch my eye, but I fear that many might end up disappointed. If I am to have any chance of accommodating the level of interest, what is needed is a question without preamble—that is to say, a request for information, which might be thought to be the meaning of the word “question”.
Mike Thornton (Eastleigh) (LD)
Does the Secretary of State accept that instead of always looking abroad for good practice he might come to my constituency, where the quality of education is superbly high, as it is in neighbouring constituencies in Hampshire, and he could look at how it achieves the excellence from which my daughter benefited?
Oral Answers to Questions
Debate between Mike Thornton and John Bercow(10 years, 6 months ago)
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Mike Thornton (Eastleigh) (LD)
Will the Chancellor of the Exchequer join me in congratulating the Eastleigh Liberal Democrat borough council on the large part it has played in bringing the local unemployment rate down below 1,000?
Mr Speaker
Whatever the worthiness of the efforts of the council to which the hon. Gentleman refers, unfortunately it has absolutely nothing whatever to do with Question 1.