Point of Order

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Monday 15th December 2014 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. During the urgent question on Iraq, I asked a question of the Secretary of State but I did not declare my pecuniary and non-pecuniary interests, which I now put on record.

[Mr Speaker]

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who approached me about this matter. The House appreciates what he has just said.

business of the house (today)

Ordered,

That at today’s sitting the motion in the name of Edward Miliband relating to the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (England) Regulations 2014 shall be proceeded with as if Standing Order No. 16 (Proceedings under an Act or on European Union documents) applied to it; and Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) shall not apply to the motion.—(Dr Thérèse Coffey.)

Ukraine (Flight MH17) and Gaza

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Monday 21st July 2014 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Somebody asked how long the statement would run, but I would just point out, if I may, that there is intense interest in it and that the frequency of the Prime Minister’s tennis playing on the one hand and his jogging regime on the other means that he is quite fit enough, I am sure.

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

On the murder of the passengers of MH17, may I commend my right hon. Friend on his swift action and the clarity with which he has stated his Government’s position to the British people? Has he seen the Bloomberg report today that the Russian business community—the billionaires around the Russian Government—is beginning to worry that the Russian Government’s actions will push the Russian economy into recession, and will he take that report with him when he negotiates with the Italians, the French and the Germans to push them for team action? I think this could really change the hearts of the Russian Government?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Tuesday 24th June 2014 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

The construction industry has benefited from the business-friendly policies of this Government. Does my hon. Friend agree with my constituent, the former Trade Minister, Lord Digby Jones, when he says that the Leader of the Opposition is the “least business-friendly” leader of any political party in years?

[Mr Speaker]

On the subject of private sector investment in the construction industry, rather than the characteristics of an individual, a brief reply, Minister Gauke. We are grateful.

Economic Growth

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Wednesday 15th May 2013 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi]

You have to answer it!

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Mr Zahawi, you have already intervened with some gusto, but I would ask you to behave in a seemly manner, as the people of Stratford-on-Avon would expect and are themselves wont to do.

Industrial Strategy

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Monday 10th September 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I appeal for brief questions and brief answers, in order to maximise the number of contributors.

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

I applaud the Secretary of State for the work he has done with the automotive sector; we have seen the benefits in Stratford-on-Avon. He is rightly not going to be picking winners, but does he agree that what we should be doing is picking sectors where we can be world beaters, and improving and supporting those sectors?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Tuesday 12th June 2012 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi]

The CCG covering my constituency is interested in improving patient care by looking at new methods of contracting and management, but it has been told that it must use a clinical support service set up by the primary care trust, staffed by ex-PCT staff and most likely based in Birmingham, rather than south Warwickshire, at a cost of £4 million a year. Could the Secretary of State—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Let us just have a question—not the preamble, but the question.

[Nadhim Zahawi]

I apologise, Mr Speaker. Will the Secretary of State confirm that there is no need for the CCG to use such an organisation and that it is free to form its own commissioning structure without incurring redundancy and wind-up costs from the PCT?

Leveson Inquiry

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Wednesday 25th April 2012 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi]

Get your hand out of your pocket!

[Mr Speaker]

Order. The trouble with the hon. Gentleman is that he is as excitable as he is good-natured. He is a very amiable fellow, but we do not need the hon. Gentleman’s advice on decorum. He should calm himself and take whatever tablets are required for the purpose.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Wednesday 7th March 2012 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

Q5. On Friday—[Interruption.]

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I say to the hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown (Simon Kirby) that he will stay silent. That sort of noise is not acceptable in this forum.

[Nadhim Zahawi]

On Friday, PC Trevor Hall and PCSO Claire Miller, two of the best from Warwickshire police, came to see me about the life-threatening effects of a new legal high called black mamba on the life of a 13-year-old in my constituency. I am informed that black mamba is the latest legal high being sold on our streets in the UK. Now that we have regulations that allow us to act swiftly to ban potentially dangerous legal highs, will my right hon. Friend act on this substance immediately and—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. We are grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who should resume his seat. The question is too long.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Tuesday 24th January 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I think that the hon. Gentleman might have been groping his way towards order, but he had not quite arrived. We will have to leave it there for today. We are specifically talking about excessive executive pay.

[Nadhim Zahawi]

In the forthcoming Financial Services Bill, should we not introduce criminal sanctions for gross negligence at the helm of a systemically important bank, to ensure that no rewards for failure would be forthcoming for those who are masters of nothing?

Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation Bid for BSkyB

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Wednesday 13th July 2011 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi]

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. It is nice to see him in the Chamber, Mr Speaker. I have listened carefully to him—[Interruption.]

[Mr Speaker]

Order. The hon. Gentleman must be heard.

[Nadhim Zahawi]

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I have listened carefully to the right hon. Gentleman as he has so eloquently outlined for us his bravery in standing up to Murdoch. Does he regret that the previous Government held a slumber party for Elisabeth Murdoch and Rebekah Wade, as she was known then, at Chequers?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Monday 27th June 2011 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi]

Warwickshire police in my constituency are pushing forward with innovative changes to its policing model to allow more police to be out on the streets doing what they are supposed to be doing. It is also implementing new technology to allow officers to file paperwork without having to return to their desks. Could the Home Secretary or the Minister tell us what progress has been made in implementing similar changes in other—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. We are grateful. We have got it.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Tuesday 21st June 2011 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

We are already spending £120 million a day on debt interest. What figure does the Minister think would be reached if we had not increased VAT?

[Mr Speaker]

Order. We should be focusing on inflation. I call the Minister to answer, very briefly.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Thursday 12th May 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

We are much better informed!

[Nadhim Zahawi]

I thank my hon. Friend for that answer. As well as being the final resting place of the great bard, William Shakespeare, Holy Trinity church in Stratford-on-Avon has 12 yew trees representing the 12 tribes of Israel and is home to a yew tree that is estimated to be several hundred years old. Does my hon. Friend agree that the protection of such trees is extremely important in maintaining the historic settings of our great churches?

Middle East and North Africa

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Tuesday 26th April 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. A very large number of colleagues are still seeking to catch my eye. As right hon. and hon. Members know, I always seek to accommodate as many as possible. I know that the Foreign Secretary regards occasions such as this as the political and intellectual equivalent of one of his judo routines, and I am sure he makes no objection, but I need a degree of economy if we are to accommodate the interest of colleagues.

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

At the end of February, I and a number of colleagues visited Syria. It was obvious to us then that that country was at a tipping point. Two things were obvious: first, young people wanted economic and social reform; and secondly, the reformers and the hard-liners were locked in battle inside the Government. We now have a report that Iran has been invited in to crush the reformers. What robust message can we send that aligning itself with Iran is in the long term a losing game for Syria?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Thursday 31st March 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I call Mr Zahawi, on the subject of the north-east from the vantage point of Stratford-on-Avon.

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

Like the North Eastern local enterprise partnership, Coventry and Warwickshire local enterprise partnership would very much like to talk to the Minister about our proposal for an enterprise zone—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. That was a nice try but the hon. Gentleman’s question must specifically relate to the north-east, about which I thought the hon. Gentleman probably had extensive knowledge.

Banking

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Wednesday 9th February 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. There is clearly a great deal of interest. May I gently remind the House that Members who came into the Chamber after the statement began should not expect to be called? The position on this is very clear and long established, and it must be adhered to.

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

“If the City is doing well, the country is doing well. When it prospers, we all prosper”.

They are not my words but those of the shadow Chancellor. Did my right hon. Friend take any advice from him?

Loans to Ireland Bill

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Wednesday 15th December 2010 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

rose—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. We cannot have an intervention on an intervention. We will hear from the Chancellor.

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[Mr Speaker]

Indeed.

[Nadhim Zahawi]

I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. Setting aside the technicalities of why we are debating this measure and how long we shall do so, and getting down to the substantive issue of the loan, can the Chancellor share with the House what the fees and the interest to the UK Government will be over the period of the loan if the Irish Government draw down the whole of the loan?

Business of the House (Thursday)

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Wednesday 8th December 2010 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi]

Absolutely. [Interruption.]

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I want to hear the thoughts of Mr Zahawi.

[Nadhim Zahawi]

The shadow Leader has just told the House that what we are debating tomorrow is of greater consequence than the reneged promise that his Government delivered upon, which abolished free education altogether. That is a wrong thing to tell the House. Will he explain himself?

Public Services (Social Enterprise and Social Value) Bill

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Friday 19th November 2010 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

The hon. Gentleman cannot raise that at this point. It should have come before, and it did not. What is required now is an indication of “now”.

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

Now.

Second Reading.

Comprehensive Spending Review

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Wednesday 20th October 2010 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

The shadow Chancellor, although very good at the jokes, demonstrated in his response his confusion about the difference between fiscal and structural deficit. I wondered whether the Chancellor could help by explaining that difference to him.

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I do not think that we will go with that. With respect, Members must get into the habit of asking questions about the policy of the Government, not about advice to shadow Ministers. Let us get that straight.

PAYE Contributions

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Wednesday 8th September 2010 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I understand that the Minister is trying to help the House with informative replies, but I am afraid they are rather prolix and they need to get shorter.

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

Does my hon. Friend agree that the previous Government ignored not only the crippling budget deficit but the serious problem with PAYE? That is evidence as to why the coalition’s setting up of the Office of Tax Simplification is so important.

Equitable Life

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Thursday 22nd July 2010 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

We have heard a non-apology from the shadow Chief Secretary for the previous Government’s obfuscation. Will the Minister write to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority to ask for a special communications allowance for Labour Members, so that they can write and apologise to the families of the 30,000 people who have died and the 1.5 million policyholders who have had to wait 10 years?

[Mr Speaker]

Order. That question may be amusing, but I am afraid that it is irrelevant to the Minister’s responsibilities, and he must not answer it.

European Council

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and John Bercow

Monday 21st June 2010 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Last but not least, I call Nadhim Zahawi.

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

Will the Prime Minister tell the House the number of countries in Europe that have understood the difference between emergency financial help and structural change of their economy? The only party left to understand the difference is the Opposition.