Roger Gale MP: speeches

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19 Nov 2024 · Tourism: Northumberland · Hansard source
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As the Chairman I am not allowed to participate in the debate, but as the Minister comes from the land of song he might like to know that Brenda lives in Thanet and is the chairman of the Thanet male voice choir.
19 Nov 2024 · Tourism: Bedfordshire · Hansard source
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I am pleased to be able to offer my Jurassic chairmanship. I call Sir Chris Bryant.
19 Nov 2024 · Tourism: Bedfordshire · Hansard source
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I am afraid I do not.
19 Nov 2024 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Situation · Hansard source
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Order. We must keep an eye on the clock. [ Interruption. ]
19 Nov 2024 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Situation · Hansard source
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Could those who wish to speak in the debate remain standing for a quick headcount? [ Interruption. ] We are going to put a three-minute time limit on immediately, and that may have to be reduced. I am conscious of the fact that some people have intervened, and I am assuming that those who have intervened do not intend to speak. Priority will be given to those who have not intervened.
19 Nov 2024 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Situation · Hansard source
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Order. I have been informed that three Members who have spoken in the debate wish to attend a meeting with the Foreign Secretary at 4 o’clock. Of course, the Divisions were not entirely foreseeable, and they have extended the debate, which will now end at 4.25 pm. I will permit this, but Members need to understand that, had there not been Divisions, the debate would have ended at 4 o’clock. Colleagues know that. Unless you are thinking of travelling by TARDIS, it is not possible to get from here to Committee Room 7 without a minute. In future, when you plan your diaries, please make sure that if you intend to speak in a debate, you have the opportunity to do the Front-Bench spokespeople the courtesy of attending the wind-ups. With that proviso, Members who need to leave may leave at three minutes to 4.
19 Nov 2024 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Situation · Hansard source
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Order. I must ask hon. Members to keep an eye on the clock.
19 Nov 2024 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Situation · Hansard source
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Order. Will Members stand again, please? One or two people who were standing are not now.
19 Nov 2024 · Occupied Palestinian Territories: Humanitarian Situation · Hansard source
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Order. Interventions are interventions, not speeches. As the hon. Lady can see, there are quite a lot of Members who wish to participate in this debate. We cannot have speeches under the guise of interventions.
18 Nov 2024 · NATO: Missile Defence Co-operation · Hansard source
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Will the United Kingdom, preferably in tandem with our European colleagues but if necessary bilaterally with the United States, align with the United States in permitting Ukraine to use the missile defence systems that we have supplied as it sees fit in its own defence?
14 Nov 2024 · International Trade Agreements · Hansard source
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There will be small point in protecting farmers in international trade agreements if Government policy is undermining those same farmers domestically. How many thousands of farmers will it take to clog up Parliament Square next Tuesday before the Government realise that their inheritance tax policy is very deeply flawed?
14 Nov 2024 · National Insurance Contributions: Healthcare · Hansard source
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Dr Aleksandra Fox of the Ash surgery in my constituency is one of a number of GPs who have pointed out to me the deleterious effects of an ill-thought-through Budget. In addition, charities such as Shooting Star and Demelza children’s hospices are facing problems now. They cannot wait for discussions through the normal channels while this cock-up is put right. When will something be done about it, please?
11 Nov 2024 · Rural Affairs · Hansard source
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The right hon. Gentleman referred to the amount of money being made available for flooding. The devastation caused by flooding pales into insignificance compared with the damage that will be done by inheritance tax. This weekend a farmer in my constituency has cancelled the building of a new barn because of it. Park home owners in my area are in despair as a result of what the Budget is doing to them. Does the right hon. Gentleman not understand that?
11 Nov 2024 · Rural Affairs · Hansard source
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6 Nov 2024 · Furniture Poverty · Hansard source
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Order. If we can keep contributions to about five minutes each, we might be able to get everybody in.
6 Nov 2024 · Furniture Poverty · Hansard source
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This is a one-hour debate. Four Members, in addition to the Member in charge, have already indicated that they wish to speak. We are pushing the clock a bit, so anybody who has not already so indicated is unlikely to get called, although that depends on how long Members speak for. Members may wish to consider intervening rather than trying to make a speech.
5 Nov 2024 · Police Funding · Hansard source
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Before I call the hon. Member for North Down to move the motion, I inform Members that the Parliamentary Digital Communications Team will be conducting secondary filming during today’s debate.
5 Nov 2024 · Police Funding · Hansard source
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Order. Mr Shannon, I appreciate that you have been detained elsewhere with other business in the House but we are playing “beat the clock”, so I will not be able to call you. Ordinarily, because you arrived so late, I would not be able to allow you to intervene, but under these circumstances, if you choose to intervene on one of the Front-Bench spokesmen, I will allow you to do so.
5 Nov 2024 · Police Funding · Hansard source
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Will those Members wishing to speak please stand up? I want to see who they are. Right—I am going to put a time limit of six minutes on each speech. There are four who certainly want to get in and we need to hit the winding-up speeches at about 5.5 pm.
4 Nov 2024 · Budget: Implications for Farming Communities · Hansard source
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In the rural England that I am privileged to represent part of, they say that you should live as if you are going to die tomorrow and farm as if you are going to live forever. Do the Government not understand that if we inheritance-tax our farms out of existence, there will be no forever, and there will be no food from what was once the garden of England?
4 Nov 2024 · Point of Order · Hansard source
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indicated assent.
4 Nov 2024 · Point of Order · Hansard source
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Were you given any indication as to why the Secretary of State was not here to answer the urgent question, Mr Speaker?
4 Nov 2024 · Point of Order · Hansard source
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On a point of order, Mr Speaker.
31 Oct 2024 · Cancer Strategy for England · Hansard source
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I do not want to go down the road of party politics. The previous Government poured shedloads of money into the national health service, but throwing money at the problem is not the answer. I am not saying that there is not any demand for more capital expenditure—there is—but that is not the point. Unless we get the structure right, we will go on wasting more and more money. We need to be grown up about this; we must all understand that. In the few minutes I have, I want to concentrate on an issue that the hon. Member for Wokingham (Clive Jones) touched on, but only briefly: the incidence of cancer in young people. It is many years since my eldest son used his wedding—and probably his bride too—to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. In the time between then and now, sadly not a very great deal has changed. That is lamentable. The point was made that, every day, seven young people between their teenage years and their mid-20s are diagnosed with cancer. By the end of this decade, that figure is likely to have risen to 10 per day. Most of us in the Chamber probably have family members who have had experience of cancer—or even have personal experience, as the hon. Member for Wokingham clearly has. We all know somebody who has had cancer, and sadly some of us know, only too well, people who have died of cancer. But the instances of cancer among young people are widely disregarded and neglected within the health service and beyond. It is not infrequent for a young person, subsequently diagnosed, to have to make at least three visits to a general practitioner before even being referred, because it is assumed, completely wrongly, that cancer is something that affects old people—people like me. I am expected to get cancer, but young people do not get it, do they? Well, sadly, yes they do, at a rate of seven a day, rising to 10 a day by the end of the decade. My plea is for the Minister to take away this message: however much money is being pumped into the health service and being made available for investment in diagnostic kit, there is a real need to address one area of the population that has been neglected. That area is teenage cancer victims. It is the largest single killer of young people in this country—bar none—yet young people are overlooked when it comes to clinical trials that could be lifesaving. There is a real reason why young people as a proportion of the population should be included in clinical trials, but they are not—they are overlooked. Why? Because there is the assumption that it is not a disease that affects young people. But it does. I make my plea on behalf of those in my family who support the Teenage Cancer Trust, and those in the Teenage Cancer Trust who have taken the trouble to brief Members of Parliament. I ram home this message to the Minister and ask him to take it away to the Secretary of State: when we set up, as I am sure we will, a national cancer strategy, the Government must make certain that the 13-to-25 age group is given the recognition it deserves, so that they get the diagnoses in time, before they die, and the treatment they need, and so they are included in clinical trials.
30 Oct 2024 · COP29 and International Climate Finance · Hansard source
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Sir Roger.

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