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Transcripts of every speech Clive makes

• Sittings of the House (1 May): Sunday Trading (London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games) Bill [Lords] (30 Apr 2012)

  Clive Efford: What economic impact assessment tells the Secretary of State that all these visitors in London for the Olympics want to travel to Bluewater to shop on a Sunday? What does that say to the independent traders in my high street in south-east London who will be decimated if Bluewater can open for longer hours during that period?

• Written Answers — Education: Playing Fields: Sales (30 Apr 2012)

  Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many school playing fields were sold in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what the reasons were for their sale; and if he will make a statement.

• Written Answers — Education: Elliott School: Playing Fields (30 Apr 2012)

  Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Education under which criteria the sale and development of playing fields at Elliott School Wandsworth was approved; and if he will make a statement.

• Written Answers — Education: Playing Fields: Sales (30 Apr 2012)

  Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many school playing fields were sold in each of the last five years for which figures are available; what the reasons were for their sale; and if he will make a statement.

• Written Answers — Education: Elliott School: Playing Fields (30 Apr 2012)

  Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Education under which criteria the sale and development of playing fields at Elliott School Wandsworth was approved; and if he will make a statement.

• Written Answers — Home Department: Written Questions: Government Responses (25 Apr 2012)

  Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to her answers of 12 March 2012, when she plans to answer written questions (a) 99352, (b) 99353 and (c) 99354, all tabled on 7 March 2012 for answer on 12 March 2012; and if she will make a statement.

• Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Stephen Lawrence (24 Apr 2012)

  Clive Efford: I welcome the Minister’s statement, as far as it goes. The murder of Stephen Lawrence, and his family’s campaign for justice, led to the Macpherson inquiry, which was a landmark for policing in this country. One of Macpherson’s conclusions that remains in doubt relates to whether police corruption hampered the inquiry into Stephen’s murder. We have now seen fresh...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Stephen Lawrence (24 Apr 2012)

  Clive Efford: (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will make a statement on whether she will establish a public inquiry into recent allegations that corruption within the Metropolitan police force interfered with the investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

• Written Answers — Home Department: Police: Corruption (24 Apr 2012)

  Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if she will investigate whether police corruption hampered the investigation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence; and if she will make a statement; (2) what discussions she has had with the Metropolitan Police and the Independent Police Complaints Commission on whether police corruption hampered the investigation of the murder of...

• Points of Order (23 Apr 2012)

  Clive Efford: On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. At the beginning of last month, new evidence came forward calling into question the conclusion of the Macpherson inquiry about whether police corruption interfered with the investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence. I tabled questions on that basis to the Home Office, and on 19 March I received a holding answer saying that it would answer as...