Clive Efford Live in Parliament: June 10th - 17th

Clive Efford Live in Parliament: June 10th-17th

Thanks to a number of beneficial developments with Parliamentary recordings, we are able to gain video access to speeches held in Parliament.

The Eltham Labour Party Website will attempt to collate all speeches made by our hard working MP Clive Efford and publish updates on all that our MP is campaigning and speaking out on behalf of all his constituents.

These speeches below are from 10-17th June 2010 which contains all available speeches bar one. If speeches are unavailable they will be listed at the end of the piece.

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1. Communities and Local Government (10th June 2010)

Clive's question transcript::

"The mantra that it is all down to the last horrible Labour Government that there is no money will not wash if this Government make the poorest people in our country pay. When the Secretary of State took office, he inherited one of the biggest council housing building programmes for 20 years. Will he guarantee that council housing will form part of his future affordable housing strategy?"

2. Business of the House (10th June 2010)

Clive's question transcript:

"I listened with interest to the Leader of the House when he responded to my right hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster Central (Ms Winterton) about Short money and the proposals made by the hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark (Simon Hughes), the new deputy leader of the Liberal party. However, may we have a debate about the seating arrangements in the Chamber, as some of us remain concerned that although the Liberal party is a signatory to the coalition document, its Members want the right to set out statements against certain policies, for example on nuclear power, and to make a principled abstention? As a precursor to that debate, may I suggest that we build a fence down the middle of the Chamber so that when the Liberals are sitting on it, we can at least see that they are doing so?"

3. Office for Budget Responsibility (14th June 2010)

Clive's question transcript:

"What has the OBR had to say about predictions of levels of unemployment and how they differ from those predicted in the March Budget?"

4. Banking Reform Speech (17th June 2010)

Clive's question transcript:

"Will the hon. Gentleman say how many people at the FSA and at the Bank of England currently earn more than the Prime Minister? Does he intend to apply the policy in the coalition document? If he decides to pay above the rate of the Prime Minister's salary, should that element of the pay be performance-related given the gravity of the decisions that such people will be taking?"

5. Public Spending Speech (17th June 2010)

Clive's question transcript:

"Before his right hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr Laws) wrote the Chief Secretary his "Carry On Cutting Regardless" letter, he came to the House and told Members that he had been advised that the future jobs fund element of the young person's guarantee did not provide value for money. The former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, my right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper), said that that conflicted with what she had been told when in office. Will the Chief Secretary now publish both sets of advice and place them in the Library of the House so that Members can make up their own minds about who is telling the truth?"

6. Oral answers to questions - transport (17th June 2010)

Clive's question transcript:

"Will the hon. Gentleman be the Government's conscience on the freedom pass, because when one looks at all the people who have tried to undermine it in the past, one realises that they have all been Conservatives. They have described the pass as a stealth tax, or said that it goes to the wrong people. Would it be a resigning issue for him if the scheme were to be watered down in any way, and will he keep a weather eye out for those nasty colleagues of his who always try to undermine the freedom pass?"

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The missing speech which we could not find the transcript was the 14h June 2010 Work and Pensions Questions. We have left the transcript of this speech below:

Clive in Parliament

Clive Efford:

Will the Secretary of State give a guarantee that every job that is found through any Government-backed scheme to move someone from benefits into work will be paid at or above the national minimum wage?

Chris Grayling; Minister of State (Employment), Work and Pensions:

Self-evidently, if the providers who work for us under the Work programme are successful in getting someone into work, we will reward them on the basis that they provide post-employment mentoring and stay with the person to ensure that they stay in work-

Clive Efford:

Yes or no?

Chris Grayling, Minister of State (Employment), Work and Pensions:

Of course, by law, they will have to pay the national minimum wage. That is the requirement for any employer in this country; it is not going to change.