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Clive Live in Parliament: Video Footage

Thanks to a number of beneficial developments we can no display Clive's speeches and questions  in his Parliamentary recordings. 

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.

Please note: If you have trouble viewing these video's, they are running on Adobe Flash Player 10 so you may need to download the latest version of the player.

They will work on all major web browsers . Once you have finished playing each video press pause or stop as they will continue for the duration of the debate. Sometimes the video's will not play immediately as they still need time to fully load up to stream effectively.

However if you have any further problems please email the details of your problem to eltham_labour@hotmail.com thank you.

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Business of the House CSR 21st October 2010

  Clive questions the Leader of the House as to why they are pushing the coalitions savage budget cuts, which see 500,000 public sector jobs lost, without giving the House sufficient time to scrutinise it. 1. Business of the House 21st October 2010 Clive's question transcript: The Leader of the House...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Housing Development Consultation 21st October 2010

  Clive asks the Minister of State Communities and Local Government: When a local authority has decided to take the money from the homes bonus, little though it is, at the expense of a neighbouring local authority or in the face of local opposition, whose views will take precedence-the local authority...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Welfare Cuts 14th September 2010

  The Member of Parliament for Eltham asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the coalition government's budget cuts would protect the poorest and most vunerable in our communities from these devistating cuts to local government. 1. Proposed Public Expenditure Cuts (14th September 2010)...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Phone Tapping Questions 6th September 2010

  With reference to previous events in the House. Clive questioned that the Home Secretary cannot be certain that all people subjected to phone tapping, by the News of The World, have been dutily informed of such crimes against their liberties. 1.Home Department (6th September 2010)...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Home Office Questions 6th September 2010

  Clive Efford asked Home Secretary whether local communities will have a voice if the coalition government implements its proposals to cut the safer neighbourhood teams. 1. Home Department Questions (6th September 2010) Clive's question transcript: Does localism extend as far...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Annual Energy Statement 27th July 2010

  In the Annual Energy debate Clive asked whether Chris Huhne, Secretary State of Energy and Climate Change, whether he could deliver low carbon energy supply without nuclear power as the Liberal Democrats have to follow a coalition policy that opposes what they campaigned for during the General Election. 1. Annual...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Deputy Prime Minister Questions 27th July 2010

  Clive took the chance during Deputy Prime Ministers questions to question why the proposed new boundary changes would not give local constituents the chance to have public inquiries into the changes to their own constituencies. 1. Deputy Prime Minister Questions (27th July 2010) Clive's question transcript: In his statement on...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Business of the House 22nd July 2010

  During Prime Ministers Question's this week, we witnessed the Deputy Prime Minister make a personal statement, when he was supposed to be speaking on behalf of the Government. Clive Efford asked the Leader of the House to look into the matter and he suggested his own way of implementing it...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Office of Tax Simplification Debate 20th July 2010

  Clive welcomed any removal of burden on small businesses and asked whether the Office of Tax Simplification would help raise or cut taxes. 1. Office of Tax Simplification Debate (20th July 2010) Clive's question transcript: Any reduction in the burden on small businesses, or indeed any businesses, of administration costs...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Consolidated Fund Bill 20th July 2010

  After Justine Greening the Economic Secretary refused to give way on a number of occasions the opposition benches joined in to let Clive have his say as he attacked this ideological budget which will see cutting the state back further than it was even in 1997. 1. Finance Bill (20th...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Rate of VAT debate (13th July 2010)

  Clive questions how quickly the Liberal Democrats turned against their election manifesto. Despite some objecting to the VAT increase as he points out it is what they do and vote for that counts. Which is clear that they are helping vote through a VAT increase that will hit the poorest...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Economic Growth Debate 13th July 2010

  Earlier on, the Treasury Select Committee discovered, whilst questioning officials in the OBR, that this new coalition budget has increased the likelihood of a double dip recession. So during the Economic Growth Debate in the House Clive put the question to the Economic Secretary Justine Greening MP to reply...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Clause 1 - Main rate of corporation tax for financial year 2011 - 12th July 2010

  Clive Efford MP asked four questions (one at the start and three at the end) and also made a speech in Parliament on Corporation tax and those who take advantage of loop holes and try to avoid paying. 1. Clause 1 — Main rate of corporation tax for...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: NHS White Paper 12th July 2010

  Clive Efford MP questions the benefits of the proposed NHS reforms in Parliament. 1. NHS White Paper (12th July 2010) Clive's question transcript: The Secretary of State seems to misunderstand one thing. When patients go in to be treated by a GP, they expect to get the best possible treatment...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Business of The House 8th July 2010, Building Schools for the Future

  Following the news of the huge errors within Michael Gove's list of school builds, leading to hundreds of schools being given false information, Clive Efford MP for Eltham requested a debate on the Building Schools for the Future announcements so all the oustanding issues could be resolved. 1. Business...

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• Clive Live in Parliament: Schools Funding Debate 7th July 2010

  The Minister for Education Michael Gove was forced to apologise for misleading hundreds of schools into believing that their funding for builds were going ahead as planned. In these questions seen below Clive Efford MP questions whether Michael Gove was in fact fully aware of the mistakes prior to making...

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• Clive Live in Parliament Finance Bill 6th July 2010

  On the 6th May 2010 Clive Efford MP for Eltham stayed late into the night in Parliament to make a speech in the Finance Bill debate concerning the emergency budget issued by the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition. Clive highlighted many issues especially how this ideological budget will...

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• Clive makes his first speech of the new Parliament on the Budget

  On the 24th June 2010 Clive Efford made his first speech of the new Parliament. His speech was on the subject of the savage budget cuts announced earlier in the week by the Chancellor George Osbourne. His hollow words of "We're all in this together." do not sit...

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• Clive Efford Live in Parliament: June 24th - July 2nd

  This week in Parliament Clive asked questions in the House about the Government's commitment to the Community Hospital in Eltham, the European recession, the housing benefit and the effect their decisions are to have on pensioners plus more seen here: He also made his maiden speech of this parliament...

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• 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...

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