Eltham Labour Party

 

Transcripts of every speech Clive makes

• Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Commission Committee: Annual Energy Statement (27 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: In his statement, the Secretary of State said that the Government were committed to removing any unnecessary obstacles to investment in new nuclear. I assume that that is a reference to Liberal Democrat policy. Does he still believe it is possible to deliver a low-carbon energy supply without nuclear? Is that his policy, or has he changed his mind, and will he be in a darkened room when we...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Commission Committee: Annual Energy Statement (27 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: In his statement, the Secretary of State said that the Government were committed to removing any unnecessary obstacles to investment in new nuclear. I assume that that is a reference to Liberal Democrat policy. Does he still believe it is possible to deliver a low-carbon energy supply without nuclear? Is that his policy, or has he changed his mind, and will he be in a darkened room when we...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: Topical Questions (27 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: In his statement on 5 July, the Deputy Prime Minister said he wanted to empower local people, but the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill specifically excludes the right of the Boundary Commission to hold local public inquiries. How is that empowering local people to have understandable, local boundaries that respect acknowledged local communities?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: Topical Questions (27 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: In his statement on 5 July, the Deputy Prime Minister said he wanted to empower local people, but the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill specifically excludes the right of the Boundary Commission to hold local public inquiries. How is that empowering local people to have understandable, local boundaries that respect acknowledged local communities?

• Written Answers — Education: Building Schools for the Future Programme (27 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) pursuant to the oral statement of 7 July 2010, Official Report, columns 484-85, on schools funding, for what reason the location of Broadoak School was given as Eltham constituency in the list provided to the House; and if he will make a statement; (2) pursuant to the oral statement of 5 July 2010, Official Report, columns 47-50, on...

• Business of the House (22 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: The duty of the Leader of the House is to protect the interests of the House. When we have asked questions of Ministers at the Dispatch Box we have been labouring under the misapprehension that they have actually been speaking on behalf of the Government. Yesterday, we heard the statement from the Deputy Prime Minister which, it was later said, was a personal statement or a statement of...

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Will the Minister give way?

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Will the Minister give way?

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Will the Minister give way?

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Will the Minister give way?

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Will the Minister give way?

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Will the Minister give way?

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Will the Minister give way?

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Will the Minister give way?

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: I am very grateful to the hon. Lady, but will she accept this one point? Throughout the debate her party has argued that the state is too big. Everyone accepts that the Budget will cut the size of the state so that in six years, it will be smaller as a proportion of GDP than it was in 1997. Does that not suggest that it is an ideological move, and on that basis does she not accept that if the...

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: I am very grateful to the hon. Lady, but will she accept this one point? Throughout the debate her party has argued that the state is too big. Everyone accepts that the Budget will cut the size of the state so that in six years, it will be smaller as a proportion of GDP than it was in 1997. Does that not suggest that it is an ideological move, and on that basis does she not accept that if the...

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Will the Minister give way?

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Will the Minister give way?

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: I am very grateful to the hon. Lady, but will she accept this one point? Throughout the debate her party has argued that the state is too big. Everyone accepts that the Budget will cut the size of the state so that in six years, it will be smaller as a proportion of GDP than it was in 1997. Does that not suggest that it is an ideological move, and on that basis does she not accept that if the...

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Will the Minister give way?

• Consolidated Fund (Apppropriation) Bill: Finance Bill (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Will the Minister give way?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Office of Tax Simplification (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Any reduction in the burden on small businesses, or indeed any businesses, of administration costs in paying tax is to be welcomed. However, can the Minister say whether, as a result of simplification of the tax system, he expects to raise more tax or less?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Office of Tax Simplification (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Any reduction in the burden on small businesses, or indeed any businesses, of administration costs in paying tax is to be welcomed. However, can the Minister say whether, as a result of simplification of the tax system, he expects to raise more tax or less?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Office of Tax Simplification (20 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Any reduction in the burden on small businesses, or indeed any businesses, of administration costs in paying tax is to be welcomed. However, can the Minister say whether, as a result of simplification of the tax system, he expects to raise more tax or less?

• Bill Presented — Shared Parenting Orders Bill: Clause 3 — Rate of value added tax (13 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: In answer to the Liberal Democrats, it is not what Governments consider but what they do and what they vote for that counts. The increase in VAT will hurt the poorest in our communities. Furthermore, to return to my hon. Friend's point about the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when the right hon. Gentleman told Andrew Marr that he was making a political point, the...

• Bill Presented — Shared Parenting Orders Bill: Clause 3 — Rate of value added tax (13 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: In answer to the Liberal Democrats, it is not what Governments consider but what they do and what they vote for that counts. The increase in VAT will hurt the poorest in our communities. Furthermore, to return to my hon. Friend's point about the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when the right hon. Gentleman told Andrew Marr that he was making a political point, the...

• Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Economic Growth (South-East) (13 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Should businesses in the south-east be concerned now that the Office for Budget Responsibility has made it clear to the Treasury Committee that the Budget increases the chances of a double-dip recession?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Economic Growth (South-East) (13 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: Should businesses in the south-east be concerned now that the Office for Budget Responsibility has made it clear to the Treasury Committee that the Budget increases the chances of a double-dip recession?

• Finance Bill: Clause 1 — Main rate of corporation tax for financial year 2011 (12 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: To correct the hon. Member for West Suffolk (Matthew Hancock), it is just not true to say that the banks are going to pay more. Deutsche Bank has said: "Taking 2% off the 2012 tax rate for the five banks listed in the UK would increase profit by £1.16bn, that is it should almost offset all of the banks tax. Overall a good outcome for the banks." Similarly, HSBC said: "We'd expect most...

• Finance Bill: Clause 1 — Main rate of corporation tax for financial year 2011 (12 Jul 2010)

  Clive Efford: I apologise to the hon. Gentleman in advance for going back to what was said during the general election, but it is important in this context. The Liberal Democrats said that they were in favour of a banking levy, as he has just said, but they went further and said that it would be in addition to corporation tax. What we are debating is corporation tax that compensates the banks for the levy,...