After the final Prime Minister’s Questions of this parliament, Member of Parliament Alan Simpson said, “The last exchanges between Cameron and Brown got lost in another bout of “who’s deceiving who.” The sterile exchanges about £6billion of cuts......
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): I came into the House 18 years ago frustrated by a Government who had sold the pass on manufacturing in favour of a dangerous flirtation with speculative and deregulated finance. So, a lot has changed in those 18 years. taken
Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to your own deliberations on the review of MP's’ expenses, staffing and allowances. I would like to make the following observations, beginning with elements I think are most straightforward and important.
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): I welcome the list of initiatives that the Prime Minister mentioned in relation to development, democracy and diplomacy in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Does he accept, however.....
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): Given the perilous state of the world economy in which the Budget has had to be presented, I wondered whether the Chancellor would open his Budget statement with reference to words used by someone else.....
The Secretary of State shall make regulations within one year of the passing of this Act with the purpose of requiring designated energy suppliers to introduce a renewable energy tariff for specified producers of renewable energy.
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): The amendments raise some important points, which I hope that the Minister will tackle. I believe that my concerns fit the same pattern. They begin from the same question:
22/01/08 - Energy Bill
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): The Secretary of State will know that the Prime Minister has committed the UK to meeting the EU target of obtaining 20 per cent. of our energy needs from renewable sources by 2020.....
07/01/08 - Pensions Bill Debate
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): I hope that it does not damage the standing or career of the Secretary of State or the Minister for Pensions Reform if I, too, congratulate them on making tonight’s debate worth having. If they had not......
03/07/07 - Pensions Policy
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): Will the Secretary of State reflect on his experience in his previous ministerial post in Northern Ireland, where the orphan funds of banks were subject to the same sort of argument? When it was made....
12/06/07 - DCLG - Impact Assessment
Dr. Vincent Cable (Twickenham) (LD): If she will make a statement on the role of the proposed impact assessments in speeding up small‐scale planning applications.....
08/06/07 - Aviation Growth
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): May I wish the Prime Minister well in his attempts to make climate change the centrepiece of the G8 discussions? Will he take the opportunity to remind the leaders who fly in there that, despite all the....
07/06/07 - DTI - Fuel Poverty
Mrs. Linda Riordan (Halifax) (Lab/Coop): What progress has been made in achieving the Government’s target of an end to fuel poverty for vulnerable
households by 2010.
The Minister for Science and Innovation (Malcolm Wicks): Projections indicate that about 2..
27/03/07 - Sustainable Communities
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): One of the great attractions of such legislation is that it would give local authorities in the UK the same powers and entitlements that they have in other parts of Europe.....
21/03/07 - Green Budget Debate
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): It is normal on these occasions for me to follow the Chancellor’s Budget statement and fill in the conventional gaps that I feel he has overlooked. I pay tribute to the Chancellor.....
13/03/07 - Finance Trust
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): Will the Minister ask for an audit of LIFT schemes in the Leicester area and elsewhere to assess the number of projects that have been able to incorporate energy‐generating systems, rainwater harvesting....
07/03/07 - Transport Questions
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): Will the Minister ask for an audit of LIFT schemes in the Leicester area and elsewhere to assess the number of projects that have been able to incorporate energy‐generating systems, rainwater harvesting....
06/03/07 - Biofuel Question
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): As a supporter of the
development of sustainable biofuels, I am sure that the Minister will be
as aware as I am of the “Dispatches” programme last night, which
pointed out that were the RTFO to be a success.....
16/10/06 - Green Tax Opposition
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): I want to congratulate the Liberal Democrats on at least putting a raft of policy proposals on the table—even if half of them are wrong and misguided, and others are unworkable. However, others are extremely useful......
22/03/06 - Budget Debate Speech 2006
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): Budget debates are
often conducted within a strange sense of time. The short term is
about whether the Budget will survive the press headlines and analysis tomorrow.
22/11/05 - Climate Change
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): I join other Members who have expressed a preference for the House not to divide on these issues tonight. I feel that it would put us all in a strange position if we were asked to choose between voting.....
02/11/05 - Terrorism Bill
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): The opening paragraph begins in a fairly straightforward way: "In the Lenin Barracks in Barcelona, the day before I joined the militia, I saw an Italian militiaman standing in front of the officers' table."
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): I, too, doubt whether there will be a Division on the order. However, if there were, I would find it difficult to vote for it. That is not to offer endorsement of or support for any one of or all the organisations on the list.
28/06/05- ID Cards
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): I do not have any problems with identity cards. I have several of them. I have a passport, a driving licence, a bank card, a credit card, a supermarket loyalty card, an NHS card and probably several.....
08/06/05 - Aviation Growth
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): May I wish the Prime Minister well in his attempts to make climate change the centrepiece of the G8 discussions? Will he take the opportunity to remind the leaders who fly in there that, despite all the....
25/03/05 - Future Energy Markets
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): I am extremely grateful to you for choosing this subject for debate this afternoon, Mr. Deputy Speaker, particularly as it follows the Chancellor's announcements in his Budget speech about the
intention......
15/03/05 - Budget Debate 2005
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): At the end of every Budget debate, Members stream out of the Chamber and are greeted by those in the press, who want to know whether or not we thought it a good Budget. Usually.....
10/03/05 - Multinational Aid
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): If he will make representations that no economic policy conditions be attached to aid from multinational donors, with particular reference to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
10/02/05 - Greenhouse Gas emission targets"
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): What plans she has to make greenhouse gas emission targets statutory and binding.
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs......
08/02/05 - Climate Change
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): I shall try to be as brisk as possible, partly to allow other Members into the debate, but also because I want to make several points that I hope will upset the applecart in relation to the consensus of......
22/11/04 - Biotechnology
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): The letter from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State about consultation mentions co‐existence, and I have no doubt that it will address issues relating to thresholds and separation distances.
08/11/04 - Carbon Emissions
Alan Simpson: We need to put the debate in the context of the best aspects of the Government's record. For the first time in history, the Labour Government gave a statutory undertaking to eradicate fuel poverty in this country by 2016.
18/10/04 - Iraq (Geoff Hoon)
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): I know that the Secretary of State said that no decision has been made about the request, but given his answer to the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Dr. Tonge), I was reminded of a line from a song in the musical "Oklahoma":
18/10/04 - Gun Crime Debate
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): What action he is taking in response to the latest incidents of gun crime in Nottingham.
The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Blunkett):
04/10/04 - Gun Crime Debate
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): I do not represent the area in which Danielle Beccan was killed—it is represented by my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, East (Mr. Heppell)—but I lived most of my adult life in St. Ann's.
11/05/04 - Housing Bill
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South) (Lab): I rise to support
amendment No. 87, which I intend to press to a vote. I begin by thanking the Opposition spokesman, the hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr. Hayes), for his kind and.....
17/03/04 - Budget Debate 2004
Alan Simpson (Nottingham, South): I am very pleased to be called to speak on the first day of the Budget debate, and I begin by paying a couple of tributes, the first of which is to the hon. Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (Mr. Gibb) for.....
07/05/03 - Foundation Hospitals
I am deeply concerned that the proposal to establish foundation hospitals will itself destroy the foundations the NHS was built upon. It will create a premier league of asset rich hospitals surrounded by a nationwide league of hospitals.....
