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🗓️ 10 February 2016
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | Order. Questions to the Prime Minister, Mims Davis. |
0:04.0 | Yes. |
0:06.0 | Number one, Mr. Speaker, please. |
0:09.0 | Thank you, Mr. Speaker. |
0:11.0 | I know the whole House has been deeply saddened by the death of Harry Harpham last week from cancer. |
0:16.0 | After a distinguished career as a minor, an advisor to David Blunkett and a Sheffield councillor, |
0:22.1 | he was returned to this place last May, succeeding David Blunkett himself. |
0:26.7 | While he was only in this place a short time, he quickly became a popular MP, recognised |
0:30.8 | for his commitment to his constituents and his beliefs. |
0:34.0 | It's a measure of the man that he continued to carry out his work as an MP throughout his treatment. |
0:39.3 | We offer his wife Jill and his five children our profound condolences. |
0:43.3 | Mr Speaker, this morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others and in addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today. |
0:52.3 | Mims Davis. |
0:53.3 | Firstly, may I associate myself alongside colleagues with the sentiments expressed at the |
1:00.0 | sad loss of the member for Sheffield and Brightside in Hillsborough. |
1:04.0 | He came to this house with an excellent record in local government and will be greatly missed. |
1:08.0 | I am sure the whole house send our condolence to his family |
1:12.2 | at this sad time. Housing is the number one issue in my constituency. Queries on a workable |
1:20.7 | local plan looking after our green spaces while strongly offering that pure conservative value of the right to buy. |
1:29.3 | Would the Prime Minister agree with me that our help to buy ISIS, one currently being taken out every 30 seconds, |
1:37.3 | are the right way to promote both savings and encourage homeownership? |
1:42.3 | I absolutely agree with my honourable friend. |
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