1. Cost of keeping warm
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Cost of keeping warm The cost of keeping warm is going through the roof. And in an area like Pendle our winters can get very cold indeed. OFGEM, the utilities regulator, in its probe into the energy market ...

2. Education Maintenance Allowances
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Ann Winterton (in the Chair): I call Mr. Gordon Prentice, who has been successful in securing this debate. [on 25 November 2008] Mr. Gordon Prentice (Pendle) (Lab): Thank you, Mrs. Winterton. You say ...

3. Stalled Regeneration In Pendle
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The regeneration of the older areas of Nelson, Brierfield and Colne is vital to improve people’s lives. Regeneration also means better schools for our children and opportunities for businesses, bringing ...

4. New £10 Million Colne Health Centre
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The health of the people of Colne is improving, but not as quickly as in other parts of the country. I am delighted therefore that our local NHS Primary Care Trust is planning to replace the existing Health ...

5. Road Safety and Young Drivers
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Motion made, and Question proposed, That the sitting be now adjourned.—[Alison Seabeck.] 9.30 am Mr. Gordon Prentice (Pendle) (Lab): I welcome the opportunity to debate road safety and young drivers. ...

6. Individual Voter Registration
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The Electoral Commission has called for individual voter registration to protect against fraud. Stealing votes is a growing problem. Cheating in elections is a big issue. The Government needs to respond ...

7. Post Office Closures in Lancashire
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Westminster Hall debate initiated by Lindsay Hoyle MP Mr. Gordon Prentice (Pendle) (Lab): It is, as always, a delight to follow my friend from Chorley (Mr. Hoyle), who made his case well. He speaks with ...

8. The Future of Local Government in Lancashire
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Mr. Gordon Prentice (Pendle) (Lab): I have just a few observations. I congratulate my friend next door, the Member for Burnley (Kitty Ussher), on initiating the debate, which comes at a very appropriate ...

9. Hutton Report
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Mr. Gordon Prentice (Pendle) (Lab): I do not want to take my full time because so many colleagues want to speak in the debate. I voted against the war in Iraq because I did not believe, as the Prime Minister ...

10. The Right to Roam
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... thousands of ramblers on the estate of the Earl of Macclesfield in the Shireburn Hills in Oxfordshire in March 1999 in the huge campaign to secure the right to roam. The ramblers are shown on the footpath, ...

11. The Karims and Christians in Pakistan
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Christians in Pakistan Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn. —[Mr. Roy.] 10.47 pm Mr. Gordon Prentice (Pendle) (Lab): I am grateful for the opportunity to raise the important ...

12. Saving Accident and Emergency at Burnley General
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Mr. Gordon Prentice (Pendle) (Lab): The Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) gently mocked Labour Members for hyperventilating when it comes to the Conservative record of all those years ago. I agree with ...

13. East Lancs Clinical Services Review
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I have sent the following as my response to the "Meeting Patients' Needs" review: Cllr. Maureen Martin Chair, Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committee C/o. Emma Wilkinson Office of the Chief Executive, ...

14. The UK Nuclear Deterrent
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Mr. Gordon Prentice (Pendle) (Lab): Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I had to think twice about whether I wanted to speak: this is a very sombre day. I shall confine ...

15. Say NO to Trident
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If our friend the late Robin Cook were here today, he would vote against the Government. My friend the Member for Livingston (Mr. Devine) quoted extensively from what Robin said. Let me quote just a couple ...

16. Colne to Skipton Railway Line
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The photo shows me with SELRAP campaigners, Andy Shackleton and David Burton at Foulridge, by the canal, in summer 2004 MR GORDON PRENTICE (Pendle) (Lab): I welcome this opportunity to raise the issue ...

17. Dentistry
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NHS dentistry is a big problem in Pendle and elsewhere in East Lancashire. Dentists are not employed by the NHS - they contract with it. And they can opt out and go private if they wish. The photo shows ...

18. Tax Exiles sitting in Parliament
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I am stepping up my campaign to exclude tax exiles from sitting in Parliament. It is outrageous that the Conservative peer Lord Laidlaw is a Member of Parliament, making UK laws but not paying UK taxes. ...

19. Stopping the sale of greenfield land for development
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MP DEMANDS STOP TO COUNCIL SALE OF GREENFIELD LAND FOR DEVELOPMENT. Local MP, Gordon Prentice, today told Liberal Democrat controlled Pendle Council to stop the sale of council owned greenfield land ...

20. Wrecked cars and visual amenity
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This is the exchange I had in the Commons with Environment Minister Elliot Morley on Thursday 17 March 2005. Mr. Gordon Prentice (Pendle) (Lab): Is my friend concerned about the fact that I am being threatened ...