Graham Stringer

That this House congratulates the Manchester Evening News on initiating the campaign `Make it Fair for Fans', the aim of which is to reduce the ticket price at Premiership grounds following the extra £2.3 billion that Premiership clubs will receive for television rights, and note

23 Feb 2007

That this House notes that the London Olympic Games of 2012 has serious budgetary problems; and believes that an initial contribution towards the savings required to balance the budget should be made by not building a new Velodrome and by holding the Olympic cycling competition i

5 Feb 2007

That this House recognises that the 25th anniversary of the end of the Falkland Islands War is on 17th June; and believes that out of respect to all the men and women who served in that conflict, a defence minister should attend the commemoration in the Falkland Islands.

5 Feb 2007

That this House notes the estimate made by Manchester Airport that £90 million a year will be raised from the increase in the airport passenger duty at Manchester alone; further notes that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has said that this money should be applied to transport and

31 Jan 2007

That this House congratulates the Secretary of State for Transport for setting out plans in Putting Passengers First which seek to ensure that `the progress London has made on buses can and should be replicated in the big conurbations in the rest of England', and that the franchi

30 Jan 2007

That this House finds it unacceptable that the southbound Virgin train services from Manchester Piccadilly to Stockport are timetabled to take eight minutes but the northbound services are allowed fifteen minutes or more; notes that this padding of the timetable leads to an inacc

17 Jan 2007

That this House condemns First Group's recent 10 per cent. increase in bus fares in Manchester; recognises that this is another example of First Group exploiting their near monopoly of services in North Manchester at the expense of the travelling public; and believes that the soo

16 Jan 2007

That this House recognises that the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) will celebrate its centenary later this year, having held its first meeting in the Imperial Hotel, Manchester on 2nd December 1907, chaired by Manchester United player Billy Meredith; and congratulate

15 Jan 2007

That this House deplores the inaccurate statements and scaremongering tactics of the hon. Member for Manchester, Withington who, during the last General Election, claimed without any supporting evidence that Christies Hospital was threatened with closure.

11 Dec 2006

That this House notes the decline in support within England for the union with Scotland; believes that a major cause of this is the operation of the Barnett formula; and calls on the Government to instigate an immediate review of this formula with a view to introducing a fairer m

5 Dec 2006