Nigel Stanley wrote: > 2009/12/1 bloovee <[email protected]>: >> It's a very good showing - often it's only the mover of the adjournment >> debate and the minister responding.... > > Steve is right. Adjournment debates are typically for one MP to raise > a particular hobbyhorse directly with the minister. Sometimes they > will rustle up supporters if the issue goes wider than their own > constituency. Sometimes this will be done an an all-party basis.
Mr Irranca-Davies commented on what a good turn-out it was: "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stourbridge and the numerous hon. Friends who have turned out to support her and the waterways. This is typical of debates on waterways, which are always well attended. These are truly the constant friends of the waterways." I thought he was being sarcastic, but it seems from what Steve and Nigel say that this was not the case. http://is.gd/5ayfl -- Martin Clark Pennine Waterways Website http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk
