This is the parliamentary question time for questions to the Home Secretary.
Members of the Commons may question the Home Secretary on any issue relating to his department. Each member is limited to one question per week.
This House recognises jhgilliat as the Home Secretary, and requests that he answers all questions posed to him.
This House recognises Inevitable as the Leader of the Opposition, and as such grants him the right to ask six questions per week.
The government may only be asked to answer one question at a time - no new questions may be submitted until the previous one has been answered. If the government does not answer, action may be taken by the speaker of the commons.
I therefore open this session with the following question:
Will the Home Secretary please tell us of his department's aims for this session of parliament?
For this term of parliament, my aims are to concentrate more research on environmental issues, in particular, alternatives to fossil fuels. I am sure the environment secretary will agree with me that this is a very important issue.
Another issue I feel strongly about is migration. I believe that this world belongs to everyone, and that no one should have the right to take a part of it from any other person. Therefore, I believe that immigration laws should be relaxed.Obviously, we cannot let everyone into Ostentia completely freely
I believe that, in order for everyone to be free, it is important to restrict some freedoms in order to stop some individuals taking away the freedom of others. Some simple examples of policies similar to what I am trying to explain are the abolition of slavery, and the Equalities act 2006. Therefore, some simple restrictions of freedom regarding discrimination may have to, unfortunately, be implemented, only in order to retain the freedoms of others.
However, for incarceration facilities such as prisons, much more emphasis will be placed upon rehabilitation, rather than punishment and detention. This is, I believe, much more effective, as it does not cause so much resentment towards the state as punishment does, and therefore, the inmates can be released back into society as productive members much sooner.
I think that is about it. Thankyou.
I thank the minister for his answer and open this session to the house.
Are there no questions?
I suppose I should see it as a good thing. It seems there are no problems, and less work for me :D . But does nobody have a question??
| QUOTE (jhgilliatt @ Apr 19 2009, 05:10 PM) |
Are there no questions?
I suppose I should see it as a good thing. It seems there are no problems, and less work for me :D . But does nobody have a question?? |
:tophat: POINT OF ORDER! :tophat:
This is a session for the House to ask the Home secretary questions, not the other way around!