John Bercow raises his concerns that the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill will preclude people with special educational needs from participation in apprenticeship schemes.

John Bercow supports the rights of Tamil demonstrators in Parliament Square and the sensitive handing of the demonstration by the Police. He calls on the Foreign Office to explain to the Sri Lankan Government that there is no question of the demonstrators being removed by force.

John Bercow supports the Bill welcoming moves to harmonise current equality laws and attempts to reduce socio-economic inequalities by the imposition of a 'socio-economic duty' on public sector bodies.

John Bercow has joined calls for the Leader of the House of Commons to allow more time for MPs to debate the wide-ranging Policing and Crime Bill.

John Bercow MP is sponsoring a ten minute rule bill in Parliament next week to clip the wings of vulture funds that profiteer out of Third World debt.

Speaking in the debate on Members Allowances, John Bercow calls for the inquiry by Sir Christopher Kelly's Committee on Standards in Public Life to consider MPs pay and the possibility of an absolute ban on outside interests.

John Bercow calls on the Leader of the House of Commons to schedule a debate on the report of the Rose review on the primary school curriculum.

John Bercow calls for a change in the law to ensure that a child with special educational needs can only be permanently excluded from a school on completion of a review of the 'reasonable adjustments' made to accommodate the child as required by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

John Bercow calls for a debate on the methods used to select the MPs who sit on the various Select Committee's which scrutinise the work of the Government. At the moment the Government chooses which MPs who chair and sit on those committees.

John Bercow has written to the Department for Communities and Local Government to raise serious concerns about the planned development of 900 new houses in Soulbury, on the border of Leighton Buzzard.