Results 1-20 of 601 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Richard Bacon

Economic Recovery: Public Accounts (22 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: On the point about shared services, will the Exchequer Secretary always bear in the back of her mind, if not the front, the Committee's report on shared services in the Department for Transport? That was the project that cost about double the amount it was supposed to save and the computer spoke to people in German.

Economic Recovery: Public Accounts (22 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: I was interested to hear what my hon. Friend said about renegotiation of contracts because one argument that is sometimes adduced—wholly falsely, in my view—is that there would be such huge penalties that it would not be possible for contracts to be renegotiated. Does he agree that since disputes with IT contractors never end up in court and since IT contractors want to work for...

Economic Recovery: Public Accounts (22 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: I am sure that we are all equally horrified by the fact that the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) has finally brought his remarks to a conclusion. I thought that he was just getting into his stride, but alas, we shall have to wait until next time. It is a great pleasure to take part in this debate and a particular pleasure to see the Exchequer Secretary in her place, because she...

Economic Recovery: Public Accounts (22 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: I am afraid that the answer is extremely hard to find. The Government will say that value for money has been obtained precisely because the original contract required that suppliers were not to be paid until they had delivered, but the position is not quite as simple as that. In some instances suppliers have been paid by the back door in respect of other programmes, and it is therefore...

Economic Recovery: Public Accounts (22 Oct 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: In light of what my hon. Friend has just said about the national programme for IT, does he agree that the Treasury minute answering conclusion 6, which basically says that the Department remains confident in the potential of both Cerner's Millennium and Isoft's Lorenzo to work effectively, is remarkably optimistic?

Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry: New Clause 1 — Implementation of section 1 (7 Jul 2009)

Richard Bacon: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there was a keen awareness on the part of not only our constituents, but the Government? Sir Nick Macpherson, the permanent secretary at the Treasury, gave evidence to the Public Accounts Committee at the time, in which he clearly said that a thorough and detailed distributional analysis was done. They knew exactly what the effects would be.

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Parliamentary Standards Bodies (18 Jun 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: Will the Leader of the House explain what role, if any, the commission headed by the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Dr. Wright) will have in relation to the Parliamentary Standards Authority—and, by the way, when will that commission report?

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: I detected some dissatisfaction on the hon. Gentleman's part with what the Scottish National party had said and subsequently done. Will he explain how it was that the Scottish nationalists were supported so strongly by the Scottish people?

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: Will the right hon. Lady give way?

Opposition Day: [Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament (10 Jun 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: Many women say that to me. It is not a case of selective memory on the part of my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague). Indeed, he and many of us think that we should not go through it all again precisely because of the memory of what happened in 1997.

Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General (20 May 2009)

Richard Bacon: I am pleased to take part in the debate to confirm the appointment of Mr. Morse as Comptroller and Auditor General. Having seen him in the hearing, I have no doubt at all about his suitability. His experience of running a large international accountancy practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers, combined with his experience as commercial director of the Ministry of Defence, renders him highly suitable...

Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General (20 May 2009)

Richard Bacon: Indeed, Mr. Deputy Speaker, so I shall try to confine my remarks to the appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General. In talking about that appointment, I hope it is in order to discuss the functions of the Comptroller and Auditor General once he is appointed and whether or not he is able to exercise them.

Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General (20 May 2009)

Richard Bacon: I will be very narrow and very brief, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My second point concerns the BBC, to which the Comptroller and Auditor General does not have access either. That has an impact on the effectiveness, efficiency and economy of the BBC and on the extent to which it is scrutinised. When Dame Ellen MacArthur sailed around the world, 64 television producers turned up in Falmouth to cover...

Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General (20 May 2009)

Richard Bacon: I would rather keep going, if I may, as Mr. Deputy Speaker has asked me to be brief. As it is organised, the Defence, Health or Transport audit will have two sub-branches: financial and value for money. Within the NAO, there is also a section called "Justice and Parliament"—and I had always assumed that the Justice and Parliament section could audit the House of Commons administration...

Appointment of the Comptroller and Auditor General (20 May 2009)

Richard Bacon: If the hon. Gentleman had taken the trouble to read the PAC report, he would have seen that the hearing process contributed directly to the satisfaction expressed by the Committee that Mr. Morse was a suitable person to appoint.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Speaker's Statement (18 May 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: It is a substantive motion. The Deputy Leader of the House just told me that it is a substantive motion.

Members' Home Addresses (28 Apr 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: That's Liberal Democrats for you.

Royal Assent: Defence in the UK (26 Mar 2009) has video

Richard Bacon: I apologise to my hon. Friend for not being here earlier, but I saw his name on the monitor and came in. I joined the Territorial Army when I was at university, for the adventure and experience that it would give me and because it meant that I could work on Sundays as well as Saturdays at a time when I needed the money. Had I had the opportunity to do much more training, I would have taken it.