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Lord Griffiths of Burry Port: ...and Wales but not Northern Ireland. Constantly, we have to make assumptions on their behalf and work through civil servants. In the Explanatory Memorandum—as happens again and again—one sentence narks me: “The territorial application of this instrument includes Scotland and Northern Ireland”. “Duw, Duw”, as we say in Wales—“There’s a terrible thing, isn’t it?” Where...
Fiona Mactaggart: ...example of inadequate protection. The Minister has cited senior police officers who believe that her proposed changes will increase the number of overseas domestic workers willing to be police narks. Well, it might, but it might not. As we know from the evidence of battered women and all other victims of abuse, the best way to encourage victims of abuse to give evidence is to focus on the...
Kevan Jones: ...the speeches that they made today, but for their wisdom, and for their contribution to the House during their time here. Another feature of the debate is that it has been completely void of Whips’ narks, although, in an intervention, the hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Julian Smith), who is no longer in the Chamber, produced the usual narrative of the “£38 billion black hole”...
Julian Lewis: ...simply make is that I do not think people who know either me or my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kensington (Sir Malcolm Rifkind) would regard us as falling entirely in the Whips’ narks category.
Lord Peston: ...staff. My view is that it should not only have its own staff but should appoint its own staff, thereby guaranteeing that the staff are its own, work for it and, to use the slang expression, are not "narks" of the governor. Therefore, the noble Lord ought to accept the amendment. My two semantic points are as follows. First, I find the committee's name most unattractive. Will the noble Lord...
Chris Leslie: Heaven only knows, but there is no obligation on that representative to tell the Chancellor. If we are relying on a Treasury nark as a member of the FPC or the MPC—the number of Treasury narks is growing rapidly—to do that message-carrying role, it would be better to put such things on a formal footing, not just keep hoping that message will get back in particular circumstances. The Bill...
Chris Leslie: ...not to Parliament, in ensuring that the oversight and consent extends to all members of the OBR, particularly given the possible perception that the two non-executives are the Chancellor’s narks, keeping a beady eye on what goes on and undermining the independence of the office. It would be far easier for the Minister to concede that simple point and remove all doubt about whether the...
Lord Hill of Oareford: ...discussion about the role of governors, with a wide range of views expressed. The right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Lincoln talked about concerns that governors would be the Government's narks. The noble Lord, Lord Northbourne, approached concerns about the number and role of governors from one point of view, and my noble friend Lady Perry approached it from the other. She made it clear...
John Randall: ...reminds me of the point that I was making about the hon. Member for Islington, North, who could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be described as one of the usual suspects or one of the Whips' narks. I therefore regard his appointment as rather interesting and something that I should like to support. Let me return to the hon. Member for Regent's Park and Kensington, North, for whom I...
Graham Allen: ...who have found procedural niceties to get in the way. I am sorry, but that is the truth of the matter. Let us not forget that people were elected to be members of the Select Committee, not Whips' narks, safe pairs of hands or people who have been lobotomised. They were elected by their own colleagues-that was certainly the case in the parliamentary Labour party and in the Conservative...
Christopher Harvie: ...at the Open University and a notable academic authority on British policing. First, the police require contacts with the underworld and lesser villains who supply information—the sleepers and narks. Deals are done, because those sources of information must be protected. The firewall is flawed, and deals can reach out and embrace officers of the law. Members have heard some of that...
Ian Davidson: ...to be one of our strengths. We meet as a group of partisan politicians in an environment that is almost entirely removed from the cockpit of partisan conflict. There are the occasional Whips' narks from one side or the other who wish to intrude in our debates in the manner for which they have been wound up. However, the vast majority of members of the Committee spot that right away, and...
David Davis: Labour Members basically fall into two groups—the Whips' narks and the people who really care about the issue. [Interruption.]
Greg Knight: ...for Arundel and South Downs (Mr. Flight) whose brief he was reading. May I ask the hon. Gentleman the same question, because it sounds rather as though he were reading the Government Whips Office narks' brief? When the hon. Gentleman moves on to amendment No. 10, can he tell us what possible objection there could be to the Government accepting it? Did not my hon. Friend make out an...
Lord Jopling: ...who will stay on after each election. In recent years, the hereditary Peers decided exactly that. Looking at some of my noble colleagues elected to stay on, one could hardly call them Whips' narks. Such an approach would also deal with the problems of age limits and non-attendance, because it would be much easier to drop Peers off. I know that some of these ideas are unattractive to some,...
Alex Salmond: ...when it began its work in 1987. It produced a series of reports that were critical of the Government of the day. As time went on, members were selected who were described by other members as Whips' narks. On one occasion, two Conservative Members came to blows as they discussed who was informing the Whips about the various discussions in the Committee.
Damian Green: ...constituencies. It gives rise to the horrendous idea of new types of sleaze, such as lottery grants for creepy questions at Question Time or possibly the creation of a seventh good cause, the Whips' narks fund. The Government could award money from that fund to any Labour Member who was particularly bright towards the Prime Minister at Question Time. The Government are not fooling anyone...
Mr Terry Dicks: Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The amendments that the Minister is speaking to are the very amendments that he and his office drafted for the narks on the Back Benches to move last time.
Mr Terry Dicks: It must not be forgotten that if the narks who delayed the Bill had not been prepared to do that, members of my Front Bench could not have achieved their objective.
Mr Anthony Nelson: .... It must be right for auditors to audit and regulators to regulate. It does not help the argument for there to be an overlap in responsibilities and in some way turn auditors into snoopers and narks and make one's regulators more supine. I do not think that there is a case for a widened inquiry into the auditing of companies. It was said that there was a case for extending the duty of...