Results 1-5 of 5 for climate change speaker:David Blunkett
- Criminal Justice System (13 Jan 2003)
Mr David Blunkett: ...continue: more police; more community support officers; more street wardens; more prison places; more investment in probation; the Youth Justice Board doing the job we asked of it; and above all a changing culture and climate. That change involves parents and families and a different atmosphere in schools; it involves hope for young people, as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Employment: Teacher Numbers (11 Jan 2001)
Mr David Blunkett: ...teachers in schools in England, not 7,500 more. Of course, if that were the case, there would not be a problem in recruiting because there would be a surplus of people trying to get jobs in a climate of diminished investment. Secondly, there is not a problem with meeting the class size pledge. We agreed that the pledge was for 2002, but we then pulled that back to 2000–01, and it...
- Orders of the Day — Opposition Day: Standards in Education (11 Jun 1996)
Mr David Blunkett: ...be excluded from the opportunity for excellence. The second lesson, which follows directly from that, is that selection has failed. It failed historically and it is failing in the present climate. We have only to take the Prime Minister's word for it. Only a few months ago he said: The top 15 per cent. of youngsters who come out of our schools are equal to anything you will find anywhere...
- London Ambulance Service (Inquiry) (25 Feb 1993)
Mr David Blunkett: ...buck to stop, and is it not time for it to stop right here in the House of Commons? Is it not a fact that the report describes the system as fatally flawed, introduced in what the report calls a climate of mistrust and obstructiveness, not from those working in the service but by those managing the service? As Don Page, the leader of the team described it, the issues raised by staff were...
- Orders of the Day — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: Licences for Treatment, Storage and Research (23 Apr 1990)
Mr David Blunkett: ..., we can help and encourage people to use methods of contraception that are safe for the user and that work, but that is not true of the vast majority of countries. Now that there has been a change in the international climate, I do not believe—I say this with some temerity—that the threat of nuclear annihilation, diseases such as AIDS or global warming are the greatest...