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Orders of the Day — Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill: European Union (Amendment) Bill — [12th Allotted Day] (11 Mar 2008) has video

Richard Shepherd: ...two hours. Again, the Government had graciously extended their guillotine to allow us an extra 60 minutes. However, we still could not discuss in that extra time "Competences: remaining issues" or climate change. The custom-made guillotine, introduced in the name of the Labour Chief Whip—the undertaker, as I think of him—and the Foreign Secretary as the leader on the matter, is...

Whistleblowing (5 Apr 2005)

Mr Richard Shepherd: ...;a malaise in the Foreign Ministry that many thought was part of the signature of Japanese culture. His act—painful and difficult for him at the time, but by his honour necessary—helped change a climate of opinion in a Japan that wanted to modernise. I would like to think that senior officials in Government Departments would occasionally speak up here, but that takes me beyond...

Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill: General Right of Access to Information Held by Public Authorities (4 Apr 2000)

Mr Richard Shepherd: ...of the clauses. I do not say that glibly. The hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey referred to the balance of power. The hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central then talked about the climate in the United States and the view of citizens there about their relationship to Government. It made me reflect, but, in truth, in Aldridge-Brownhills the citizens' view of Government is not...