Results 1-9 of 9 for foundation hospital speaker:David Laws

Public Corporations (20 Jul 2004)

Mr David Laws: ...sectors has real effects in terms of public borrowing and public expenditure. He has extended the list of areas in which there are concerns about Government policy from the traditional ones of foundation hospitals and Network Rail to trust ports. He has set out clearly some of the issues, to which I hope the Financial Secretary will respond later. The definition of a public corporation is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (7 May 2003)

Mr David Laws: If the Prime Minister is serious about genuine reform in the NHS, why is he not supporting the Health Secretary against the Chancellor in the debate on the borrowing powers for foundation hospitals?

Finance Bill (6 May 2003)

Mr David Laws: ...-economic if not the tax issues that we must debate, and that are central to the Chancellor's Budget statement. We also have some interesting exchanges between the Chancellor and Labour Members on foundation hospitals. You would not want me to stray on to that subject, Mr. Deputy Speaker, given that it will be debated later this week. Nevertheless, they shed some interesting light on the...

Listed Sporting Events: Government Accounting (2 Apr 2003)

Mr David Laws: ...finance. The third issue is Government honesty and transparency in classifying new entities, particularly in respect of Network Rail. Perhaps we shall see the mirror image of that problem with foundation hospitals, because the Chancellor seems to be leading the ONS to a different solution from the one it was led to in the case of Network Rail. Commentators in the City and elsewhere were...

Listed Sporting Events: Government Accounting (2 Apr 2003)

Mr David Laws: ...with a clear interest in the conclusions to be reached. To return to the point raised by the hon. Member for Tatton, it seems that there could be a rerun of the Network Rail issue in the context of foundation hospitals. Given the elegant way in which the Government managed to move Network Rail off the public sector balance sheet, one can imagine how easy it would be to set up similar...

Listed Sporting Events: Government Accounting (2 Apr 2003)

Mr David Laws: ...The argument between the Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Health is ongoing, as is shown by the revelation that Treasury officials have written to the ONS for clarification of its views on foundation hospitals. I hope that the ONS has written back. Perhaps the Minister can update us on the reply and say whether the ONS sides with the Treasury or with the Secretary of State for...

Listed Sporting Events: Government Accounting (2 Apr 2003)

Mr David Laws: ...that we need to consider today—accounting for PFI transactions and the recent accounting changes for Network Rail, and the wider implications of that for other public sector entities such as foundation hospitals, a problem that may arise in the coming months. I also welcome the comments of other Members, including those of the right hon. Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George...

Written Answers — Treasury: Foundation Hospitals (13 Mar 2003)

Mr David Laws: ...of the Exchequer what request he has recently made to the Office of National Statistics in relation to confirming the correct accounting treatment for the classification of the borrowings of foundation hospitals; and if he will make a statement.

Prime Minister: Engagements (5 Mar 2003)

Mr David Laws: I want to come back to the issue of foundation hospitals. Will the Prime Minister tell us whether he agrees with the Secretary of State for Health, who said in a speech last month that he was in favour of freeing such hospitals from the constraints of central Government and capital rationing—in other words, from the controls of the Chancellor of the Exchequer? We have the benefit of...