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Oral Answers to Questions — Environment: Community Charge (26 Apr 1989)

Mr John Gummer: .... That is why the Labour party hates the community charge—because it means that every time they spend an extra pound on the police monitoring committee or on special arrangements for the gay bereavement cause, that pound goes directly on to what is paid by the ratepayers. The community charge produces a fair system because everybody knows whether a local authority is overspending. If...

Opposition Day: Rating (21 Feb 1989)

Mr John Gummer: ...about that. I am sure that he has very good views about religion. The three authorities—Camden, Greenwich and Lewisham—have in total budgeted to spend over £2 million on lesbian and gay, women's and race committees in 1988–89. The Government are committed to equal opportunities, but I doubt whether highlighting matters by having a women's committee or a gay and...

Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grants Bill (31 Oct 1988)

Mr John Gummer: The hon. Gentleman chooses to shout at me. Does he think, for example, that the plethora of committees that deal with race, women's issues, gay issues and the rest are doing any good for women, racial minorities or gay people? They do much to delay matters and to create the need for greater expenditure. The money that they cause to be spent could be much better spent in the deprived area of...