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Building Schools for the Future (8 Jul 2008) has video

John Pugh: ...a minimum £125m makeover of five schools." Tellingly, the paper also said: "Sefton council is expected to get the government green light to enter a bid within the next few months and then begin the hunt for a contractor partner." Similarly, another newspaper, the Southport Visit e r, said, under the headline, "Super-school to be built in Southport": "A £25m state-of-the-art...

Mental Health Bill [ Lords] (Programme) (No. 3): Clause 10 — The fundamental principles (4 Jul 2007)

John Pugh: ...of the same effect could also be achieved, if people wished, by a statement of principles. Baroness Barker's excellent amendment produces a kind of cross between those two solutions. It was Lord Hunt who called the attempt declaratory, and declaration has a place in legislation. It is a good amendment and sends important signals. Lord Patel's amendments are more genuinely substantive and...

Heroin Addicts (26 Nov 2002)

Mr John Pugh: ...difficult to attain the highest grades. They may be entered for exams that are of less value in career terms, but in which they are likely to achieve good grades. There is concern that schools may hunt grades per se, instead of putting the needs of pupils first.

Further Education (21 Nov 2002)

Mr John Pugh: .... Now we have LSCs, aided and abetted by Ministers, doing more or less the same thing. Years ago further education colleges specialised in what they did best. They did not go in for the gratuitous hunting out of extra places and courses just to put bums on seats and funding in the budget. Now the Government will encourage further education colleges to specialise in what they do best. We...

Alder Hey Hospital (21 Nov 2001)

Mr John Pugh: ...in that respect the comments in the British Medical Journal, where there seems to be an unwillingness to accept that to ask for appropriate disciplinary procedures is distinct from pure witch-hunting. There is a clear intellectual distinction that I think we would all support. As I have said, I thank the hon. Member for Halton for securing the debate. If it serves any good, it is to...