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Bills Presented — Business Rate Supplements Bill: Home Affairs and Justice (4 Dec 2008) has video

Charles Walker: ...I am sure that you will point it out to me. Before I move on to the substantive part of my speech, I should like to focus on the operational independence of the police, about which a lot has been said over the past two or three days. Let me point out that the operational independence of the police was compromised about three years ago, during the debate over 90 days' detention, when chief...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (26 Mar 2007)

Charles Walker: ...their earnings, there will be savings in the £20 billion currently spent on tax credits, plus the other £100-odd billion spent on other benefits. The £42 billion could quite easily be found if we did not spend the £36 billion that the Government have earmarked for unpopular ID cards and the failing NHS IT records system. I would be more than happy to have a debate on...

Orders of the Day: Fraud Bill [Lords] (12 Jun 2006)

Charles Walker: ...to do, perhaps, with Asil Nadir and Polly Peck, The Mirror pension fund or the BCCI scandal of many years ago. By and large, though, fraud is often small scale. As the hon. Member for Rhondda said, it is committed against ordinary people, who might suddenly find £3,000 taken out of their bank account, not only their £1,000 worth of savings but another £2,000 overdraft on...

Orders of the Day: Fraud Bill [Lords] (12 Jun 2006)

Charles Walker: My hon. Friend makes a valid point, and to the Solicitor-General's credit, he did not talk about ID cards in his opening remarks. Some people say that ID cards will help to reduce fraud, but many people think that they will worsen the problem. Fraudsters will get hold of ID cards and manufacture them, and they will find them an effective way to win people's trust and take their money. We...