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Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (20 Apr 1999)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...on the health service. You have never been able to match that." What is more, he claimed that our Treasury Front Bench team had said that the expenditure was too extravagant. I said, "I think that your smoke and mirrors were so efficient that they fooled even our Front-Bench team." What does an extra £21 billion actually mean? Let me analyse it. Labour Members laugh. They must wonder...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (3 Dec 1996)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...Institute for Fiscal Studies pointed out how back-door tax rises wiped out any tax reductions from lower income tax. Schroder probably summarised the Budget best, characterising it as a Budget of smokes and—daily—mirrors. I criticise the Budget for the extent to which the Government have failed in what they set out to do and in what the Liberal Democrats believe to be the...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (3 Dec 1996)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...able to control borrowing but have given us a mountain of debt. They are a Government of failure and it is time that they went and gave way to a Government who can set the right priorities and explain to people how investment in education will be funded honestly, and not by deceit, smoke and mirrors.

Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill (15 Jan 1990)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...in West Germany. I was not happy to see a door through which toxic wastes and polychlorinated biphenyls were being loaded left open without a canopy. There had been a blow back, and I could see smoke seeping out while I was watching. Although the management told me that the draught would pull this through, I was not reassured by what I saw. I should like a system that would give more...

Furniture (Fire Resistance) (29 Jun 1988)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ..., that people know whether they are buying furniture approved under the new regulations? I support the representations—although not made to his Department—for the wider installation of smoke detectors. I am sure that that would make a major contribution to preventing death, because it would allow people to get out before the effects of the smoke became a fait accompli.

Energy Conservation (9 Jul 1986)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...energy bills from current expenditure than to invest in the capital required to cut those bills, sometimes within two years, and release that saving for patient care, instead of it going up the chimney in smoke as waste energy. Hospitals are particularly appropriate for small-scale combined heat and power systems. In a typical case—this has happened in one or two hospitals — a...