Results 1–20 of 395 for 01/10/1935..17/12/2012 speaker:Mr Irvine Patnick

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Cardiff Bay Development Corporation (17 Mar 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: Does my hon. Friend agree that all development corporations have brought investment and work into their areas? Is not the Cardiff Bay development corporation an example of the good things that the Conservatives have done, despite opposition from the Labour party?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Public Borrowing (13 Mar 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received from the Chartered Institute of Housing regarding his policy on the level of public borrowing. [18531]

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Public Borrowing (13 Mar 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: As my right hon. Friend will be aware, some organisations, including the Labour party, advocate the spending of capital receipts. What effect would such spending have not only on the public finances but on cities such as Birmingham and Sheffield?

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Intergovernmental Conference (Ministerial Group) (12 Mar 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: Did my right hon. Friend have an opportunity to see the reported comments of the right hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) in The Times of 7 March, where he undertook to make surrenders and six changes to the Government's policy? Is that not an abdication of Labour's responsibility? Will it not undermine the British negotiating position?

Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Employment: Local Education Authority Administration Costs (26 Feb 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the average proportion of local education authority budgets which is spent on central administration and services. [16055]

Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Employment: Local Education Authority Administration Costs (26 Feb 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: Is my hon. Friend aware that Sheffield keeps a largish chunk of its funding for central services? I see in the Chamber two former leaders of Sheffield city council. Is not the situation in Sheffield one of the worst in the country? Head teachers are sick and tired of Sheffield keeping back funding for their schools. Two years ago—I am aware that, in Labour politics, two years is a long...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Firework Safety (19 Feb 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: Many people present for this programme will recollect that it used to be called Question Time—1 do not know whether Labour Front Benchers have had a new idea. I come from the old school of sparklers and catherine wheels; the worst thing we had was bangers.

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Firework Safety (19 Feb 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: It is rare that one is heckled from one's own side of the House. I hope that, after the consultations, the enjoyment that some people have had in this theatre, programme or Chamber will not be stopped and that, through legislation, powers will be given to local authorities to control the sale of certain types of firework that should never have been imported into this country.

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Hospitals (Dyfed Powys) (17 Feb 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: Will my hon. Friend confirm that, since 1979, the Government have increased national health spending in Wales by 85 per cent.? Has he heard from the Labour Front Bench any pledge similar to the one given by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and the Prime Minister that year on year the national health service will have more funding in real terms? There has been silence...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Defence Spending (11 Feb 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what representations he has received on the effect on maintenance of existing military equipment of reducing United Kingdom defence spending to the European average. [13719]

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Defence Spending (11 Feb 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: Would not such an action—which has been endorsed by Labour conference after Labour conference—reduce employment in places such as Sheffield and the defence capability of this country? The bleatings from Opposition Members show that that is Labour's intended defence policy, which must be deplored.

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Parking Restrictions (10 Feb 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps he is taking with regard to the enforcement of parking restrictions. [13346]

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Parking Restrictions (10 Feb 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: What steps is my hon. Friend taking to ensure that proper consultation takes place between authorities and local residents? In two areas in my constituency—Crookes and Abbeydale—little consultation appears to have taken place before the introduction of parking restrictions and road alterations, although consultation is now taking place. That cannot be the right way to function—or can it?

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Food Safety ( 6 Feb 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: I congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend on setting up the food safety committee. Will he now direct his attention to other food committees, and especially to the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee? What will he do about that?

Local Government Finance ( 3 Feb 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: ...every year. I frequently wondered whether the money would have been forthcoming if the council had sold those debts. History will never let me know. The council summons also shows that it let 12 contracts for housing maintenance. One of the organisations that weighed in with a tender was, of course, the Sheffield works department. The value of the works—painting, repairs and heating...

Local Government Finance ( 3 Feb 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: Pardon?

Local Government Finance ( 3 Feb 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: ...he added: The Council probably has the capacity to make enormous improvements in the services it currently operates, with the resources it currently has. That was reported in The Sheffield Star of 17 December 1996. Economies can be made in council spending. However, I finish where I started—if the funding for supertram can be sorted out by the Minister, the extra cash that would go to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Public Expenditure (20 Jan 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: My right hon. Friend has mentioned a Welsh Assembly twice. Will he explain the difference between a Scottish Parliament and a Welsh Assembly? Will he also—

Business of the House (16 Jan 1997)

Mr Irvine Patnick: Can we have an urgent debate on education policy, so that we can discuss proposals such as that of Sheffield city council to abolish sixth form colleges in the event of a Labour Government? Can we also discuss the fact that the majority of local education authorities are already controlled by the Labour party and have the power to set homework in schools?

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Uncollected Local Authority Taxes (18 Dec 1996)

Mr Irvine Patnick: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement regarding the level of uncollected local authority taxes in Scotland. [8134]


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