Search for ("top up" fees) speaker:Graham Allen (TheyWorkForYou.com)

Pre-legislative Scrutiny (6 Jan 2004): Mr Graham Allen: I thank the hon. Gentleman for his interest and support—it is important that this should remain a cross-party and pro-Parliament issue. He makes a good point; something can be lost if we focus on a single, mainstream type of pre-legislative scrutiny. However, we are at the point at which we need to plump for something that might be regarded as the standard process, albeit one that does...
Local Government (8 Dec 2003): Mr Graham Allen: The use of the council tax as a top-up fee for local government funding has run its course. Even ignoring the democratic arguments, there is now an overwhelming case for a fundamental reform of the local and national Government relationship. This is my contribution to the big conversation, which is needed on the topic ahead of the third term. I welcome the Under-Secretary of State, Office of...
Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Skills: Specialist Colleges (6 Feb 2003): Mr Graham Allen: ...placements in the middle of their degree course? Given concerns about the separation between the worlds of work and education, that is one way to unite the two. In addition, given concerns about top-up fees and debt, it is one way in which an individual can pay off debt and enjoy work experience while undertaking their degree.

Date range:
to
You can give a start date, an end date, or both, to restrict results to a particular date range; a missing end date implies the current date, a missing start date implies the oldest date we have in the system. Dates can be entered in any format you wish, e.g. “3rd March 2007” or “17/10/1989”.
Person:
Enter a name here to restrict results to contributions only by that person.
Section:
Restrict results to a particular parliament or assembly that we cover (e.g. the Scottish Parliament), or a particular type of data within an institution, such as Commons Written Answers.
Column:
If you know the actual column number in Hansard you are interested in (perhaps you’re looking up a paper reference), you can restrict results to that.

TheyWorkForYou search is case-insensitive, and tries to match all the search terms within a document.
To search for a person, just enter their name – we will search our database of people, as well as searching speeches made by that person, or that mention that person.
To search for an exact phrase, use quotes (""). For example to find only documents contain the exact phrase "Hutton Report":
"hutton report"
To exclude a word from your search, put a minus ("-") sign in front, for example to find documents containing the word "representation" but not the word "taxation":
representation -taxation
If you want to search for words only when they're used near each other in the text, use "NEAR". For example, to find documents containing the word "elephant" near the word "room":
elephant NEAR room
Advanced Users: You can perform boolean searches, with brackets, AND, OR, and XOR. The filters can be entered directly, as well as from the advanced search form, here's a selection:
- column:123
- party:Lab
- department:Defence
- section:uk section:wms
- date:20080716
- 20080101..20080131