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  • Bill Burrows: What a twittering pair Burnham and Turner are. It's a safe bet that Wrightington will be closed and the land sold for development. Typical of their descriptions, Blair supporters rather than... (22 March 2007)
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  • PETER BOOT: Re:Oral answer to Velcade question October 2006 I have been a lifelong supporter of the Labour party. I will not be voting Labour the next time. How convenient it must be for you and your... (23 January 2007)
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  • Thomas Ralphs: I agree that there is only one major hospital in Andy Burnham's constituency but this is a Victorian Hospital in Wigan built in the 19th century with atrocious parking facilities and difficult to... (16 December 2006)
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  • Thomas Ralphs: I am a supporter of Andy Burnham not because he is a member of New Labour but despite him being a member of New Labour. I also remember the closure of Leigh Accident and Emergency Unit and I... (16 December 2006)
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  • Alix Cull: The measures for re-imbursement for people on low income going to hospital are too complicated (19 July 2006)
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  • Stephen Ellis: This is a cop out. We need and want Staffordshire Ambulance Service to remain totally independent - NOT governed by the West Midlands regional body who targets and standards are absolutely... ( 4 July 2006)
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  • Matthew Somerville: I'm not sure what you mean: http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/News_and_Ca mpaigns/Campaigning/PDF/NICE_Joint_Appea l.pdf appears to work fine here? Please email us if you think you find something... (21 June 2006)
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  • andy saul: http:// www.alzheimers.org.uk/ News_and_Campaigns/ Campaigning/ PDF/ NICE_Joint_Appeal.pdf Remove spaces after the slashes to get the link. Full version will not post... (21 June 2006)
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  • andy saul: The Minster is wrong to take the NICE findings on faith without checking the validity of those findings. He is also wrong to accept the disputed findings whilst an appeal is pending. The... (21 June 2006)
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  • andy saul: Blind faith in the methods used by NICE is as bad as blind faith in a minister's judgement. The difference is that NICE publish their process so it is possible to examine their findings. There... (21 June 2006)
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  • Matthew Somerville: It's quite common when talking about electoral boundaries - whether particular ward boundaries are coterminous with the parliamentary ones, for example. In this case, they're saying the Hampshire... (17 May 2006)
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  • g gregory: This does not answer the question that Lyndsay hoyle asked, why is this pioneering centre being closed down? when will the people running the system be re-employed? (17 May 2006)
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  • Eric McLoughlin: "Coterminosity" seems to be a derivative of "Coterminus". "Coterminus" is usually used in the context of something having a similar period end date. For instance, a holding company may share... (17 May 2006)
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  • bill tompkins: coterminosity? english as a second language? for the rest of us, just what does that mean, somebody? (17 May 2006)
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  • walter nimmo: These anecdotes cannot be construed as evidence. Can we have a proper response with proper evidence? Walter Nimmo ( 5 April 2006)
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  • Stuart Parr: It will be compulsorary with a passport from 2008. Yet another lie by the British government who said that it would be voluntary. Perhaps it will be subsidised by the 44,000 private companies... (14 February 2006)
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  • Sam Evans: In other words "we're going to raise taxes to pay for it," for what is an increase in the passport fee, and a fee for an identity card which will no doubt become compulsory in due course if not... (14 February 2006)
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  • Paul Mitchell: Ah... the age-old "if you have nothing to hide..." argument. You know, the one that presupposes we can trust the people who have power over us not to abuse that power. ( 8 November 2005)
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  • Julian Todd: For comparison of rate of growth, a written question last year: http://theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2004 -11-03.194872.h stated that they held "2.73 million DNA profiles taken from 2.45... ( 8 November 2005)
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  • Chris Lightfoot: The implication here is that registration in the National Identity Register would be under the individual's control. This implication is false. Not only would the Bill create the power for the... (23 October 2005)
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  • Paul Mitchell: Chris, It sounds to me like your "audit trail" would be exactly what any government would love to have: an accurate, detailed, accessible and, yummy, centrally-held profile of every entitled... (20 October 2005)
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  • Chris Lightfoot: Note that ICAO standards require only the "facial biometric" (really a digitised photograph) on a computer chip in the passport. They do not require fingerprints and iris scans, and they do not... (19 October 2005)
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  • Chris Lightfoot: "... it is not and never has been our intention to create an elaborate database that would hold detailed personal profiles for every individual" If this is so, why does the Bill (in schedule 1... (19 October 2005)
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  • Julian Todd: The codeword is "particulars". See: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa /cm200506/cmbills/009/06009.39-45.html#j 003s Paragraph 9: The following may be recorded in the entry in the... ( 5 July 2005)
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  • stinky will: A good many countrys dropped plans for a biometric id card BECAUSE they could not be relied on, i would ask him exactly which countrys use a biometric id card, it has all ready been proved... ( 4 July 2005)
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