Results 41–60 of 2232 for speaker:Mr Patrick Nicholls

Business of the House (25 Jan 2001)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: The right hon. Lady will know that the two forced resignations of the right hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson) will have netted him £48,443 in ministerial resettlement grants. Does she believe that he deserves it? If not, will she urge him not to take it? [Interruption.] Yes, the figures are correct. Can we have a debate next week on the operation of the Ministerial and Other...

Orders of the Day — Work Permits (22 Jan 2001)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: I am pleased to have this opportunity to raise on the Adjournment of the House the case of Aura Sabadus. I am grateful to the Minister for replying to the debate I am sure that that courtesy will be appreciated by those concerned. I usually prefer not to raise specific cases on the Floor of the House in this way, but sometimes the circumstances of a particular case leave us with no...

Business of the House (18 Jan 2001)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: Will the Leader of the House consider a debate, if not next week then certainly in the near future, on the fate of the Kingskerswell bypass? She will recall that I have mentioned the matter before. With a view to trying to secure a debate and to find out what was happening, I raised it in the House on 21 December, when the Parliamentary Secretary, Privy Council Office said at column 677 that...

Bedford Hospital (16 Jan 2001)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: Does the Secretary of State share my unease, and perhaps surprise, that it was necessary to issue guidance about the correct treatment of bodies? He told us that that was done twice. Was that guidance issued because other concerns had reached him about the treatment of dead bodies? Although I accept what the Secretary of State says, and that for the purposes of these o changes we are not...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Transport and the Regions: Council Tax (16 Jan 2001)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: It is not the Minister's fault, but there is complete disarray when it comes to the council tax bands applicable to park home estates. Whether a park home is placed in council tax band A depends entirely on the whim of the district valuer. A great many people, both in the House and outside, assumed at the outset that park homes would be in band A. Is not there an excellent case for putting...

Adjournment (Christmas) (21 Dec 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: As time is short, I shall keep my remarks as brief as I can. I have a great deal of respect for the Minister, with whom I have debated on many occasions. He has always treated my remarks with great courtesy and I am grateful to him for it. However, the speech by my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Baldry) struck a chord with me. This debate is important. It is, after all, an occasion...

Social Security: Prisoners of War (Far East) (18 Dec 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: The Minister will recall that his hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Defence was praised—rightly so—for the apparently comprehensive nature of the original settlement. Is he aware that it is now being said that those Gurkhas who became far east prisoners of war will, uniquely, be excluded from the scheme? I appreciate that the matter is not the direct responsibility of the...

Social Security: Prisoners of War (Far East) (18 Dec 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: There is a moral responsibility.

Business of the House (23 Nov 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: The right hon. Lady will recall that it is more than a year since the European Commission, no less, produced a report expressing its concerns that much of French meat production was contaminated by human sewage. Bearing in mind that the case for a ban on French meat was compelling then and that it is even more compelling now, would it not be a good idea to have a debate so that we could...

Far East Prisoners of War (Ex Gratia Payment) ( 7 Nov 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: The Minister will remember our exchanges over the years on this subject. I offer my unreserved congratulations on his announcement today. The statement was comprehensive; he and his right hon. and hon. Friends are rightly to be complimented on it. I remind the Minister of the remarks made by Members on both sides of the House—his hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) was...

Opposition Day: Pensions and Pensioners ( 6 Nov 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Newport, West (Mr. Flynn), who speaks about these matters with great passion and knowledge. I thought I would be able to agree with him to an extent that would embarrass us both, but I am happy to say that in a moment I shall be able to resume normal hostilities. The hon. Gentleman was right to talk about the restoration of the pensions link, a...

Opposition Day: Pensions and Pensioners ( 6 Nov 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: I would adore to give way to the Minister, so that I can share his embarrassment.

Opposition Day: Pensions and Pensioners ( 6 Nov 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: There is something glorious about the Minister. I always enjoy my exchanges with him. As the Minister well knows, under the Labour Government in those days it was impossible to forecast rises in prices or earnings in terms of more than a few weeks, because the economy was completely out of control. At that time—the last time that the Minister was involved in an alliance, a Lib-Lab...

Opposition Day: Pensions and Pensioners ( 6 Nov 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: I shall give way to the Minister who is marvellous and reminds me of the late Brian London. Boxing fans will know that that was not meant to be a compliment.

Opposition Day: Pensions and Pensioners ( 6 Nov 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: I am giving the House the full information, and it says something about the right hon. Gentleman, whom I respect, that he is embarrassed by what he has heard. I will send the right hon. Gentleman the information, which is news to no one on this side of the House. I accept that the matter is not entirely within his brief, as it is more of a Treasury brief. However, if he understood the effect...

Opposition Day: Pensions and Pensioners ( 6 Nov 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: There are dozens of examples of the way in which ACT has worked. The two examples that I mentioned simply made the point that the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye was wrong. A moment or two ago, I said that, to some extent, given the figures we were discussing, we were almost swapping offers. We need to go much further than that, and a different approach should be considered by all the main...

Opposition Day: Pensions and Pensioners ( 6 Nov 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: If my hon. Friend will allow me, I shall continue as time is short. We must draw the conclusion that we have the opportunity of a third age. We need a bigger idea, and Her Majesty's Government—it does not matter of which political party—should accept that we have moved on so much that we need a Ministry of the third age. We need an overriding, all-embracing Ministry that considers...

Business of the House (26 Oct 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: Does the right hon. Lady agree that the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland was wrong to say that pensioners should be rebranded because to be old was not cool? Perhaps at the same time she could also reject the remarks of her hon. Friend, one of the Ealing Members, who said that we should not worry about pensioners because they are all Conservative and racist? Does she agree that there...

Adjournment (Summer) (28 Jul 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: On 19 April, in Westminster Hall, in one of my longest and most complicated speeches, I spoke about a west country computer firm, AllVoice Computing plc. I am sure that the House is pleased to hear that I do not intend to make a similar contribution today unless I am seriously provoked. On that occasion, I told hon. Members that AllVoice is a specialist computer company with some...

Adjournment (Summer) (28 Jul 2000)

Mr Patrick Nicholls: Good God.


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