Did you mean good speaker:Paul Burstow?
Paul Burstow: .... A son was stealing from his mum and preventing her from meeting social workers alone. It came to light only after the son had had an accident and was removed from the equation by that act of God or that act of incompetence on his part. All such cases—there are others in the material that the College of Social Work provided—suggest we need to do something. New clause 3 provides a...
Paul Burstow: ...be improved for thousands of carers in the United Kingdom, and probably hundreds in my constituency, who have responsibility for caring for disabled children and who would find a disabled badge a god send. We have had a useful debate, which has illuminated some of the concerns of carers in the UK. It is not the first debate on the issue this year. That demonstrates that hon. Members on...
Paul Burstow: ...a cost-cutting measure that was dressed up, with warm words, as community care. During their 18 years in government, the Conservatives drew the boundaries of state-funded care ever tighter. Thank God they were not re-elected at the last general election; otherwise, the fate of the public sector would have been to act as the 21st century administrators of a new poor law. Before the...
Paul Burstow: ...the practice note is intended to dispel. That is one of the reasons why I did not find the Minister's comments as persuasive as she might have hoped. The statement by the Minister about acts of God, civil commotion and so on, which are dealt with in my amendment, relates to a serious concern which many of the professional bodies believe should be dealt with in the Bill. Only one...
Paul Burstow: ...from any deemed reinstatement occurring in the course of the exercise of this assumption any want of actual repair to a hereditament arising from any peril customarily insured against, Acts of God, civil commotion, war or terrorism, or arising from the rebuilding or substantial refurbishment thereof'. I speak with trepidation bearing in mind recent comments of the Under-Secretary of State...
Paul Burstow: ...that was attacked when local government did it in the past. The PFI is a way of circumventing strict Treasury rules. The problem is not the Treasury rules but the mindset that regards them as God-given and unchangeable. I hope that something can be done about that. I welcome the Minister's statement about the creation of a task force to examine the PFI. I hope that it will question the...