Tony Blair: ...be considered carefully at a later time. The Kurdish community in the north, because it has been protected by British and American pilots over the past 12 years, has achieved a remarkable degree of autonomy. It has achieved at least something of the beginnings of democracy. As a result of that, and as a result of the way that the area is governed free from Saddam, that community actually...
Lord McIntosh of Haringey: ...else that the noble Lord wants can be controlled by traffic regulation orders, which are the responsibility of local authorities. Surely a liberal democratic party ought at least to believe in local autonomy, and say that the issue should continue to be under local democratic control rather than under the control of appointed traffic commissioners. I am astonished at the idea that the...
Maria Eagle: ...2003 will put them on an equivalent footing to schools and grant them similar discretion. The devolved budgets which Maintained Nursery Schools will have from April 2004 will also afford increased autonomy and opportunity.
Chris McCafferty: .... A number of recommendations from our hearings have already been acted on but we need to move things further forward in order to combat this harmful and unnecessary attack on women's sexuality and autonomy. I am pleased to see that the proposed changes include many recommendations from the hearings—in particular, changing the name of the female circumcision Act 1985 to incorporate the...
Lord Vivian: ...It is appreciated that throughout this conflict targets will present themselves at short notice and it will be essential that military commanders are able to react immediately and with the necessary autonomy. It is also important to ensure that those commanders in the field are left to get on with the job and win the battles, and that Ministers do not interfere with decision-making on the...
Bernard Jenkin: ...modern electronic surveillance, targets will present themselves for attack at very short notice. Will the Secretary of State confirm that the military commanders will continue to have the necessary autonomy to act quickly and flexibly to seize such opportunities, as and when they arise? When the President of the United States refers, as he did this morning, to "coalition forces" being in...
Mary Mulligan: ...and Community Care Committee's stage 1 report, which said: "The Committee considers that the provisions on advance statements appear to strike an appropriate balance between increasing patients' autonomy, avoiding practical difficulties, and ensuring that doctors are not inhibited from protecting patients' welfare." We still believe that Millan and the Health and Community Care Committee...
Shona Robison: ...some patients consider ECT to be a beneficial and lifesaving treatment, others report feelings of terror, shame and distress, and find it positively harmful and an abusive invasion of personal autonomy." There is clearly huge division over whether ECT is effective or ineffective and over the lasting effects of ECT on patients. Service users expressed mixed views about ECT to the Scottish...
Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve: ...say that the University of Cambridge has already made a commitment to needs blind admissions. The White Paper has encouraging things to say about endowment raising and its importance to university autonomy. Endowment is vital for building bursary schemes and I wonder whether the Minister would agree that those of us who were at university before 1995, largely or wholly at public expense,...
Tommy Sheridan: I want to make a final important point. We are part of the United Kingdom and signatories to the International Court of Justice. Will the First Minister determine whether the Parliament has the autonomy to raise an action against the UK Government for engaging in a war that is not only unjust and immoral, but illegal?
Mary Scanlon: ...treatments are such that they do not wish to accept them under any circumstances, regardless of any benefits that such treatments may have. Again, we come back to the recognition of the power and autonomy of patients to express their wishes. The bill should reflect that. The Millan committee proposed a scheme whereby compulsory intervention would be tailored to the needs of the individual...
Mary Scanlon: ...to enshrine these descriptions in an Act that is likely to be in place for decades to come." The final point states: "decisions made by Psychiatrists will have to balance the need for patient autonomy and 'least restrictive alternative' against an individual's need for treatment or public safety. These decisions are always difficult ones, and in our view can only be made on an individual...
Michael Ancram: ...agreed, under the auspices of the United Nations. The new regime should allow the fledgling, functioning democracy of Kurdish northern Iraq to continue to meet Kurdish aspirations for a degree of autonomy. It should recognise the long-ignored Shi'a majority rights and their claim to a share in the Government. It should safeguard the rights of the Sunni Arabs of central Iraq and of smaller...
Lord Desai: ...Turkish Parliament decided not to take part in this campaign—that is what I understand unless matters have changed in the past four or five hours—as I believe that it would further ensure the autonomy of the Kurds in the north. I hope that when a new democratic Iraq is established, as I have no doubt will be the case, it will be a broad, loose federation with a great deal of autonomy...
Jeremy Corbyn: ...Kurdish autonomous region and the demands of Kurdish people for their own self-determination? There is a very serious fear that the Turkish army has always wanted to destroy any vestige of Kurdish autonomy.
Graham Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when he expects to publish his Department's consultation paper on the proposed criteria for earned autonomy.
Bill Wiggin: ...be grateful and I urge them to do so. The Minister may wish to guide me on that at a later date. There are several reservations about the Bill, in particular, that its introduction may challenge the autonomy of local government and the need to resist further prescriptions from central Government without additional resources, and I hope that the Government will respond to that. There is...
Miss Melanie Johnson: ..., 'The Office of Fair Trading: Progress in Protecting Consumers' Interests', that the OFT has increased the size of the team dealing with unfair contract terms and has given senior managers more autonomy in order to speed up its investigations. The NAO confirm that the OFT 'is making good progress in reducing the number of cases over two years old'.
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean: ...heard my Answer that we have made clear that we recognise the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation. The constitutional reforms do not involve a separate state for Chechnya but a degree of autonomy within Chechnya itself. Of course we shall try to give what help we can. I regret that the OSCE Assistance Group to Chechnya has been unable to extend its mandate; however, the OSCE...
Baroness Andrews: ...which goes to the heart of the debate today. It rests on several fundamental ethical principles which have governed relationships between doctors and patients for many years. It is about the autonomy of patients and about their fundamental human right to have a say over what happens to their body and any treatment that they receive. Those are principles which, following the Tony Bland...