Former Independent MP for West Dorset ( 1 May 1997 – 6 Nov 2019)
Oliver Letwin: ...Group meets regularly to review progress of the review. We do not comment on specific date, nor do we publish agendas or minutes The National Floods Resilience Review Group is chaired by Oliver Letwin and consists of Ministers and senior officials from relevant departments, including Defra, DECC, DfT, DCLG, HMT, DCMS, the Environment Agency and the Met Office.
Ed Vaizey: Yes. I am asking for a friend. If the Letwin amendment is passed and the Bill comes in next week and is agreed to before 31 October, we will leave on 31 October, but if the Letwin amendment is not passed and the Bill comes forward next week but is not agreed to by 31 October, we will leave with no deal—yes or no?
Sadiq Khan: On that, the good news is the current Chancellor has commissioned Oliver Letwin [MP] to do a piece in relation to how we can speed up homes being built. The Letwin report is actually very good. A lot of it we fed into, so I think there is enough with our expertise in City Hall. If it is Boris Johnson [MP], with his experience as the Mayor, the Letwin review and the work we have done in my...
Jeremy Purvis: Lord James Douglas-Hamilton re-emphasises the role of schools and college, which I welcome. However, the Tories' document on the Letwin guarantee shows that a saving of £175 million from the community schools programme would be part of the income and savings that would contribute to their proposed £916 million tax cut. The Conservatives' Letwin guarantee document shows that they would cut...
Tony Blair: ...: if I were him, I would concentrate on policy, too. I have something else of which to inform the House. Yesterday, there was a leading policy speech by the right hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin), who is in charge of the Conservatives' policy commission. The speech was entitled: "Is Cameron Conservatism just a set of attitudes, or is it a political theory?' asks Oliver Letwin"....
Miss Melanie Johnson: The hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin) is no longer in his place, but he asked me a question about section 37 of the 1866 Act. The original meaning of that section is so obscure that neither the Treasury nor National Audit Office officials who have examined it have been able to decipher it. The main point is that it concerns an old-fashioned practice that is no longer used by the NAO,...
Brian Monteith: It is possible that Bristow Muldoon missed the budget debate last week. I gave a guarantee then and I give a guarantee now that, because of the arrangements that have been drawn up by Oliver Letwin, the future Chancellor of the Exchequer, there is no shadow of a doubt that the same Barnett consequentials—the same extra funding—that would be made available by Gordon Brown if perchance he...
Lord Best: ...and galvanising the process of reducing the disastrous housing shortages? Top of my wish list for fundamental change is the adoption of the mechanisms for land value capture advocated by Sir Oliver Letwin in his 2018 review. Sir Oliver got to the heart of why we have been failing, year after year, to build what we need. Yes, we should resource our local planning departments to speed up...
Oliver Letwin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement about his plans for the private finance initiative in the NHS. [418]
Oliver Letwin: rose—
Oliver Letwin: What will happen if the Minister imposes regulations in the licence in accordance with the letters that have been exchanged, the case is then taken to the European Court, and his new licences are found to be in contravention of the treaty in the judgment of the European Court? What steps will the Government then take?
Oliver Letwin: Does the hon. Gentleman not accept the proposition that I was advancing, that there is a significant difference between an increase in the PSBR in times of recession and such an increase in times of growth?
Oliver Letwin: Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Oliver Letwin: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to make public funds available to groups campaigning in the forthcoming referendum in Scotland. [6693]
Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Howard Flight, Mr. Graham Brady, Miss Julie Kirkbride, Mr. Christopher Fraser, Mr. David Ruffley, Mr. Oliver Letwin, Mr. David Prior, Mr. Tim Collins, Mrs. Caroline Spelman, Mr. Andrew Lansley, Mrs. Eleanor Laing and Mr. Robert Walter.
Oliver Letwin: rose—
Oliver Letwin: rose—
Oliver Letwin: In connection with her response to an earlier question, how does the Leader of the House imagine that it would have been possible for the House to debate the European Community budget before the beginning of this week, given that the draft budget was not available to hon. Members before Monday?
Oliver Letwin: Does the Minister not think that the Department of Trade and Industry might be better advised to produce plans for recycling certain Ministers rather than cars?
Oliver Letwin: What meetings he and his colleagues have held with voluntary organisations concerned with the administration of justice and the treatment of offenders in the Home Office since 1 May; and if he will make a statement. [11671]