Mr John Biggs-Davison: ...deny by force that democratic will, it will be necessary to continue the powers contained in the Act, reluctant though we all are to continue them. Successive Secretaries of State have based their policy on the primacy of the police and the bringing of the terrorists to justice before the courts. That policy is sound. One argument in its favour is the way in which the Provos rage so...
Gordon Prentice: .... The company, which is in the service sector, is one of many in Pendle which are reeling from the effects of the worst recession in 60 years. The north-west has suffered badly from Government policies. There are closures, redundancies and incredibly low wages. According to Government figures, people there are worse off than those in the south-east, where average personal disposable...
Mike O'Brien: ...we all accept that. However, the need for sensitivity should not prevent them from taking the action necessary to show the importance of the issue and ensure that people are fully aware of it. The Metropolitan police gave this evidence to the Committee: the examples of good practice in Canada, North America and Australia, where there is far more public awareness of domestic violence and...
Lord Astor of Hever: ...the Minister associates herself and the Government with it and does so with some conviction. Her Majesty's Government have come in for a good deal of criticism—and rightly so—for their feeble policy of avoiding confrontation with the regime, which comforts and emboldens Mugabe and his thugs. How much more blatant, state-sponsored violence and terror must be perpetrated before the...
Mr Reginald Freeson: ..., not just in recent weeks but over many months, which they and I know exists in their Department. They have given us no figures on a variety of central matters connected with the Bill and the policy to which it relates. We have had no estimates of the subsidy levels in global terms. We have had no estimate of what the expenditure is likely to be on what they claim to be the most...
Adrian Bailey: ...want more doctors and nurses and better facilities, and they know that those must be paid for. In all the comments made by Conservative Members, I did not hear them once mention how their policies would be paid for. Ultimately, my constituents believe that the increase is the fairest way of funding the national health service. I want to make a plea relating to my constituency. Like many...
David Wright: ...planning guidance with regional spatial strategies. That is more than just a change in name: there will be a change in style with more focus on the spatial form of the region and a move away from a policy-based document. It is important that the new strategies give spatial expression to, among other issues, regional transport and economic and environmental plans. All that is to be...
Mr Kenneth Marks: ...picture of any possible health hazard before any extension of the works goes ahead. I turn now to the planning application by Chloride Metals Limited. This application was originally made to Leeds metropolitan district council. That council referred it to West Yorkshire metropolitan county council for decision as it would—if approved—have constituted a departure from the development...
Lynne Featherstone: ...organisations that work with victims to be increasing exponentially, because it is extremely profitable, with high demand and little capital outlay, and it is a growing industry, unfortunately. The Metropolitan police estimate that trafficked women forced into prostitution in London see between 20 and 30 men a day. I believe that the POPPY project is the only dedicated safe house providing...
Neil Turner: ...are too rigid. That is not my experience. Earlier this year, I attended the Labour party local government conference. I ran a workshop on the new structures, and it was attended by councillors from metropolitan, district, unitary and county councils. Those councils were under all sorts of control—some were overwhelmingly controlled by the Labour, Conservative or Liberal Democrat...
Chris Leslie: ...side of the House. Before the hon. Member for Cotswold got to his feet, I was worried that he would get carried away, and indeed he did. It is very sad. The Conservatives have a history of poor policy in local government, and he needs reminding of that. From 1979, they imposed a whole range of outrageous and regressive measures on local government. They gave the Secretary of State control...
Lord Harris of Haringey: ...it will depend on the personal chemistry between the chief officer of police and the person who fulfils this role-the commissioner or the commission. There was a transition period before the new Metropolitan Police Authority came into being in 2000; it was not quite as long as the one that the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, suggested last week, but it was certainly a matter of months. A few...
Chuka Umunna: ...of the result and the fact that it was evenly balanced—17.4 million to 16.1 million—areas such as mine are sometimes treated like a small minority and airily referred to as being liberal, metropolitan and elite. In Lambeth, we are proud to be metropolitan and we are proud of our liberal values, but we are anything but an elite. We are the eighth most deprived local authority area in...
Simon Hughes: ..., we have to look after property which is in a bad state of repair. We gather that the Green Paper will not now result in legislation in the coming Session. Once again we have a statement of policy without the provision of more money. Indeed, we shall see a reduction in the money provided for home improvement. That is a bad and misguided policy, for as the condition gets worse the amount...
Mr Alfred Barnes: ...matter so much. Then, again, there is the irritation that it represents, the physical fatigue caused to people going about on their business or on other preoccupations, and, above all, in our great Metropolitan area, there is that grave and perplexing problem of road casualties as well. I do not think there is any dispute anywhere of the need of expenditure in this direction, and if it...
Mr John Boyd-Carpenter: The hon. Member for Thurrock (Mr. Solley) directed most of his argument to the very agreeable subject of Conservative policy, and confined his references to the Control of Engagement Order to the irreducible minimum required by the Rules of Order. As I understand such part of his argument as he addressed to the order, it is this: that the order was, of itself, a kind of mystical cure for...
Sir Francis Fremantle: ...as well as a curative service for the whole country. It is about 80 years old, and the time has gone by now when it can any longer be taken as the basis, because successive Governments, having no policy whatever on this subject, have introduced one Act after another improvising administrations, and authorities, and officials of one kind or another, regardless of the original basis for...
Brian Iddon: ...question on light pollution from my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Dudley, North (Ross Cranston), the Minister for Housing and Planning said: "The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's policy on planning control and light pollution has long been that such issues are most appropriately dealt with by: raising awareness by those who buy and procure external lighting of the...
Tom Harris: ...March setting out the background to the provisions. As was explained to my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Blackley, the payment of travel expenses is a fundamental part of the Government's policy to encourage compliance with our requirements that asylum seekers keep in touch with the immigration and nationality directorate during consideration of their case. We make no apologies...
Mr Piers Merchant: ...must be an appreciation of regional aspects. I agree with my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks, who drew attention to the importance of having two approaches to regional policy, not just the classic one and not just the supply side approach, either. I do not believe that the Government have done enough to devolve Departments and state industries and to direct...
