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Mr Peter Mandelson: ...policies. It is immensely difficult, but extremely important, to ensure that when the Intelligence and Security Committee approaches its work it will not be unduly frustrated and obfuscated by a fussy and pedantic ministerial distinction between tasks and policies. This afternoon, the Foreign Secretary established clearly that they are the two sides of the same coin. It is very difficult...
Paul Murphy: ...State for the Environment, the right hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine), said: We will sweep away tiresome and excessive control over local government. They do not need, they do not want, the fussy supervision of detail that now exists. Over the past 15 years, almost 150 Acts have taken away the powers and responsibilities of local authorities, and Wales is now the most centralised...
Robin Cook: ..., he set out his strategy for the deregulation of local government. He said: We will sweep away tiresome and excessive control over local government. They do not need, they do not want, the fussy supervision of detail". Fifteen years later, we have more central regulation of local government than any other country in Europe. If the right hon. Gentleman wants a bonfire of regulations, let...
Mr David Nicholson: ...direction, the duties will be discarded at some stage. Does he agree that the Government's Deregulation and Contracting Out Bill might have potential for relieving local authorities of some of the fussy duties that especially their environmental health officers have undertaken in recent years? I find in my dealings with them that they are so busy going around messing about with shops and...
Jack Straw: ...Henley (Mr. Heseltine) announced his strategy to set local government free. He said: We will sweep away tiresome and excessive control over local government. They do not need, they do not want, the fussy supervision of detail that now exists. But 15 years on, the reality is very different. Each of the 144 Acts of Parliament affecting local government that has been passed since then has...
Mr Alan Howarth: ...of need, defined by pre-existing bureaucratic structures and assessment categories. Disabled clients who did not fit in and who expressed views of their own were dismissed as "demanding", "fussy", and "manipulative". My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster went on to emphasise the need to delegate financial responsibility down and measure outcomes. In The Times...
Mr Geoffrey Dickens: .... The graveyards are full. I do not want to be too emotional, but I must say that what is proposed would not cause any great alarm. I do not think that the people of Northern Ireland would be too fussy about it. In fact, they would be very pleased indeed if the British Parliament—they are as British as we are—were to demonstrate even-handedness between Northern Ireland and England and...
Mr Bryan Gould: ...said: We will sweep away tiresome and excessive control over local government. Local councils are directly elected. They are answerable to their electorate. They do not need, they do not want, the fussy supervision of detail which now exists. What fine sentiments and how much we Opposition Members agree with him. Fine sentiments, which were almost immediately obstructed in practice by a...
Mr Rhodri Morgan: ...area where we are slow to develop. A municipal incineration plant has been approved in Munich. We would like to think that that will prove that such plants can succeed, even in an environmentally fussy country such as Germany. If so, such plants will become acceptable in Britain. That is a matter in which we expect an inward flow of technology. We are pleased that the new Franco-British...
Austin Mitchell: ...logical that we should show some concern for what we should really be talking about, which is quality and standards of accuracy, journalism and news coverage. Nowhere does the Bill—for all its fussy, meddling, moralistic interference in the form of the powers conceded to the Broadcasting Standards Council—show any concern for the basic qualities of television. Those matters are dealt...
Mrs Peggy Fenner: ...Opposition Members, who are not in their places at the moment, boast about not having a passport—and goes into the kitchen of a French restaurant, the land of haute cuisine, the land which is fussy about good food, will find his hair standing on end because of the bacteriological implications of the manner in which the stock is boiled. Our food is good; our standards are high. Food is...
Mr Russell Johnston: ...Committee on Foreign Affairs is a languorous chap —decent, but very laid back. He was certainly very laid back today. He gave the impression of the superior Anglo-Saxon who thinks that all those fussy continentals are liable to be strange and misleading, and talked of Delors and Mitterrand as though they were a couple of recalcitrant political schoolboys. That is absurd.
Frank Field: ...council accommodation experience when they want to move and the authorities ask what is wrong with where they are living since all sorts of other people are living there and why should they be so fussy about it. Once the bureaucrats take hold, the freedom to choose is lost. I hope that I have effectively put across two points. We have a thinking, listening Government. The hon. Member for...
Hon. Nicholas Ridley: The hon. Gentleman, who comes from a declining industrial area in one of our inner cities, must realise that there is a choice between detailed and over-fussy planning control and the regeneration of areas leading to jobs for the people and the rebuilding of prosperity in his city. He seems to imply that he is taking the wrong choice in that dilemma.
Mr Rhodri Morgan: ...agree that stock appreciation relief was pitched generously and administered generously to ensure that companies did not go out of business because of inflation, and the Inland Revenue was not too fussy about seeing whether what it was administering was strictly stock appreciation relief or a combination of the extraordinary tax liabilities that could arise not only out of stock...
Mr John Wakeham: I know that the hon. Gentleman is not too fussy about these matters, and makes his political points whenever there is an opportunity. I should remind him that the Budget is about taxation and borrowing and not about spending and that spending plans have been settled. The Select Committee report is interesting, particularly because it recognises that there is a need for a full review of the...
Michael Lord: ...they could possibly be converted back to their original use. What will happen to such guns? If they cannot be used legally, they will either be used illegally or handed to someone else who is less fussy about such things. I should like my hon. Friend to comment on that. The safe keeping of firearms and the issue of guns locked in car boots causes great concern. The problems that arise...
Mr Stephen Ross: ...rating reviews. Often they take a year and will not give an inch, even if a road has been closed for some weeks, or a redevelopment is going on opposite and affecting business. There is too much fussiness about bill boards. Small firms up hack alleyways or in secondary trading positions, and suffering as a result, want to make themselves known. They put up decently decorated boards and...
Mr Edward Du Cann: .... The House may be indifferent to harsher controls on tobacco advertising or sponsorship, although I feel that the proposal goes a good deal further than is necessary or desirable. I loathe the fussiness and nannying attitude of some of those who would rule our lives. I view with horror the prospect of restrictions on liquor advertising. One should be able to make-up one's mind about...
Mr Bryan Gould: ...the task."? Is that still his position? What is the present basis of his monetary policy? What is the assumed connection between any monetary measure the Chancellor cares to select—I am not fussy about which one he selects—and the assumed or predicted rate of inflation? Unless we know that, we cannot know what has happened to what he said in 1981 was, the heart of our economic policy"....