Mr David Grenfell: ...return airways of the districts there was one low place, 4 feet 6 inches high. Some of us who know something about mines were not impressed nevertheless. It is alarming to see how frequently that phrase reappears in the evidence. The law requires three essential conditions for the protection of persons working in coal mines. The first is that they shall be supplied with adequate...
Sir Edward Keeling: ...not the least remarkable.' "How vile," says "Q," "is the abstract noun. It wraps a man's thoughts round like cotton wool." One common form of circumlocution in this House is what I may call the phrase of appeasement. A Minister will tell you that an operation is "one of considerable magnitude," because he thinks that is more likely to be accepted as an excuse than if he says it is a big...
Mr John Wilkinson: ...in Bradford so long, but I have been there five years and, as I say, we have a very sizeable concentration of Pakistanis. Yet I have only met two who would willingly be repatriated, as the popular phrase goes, to their own country. In other words, they see their position in the United Kingdom as being a continuing one in the economic sense. They have their obligations to their families,...
Chris Mullin: ...regard to the social consequences and in defiance of the view of the management appointed by the Government. If there is some bitterness in Sunderland, it is due to a feeling—the Minister used the phrase "ideological hang-up" and perhaps that best describes it—that this is privatisation at all costs. I join my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, North in saying that we should do...
Mr Raymond Powell: ...that the six hour compromise which has been accepted by both Houses is not undermined by belated opportunism. We all accept that. I cannot understand where the deputy general secretary got the phrase "belated opportunism", because USDAW was a party to destroying the whole idea that we should reject the Bill as it presently stands. I am pleased to hear the Minister say that at last he...
Mike Gapes: ...website called Islam for Today mentions: "A campaign by London Muslims to unseat a British member of parliament from the governing Labour party at the 2001 general election." Again, it contains the phrase "Mike Gapes MP: 'No Friend of the Muslims' ". The website reproduces, in its entirety, Mr. Bunglawala's leaflet. Another website, Middle East News Online, carried the headline "UK Muslims...
Philip Hammond: ...''. That is the plain English way of specifying that, and it tells us what we want to know. My interpretation of the English language is that ''the burden of additional costs'' is not an appropriate phrase to use in the structure of this rather long subsection. Whether the phrase is ''the burden of additional costs'' or ''material additional costs'' depends on how serious that burden...
Lord Patten: ...'t be fussy about definitions. Let's get on with the job. Let them get on with the job of 'rural proofing'. Don't muck about with statistics. You know that 'rural proofing' is the answer". This is a phrase which is never far from the lips of people in the four ale bar or on the Archers. I must tell the House that of the 11 departments monitored by the Countryside Agency as to their...
Mr Malcolm Savidge: ...US military dominance throughout the century. There are also plans for new nuclear weapons, and the military-industrial complex seems to be even more powerful than when General Eisenhower coined the phrase. Such voices give frighteningly different visions from that espoused by George Bush senior of a new world order. Indeed, I would suggest that such views are very different from the...
Fergus Ewing: ...that have not been raised, the first of which is self-invested pension plans. All parties in the Scottish Parliament may be concerned about the surge in house prices, to use Maureen Macmillan's phrase. However, if the chancellor down in Westminster takes measures that will increase the value of existing houses, that will be bad—it will be inflationary, as we can foresee. However, that is...
Baroness Wall of New Barnet: ...the quality account should reflect those three components. Such a consistency of structure would contribute to another proposal that there should be a clear commitment to bring clarity to quality, a phrase often used in my own trust. Specifically, measured and published quality data should be accessible to a wider audience—to the stakeholders, including, most significantly, patients,...
James Brokenshire: I wish to continue the theme that the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake) ended on. The phrase "sleepwalking into a surveillance society" is precisely the one that the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, used. He subsequently questioned whether we had actually woken up in one. Perhaps those questions were in the minds of members of the Home Affairs Committee, on which...
Mark Hoban: ...;control” and risk rendering the definition of “acquiring control” to be somewhat circular. Would not “the right to manage or direct the disposal of bond assets” be a better phrase than “the right of management and control of the bond assets”? Paragraphs 4(2) and 21(2) use the phrase “transfer sufficient rights”, which appears to mean that the...
Lord Puttnam: ...a hinterland, people who had done other things in their lives and decisions made on evidence. They rejected the notion that politics should have anything to do with what they termed-this was their phrase, not mine-the party Whip. They rejoiced in the notion that the House of Lords did not seem to be dominated by the party Whip. For example, there was a lot of concern about environmental...
Christine Grahame: ...and local businesses. It is also good for the soul. I wholly subscribe to the tenor of the motion, but I wish that the minister had put a wee word in it about the south of Scotland. There is not a phrase that mentions the Borders or Dumfries and Galloway; we could have done with that. Finally, I return to what Jenny Marra said. I am half English. Half my relatives live in the midlands. My...
Kevin Brennan: ..., such as Sky, Virgin, YouView, BT, TalkTalk, Freeview and Freesat. Ofcom’s authority to require such public service broadcasting prominence would be clarified by the replacement of the opaque phrase “Ofcom consider appropriate” with “required by Ofcom”. In summary, new clause 17 shares the principle of levelling the online world with the offline seen elsewhere in the Bill....
Andrew Selous: Q I am tempted to have another go, because you used the phrase “reasonable return” in your answer to Dr Whitford. You would not give me a figure on that earlier. Are you prepared to say anything further on that?
Gordon Marsden: ...is a creative tension—hopefully it is creative and not destructive—between the needs of the education administrator and the traditional needs of the creditors. I was struck particularly by a phrase in your submission, Mr Harris, where you said, “I note also that the Bill contains measures such that a creditor or appropriate national authority may apply to court if it is dissatisfied...
Rory Stewart: Q Just as a quick follow-up, Sir Paul, you have used the phrase “public risk capital”; would you expand a little bit on what you are saying about the need for public involvement?
Nick Thomas-Symonds: ..., you were taking about what the prisoners themselves have to offer in this. I know that the RSA has spoken about things such as rehabilitation culture—I think “rehabilitation capital” is the phrase that is used by the prisons. Can I pick up on that and, in a general sense, ask you whether you think the Bill incorporates that sort of culture and those sorts of measures in the way you...