Results 1–20 of 3000 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Karen Buck

Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Supplementary Credit Approvals) Bill (17 Jun 1997)

Karen Buck: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my maiden speech in this debate, which marks a welcome and long overdue fresh start in housing policy. I want to break with recent precedent by saying nothing whatever about football, other than that there are some wild proposals to bring Queen's Park Rangers home to Paddington basin; I am not an advocate of that, and it...

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill (10 Nov 1997)

Karen Buck: I congratulate the hon. Members who have made their maiden speeches in this debate. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Randall) for having given me the opportunity to acquaint myself with large areas of his constituency during the wettest July since 1853. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Wimbledon (Mr. Casale) on making a speech that demonstrated his commitment to...

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill (26 Nov 1997)

Karen Buck: I am delighted to speak in the debate. Having listened to and read through the debate in Committee, I remain convinced that the Bill will give Londoners what they want and that the argument for an integrated and balanced package of mayor and assembly is absolutely right. We have heard many speeches about the issue of the questions. I am baffled because despite Opposition Members' claims to...

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill (26 Nov 1997)

Karen Buck: I attended the Committee for at least part of the debate and I read it all in Hansard, so that is not entirely fair. I was speaking about the alleged media fixation on the number of questions. I do not recollect having noticed a great deal of media concern on that issue—in fact, what comes through most clearly in media discussion of London government is the absolute importance of coherence...

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill (26 Nov 1997)

Karen Buck: I am not in the slightest bit surprised. The response rate was extremely good, although I have not prepared statistical notes on the subject. I am not sure what aspersions the hon. Gentleman is casting on the consultation process, but I think that we have been getting a good solid response on the subject, both in the Government's consultation process and in my local consultation process. The...

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill (26 Nov 1997)

Karen Buck: Does not the hon. Gentleman appreciate that the representations made to the Government were representative of organisations, so the 1,000-plus forms received by the Government speak for tens of thousands of Londoners in voluntary, community and residents organisations and other representative capacities?

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill (26 Nov 1997)

Karen Buck: Does the hon. Gentleman suggest that it would be better if Westminster banned particular cars on a Wednesday and Camden banned them on a Thursday? That would be the consequence of devolving that strategic matter to individual boroughs.

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority (Referendum) Bill (26 Nov 1997)

Karen Buck: Is the hon. Gentleman saying that the issue of the assembly of the boroughs would be the third question?

Prayers: Welfare to Work (19 Dec 1997)

Karen Buck: Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it appropriate to ask for a Government statement today on the verdict in the High Court that we have just heard, which confirms the massive wrongdoing by two former leaders of Westminster city council who were engaged in gerrymandering in Westminster throughout the late 1980s? Will such a statement address the fact that Westminster...

Prayers: Westminster City Council (21 Jan 1998)

Karen Buck: The hon. Member for Guildford (Mr. St. Aubyn) mentioned balance. The critical fact is that the Labour party acts when there is wrongdoing or substantial allegations: we suspend the members under investigation. We have not hesitated to condemn and criticise those who are found guilty. The difference is that Conservative Members have not uttered one word of condemnation or criticism of the...

Prayers: Westminster City Council (21 Jan 1998)

Karen Buck: I disagree. The issue is entirely one of housing priority. Permanent accommodation was allocated on the basis of housing priority, whether for homeless people or for Westminster residents of long standing in chronic housing need, perhaps because of statutory overcrowding. It is also a fundamental mistake to assume that homelessness is a problem which is entirely external to the host borough....

Prayers: Westminster City Council (21 Jan 1998)

Karen Buck: I absolutely agree. A great deal of human misery was caused. There is no doubt that out-of-borough housing developments can be negotiated to everyone's benefit, but in the history of the gerrymandering scandal there was an aggressive policy of exporting homeless families without the appropriate negotiation with the boroughs on which they were dumped. Other enemies of the council included the...

Prayers: Westminster City Council (21 Jan 1998)

Karen Buck: As my hon. Friend says, there has never needed to be an investigation on a comparable scale into such electoral wrongdoing. As I have said, we asked time and again for additional resources for the auditor's office to bring about a speedy completion of the investigation. The length of the inquiry was not helped by the fact that documents were shredded and deliberate attempts were made to...

Protected Tenants (Rent) (26 Jan 1998)

Karen Buck: I begin with a brief disclaimer: if I live to be 100, and think of nothing else for the rest of my life, I shall never acquire the knowledge on the subject of my Adjournment debate that my hon. Friend the Minister has, so I introduce it with some humility. I hope that I do not make him cringe too much with any errors of fact, as I tread through a complex field of housing and law. I...

Protected Tenants (Rent) (26 Jan 1998)

Karen Buck: That is exactly the sort of the case that I shall discuss. My hon. Friend confirms my argument. She mentioned appeals. Of 703 cases heard in London in the first quarter of 1996, the rent assessment committee found in favour of the tenant in only 14 per cent. of cases. In more than 60 per cent., it increased the rent recommended by rent officers. It is hardly surprising that the rent...

NHS (Waiting Lists) (18 Mar 1998)

Karen Buck: Will my right hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the magnificent work done by national health service staff during the past winter, particularly in the hospitals that serve my constituency—St. Mary and St. Charles? Does he agree that the £500 million that he has announced this afternoon will lift pressure from health service staff by giving them the tools to do the job?

London Underground (20 Mar 1998)

Karen Buck: As my constituency includes 10 tube stations, I greatly welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. I hope that some of the investment may be available to deal with the persistent signalling problems on the Bakerloo line and with Ladbroke Grove station, which is literally propped up on stilts. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the London public will favourably compare the pragmatic,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Transport and the Regions: London Government ( 5 May 1998)

Karen Buck: If he will make a statement on his Department's role in publicising the arrangements for the London referendum. [39506]

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Transport and the Regions: London Government ( 5 May 1998)

Karen Buck: Is my right hon. Friend aware that many black and ethnic minority Londoners feel that their situation has worsened considerably in the 12 years since the previous Londonwide authority was abolished? Will he congratulate Operation Black Vote on its work to encourage black Londoners to participate in the referendum on Thursday and send a message to black and ethnic minority Londoners that a...

Affordable Housing (London) ( 6 May 1998)

Karen Buck: I am grateful to my hon. Friends the Member for Poplar and Canning Town (Mr. Fitzpatrick) and the Minister for allowing me some time in this debate. I am keen to speak on the principle that affordable housing is one of the central strands in a strategy to tackle social exclusion. Given that we are right to tackle the "ghettoising" of poor families on the worst estates, we must also deal with...


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