Results 41–60 of 2000 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:John Pugh

Education and Social Mobility (22 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: I do not want to repeat the many excellent points that Members have made. If you will excuse me, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will indulge in a moment of pedantry. The subject of the debate is “social mobility”, and that is not a one-way ticket; one can go up or down. There was a lot of social mobility during the great depression, most of it downwards, and the happiest societies are not...

Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire (22 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: The Minister is making an important point. The argument about the CQC inspections is to some extent related to what the CQC inspects. If it is inspecting an A&E department—I hope I made this clear in my speech—the CQC often has to bear in mind the fact that it is not an isolated unit. A&E works in conjunction with adult social care, the ambulance service and so on. Getting snapshots of a...

Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire (22 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: I beg to move, That this House has considered accident and emergency services in Merseyside and Cheshire. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger, and a pleasure to see the Minister in his place. We spent many a happy hour on the Public Accounts Committee in years gone by, and I have great respect for him. I am sure he will give due consideration to what I say. The debate...

Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire (22 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: There is also a petition in Southport, and I am sure there will be petitions wherever in the country this sort of thing happens. As the hon. Gentleman suggests, the ownership of the sustainability and transformation reviews is wholly unclear. No one quite knows who writes the plans, or how they are agreed, and few democratically elected bodies or people, or patients, have any kind of input....

Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire (22 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: Precisely. I am going on to some brief analysis of the problems of A&E, but it is certainly the line in the sand that we must defend. Elderly people are obviously the major clients for A&E, and Southport by any analysis has an enormous number—a very high percentage—of people who will require A&E. Moreover, as the ambulance service says, and as the hospital will confirm, when people arrive...

Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire (22 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: I thank the hon. Lady for that clarification and amplification. There really is a problem with integration, and I do not know how that will be better solved by bringing more organisations—particularly untried organisations—into the fray. We are all exasperated by watching people make a hash of things and create rather than solve problems. CCGs are neither accountable nor always...

Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire (22 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: I am not sure whether that is the deliberate intent, but that is certainly a possible result.

Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire (22 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: The hon. Lady reinforces the point that I was going to make next. No one in the NHS locally is in a position to bang heads together and say, “Hang on, what do the public actually want or expect here?” The CCGs speak to NHS England and the Secretary of State. They are the decision makers. It seems to me that one of the coalition Government’s biggest mistakes was abolishing the regional...

Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire (22 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: There was actually an attempt to make clear in that legislation where responsibility lay. I am very familiar with that debate and do not want to re-engage with it at the moment. There is an absence of a genuine force for integration at a local level. We all know that there are institutions in any local environment that will be shored up at all costs, regardless of the clinical benefits to the...

Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire (22 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: The hon. Member for West Lancashire is positively bursting to get in.

Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire (22 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: Thank you, Sir Roger. We are on the home straight now. The trust that we are talking about has been under the management of a series of interims over the past year. That has not helped its affairs. Why should the people of Southport suffer? We have been poorly served—not by the doctors, the nurses and the hard-working staff, but by the NHS high command. People are angry. If they are to be...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: UKRI report: international specialist employees (21 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: I do not propose to press my new clause to a vote. Clause, by leave, withdrawn. New Clause 14 “Post Study Work Visa: evaluation ‘(1A) Within six months of this Act coming into force, UKRI must commission an independent evaluation of the matters under subsection (1B) and shall lay the report before the House of Commons. (1B) The evaluation under subsection (1A) must assess— (a) the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: UKRI report: international specialist employees (21 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: It might be helpful if I refreshed hon. Members’ memories about what new clause 11 contains, so that we know what we are talking about. It states: “Within six months of section 84 of this Act coming into force, and every year thereafter, UKRI shall report to the Secretary of State on— (a) EU (excluding from the UK), and (b) non-EU specialist employees employed by UKRI and English higher...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: UKRI report: international specialist employees (21 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Student support: restricted modification of repayment terms (21 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: I rise to add a brief footnote to new clause 10, which is in my name, and to say things that other people in the room possibly cannot say. Liberal Democrats hesitate, for some reason, to talk about university fees. I have no particular embarrassment—I voted against top-up fees under Labour, and I voted against the increases under the coalition. In both cases, though, I made dire predictions...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Duty to monitor and report on financial sustainability (21 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: I apologise to members of the Public Bill Committee: I did not make the cut, so they have the advantage over me, but I assure them that I read the entire transcript, cover to cover, in one fell swoop—and riveting reading it was. New clauses 9 and 12 deal with overseas students. The Minister tried to suggest that they would widen the scope of the Bill, but the new clauses, like Labour’s...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Electric Vehicles: Charge Points (17 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: Sorry to break the consensus, but is there not a danger of the Government putting too much emphasis on electric vehicles and not enough on liquefied petroleum gas and hydrogen cells, which do not require the same level of infrastructure?

Immigration Rules (International Students) — [Mr James Gray in the Chair] (16 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: I congratulate the hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East (Stuart C. McDonald) on starting this important debate. I begin with a declaration of interest: I have benefited from international students very directly in the past few months. A Mexican postgraduate engineer called Alfredo helped me to analyse the complex business cases that the Department for Transport uses,...

Immigration Rules (International Students) — [Mr James Gray in the Chair] (16 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: Okay. I am grateful to hear that. The issue may not be a problem because when we think about it objectively, somebody who masters English, having not started out with English as their native tongue, and who has qualified in a good British university, may be precisely the sort of person the country needs. None the less, I accept that, generally speaking, the Government, the public, the world...

Immigration Rules (International Students) — [Mr James Gray in the Chair] (16 Nov 2016)

John Pugh: Hence the conflict that rides through Government between the Home Office and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor, who clearly has a different opinion. Hence we see the significance that higher education has for Brexit not only from the money point of view but because courses will fall over and research will simply not...


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