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Public Bodies: Reform

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

721 c622-33 

Session

2010-12

Department

Cabinet Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 721 c632 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness makes valuable points and I take them on board. There is an ongoing review and di...

Lord Boateng | 721 c632 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Caribbean Board is to be—

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Baroness Verma | 721 c632 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps the Cross Benches can come in and then the noble Lord.

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 721 c631-2 (Link to this contribution) At a similar point in a prior Administration, I was ministerially responsible for a department with ...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 721 c632 (Link to this contribution) I cannot guarantee the standards of proof-reading or mathematical skills, but I am sure that we have...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 721 c631 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to have to disagree with the noble Baroness. Some of these decisions have had to be made ...

Lord Boateng | 721 c631 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Caribbean Board—

Lord Boateng | 721 c630 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Caribbean Board is to be abolished, which will be of considerable—

Baroness Gould of Potternewton | 721 c631 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to my noble friend, but I am the chair of two organisations that have been purged today,...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 721 c629-30 (Link to this contribution) I think I can explain. As the noble Baroness said, the Government are minded but have not made a dec...

Lord Harries of Pentregarth | 721 c630 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in his response to the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, the Minister mentioned the HFEA and the Huma...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 721 c630 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble and right reverend Lord for putting the decision in context. Indeed, the two bodie...

Lord Crickhowell | 721 c630 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one has only to look at the list of bodies to see that the review was badly needed, and I ...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 721 c629 (Link to this contribution) I understand the noble Lord’s experience in these matters and respect it greatly. There is a view, w...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 721 c629 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is the Minister aware that there will be widespread support for what is contained in the S...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 721 c629 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend for his comments. Widespread concern has been expressed in the press about t...

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 721 c629 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as the chair of the Legal Services Consumer Panel. We had no advance notice of...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 721 c630 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend need have no concerns on this matter, because Defra is well aware of the difficultie...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 721 c633 (Link to this contribution) The Appointments Commission is not abolished, but perhaps I may explain that the process has been on...

Lord Boateng | 721 c632 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Caribbean Board is to be abolished. That will be of real concern to the peoples of the...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 721 c633 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, my Lords, but the truth of the matter is that the Government have taken the view that th...

Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 721 c633 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, can the Minister please explain further the process that each department has gone through ...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 721 c626-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord for his thoughtful comments and questions on these reforms, as well as for hi...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 721 c624-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for repeating the Statement. We believe it right that the work of n...

Lord Fowler | 721 c628 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the general policy put forward by my noble friend, but I want to ask about broad...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 721 c628 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord makes some useful suggestions for the ongoing process of the review and I am grateful...

Baroness Prashar | 721 c632 (Link to this contribution) I stepped down as chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission after my five-year term at the en...

Lord Borrie | 721 c628 (Link to this contribution) In light of the well-publicised speech during the summer by the right honourable Vince Cable on the ...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 721 c622-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made today in another place by...

Notes

Answer provided to Lord Kennedy of Southwark corrected on 28 October 2010 at 721 c106WS.

Subjects

Accountability Legislation Public bodies Non-departmental public bodies Reform

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