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Ministerial statement on Thursday, 14 October 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Maude of Horsham.

Public Bodies Reform

Statement on public bodies reform.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
516 c505-18 
Session
2010-12
Department
Cabinet Office
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House of Commons chamber
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Public Bodies Reform
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Written statements
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c505-6 (Link to this contribution) Today, the Government have taken decisive action to restore accountability and responsibility to pub...
Andrew Bingham | 516 c509 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to hear my right hon. Friend say that overall costs will be reduced. A Local Government...
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Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c509-10 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that there will occasionally be a case for new independent bodies coming into existence, b...
George Howarth | 516 c510 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that some of these bodies were set up almost as debts of honour? I particul...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c510 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the right hon. Gentleman says, and I know how deeply he, and many people, feel about tha...
Mark Williams | 516 c510 (Link to this contribution) Liberal Democrat Back Benchers welcome the statement on the grounds of cost, improved efficiency and...
Speaker | 516 c510 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and I will be grateful to the Minister for a brief re...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c510-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a perfectly proper point about staff. We hope that jobs will not be lost, altho...
Mark Durkan | 516 c511 (Link to this contribution) In pursuit of his body count, did the Minister consider the role of the Investigatory Powers Tribuna...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c511 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman encourages me to have a very good look.
Caroline Dinenage | 516 c511 (Link to this contribution) In Gosport, we face the prospect that our outstanding Navy engineering training school at HMS Sultan...
Liam Byrne | 516 c507-8 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for early sight of his statement—in the Financial Tim...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c508 (Link to this contribution) It is very good to have such a consensual approach from the man who famously told the world on leavi...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c509 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr Skinner) says, rather regretfully, ““Not very much.”” It sounds as ...
Speaker | 516 c508 (Link to this contribution) Order. There is a lot of interest and little time, so brevity both from Back Benchers and Front Benc...
Lord Redwood | 516 c508 (Link to this contribution) How will we be less bossed about and over-regulated as a result of these changes?
Jack Straw | 516 c509 (Link to this contribution) May I first invite the Minister, in the spirit of consensus that we certainly want on this, to show ...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c509 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to welcome the right hon. Gentleman into our big tent; it is open to all-comers, an...
Dominic Raab | 516 c513 (Link to this contribution) I commend the Minister for his statement. Does he agree that the problem with quangos is not just th...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c513 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is completely right. The way in which the competition scrutiny process, which is real...
Kate Green | 516 c513 (Link to this contribution) I noted with interest that the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission was one of the bodies to...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c513 (Link to this contribution) I suppose the short answer to the hon. Lady is that this Government believe that Ministers should ma...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c512 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport will no doubt be ...
Lord Harrington of Watford | 516 c513 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. Contrary to what the right hon. Member for Bir...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c514 (Link to this contribution) I suppose from my hon. Friend's point of view the bad news is that many of them will become Governme...
Tom Clarke | 516 c514 (Link to this contribution) On the same subject, the Minister did not respond to the question that my right hon. Friend the Memb...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c511-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his remarks. In my written statement and the list attached it, w...
Ian Lucas | 516 c512 (Link to this contribution) Some of the most vulnerable people in Wrexham work at the local Remploy factory. What kind of Govern...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c511 (Link to this contribution) The FLA does not license football grounds, of course. That responsibility rests in all cases with lo...
David Rutley | 516 c511 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Minister on the speed with which he has taken forward the review and this activit...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c511 (Link to this contribution) As we spend more time in government and pick up stones, we find quite a lot of contracts in place th...
Alison McGovern | 516 c511 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister say what will happen to the functions of the Football Licensing Authority and who ...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c512 (Link to this contribution) I have been invited to go down that path before, and I am a cautious fellow so I shall resist the te...
David Cairns | 516 c512 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is proposing to merge UK Sport and Sport England, which do quite distinct jobs—there is...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c512 (Link to this contribution) To put it bluntly to the hon. Gentleman, it is a Government who are having clear up an appalling mes...
Bob Russell | 516 c512 (Link to this contribution) Quango is not a description usually associated with the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authorit...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c517 (Link to this contribution) In government, you have to look very carefully at the costs and accountability. Ministers have not b...
Sarah Wollaston | 516 c517 (Link to this contribution) I am looking forward to warming my hands in front of the bonfire of the quangos, with 192 on the fla...
Lord Beamish | 516 c517 (Link to this contribution) The decision to strangle at birth the chief coroners office will be viewed with dismay by many organ...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c516 (Link to this contribution) We will end up with a single regulator for medical research. At the moment, such functions are dispe...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 516 c515-6 (Link to this contribution) Going through the list of quangos in the Department of Health, I can see the logic of pooling some o...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c516 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is completely right on that. Secretaries of State will indeed be willing to answer de...
Tony Baldry | 516 c516 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend will know, the Oxford canal goes right through the heart of my constituency....
Cathy Jamieson | 516 c516 (Link to this contribution) I have heard the Minister say a number of times that if something is important, Ministers ought to t...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c517 (Link to this contribution) We have not taken a decision on the future of the Union Modernisation Fund itself, but my hon. Frien...
Priti Patel | 516 c516-7 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister join me in welcoming the complete abolition of the Union Modernisation Fund Superv...
David Nuttall | 516 c515 (Link to this contribution) Although I welcome the proposal for a triennial review of the remaining quangos, can my right hon. F...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c515 (Link to this contribution) I am sure my right hon. Friend the Work and Pensions Secretary will have heard the hon. Gentleman's ...
Derek Twigg | 516 c515 (Link to this contribution) There is great concern in the field of health about the impact of the changes in terms of loss of ex...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c514 (Link to this contribution) I am confident that they will be, because they will be under much closer local control. Local busine...
Robert Halfon | 516 c514 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that hard-working taxpayers in my constituency will be glad that the...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c514 (Link to this contribution) I treat what the right hon. Gentleman says with great respect, because I know that he has a long bac...
Tristram Hunt | 516 c515 (Link to this contribution) Now that the much-vaunted bonfire of the quangos has turned into a clammy Sunday afternoon barbecue,...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c515 (Link to this contribution) The number of parliamentary questions generated is not a matter of where functions sit within govern...
Andrew Turner | 516 c515 (Link to this contribution) How will the Minister ensure that quangos handed back to the Government do not generate more costly ...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c515 (Link to this contribution) I am pretty sure there will be no such loss. If functions need to be carried out, the expertise depl...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c518 (Link to this contribution) That is an admirable suggestion, which I will take away and ponder.
Speaker | 516 c518 (Link to this contribution) I thank hon. Members and Ministers. A great many Members managed to ask short pithy questions on the...
Steve Barclay | 516 c518 (Link to this contribution) Current legislation requires Departments to get the best possible price for Government assets such a...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c518 (Link to this contribution) In my experience, which I agree is limited, citizens tend to be consumers and consumers tend to be c...
Chi Onwurah | 516 c518 (Link to this contribution) Does the proposal to abolish Consumer Focus and transfer its functions to citizens advice bureaux me...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c518 (Link to this contribution) Wherever possible, that is our preference. We believe in localism and in trusting local authorities ...
Henry Smith | 516 c518 (Link to this contribution) In a previous existence, I was a leader of a local authority, and three things got in the way of eff...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c517-8 (Link to this contribution) There is a bit of a difference between pay in the private sector and pay in the public sector—[Inter...
Andrew Love | 516 c517 (Link to this contribution) The Minister talked, both in his statement and in answer to questions, about exorbitant pay in quang...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c517 (Link to this contribution) I have learned to treat the claims made by the last Government with some scepticism, because they of...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 516 c516 (Link to this contribution) The short point is that citizens advice bureaux carry a high degree of trust with citizens. They exi...
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Accountability Government departments Public appointments Public bodies Non-departmental public bodies Reform
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