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Departmental Business Plans

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

518 c25-35 

Session

2010-12

Department

Cabinet Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2010-1933
Monday, 8 November 2010
Deposited papers
House of Commons
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Paul Flynn | 518 c34 (Link to this contribution) As the only time in nature when horizons actually shift is when a tsunami is on the way, can the Hou...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c35 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his brilliant translation. Incidentally, I have no doubt tha...

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Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 518 c34-5 (Link to this contribution) I think I understand what the Minister has announced: a series of tough, demanding and transparent m...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c34 (Link to this contribution) In brief, no: we are not attempting to do what the hon. Gentleman describes. We believe that by plac...

Andrew Love | 518 c34 (Link to this contribution) Following on from that question, the Minister has said several times this afternoon that he wants to...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c33 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is completely right, and that is the plan that is set out here. It applies not just t...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c34 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is clearly an apprentice of the hon. Member for West Bromwich East (Mr Watson), b...

Tristram Hunt | 518 c33-4 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister explain how he squares taking power away from Whitehall and putting it in the hand...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c33 (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with my hon. Friend. It is all about people and the choices that they make. The fund...

Nadhim Zahawi | 518 c33 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend the Minister agree that the greatest challenge to the coalition reforms is...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c33 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's plain English is wonderful to behold. I do not think that anyone has ever accus...

Lord Brennan of Canton | 518 c33 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his statement, but will he have it translated into plain Englis...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c25-6 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I wish to make a statement on today's publication of departmental busin...

Speaker | 518 c26 (Link to this contribution) Order. In a way, it is a good thing that the House is in a jocular mood. I realise that the right ho...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c27-8 (Link to this contribution) First, I should welcome the welcome. As I think the right hon. Gentleman knows, I am one of the long...

Lord Brennan of Canton | 518 c27 (Link to this contribution) Targets? ... Milestones?

Liam Byrne | 518 c26-8 (Link to this contribution) I start by welcoming the new Minister for milestones to the House. I could tell that he was the righ...

Robert Halfon | 518 c29 (Link to this contribution) As a member of the Public Administration Committee I welcome the plans to shift some of this on to S...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 518 c31 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the opportunity for Select Committees to scrutinise the business plans? This year in p...

Jonathan Edwards | 518 c30 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister not agree that today's trumpeting of the transparency agenda will ring hollow in W...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c30 (Link to this contribution) No. As I think the hon. Lady knows, because she has great expertise in this area, one of the decisio...

Julian Brazier | 518 c30 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the only way of achieving a movement of power from the top to t...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right that the Select Committees play a vital role in that respect. Thi...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c31 (Link to this contribution) These business plans are a vastly superior document to the annual reports. Of course, there will con...

Gerry Sutcliffe | 518 c28 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister explain what the process will be when the public disagree with a ministerial decis...

Edward Leigh | 518 c28-9 (Link to this contribution) Is not the danger that this ““Yes Minister”” Sir Humphrey language of horizon shift will disguise th...

Tony Baldry | 518 c28 (Link to this contribution) May I make a suggestion? My right hon. Friend says in his statement that every month Departments wil...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c28 (Link to this contribution) As so often, my hon. Friend makes an extremely valuable suggestion, which I shall discuss with my ri...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c29 (Link to this contribution) What will happen is a series of things that are inconvenient for the responsible Ministers, rising t...

Kevin Barron | 518 c29 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says that Departments will publish a simple report on their progress towards meeting th...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c32 (Link to this contribution) The first thing that I should say is that the Government have not made any such announcement; the Go...

Michael McCann | 518 c32 (Link to this contribution) May I add my name to the list of Members who are mesmerised by the use of the language of horizon sh...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c31-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend can also have an early Christmas. We have instituted from 1 October the one in, one o...

David Nuttall | 518 c31 (Link to this contribution) In view of the fact that removing old regulations is necessary to boost economic growth, will the Mi...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c32 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her general welcome. I shall ask my right hon. and learned Friend...

Catherine McKinnell | 518 c32 (Link to this contribution) I welcome greater transparency in government. However, is the Minister aware that no business plan f...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c32 (Link to this contribution) I value far too highly my relationships with my colleagues to give any answer to my hon. Friend. All...

Julian Smith | 518 c32 (Link to this contribution) Let me invoke the spirit of ““Dragons' Den”” and ask my right hon. Friend which Department has done ...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c31 (Link to this contribution) I have such good news for the hon. Gentleman that it might lead to his crossing the Floor. Everythin...

Michael Connarty | 518 c31 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the Minister will have to go back to his drawing board for me. It would appear that...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c34 (Link to this contribution) I respect the hon. Gentleman for his long work in areas such as drugs, but if he reads the plans he ...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c30 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. Friend is of course absolutely right. Part of the purpose of these plans is to ensure t...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c28 (Link to this contribution) That is a very sensible question, and I am happy to explain that to the hon. Gentleman. The point of...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c29 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with my hon. Friend that it is only by making the kinds of changes that he describ...

Mary MacLeod | 518 c33 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that if we want to increase numeracy and literacy standards in our s...

Oliver Letwin | 518 c30 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not accept that at all. This set of departmental plans will enable people to see on the fac...

Louise Ellman | 518 c30 (Link to this contribution) A very strong partnership between central and local government, with targets and with dedicated fund...

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Departmental responsibilities Government departments Standards Business plans

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