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Open Public Services White Paper

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Parliamentary proceeding

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531 c25-38 

Session

2010-12

Department

Cabinet Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Oliver Letwin | 531 c38 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an interesting point and he will find in the White Paper that there is precise...

Philip Hollobone | 531 c38 (Link to this contribution) What opportunities will these proposals present to the more than 25 parish and town councils in my c...

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Oliver Letwin | 531 c38 (Link to this contribution) I do agree with my hon. Friend. It is vital that we energise the voluntary and community sector now,...

James Morris | 531 c38 (Link to this contribution) Last Friday, I met representatives of a number of voluntary organisations across the black country. ...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c38 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. What we are about is trying to improve public services for ...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c37 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The hospice movement provides an admirable example of much that ...

Stuart Andrew | 531 c37 (Link to this contribution) During my time working in the hospice movement, I witnessed time and again that the independence of ...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c37 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right in that I cannot recall a single instance in the White Paper of our referrin...

John Pugh | 531 c36 (Link to this contribution) It was an interesting statement, but is not the danger that the Government may get a great reputatio...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c36 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right that there is no point in a system that does not allow genuine in...

John Howell | 531 c36 (Link to this contribution) May I refer back to the question of my right hon. Friend the Member for Charnwood (Mr Dorrell)? I us...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c36 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is absolutely right. Consumers, patients, pupils and all the other users of services c...

Fiona Mactaggart | 531 c36 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has made much of transparency and accountability, but if data are to enable citizens to...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c37 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it is our intention to open access to data and not simply to leave that as a proprietary matter...

Duncan Hames | 531 c37 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to hear the Minister's commitment to open data in improving public services, but he should...

Sheila Gilmore | 531 c34 (Link to this contribution) If local communities within a city or town decide that they want to take over the local park, how wi...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c34 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady appears to think that we are talking about amounts of money here, but what we are talk...

Robert Halfon | 531 c34 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the White Paper in putting some flesh on the bones of the big society. Does my right hon. ...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c34 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is indeed a point we make very forcefully in the White...

Frank Roy | 531 c33 (Link to this contribution) One danger of welfare to work is that people can be put into jobs for which they are totally unsuite...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c33 (Link to this contribution) The Work programme sets out a series of staged payments made to the providers when they get people i...

Tony Lloyd | 531 c33 (Link to this contribution) Using the example of Southern Cross, on which a statement should have been made today, will the Mini...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c33-4 (Link to this contribution) As I said in my opening remarks, Southern Cross is a clear case of a legacy failure from the last Go...

Peter Bone | 531 c33 (Link to this contribution) The Government should be congratulated on bringing forward a genuine Conservative proposal. Was the ...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c33 (Link to this contribution) No, there is no danger that the Government will row back from this as the years go on. I can tell my...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c35 (Link to this contribution) It will apply to every public service provider, regardless of sector. We are interested not in who t...

Neil Carmichael | 531 c35 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement and the White Paper, and note the already enthusiastic interest in these mat...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c36 (Link to this contribution) I think that my hon. Friend will be proved right in many cases. I hope that he will encourage just s...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c34 (Link to this contribution) I hope very much that trade unions will play a role. In conjunction with Cabinet colleagues, I am ho...

Andrew Love | 531 c34-5 (Link to this contribution) The White Paper includes a commitment to promoting mutuals and co-operatives, but, as many Labour Me...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c35 (Link to this contribution) The Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, my right hon. Friend the Member for Horsh...

Jesse Norman | 531 c35 (Link to this contribution) As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on employee ownership, I congratulate the Government o...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c35 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good and interesting point, and there may well be cases in which that is the ...

Lord Wilson of Sedgefield | 531 c35 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said in his statement that the White Paper ““sets out the most radical programme of tra...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c30 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has to deal with a question between herself and her own Front Bench. She will have not...

Conor Burns | 531 c30-1 (Link to this contribution) Between 1997 and 2010, there was a 57% real-terms increase in public spending, but there was no such...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c30 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with my right hon. Friend that glasnost has to precede and accompany perestroika;...

Glenda Jackson | 531 c30 (Link to this contribution) Is not this White Paper the somewhat unfortunate offspring of the Minister's previous passionately h...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c29 (Link to this contribution) In answer to the right hon. Lady's first point, I would say that when assets are being transferred p...

Stephen Dorrell | 531 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) In welcoming this White Paper, may I ask my right hon. Friend whether he agrees that one of its key ...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c29 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend, which is why the White Paper specifically makes clear no...

Hazel Blears | 531 c29 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will know that I am a long-standing supporter of decentralisation and invol...

Lord Lilley | 531 c28-9 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on basing his reforms on the admirable principles of choice ...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c33 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we will.

Nick Raynsford | 531 c32 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman made a lot in his speech of the potential for local community groups to tak...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c32 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is too much of an expert to need me to tell him this, but I will tell him b...

Speaker | 531 c32-3 (Link to this contribution) Order. As befits a distinguished former philosophy don, the Minister much enjoys conducting a Socrat...

Dan Rogerson | 531 c33 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome what we have heard about employee involvement in the running of organisations, a...

Mike Weir | 531 c31 (Link to this contribution) Most of the examples that the Minister has given are devolved, although he did mention welfare to wo...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c31 (Link to this contribution) Yes, in the sense that this White Paper sets out a programme not to enforce diversity of provision, ...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c32 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that we have to maintain consistency. If we are going to achieve real choice...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c31 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to help out my hon. Friend and Dorset colleague on this. What he says is absolutely t...

Baroness Jowell | 531 c26-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his courtesy in providing me with a copy of his statement ahead...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c25-6 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the open public services White P...

Mary MacLeod | 531 c37 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the White Paper. As the funding will be following the child, the student and the patient, ...

Steve Baker | 531 c34 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Government on picking up the best of the Blair legacy for the purposes of these r...

Oliver Letwin | 531 c28 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for her critique, but I think she has to decide whether her obj...

Bernard Jenkin | 531 c31 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement and the excellent White Paper, which lays such emphasis o...

Subjects

Disclosure of information Disadvantaged Community development Administration Competition Finance Local government Private sector Public sector Ombudsman Mutual societies Civil society

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