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Debate on Tuesday, 13 December 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Nick Hurd.

United Kingdom Statistics Authority

Debate on a motion that this House endorses the nomination of Andrew Dilnot CBE for appointment as Chair of the United Kingdom Statistics Authority. Agreed on question.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
537 c664-85 
Session
2010-12
Department
Cabinet Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Kelvin Hopkins | 537 c680-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to endorse the recommendation that Andrew Dilnot be made chairman of the UK S...
Priti Patel | 537 c681-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Luton North (Kelvin Hopkins), a fellow member o...
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Paul Flynn | 537 c677-9 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I will turn to that point now. I do have a slight vested interest in the matter, because th...
Nigel Mills | 537 c679-80 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Newport West (Paul Flynn), although I am not sure how...
Jesse Norman | 537 c675 (Link to this contribution) I, too, am extremely pleased to support the motion. I speak not only as a Member of the House but as...
Jack Straw | 537 c674-5 (Link to this contribution) There might be, and there could have been in the days when the Treasury was responsible for setting ...
Jack Straw | 537 c677 (Link to this contribution) And employment in your constituency!
Paul Flynn | 537 c676-7 (Link to this contribution) This appointment is a major development in our parliamentary procedures. This is the first time that...
Jesse Norman | 537 c675-6 (Link to this contribution) I certainly do not share that view and I am not sure that the Mayor would share that view if he had ...
Paul Flynn | 537 c675 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman extend those sentiments to the Mayor of London, who, when he was criticised...
John Healey | 537 c682-3 (Link to this contribution) It is good to follow the hon. Member for Witham (Priti Patel), and I welcome the fact that so many M...
Kelvin Hopkins | 537 c685 (Link to this contribution) I raised my concern about the loss of time series in the Select Committee in the last Parliament. I ...
Peter Bottomley | 537 c683-5 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for not being here at the beginning of the debate, Mr Deputy Speaker, and declare an int...
Peter Bottomley | 537 c685 (Link to this contribution) It is not just the time series: we also need to protect the extra investment going into the longitud...
Robert Halfon | 537 c667 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way, and for the chance to serve under his chairmanship w...
Bernard Jenkin | 537 c667-8 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point, which he raised in the pre-appointment ...
Michael Dugher | 537 c665-6 (Link to this contribution) Before I turn to the nomination of Andrew Dilnot as chair of the UK Statistics Authority, I would li...
Bernard Jenkin | 537 c666-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the support of the official Opposition for this appointment, although I wondered w...
Nick Hurd | 537 c664-5 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House endorses the nomination of Andrew Dilnot CBE for appointment as Chair...
Robert Halfon | 537 c674 (Link to this contribution) I agree with much of what the right hon. Gentleman says. Does he not agree, however, that there is a...
Bernard Jenkin | 537 c671-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that comment. I also want to place on record my appreciation for the action subseq...
Jack Straw | 537 c672-4 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by declaring an interest: I am an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. The...
Bernard Jenkin | 537 c674 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman reflect on what interests prevented him from persuading his colleagues...
Jack Straw | 537 c674 (Link to this contribution) I have sympathy with the Minister, of course. He happens to be my pair, anyway, so I declare that in...
John Healey | 537 c668 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would like to remind his hon. Friend the Member for Hereford and South He...
Bernard Jenkin | 537 c668 (Link to this contribution) We are talking about a quango that survived the cull. Given that it was so recently established by a...
David Heyes | 537 c670-1 (Link to this contribution) I have served on the Public Administration Committee both under the hon. Gentleman's chairmanship an...
Bernard Jenkin | 537 c668-70 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention, because one of the things that we discussed in our pre-appointm...
Jesse Norman | 537 c668 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share the view that it is a proper function of the UK Statistics Authority to be...
Subjects
Disclosure of information Public appointments Political impartiality Statistics UK Statistics Authority Dilnot, Andrew
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