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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 17 Mar 2015
Premier Motor Auctions

"The tale I want to tell today is an everyday story of business folk who have been robbed of their company by big banks acting in collusion with one of the big four accountancy houses—two sets of robbers, both too big to be touched by the machinery of regulation that …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 17 Mar 2015
Premier Motor Auctions

"Will the Minister tell us what is happening about the Tomlinson report, which is a review of a series of very similar cases to this one, but concerning RBS? That demands action, too...."
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Written Question
Procurement
Monday 17th November 2014

Asked by: Austin Mitchell (Labour - Great Grimsby)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many contracts signed by her Department with suppliers of services or consultants include a clause providing that if the contract is abrogated by the Government, the provider or consultant will be compensated for lost income since 2010.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The information requested is not held centrally. An answer could only be provided at disproportionate cost, as we would need to review all departmental contracts.

It is the Department for Education’s usual policy that contracts include a mutual, no faults termination clause which allows either party to terminate a contract by giving a period of notice. If the Department terminates such contracts under the ‘no faults’ clause we would reimburse the contractor for any committed or unavoidable cost, and would expect the contractor to take mitigating action to reduce such cost.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Oct 2014
Repeal of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011

"I agree with everything my hon. Friend says about the benefits of Select Committees, pre-legislative scrutiny and all the other things that we want to develop, but the pre-supposition of his argument is that the people elect a Government who have the power to continue for a fixed term—in other …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Oct 2014
Repeal of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011

"I support the proposal to repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. I congratulate the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) and his colleagues on raising the issue. It seems to me that we should have much shorter Parliaments. It is possible to have fixed terms, but there has to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Oct 2014
Repeal of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011

"There could be a combination of the two. That happens in Australia and New Zealand. In New Zealand, there is a fixed three-year term, but the Prime Minister can call an election earlier. The Executive has to have that right and power. Most Governments work out their three-year term and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Oct 2014
Repeal of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011

"In saying the Prime Minister, I meant the Government. It has to be a collective decision. It will effectively be a party decision, although in my experience most of the elections that have been called by the Labour party have not been party decisions, because I have not been consulted. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Oct 2014
Repeal of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011

"I think that that would be difficult to arrange. It is a political decision that is taken by the Executive. In a democratic party, I would hope that the Executive would consult the party. That did not happen before the elections that were called by my party when we were …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 23 Oct 2014
Repeal of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011

"I am arguing not for a two-year term, but for a three-year term. In any case, there is a big difference. Although my hon. Friend is right that members of the House of Representatives have to raise endless amounts of money to fight elections, that would not be necessary in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Jul 2010
Education Funding

"Does the Secretary of State agree that, whatever his criticisms of the Building Schools for the Future programme, some of which were justified, his announcement today will cast a pall of gloom and uncertainty over areas such as mine, which have yet to benefit from it? Does he also agree …..."
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