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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 29 Jun 2016
EU Council

"The formal negotiation will start when article 50 is triggered, but does the Prime Minister agree that our first piece of negotiating leverage is when we decide to trigger article 50, and that there is no reason—legal or moral—for us to do that until we are ready and we have …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Feb 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"The starting point of the fiscal framework discussions is the Barnett formula, which means that Scotland’s public spending per capita is 15% higher than the United Kingdom average. Does the Secretary of State believe that that differential will be maintained in perpetuity?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 Nov 2015
Syria

"The only apparent source of wealth for ISIL comes from onshore oil fields that do not require precision bombing to take out, yet we have made very little progress on this in the past year. Will the Prime Minister say why we have not attacked this source of wealth, and …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 14 Jan 2015
Businesses (North of England)

"It is really unfair to say that the reason why the RDAs were abolished was that they were not invented by this Government. They were abolished because they were not focused enough on the north. We have heard that there was one in the south-east and one in London—that is …..."
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Written Question
Civil Servants
Wednesday 19th November 2014

Asked by: David Mowat (Conservative - Warrington South)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to improve the engineering and finance capabilities of the Civil Service.

Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham

A focus of Civil Service Reform is to build the capability of civil servants to ensure they have the skills they need to do their work better.

The 2014 Capabilities Plan Annual Refresh set out the steps which all professions should take in order to improve the capability of their members. These included ensuring talent management programmes are in place, curricula, professional networks, and qualification options.

All Government departments have undertaken two annual reviews of their skills levels and requirements. The results of these reviews are fed into Departmental Capabilities Plans and Departmental Improvement Plans.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 19 Nov 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q11. During his recent visit to Warrington the Prime Minister will have seen at first hand our increasingly severe traffic issues. I thank him for ensuring that the local growth deal will deliver a new crossing near the town centre, but may I say that what we really need is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 18 Nov 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"There have been several recent instances of victims of child abuse being subjected to intimidatory and vicious cross-examination by defence barristers, which will be a deterrent for those people coming forward in the future. Is there more we can do to raise standards in this regard?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Oct 2014
European Council

"It is a big success that we have managed to get the EU to move towards decarbonisation targets and away from renewables targets, but the Prime Minister may be aware that what was agreed on Friday is considerably less onerous than the targets set out in our own Climate Change …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Oct 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"6. What further plans he has for a Scottish constitutional settlement...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Oct 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"My constituents are very much in favour of the direction of the settlement, but they fear that it may enshrine the £1,600 per annum public sector differential between England and Scotland. Can the Secretary of State assure us that that will be reviewed as part of the process?..."
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