"My Lords, today, we learned of an un-minuted meeting at which senior advisers to the Prime Minister bypassed Civil Service oversight to green-light a known high-risk appointment. Can the Minister tell the House how this meeting was within the normal due process and who gave the order to exclude the …..." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"My Lords, one of the implications of what has happened in the Middle East is that the United Arab Emirates has announced that it is withdrawing from OPEC, which will have an impact on global oil market volatility. In the light of this new scenario, are the Government planning to …..." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"My Lords, I am agnostic about insourcing or outsourcing. What I want is good service for the pensioners. Just to give an example of how insourcing might not always go right—and I appreciate that the Minister will probably have to write to me on this, because I am going slightly …..." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"My Lords, I am also a vice-president of the Local Government Association. At this very late stage, this is the first time I have spoken on this Bill. This is like a map of Sheffield—Manor Castle, Tinsley and Hunters Bar, and I am a former leader of Sheffield City Council—and …..." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"The Minister is making the case in her answer that local discretion is required to move from one model to the other depending on local circumstance, rather than being centrally prescribed by Westminster...." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"The logic of the Government’s original position clearly was not logic at all, because if the elections can now take place, as well as the reorganisation, this postponement was not required at all, was it?..." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"My Lords, I declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association, and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Scott of Bybrook, for laying the regret Motion. It is a privilege to stand in for my noble friend Lord Pack, who I know is deeply disappointed that he …..." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of (1) the use of reasonable adjustments for, and (2) the safety of, people living with learning disabilities when accessing health and social care...." Lord Scriven - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who put their names down to speak in this important short debate, which for me is rather a raw one. This debate is not to ask for more of the same; to do so would be to sign death sentences for thousands more …..." Lord Scriven - View Speech