Example sentences of "member for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 My hon. Friend the Member for Dorset , South ( Mr. Bruce ) spoke about British Telecom standards and service for business and other users .
2 At the same time as his hon. Friend the Member for Monklands , West ( Mr. Clarke ) is saying that pay beds are to be driven from the health service and given to private companies , Lord Ennals has taken a leading position as a director of a private healthcare company — while remaining a Front-Bench spokesman on health for the Labour party .
3 Whether we take the retail prices index minus mortgage interest payments or producer prices , the rate of inflation has declined sharply in the past year and I suspect that the underlying measures of inflation will continue to decline in the next year — I can tell the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , who is interrupting from a sedentary position , that the underlying rate of inflation compares extremely well with the position under the Labour Government of which he was a member .
4 We want to know — The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) can leap up and tell me — the House would be delighted to hear from him — how he will cover the difference between the £10 billion of extra taxation to which his party has already committed itself and the £35 billion of extra spending to which it has also committed itself ?
5 Given that an extra £2.8 billion was found , has my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State received an apology from the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , or have any of Labour 's Front-Bench spokesmen for health offered to withdraw that allegation ?
6 When my right hon. Friend visits the county palatine , will he hold a meeting with tenants and perhaps point out to them that a standard rate of 35p in the pound , which was described as preposterous by the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , was the rate levied by the last Labour Government ?
7 The shadow Chancellor , the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , was a member of that Government .
8 I noted this morning that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) now at last admits that there is a world situation which is on a downturn .
9 I am sure that it will be interesting to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) to know that Labour Members advocate such tax increases .
10 The right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) says that it will be at £36,000 , but the right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) will not tell us and says that he does not think that it is necessary to say so .
11 We know that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) proposes a number of additions to existing taxation and a number of new taxes , including the reappearance of investment income surcharge .
12 Presumably the same principle would apply to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) and the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) .
13 I also note that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) — who said , when he took on the job that there would be ’ no more phoney shadow Cabinet Budgets ’ — has now promised that there will be a phoney shadow Cabinet Budget .
14 The fact is that the world is in an economic slow-down , as even the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) has now acknowledged .
15 That was the reduction of interest rates immediately on the back of the stock exchange crash , but , as the hon. Gentleman knows , we were urged to cut them even more by the Leader of the Opposition and the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) .
16 When it was pointed out to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) that his taxes would rise , the right hon. and learned Gentleman seemed surprised : what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said , in effect , was that taxes under Labour would ’ only ’ rise higher than those in any other G7 country — lower , perhaps , than taxes in Albania , but higher than those of all our competitors .
17 However , the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) asserted that we were at the bottom of the league .
18 I wish at the outset to concentrate on three astonishing features of the debate , the first being the speech of the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) .
19 We had none of those commitments from the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East , although he said that education and training would be key priorities .
20 The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East immediately tried to suppress that , and that is indicative of the battle that is going on in the Labour party — It was said by the Leader of the Opposition himself .
21 Nor can the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East claim that it would come from growth , because growth is already assumed in our plans .
22 I want to hear from the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East , because the Opposition must now come clean .
23 The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East talked about our record .
24 That is what the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East means by cuts .
25 If the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East were concerned about employment and training , he would be prepared to condemn the TUC boycott of the employment action , youth training and TEC programmes .
26 It is no wonder that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East does not want to hear the facts about Government spending on science and technology .
27 If he does not understand it , I guarantee that if my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) catches the eye of the Chair , even the hon. Gentleman will be fully educated on the matter .
28 The proposals for the Council of Ministers , the Commission and the Parliament should be part of the negotiating brief for United Kingdom Ministers at Maastricht , as should proposals on economic and monetary union , to which my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) hopes to refer later in the debate .
29 On 18 May 1989 , in Standing Committee B , I moved an amendment to the Children Bill , supported by my hon. Friend the Member for Monklands , West ( Mr. Clarke ) , which would have required all local authorities to appoint a children 's rights officer .
30 I shall go into greater detail than my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East had a chance to do on the kinds of investment that can be produced , rather than the consumption boom which the Chancellor hopes for .
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