Example sentences of "member for blackburn " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was referring to the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) . |
| 2 | I am not sure where the hon. Gentleman gets his figures from — perhaps from the same Labour party briefing on which the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) relies . |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Blackburn produces wholly fictitious figures which compare the new building costs for new schools or for the conversion of schools to CTCs over a period of three years with the capital expenditure borrowing guidelines for 14 authorities in one year . |
| 4 | I shall give the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) time to read the newspaper cutting that he was trying to wave at us to make his great point . |
| 5 | I want to go back to a comment made by the hon. Member for Truro ( Mr. Taylor ) , which led the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) to go into a spate of incontinent muttering . |
| 6 | Was the Leader of the Opposition right and , if so , does the hon. Member for Blackburn agree ? |
| 7 | For the sake of argument — and I do not concede this — I recognise that the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) is asserting that there are downward pressures on university funding . |
| 8 | Unusually in a debate of this kind , the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) has sat down leaving me with only 22 minutes in which to reply . |
| 9 | Some statistics were trotted out again both by him and , later , the hon. Member for Blackburn , seeking to show that we are miles behind other European countries in the league tables . |
| 10 | The hon. Member for Blackburn , in a frenzied passion , was throwing pieces of paper into the air , saying that we were bottom of this league table and bottom of that league table , apparently without having read any of them . |
| 11 | I shall concentrate on the point made by the hon. Member for Blackburn . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Blackburn and I passed through education on a route that was remarkably similar to that followed by many hon. Members . |
| 13 | With respect to the hon. Member for Blackburn , the hon. Member for Truro made slightly more careful progress through the arguments . |
| 14 | Perhaps that is the proposal — The hon. Member for Blackburn is not sure whether that is or is not his proposal . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the Bill was vetoed by a Labour Whip although , since then , I note that , in The Guardian , the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) , who speaks for the Labour party on education , said : ’ Let a thousand league-tables bloom . ’ |
| 16 | The hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) has been extremely critical of the new inspectorate 's authority , independence and role , because he is obsessed by the numbers employed in HMI . |
| 17 | If the union objects , the hon. Member for Blackburn objects ; he makes his judgment based on the number of employees . |
| 18 | I have given that estimate before , and the hon. Member for Blackburn is reported to have said on the strength of a newspaper article that we both read : ’ the Secretary of State has come close to misleading the House of Commons over the numbers required . ’ |
| 19 | The issue between the Government and the Opposition — if there is an issue on the Bill — is that the hon. Member for Blackburn advocates a policy of patsy , unquestioning inspections of schools by people who are well known to those schools . |
| 20 | The idea that information should be hidden from or denied to parents , as apparently advocated today by the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) and the Labour party , is amazing . |
| 21 | HMI will still have a vital role to play , despite the remarks of the hon. Member for Blackburn . |
| 22 | In a document that has conveniently been leaked to me , the hon. Gentleman , without any hesitation , contradicts the words of the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) in ’ Raising the Standard ’ . |
| 23 | That is directly contrary to what was stated in ’ Raising the Standard ’ and to the remarks made by the hon. Member for Blackburn from the Opposition Front Bench in Committee . |
| 24 | I am sorry that the hon. Member for Blackburn is not here to set the hon. Member for Leeds , Central right . |
| 25 | It clearly exposes the weakness that is at the heart of Labour 's inspection policy , and demonstrates that the hon. Member for Blackburn does not speak to the hon. Member for Leeds , Central . |
| 26 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |