Example sentences of "member for oldham " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that if he were to convert all loans under the social fund to grants , as has been promised by the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) , the cost would be about £130 million and would greatly prejudice the operation of the social fund as it now works ? |
| 2 | It is interesting that he talks of people getting nothing for their additional contributions in the very week when the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) writes an article in a magazine in praise of the contributory principle — indeed , in praise of Beveridge in this the 50th anniversary of his excellent proposals . |
| 3 | I hope that , during this Question Time , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) will make Labour 's policy clear . |
| 4 | The Labour party is committed to removing the upper earnings limit for employed persons , but the hon. Member for Oldham , West has not made his party 's policy on the self-employed clear . |
| 5 | Even in these relatively heated times , I am not sure that I would wish to use such a word as fraud against the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) . |
| 6 | I have left out the biggest spender of the lot , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) , who , every time he gets to his feet in the House , commits the Labour party to further increased spending on the social services . |
| 7 | I was going to say that I was grateful to the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) for raising this issue , because I agree with him that it needs to be properly debated on the Floor of the House . |
| 8 | Our original intention in enacting regulation 72 was to facilitate the unlimited payment of arrears of benefits in cases of clear official — I hope that the hon. Member for Oldham , West will listen to this because his total distortion of the case — |
| 9 | Let me try to explain to the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West that we were faced with an undoubted campaign to swamp the arrangements for deciding such cases . |
| 10 | Many genuine cases would have been put aside , delayed and not arranged in time — If the hon. Member for Oldham , West would like to challenge me on that — |
| 11 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West , the Opposition spokesman in this debate , wishes to intervene instead of shaking his head in dismay , I shall give way to him . |
| 12 | I shall give way to the hon. Member for Oldham , West . |
| 13 | One of the difficulties of debating with the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) is that if one is not careful one is sucked into the vortex of hyperbole in which he seems to live . |
| 14 | The hon. Member for Oldham , West , echoed , somewhat surprisingly , by the hon. Member for Ross , Cromarty and Skye ( Mr. Kennedy ) , says that people should be able to sign a piece of paper in the hope that it will unlock riches for them . |
| 15 | For the most part it does not come from wealthy people such as the hon. Member for Oldham , West and other hon. Members — The hon. Gentleman seems to think that he can go to his constituents and say , ’ Woe is me , I only earn £30,000 a year as a Member of Parliament . ’ |
| 16 | The hon. Member for Oldham , West may giggle , but £30,000 is riches beyond the dreams of avarice to many of the people whom he claims to represent . |
| 17 | On these occasions , the hon. Member for Oldham , West is always quick to try to compare social security with the Inland Revenue 's processing of people 's tax returns . |
| 18 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 19 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) has said , the Minister withdrew the statutory instrument and introduced the new one only when more than 50 voluntary organisations and others vehemently objected to what he was trying to do . |
| 20 | Perhaps I may support the request of the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) . |
| 21 | In a spirit of Christmas unity , may I agree with the shadow Secretary of State for Social Security , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) ? |
| 22 | My hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) is right to point out that revelations such as these terrify people whose lifelong pension contributions are at the mercy of those responsible for the action taken at Mirror Group Newspapers . |
| 23 | If I may anticipate a point which , I know from experience , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) may in due course seek to make , those increases mean that , when looked at alongside the extra help that we have made available in the past four years through income-related benefits for the less well-off families with children , which will amount to some £600 million next year , total expenditure on help to families next year will be higher than if we had simply increased child benefit each year since 1987-88 . |
| 24 | As the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) said , dangers and difficulties arise as a result of the shortage of time that is available to consider the regulations . |
| 25 | In his comprehensive speech , the hon. Member for Oldham , |
| 26 | The hon. Member for Oldham , West referred to respiratory problems and incontinence . |
| 27 | I do not want to be predictable , because the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) does not like people to be predictable . |
| 28 | While my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) was speaking , I said that I challenged any Conservative Member of Parliament to spend just one week — I do not ask for longer — living on the money that so many of our constituents who are pensioners have to rely on — the state pension and income support . |
| 29 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West has already said , during those years the pension increased by 20 per cent . |
| 30 | There are the unemployed who , as my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) told the hon. Member for Torridge and Devon , West ( Miss Nicholson ) , have suffered 11 separate cuts in benefit . |