Example sentences of "member for livingston " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it comes to Opposition claims about NHS trusts , should not we bear in mind that , two years ago , the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) was telling everyone that general practitioner contracts would result in less time being spent with patients ? |
| 2 | I remind the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) — he seems not to wish to rise on these matters — that the letter from the Labour party candidate to the trust applicant reads : ’ Were you to do this ’ — continue with the trust — ’ in the face of so much opposition , it could certainly be argued by an incoming Labour Administration that you had contributed to your own redundancy . ’ |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Livingston must respond to these scares . |
| 4 | If Conservative Members paid attention to the issue they would know that my hon. Friend the Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) repudiated the threat last week . |
| 5 | I join my hon. Friend in deprecating the attacks made by the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) on Anne Parkinson and Sheila Taylor , who have rightly been appointed to serve on trusts . |
| 6 | The hon. Member for Livingston drew attention to the behaviour of previous Secretaries of State in this regard . |
| 7 | I regret the fact that the hon. Member for Livingston saw fit not to answer the challenge that I laid down to him , just as he has not answered any of the challenges that I have laid down to him today , and that he has also seen fit to put the hon. Lady , on her first outing today , into a rather difficult position . |
| 8 | In the same interview from which I quoted , Mr. Bickerstaffe went on to repeat the high priority that NUPE attaches to increasing the minimum wage — a proposal which the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) has already said would cost the NHS between £400 million and £500 million . |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) is not exactly clear about his policy on these issues . |
| 10 | Would not such a course of action be as successful as the racing tips of the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) ? |
| 11 | My hon. Friend correctly identifies that , and the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) will have a difficult task explaining it to patients who would not be treated if his policies were implemented . |
| 12 | I remind the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) that , this year , £200 million will be earmarked especially for those suffering from HIV or AIDS . |
| 13 | The hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) recently said to the House , rather chillingly , that if Labour were re-elected it would treat the national health service as it did last time . |
| 14 | The hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) associated himself with the sentence : ’ I 'll be surprised if budget holding does not collapse in the first year . ’ |
| 15 | I could not get a straight answer from the hon. Member for Livingston about this . |
| 16 | I offer the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) my heartfelt thanks for giving what is almost the first straight answer that I have ever extracted from him . |
| 17 | The point that my hon. Friend has made was graphically illustrated by the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , who is reported as having said that if Labour were to introduce its devolution plans he could not act as Secretary of State for Health for England and Wales . |
| 18 | Could not he have arranged for that report to be leaked to the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , because that might have prevented the hon. Gentleman from making the foolish pledge that Labour will abolish the excellent reforms ? |
| 19 | I do not know whether the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) likes to read things published in the normal way . |
| 20 | The old system to which the hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) wish to return us was far more unsatisfactory , as she well knows . |
| 21 | As the hon. Member for Livingston can promise his hon. Friends nothing about money , he could not prevent that from happening if he returned to the old system . |
| 22 | I advise him not to embarrass his hon. Friend the Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) in that way . |
| 23 | If the hon. Gentleman thinks that that is odd it merely shows that , in common with the hon. Member for Livingston , he has had no experience of such matters . |
| 24 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) and I have something in common ? |
| 25 | Will my hon. Friend call on the hon. Member for Livingston to make a similar admission of the error of his ways ? |
| 26 | I congratulate my hon. Friend on accurately quoting the words of the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) on 25 July 1989 , when he described the targets as ’ so heroic that many doctors will give up trying . ’ |
| 27 | I have further bad news for the hon. Member for Livingston . |
| 28 | Like the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , the hon. Lady leads for the Labour party in a weak suit . |
| 29 | We are told by The Observer that the hon. Member for Livingston is now running as part of a comic team with the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , East ( Mr. Prescott ) — a wonderful pantomime horse — in seeking the job of the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 30 | If the hon. Member for Livingston ever got into power , no doubt we would return to the longer waits that we experienced under the Labour Government . |