Example sentences of "member for monklands " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | The shadow Chancellor , the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , was a member of that Government . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) asserted that we were at the bottom of the league . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I want to hear from the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East , because the Opposition must now come clean . |
| 22 | The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East talked about our record . |
| 23 | That is what the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East means by cuts . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In such circumstances , it is effrontery that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) should be attacked for what they might do , instead of the Government being brought to account for what they have done and continue to do . |