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Local Government Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill

Debate on bills on Friday, 18 March 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Christopher Chope. The answering member was Grant Shapps.
Second reading. Debate adjourned. To be resumed on 13 May.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

525 c654-67 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Communities and Local Government

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Private members' bills proceedings

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Local Government Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Grant Shapps | 525 c664 (Link to this contribution) I think that the whole House is grateful to my hon. Friend for his experience not only as a local au...
Paul Beresford | 525 c664 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister, in putting the legislation together, will consider the other side of the a...

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Grant Shapps | 525 c665 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend again. His intervention demonstrates that there is quite a bit more ...
Christopher Chope | 525 c664-5 (Link to this contribution) On that point, I think my right hon. Friend misreads the Bill. I want the ombudsman to adjudicate an...
Grant Shapps | 525 c665 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to try your patience by taking us too far off the subject of the local government ombu...
Baroness Keeley | 525 c665 (Link to this contribution) I am fascinated to hear that the Minister thinks we should have frameworks. Perhaps he would like to...
Mark Tami | 525 c665 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that when people go to the ombudsman, they perhaps do not realise that, as t...
Grant Shapps | 525 c666-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and he is absolutely right. It is often mi...
Mark Tami | 525 c660 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that health and safety is sometimes used as an excuse? For instance, schools...
Grant Shapps | 525 c659-60 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Mr Chope) for having brought this impor...
Baroness Keeley | 525 c659 (Link to this contribution) It might be more helpful if the hon. Gentleman allowed me to run through my questions first. Clause...
Grant Shapps | 525 c660 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman shakes his head. He obviously was not a conker-fighting champion, and it is clear...
Christopher Chope | 525 c656-8 (Link to this contribution) I share my hon. Friend's misgivings. It is extraordinary that a national Parliament should have to i...
Henry Smith | 525 c656 (Link to this contribution) I am distressed to hear about the Shrove Tuesday fun deniers in Hampshire. When we are putting throu...
Baroness Keeley | 525 c658 (Link to this contribution) I have a few points to make and questions to ask. The Minister may be able to respond to some of the...
Grant Shapps | 525 c660 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for pointing out that conker fighting can sometimes be done in t...
Christopher Chope | 525 c663 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says, and I am grateful to him for it, that there is much in the Bill that he is conten...
Grant Shapps | 525 c663 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Too often apparently insurmountable blockages are placed in ...
Mark Tami | 525 c662-3 (Link to this contribution) I know from my own experience of a case where the council said that the police had raised objections...
Grant Shapps | 525 c662 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. Indeed, there are often reports of precisely that, and I ha...
Paul Beresford | 525 c662 (Link to this contribution) I had some slight experience of local government in the past. Does my right hon. Friend agree that h...
Grant Shapps | 525 c662 (Link to this contribution) That is a wise and well made point. Far too often, that is precisely what happens. As the hon. Gentl...
Mark Tami | 525 c662 (Link to this contribution) The point that I was trying to make earlier was that councils use health and safety as an excuse. If...
Grant Shapps | 525 c660-2 (Link to this contribution) Yes, that is a chosen way to try to harden the conker, but I must bring the hon. Gentleman some bad ...
Baroness Keeley | 525 c663-4 (Link to this contribution) I would not want this discussion to pass without saying something in defence of my local council. Ho...
Grant Shapps | 525 c664 (Link to this contribution) Again, the police and the local authority have a legitimate role in, for example, crowd management a...
Grant Shapps | 525 c663 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend should be under no illusion that we are a fundamentally deregulatory coalition Govern...
Christopher Chope | 525 c656 (Link to this contribution) I do not have that sort of information. Since this is all mythical, I am sure that could not have ha...
Christopher Chope | 525 c654 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. This important Bill would extend the powers...
Christopher Chope | 525 c654 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps my hon. Friend is going to do just that.
Tom Brake | 525 c654 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to do that, but I am going to ask my hon. Friend whether he has checked the veracity ...
Christopher Chope | 525 c654-5 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that this story is correct. The reports in the New Milton Advertiser and Lymington Times h...
Peter Bottomley | 525 c655 (Link to this contribution) May I say how sorry I am that my hon. Friend did not move his Training Wage Bill? I would have voted...
Christopher Chope | 525 c655 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention and for his indication of support for the Bill ...
Christopher Chope | 525 c655-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. The message from it is that we need to do more preparation ...
Peter Bottomley | 525 c655 (Link to this contribution) May I, through my hon. Friend, invite every employer—public, private or voluntary—to ask how many yo...
Peter Bottomley | 525 c656 (Link to this contribution) Is it possible that that team used plastic protective gloves when dipping conkers in vinegar to hard...

Subjects

Health and safety
Local government
Powers
Local Government Ombudsman

Legislation

Local Government Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2010-12

Link

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