Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 308open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2003
That this House expresses its concern about potential conflicts of interests in relation to the ú1 billion contracts to rebuild Barts and the London Hospital; notes that Colonel Boorman, Ray Petts and Gerry Green are employed by Health Care Projects, a subsidiary of Skanska Innisfree, which will manage the project; finds it incomprehensible that Boorman, Petts and Green, who at one time devoted their lives to destroying Barts, should now be profiting through its upgrading to a specialist cancer and heart hospital; notes that Colonel Boorman, a former Joint Chief of the Intelligence Staff, who acted as a cipher for the previous Conservative government, told the honourable Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch at a meeting at the House that he was minded to close Barts before taking up his appointment as chairman of the two hospitals and before he knew what Barts did or where it was; notes that the struggle to save Barts in the teeth of opposition from Boorman became personal as well as political; and believes that, in order to avoid conflicts of interest and to enable people to move on, Skanska Innisfree and Health Care Projects should get rid of these unprincipled establishment figures before any money is paid out and that, if they do not, the Secretary of State for Health should intervene to see that this is done.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 33open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House believes that the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to bring charges of manslaughter against the two police officers who killed Harry Stanley was wrong in law and fact; is concerned that the decision, which is both calculated and designed to protect armed police officers from the consequences of their acts, was taken in total disregard for the safety of innocent members of the public; is alarmed that the police will see this decision as yet one more affirmation by the Crown Prosecution Service that the police have a licence to kill; calls on the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis to name the two killers and dismiss them from the force; and calls on the Home Secretary to explain to the family of Harry Stanley as well as the wider public why it is impossible to get justice for the victims in these cases.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 1180open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 November 2000
That this House expresses its grave concerns and regrets that national newspapers with the Express Group should have fallen under the ownership of a publisher of pornography, Mr Richard Desmond; and calls on the Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry to institute an inquiry in the public interest.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 600open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 April 2000
That this House condemns the honourable Member for Brent East for mistaking political dubiety, financial deceit and seedy opportunism for radicalism; therefore condemns Tracy Emin, Damien Hurst, Anthony Gormley, the Chapman brothers and Mona Hatouum for supporting him; and regrets that these publicity-seeking, trendy, gullible chumps, toytown radicals and sadly impoverished dissidents amongst artists are indifferent to the notion of just causes.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 277open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 January 2000
That this House is concerned that the London Fire Brigade is currently 132 persons under strength; believes that these positions should be filled by recruitment rather than by members of the Fire Brigade Union working excessive overtime; is very concerned indeed that the management of the London Fire Brigade have suspended 11 FBU members at Homerton Fire Station for supporting their union's ban on overtime; believes that the action of management was both provocative and unnecessary; and calls on the Chief Fire Officer for London to reinstate the 11 members and get on with the business of recruiting the shortfall in staff so as to protect the public.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 276open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 January 2000
That this House notes that the District Auditor's draft Public Interest report produced in December 1999 under section 8 of the Audit Commission Act 1998 speaks volumes for the imcompetence of Tony Elliston, the former Chief Executive of Hackney, in relation to his disastrous project, Transforming Hackney; advises any local authority or public body thinking of employing Mr Elliston to examine first all the reports that are being prepared or have been prepared into the running of Hackney Council, including reports of the District Auditor, the Binder Hamlyn report of September 1999 entitled, High Level Budgetary Control Review, and the reports of the local government Improvement and Development Agency; believes the failure to examine these reports would constitute gross negligence; and calls on everyone to be sceptical of commendations by Price Waterhouse, which has championed Mr Elliston throughout, even though his name is synonymous with disaster in Whitehall and the world of local government.