Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West) Who signed the cheques and lost an additional £10 billion through dodgy personal protective equipment - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) This Government are heading to become the worst Government in history for falling living standards. - Speech Link
3: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) I am not saying that a Government here cannot do it—in fact, I am saying that a Government here can do - Speech Link
4: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) Meanwhile, unprotected Departments such as the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice and DLUHC—local government—will - Speech Link
5: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) and local government finance. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) In government, Labour will introduce one.The Conservative Government stubbornly refuse to publish interim - Speech Link
2: Alistair Carmichael (LD - Orkney and Shetland) is a practising member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and my younger son is three rent cheques - Speech Link
3: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) I congratulate his son on being three cheques away from qualification—it is no small achievement to become - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) For some reason, the Government are resisting that. I cannot understand why. - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) Departments are not inadvertently prevented from the kinds of normal and routine legitimate exchanges - Speech Link
3: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) do so again in closing, but our respect for them does not mean we should ever consider writing blank cheques - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) also look at whether it is appropriate for people who leave in disgrace to end up with lifelong pay cheques - Speech Link
2: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) I want to make it clear that the Cabinet Office guidance to Departments is that they should seek to recover - Speech Link
3: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) different from that given to the wider public—even the members of the public working in the very same Departments - Speech Link
4: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) a particular Department when it publishes its annual report for the preceding financial year, which Departments - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds Central) I think the DUP should return to government. - Speech Link
2: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds Central) appropriate and limited approach to addressing the executive formation period and support Northern Ireland departments - Speech Link
3: Hilary Benn (Lab - Leeds Central) They want stability—they want to know that a Government are in place—so the absence of a Government undermines - Speech Link
4: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) Tempting as it is to have longer periods—I will not call them blank cheques—I do not think that would - Speech Link
5: Colum Eastwood (SDLP - Foyle) down, of having no Government. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Indeed, in the old days I was the one responsible for signing the many strike pay cheques to workers - Speech Link
2: Tulip Siddiq (Lab - Hampstead and Kilburn) That is what we will consider when we are in Government—whenever the current Government decide that they - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) Thanks to the efforts on the part of the UK Government and the Government of Rwanda, that is exactly - Speech Link
2: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) Departments and with the reporting schedule of the Home Office in other areas. - Speech Link
3: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) are wasting in cheques written to Rwanda for nothing—for a scheme that will send, at best, only a few - Speech Link
4: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) We actually agree with the Government on that and support the work the Government have done, but the - Speech Link
5: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) voting on them in this House.For the benefit of colleagues who may not follow the annual accounts of Departments - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: John Penrose (Con - Weston-super-Mare) rather than paying huge attention to one and largely blithely ignoring the other, while writing blank cheques - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) helpful if the Minister could confirm what discussions he will have, or has had, with Northern Ireland Departments - Speech Link
3: None It is a bit like when we phone Departments on behalf of people. - Speech Link
4: None I ask the Minister to engage regionally with Northern Ireland Departments to ensure that the laws around - Speech Link
5: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) Departments in promoting growth.There are a few legitimate exceptions from the RPC’s scrutiny process - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) The DHSS had five Ministers and is now replaced by two departments with a total of 12 Ministers, six - Speech Link
2: Lord Bridges of Headley (Con - Life peer) back in an era of big government. - Speech Link
3: Lord Mandelson (Lab - Life peer) We are not the biggest economy, and we are going to compete not by writing large cheques but by demonstrating - Speech Link
4: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) Will the Government comply? - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (Con - Life peer) Finally, and most importantly, what is being done to ensure that all Whitehall departments outside DESNZ—including - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) I worry that the large number of Government Departments involved means that the process is not as streamlined - Speech Link
2: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) significantly at the same time.We heard about crowding in private investment, Great British Energy and writing cheques - Speech Link
3: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) Gentleman suggests, through my officials I will pass on that message to other Departments to facilitate - Speech Link