Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) I urge the Government to make it a priority, as the last Labour Government did. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bichard (CB - Life peer) We could do more to incentivise and deliver collaboration between central government departments, and - Speech Link
3: Lord Moynihan (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Much has been made of the lack of effective co-ordination across all government departments involved - Speech Link
4: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) As bank managers used to say about bad cheques, the words and the figures do not agree. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) Are the Government going to take action? - Speech Link
2: Lord True (CON - Life peer) , however, because I am confident from the discussions that I have had with colleagues in different departments—I - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LDEM - Life peer) We all know that there is a great deal of coaching of officials, whether from departments or regulators - Speech Link
4: Lord True (CON - Life peer) They could do so right now, without any action or intervention from government at all.The Government - Speech Link
5: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) bank branches, local shopkeepers, traders and the self-employed cannot easily bank cash takings and cheques - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) departments that hide behind the exact wording of Cabinet Office guidance. - Speech Link
2: None We were able to get 18 government departments to work together on a horizontal to deliver a pretty sensational - Speech Link
3: None Will the Minister comment on what the Government’s approach will be, across all departments, to engage - Speech Link
4: Lord Tunnicliffe (LAB - Life peer) The pace and scope of change has been incredible; the journey from cheques to mobile phone payments, - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) The UK Government can and should follow suit. - Speech Link
2: Robert Syms (CON - Poole) argument about where the boundaries are drawn, but from the point of view of the IT and getting the cheques - Speech Link
3: Anna McMorrin (LAB - Cardiff North) The Government are turning their backs. - Speech Link
4: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) It is time that the Government delivered it. - Speech Link
5: Navendu Mishra (LAB - Stockport) to move their Departments to Stockport and other parts of the north-west. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alexander Stafford (CON - Rother Valley) The Government should be supporting that.I am pleased to note that the Government have helped initiate - Speech Link
2: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) That is a must, but the Government keep holding off on it. - Speech Link
3: Kwasi Kwarteng (CON - Spelthorne) It was not merely a function of the Government writing cheques; it was a function of the Government creating - Speech Link
4: Alexander Stafford (CON - Rother Valley) The Government have a job to do on that.I thank my hon. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rob Roberts (IND - Delyn) completely endorse the Minister’s support of the mid-life MOT process and encourage him to work across Departments - Speech Link
2: Sarah Owen (LAB - Luton North) The Government should not be turning their back on pensioners. - Speech Link
3: Damien Moore (CON - Southport) I must say that I am still excited about it; I still use cheques. - Speech Link
4: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) The UK Government need to extend the coverage. - Speech Link
5: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) We regret that the Government did not support my right hon. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) Government lawyers from probably three different departments are dancing around a pinhead. - Speech Link
2: None There is no reference to that in anything that the Government have published, so the Government pick - Speech Link
3: None As President-elect Biden has said, there should be no more blank cheques handed to a dictator such as - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) This is the same Government. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Julia Lopez (CON - Hornchurch and Upminster) Our Places for Growth programme is an incredibly exciting one, working with Departments and public bodies - Speech Link
2: Michael Fabricant (CON - Lichfield) What recent discussions he has had with (a) other Departments and (b) local leaders on the logistics - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) The Department of Health and Social Care is working closely with Government Departments and bodies and - Speech Link
4: Helen Hayes (LAB - Dulwich and West Norwood) Will the Minister explain why, with the Tory party, it seems to be all cheques and no balances? - Speech Link
5: Scott Benton (CON - Blackpool South) Departments up north will help to deliver? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) Well, good—but what do the Government have to lose? - Speech Link
2: None Still, it may be important to the Government. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) System-to-system checks with other government departments and the NHS will mean service providers, such - Speech Link
4: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) sees the same sort of arrogance creeping in with those who say that we should have no more cash or cheques - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Woolf (CB - Life Peer (judicial)) With blank cheques, the danger is that they can be used for all sorts of purposes. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) learned Lord, Lord Woolf, also said something very pertinent and quite correct about not giving blank cheques - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) Are the Government doing so already? - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) This is wholly inadequate.The DPRRC stated:“We are wholly dissatisfied by departments repeatedly arguing - Speech Link