Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Maude of Horsham and Caroline Dinenage

Wednesday 13th June 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Maude]

I will tell the right hon. Gentleman exactly what we are doing about it: we are following the processes set up by the last Government.

[Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con)]

T7. What assessment has the Minister made of last year’s National Citizen Service pilots?

Public Bodies Reform

Debate between Lord Maude of Horsham and Caroline Dinenage

Thursday 14th October 2010 Commons Chamber

[Mr Maude]

The hon. Gentleman encourages me to have a very good look.

[Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con)]

In Gosport, we face the prospect that our outstanding Navy engineering training school at HMS Sultan will move to St Athan in Wales under a massive and unnecessarily expensive private finance initiative. What will happen to some of the other outrageous PFIs that quangos have entered into, such as the National School of Government?

[Mr Maude]

As we spend more time in government and pick up stones, we find quite a lot of contracts in place that make one wonder a bit about the diligence that Ministers took in exploring them at the time. Going through the detail of contracts is not necessarily the most amusing way to spend one’s life, but it is rather important because there is a lot of public money involved; the body to which my hon. Friend refers is one such example.