Public Sector Exit Payments (Limitation) Bill Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Public Sector Exit Payments (Limitation) Bill

Laura Trott Excerpts
Friday 13th March 2020

(4 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Christopher Chope Portrait Sir Christopher Chope
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I am not sure that my hon. Friend would have put it quite that way. The House needs to have a mood of intolerance of serial incompetence, if not a conspiracy of silence and inaction among people in the civil service.

Laura Trott Portrait Laura Trott (Sevenoaks) (Con)
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Will my hon. Friend give way?

Christopher Chope Portrait Sir Christopher Chope
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No. I am going to bring my remarks to a close in the hope that we will be able to hear something from my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury before we reach 2.30 pm.