Oral Answers to Questions

Steve Barclay Excerpts

Tuesday 7th February 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. We have much to do and very little time in which to do it. We must progress.

[Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire) (Con)]

T12. How will the Deputy Prime Minister assess the value for money of the constitutional changes he is putting forward? Will he put a more detailed note in the Library setting out how that will be assessed?

Phone Hacking

Steve Barclay Excerpts

Wednesday 13th July 2011 Commons Chamber

[The Prime Minister]

That is a very good question. I have found, doing this job, that almost nothing is chicaned, as he put it, from legal inquiry. We think we are doing this in the right way under the Inquiries Act 2005 and all the things that flow from that, but I can perhaps consider the detail of his question about preparation for Ministers.

[Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire) (Con)]

Will the Prime Minister confirm that the police investigation will include payments made to connected parties, such as relatives of police officers, including payments not made in cash, such as electronic transfers to shell companies, vouchers or travellers cheques? In due course, will it also consider others who provide stories, such as paramedics, accident and emergency doctors and prison governors, and who might also be subject to corruption?

[The Prime Minister]

The inquiry must follow the evidence wherever it leads and if it finds malpractice in any of the services my hon. Friend mentioned, it must clearly investigate.

Public Bodies Reform

Steve Barclay Excerpts

Thursday 14th October 2010 Commons Chamber

[Mr Maude]

In my experience, which I agree is limited, citizens tend to be consumers and consumers tend to be citizens, so I am not absolutely certain what point the hon. Lady is trying to make.

[Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire) (Con)]

Current legislation requires Departments to get the best possible price for Government assets such as furniture, computers and other items. As part of the big society agenda, will the Minister consider whether donations could be made or other disposal routes used to support voluntary organisations, charities and other bodies that are being squeezed at the moment and could make good use of those resources?

[Mr Maude]

That is an admirable suggestion, which I will take away and ponder.