Example sentences of "do my hon. [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adding that he would not allow himself to be intimidated , he pointed out ’ — as did my hon. Friend the Member for Dewsbury — ’ that legal proceedings were pending against ten of the twelve EC countries for failure to respect EC rules on the assessment of large-scale works . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Gill : Given the reluctance of large organisations and bureaucracies to devolve powers to the lower orders , does my hon. Friend consider that for the principle of subsidiarity to be acceptable it will be necessary for a full and detailed prospectus to be issued showing what powers will be devolved to the national Parliaments ? |
| 3 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the way forward is signposted to other improvements in the health service ? |
| 4 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it does the cause of racial integration no good at all that our procedures should be abused ? |
| 5 | Does my hon. Friend accept , however , that among pensioners , particularly those who took up residence in sheltered accommodation after 1988 , there is a real fear of injustice , in that some of them have to pay the full licence and some of them do not ? |
| 6 | Does my hon. Friend accept that opting out , as it is called , is a misnomer because schools which achieve grant-maintained status are opting into a new educational regime of higher morale , better educational opportunities and more money ? |
| 7 | Does my hon. Friend agree that Labour 's charter for sport is about more interference , more committees , more regional committees and , most of all , more costs ? |
| 8 | Does my hon. Friend accept that much as many of us welcome the sports and arts foundation , we would infinitely prefer to have a national lottery , which would produce far more money for sport and the arts ? |
| 9 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it would be regrettable if the objectives of local school management could not be met because of inadequate funding ? |
| 10 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , now that the Conservative party is formally represented in Northern Ireland and will have candidates in the next general election there , we should remove the anomaly whereby Northern Ireland citizens — who are of course British subjects — have to follow the rest of the United Kingdom ? |
| 11 | Does my hon. Friend agree — unlike the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) — that the Prevention of Terrorism Act is exactly that : a measure to prevent terrorism ? |
| 12 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the people of Ulster can only benefit in future from a more highly skilled work force ? |
| 13 | Does my hon. Friend accept that the problem raised by the hon. Member for Bassetlaw ( Mr. Ashton ) is probably the most crucial element in the redundancy programme to which my hon. Friend has referred ? |
| 14 | Does my hon. Friend think that the Labour party was acting in the best interests of Britain and of our Baltic friends when , in 1969 , it did a deal with Brezhnev and handed over the Baltic gold ? |
| 15 | Given the British Government 's determination to provide official aid to democratic countries — we are seeing the emergence of a growing number of them — does my hon. Friend agree that it would be proper and popular over the next five years to halve the gap between our official aid and the United Nations target ? |
| 16 | Does my hon. Friend agree that what has happened in East Timor is the very opposite of good governance and that that ought to influence our aid programme to Indonesia ? |
| 17 | How does my hon. Friend think that they square that with their policies of imposing a payroll tax on small businesses and of gaoling small business men who fail to pay a socialist minimum wage ? |
| 18 | Does my hon. Friend recall that I was the first Minister to have responsibility for small businesses — even before the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) ? |
| 19 | Does my hon. Friend agree that London is only one of several areas where costs are wildly out of line with the national average — sometimes higher and sometimes lower ? |
| 20 | Does my hon. Friend recognise that there is disappointment on both sides of the Chamber at the recent decision by British Airways ? |
| 21 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , at 3.7 per cent. , the rate of inflation is half the lowest level that it was under the last Labour Government ? |
| 22 | Does my hon. Friend agree that a co-ordinated tax policy across the Community — now advocated by the Opposition — would severely damage inward investment , much of which is attracted here by our lower corporation tax and income tax rates ? |
| 23 | Does my hon. Friend agree that more than ever it is important that an agreement is reached at Maastricht in which Britain takes a whole-hearted role in the European Community , because otherwise it will cease to be so attractive for inward investment ? |
| 24 | Does my hon. Friend believe that interest rates should be reduced by 0.5 per cent . |
| 25 | Does my hon. Friend accept that high interest rates are a disincentive to investment ? |
| 26 | Does my hon. Friend concede that the cause of the recession is not the high level of value added tax , but our membership of the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 27 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is regrettable that the same unions that stopped the sick from getting to hospital in 1978 and 1979 are showing the same callous disregard — or at least their leaderships are doing so — for the needs of patients ? |
| 28 | Does my hon. Friend agree that voluntary groups and private providers can efficiently deliver services for the disabled ? |
| 29 | Does my hon. Friend the Minister agree that while Britain has the highest proportion of health costs funded by the public purse , the British public have shown their confidence in it by the fact that only 13 per cent . |
| 30 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the abolition of competitive tendering and the introduction of a national minimum wage would rob the NHS of hundreds of millions of pounds and would lead to the closure of hospitals and the cancellation of operations ? |