Example sentences of "my hon. friend " in BNC.
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| 1 | From everything I have said , I am sure that my Hon. Friends will agree that it is a model pension scheme , which is what one would expect from the public sector . |
| 2 | Having listened to the arguments of my Hon. Friends I do not know why the Minister has not leapt to his feet to say that he accepts the new clause . |
| 3 | I would go further I am not sure whether my Hon. Friends presented such an amendment but it was not called and ask that such a consultative committee comprise a large number of women bus users . |
| 4 | The result would be a deterioration of services in all the ways that my Hon. Friends have pointed out the cleanliness of the buses , the regularity of services and the kind of facilities that are made available to the unemployed , women , the elderly and the disabled . |
| 5 | I shall not allow myself to be tempted to discuss devolution , Mr. Deputy Speaker , apart from getting into trouble with you , I should get into trouble with my Hon. Friends . |
| 6 | When one adds to that the £40 million or so from the trust , my hon. Friends at least will recognise that the Government can lay claim to spending more money on sport than any party has done for many years . |
| 7 | On behalf of my hon. Friends , I am happy to welcome the hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Stephen ) to the House , and to congratulate him on his success in the by-election . |
| 8 | Further to the very unsatisfactory replies that the Minister has given not only to me but , earlier , to my hon. Friends the Members for Glasgow , Pollok ( Mr. Dunnachie ) and for Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ( Mr. Foulkes ) , may I ask whether the Government consider the Indonesian occupation of East Timor to be illegal ? |
| 9 | Is it any wonder that every one of my hon. Friends is now inundated with more complaints about housing matters than at any time since we have been in the House ? |
| 10 | I shall draw the hon. Gentleman 's point to the attention of my hon. Friends who will serve on the Standing Committee on the Bill . |
| 11 | Some of my hon. Friends will be grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his advocacy of the rural cause . |
| 12 | I assure my hon. Friends that we will continue to provide those bypasses where schemes are put forward . |
| 13 | Many of my hon. Friends have done the same . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend is a great champion of the Scotch whisky industry , and many of my hon. Friends and Opposition Members support British business by drinking Scotch — and how wise they are . |
| 15 | Although my hon. Friends the Member for Billericay ( Mrs. Gorman ) and for Basildon and I had certain concerns about the overall reorganisation proposed — my hon. Friend the Member for Billericay and I expressed them very forcefully , as my hon. Friend the Minister knows — we took exactly the same line as the community health council on the centralisation of casualty . |
| 16 | Both of my hon. Friends know that their constituents live in an area which for generations has had health care that has been relatively less generously funded than that provided in the central London parts of the Thames regions . |
| 17 | The Government 's commitment , through the weighted capitation mechanism , is to ensure that NHS resources reflect population densities and the health needs of those populations , and is an important commitment to the constituents of my hon. Friends . |
| 18 | It will ensure that the growth that we have established over the last 10 years in terms of the range and volume of health care facilities continues under future Conservative Governments , partly because we are committed to ensuring a fairer distribution of resources within the NHS , which will secure benefits for the constituents of my hon. Friends , and partly because of the commitment given from this Dispatch Box yesterday by the Prime Minister — that under a Conservative Government the national health service will have its real resources increased year by year — something which the last Labour Government were unable to do . |
| 19 | The constituents of my hon. Friends have a considerable amount to gain from weighted capitation and from the commitment to ensure that the total resources available to the NHS continue to grow year by year . |
| 20 | As I have already mentioned , the record of the NHS over the last 12 years in the constituencies of my hon. Friends is good , but we are not complacent . |
| 21 | My hon. Friends will recognise that there is no conflict between the commitment to care and that to run the health service efficiently . |
| 22 | My hon. Friends are right to emphasise that that status operates within the NHS . |
| 23 | My hon. Friends ' constituents should be aware of the exact commitment made by those who are to manage the trust once it is established on 1 |
| 24 | However , as my hon. Friends the Members for Ashford ( Mr. Speed ) and for Mid-Kent ( Mr. Rowe ) have strayed into the area of transport , and as the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) got as far as Yugoslavia , I feel that I , too , can stray a little from the main theme of the debate without attracting too much criticism . |
| 25 | The way in which the Government have brought the north and south together was well spelt out by my hon. Friends the Members for Glasgow , Rutherglen ( Mr. McAvoy ) , for Wansbeck ( Mr. Thompson ) and for St. Helens , South ( Mr. Bermingham ) . |
| 26 | I commend my hon. Friends the Members for Rugby and Kennilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , for Dartford ( Mr. Dunn ) and for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) for their overall appraisal of our policy . |
| 27 | Our Bills are all of a part with those objectives praised by my hon. Friends the Members for Elmet ( Mr. Batiste ) and for Saffron Walden ( Mr. Haselhurst ) — the drive to get better standards back into our education system , to increase yet further the participation of our young people , and to match the quality of education and training provided by our competitors abroad . |
| 28 | Today , a number of my hon. Friends have expressed their regret at some of the omissions from the Queen 's Speech . |
| 29 | As my hon. Friends have said , that is absolute rubbish . |
| 30 | However , it will come as no surprise to the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) when I say that my party has its own alternative to the council tax , which is referred to in the amendment tabled by myself and my hon. Friends . |