Example sentences of "perhaps [art] minister " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the Minister had had a row with his wife and to wound him she used my name . |
| 2 | Perhaps the Minister will say that five years is not long enough , and will propose a Lords amendment providing that the business shall never be resold without the consent of the employees . |
| 3 | Perhaps the Minister could clarify the impression given by the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) , who believes that it is all right to buy from the public purse something for £2 million and then to sell off a fraction of it for £4 1 million a fortnight later as long as the proceeds of the sale go to buses . |
| 4 | Perhaps the Minister could write a cheque . |
| 5 | Perhaps the Minister will tell us about that as well . |
| 6 | Perhaps the Minister will tell us how much of that programme , which the EC and the Council of Europe support , is supported by the Government . |
| 7 | Perhaps the Minister can clarify whether the provisions of the Bill will be operated specifically and only by the transport police . |
| 8 | Perhaps the Minister of State will be kind enough to inform the House who was consulted before the Government introduced the Bill , and who approves of it . |
| 9 | Perhaps the Minister should issue a correction . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend the Member for Clackmannan asked a number of questions on Tuesday regarding the reserves , and perhaps the Minister could provide some of the answers this evening . |
| 11 | Perhaps the Minister could also go into a little more detail about the criteria that are being used when making his decisions . |
| 12 | However , I believe — perhaps the Minister will confirm this — that , in the last year for which we have the figures , the import of such waste has gone down to 44,000 tonnes , although that is still 10 times higher than in 1981-82 . |
| 13 | Also , given the meetings of the Trevi group of Ministers and the development of Europol , perhaps the Minister can say how soon it will be possible for other EC police forces to gain access to Britain 's police national computer and what restrictions will apply . |
| 14 | In order to reassure the House and the public , perhaps the Minister can explain what is the procedure when a police officer uses the powers given in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to stop someone in the street or someone driving a car . |
| 15 | Perhaps the Minister will clarify that point . |
| 16 | If that is not the case , perhaps the Minister will say that it is not the intention of the Government to go down that high road or low road , whatever they wish to call it , and merge further education and higher education in one funding council after the general election . |
| 17 | Perhaps the Minister finds that worthy of a chuckle . |
| 18 | Now I know erm following a fairly recent er er er case in the house of lords that the courts are er entitled to rely on what ministers say in debate but perhaps the minister could er spell out a little bit more clearly the apparent discrepancy between what he said in his speech and what is on the face of these orders and indeed why it is that the orders in r relation to banking and financial services , adopts a different phraseology er to that used in the orders relating to insurance and building societies . |
| 19 | But perhaps the minister could tell us er why they 're not covered and indeed I understand that in particular er non-U K banks with branches in the in the in this country er are not covered either . |
| 20 | I may be wrong about that erm but perhaps the minister could address himself specifically to that point and also to the question of pension schemes , perhaps er covered under some other legislation but I think these are matters that are of erm of of of some concern . |
| 21 | Er , as I said the government has already accepted when we introduced the legislation last year in the criminal justice act on money laundering , that there are far wider er interests and fidrer fi far wider implications than there have been ever before and I think the government needs to do a little bit more to show that it is aware of international implications and the sheer scale of what we 're dealing with and er I touched earlier on the question of indemnity , er perhaps the minister could specifically address that point . |
| 22 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 23 | So many mixed feelings of guilt and anxiety , love and hate can blur the issue that it may be important to adopt the suggestion of one therapist and discuss all the issues with a wise counsellor , perhaps a minister or some other friend of the family , who knows most of the people concerned but has none of the strong emotional involvement of a family member . |
| 24 | Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem . |