Statement on the Tenth Report from the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Lessons still to be learned from the Chilcot Inquiry (HC 656).

Statement on the Tenth Report from the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Lessons still to be learned from the Chilcot Inquiry (HC 656).

At what may well be my right hon. Friend’s last appearance in the House of Commons at the Dispatch Box, may I remark that his five-year term as Minister for the Cabinet Office in charge of civil service policy for the Government will have truly left its mark not just on the civil service but on this House? His tenacity, commitment and sincerity are of great credit to him.

At what may well be my right hon. Friend’s last appearance in the House of Commons at the Dispatch Box, may I remark that his five-year term as Minister for the Cabinet Office in charge of civil service policy for the Government will have truly left its mark not just on the civil service but on this House? His tenacity, commitment and sincerity are of great credit to him.

Agreed to on question.

Agreed to on question.

Thirty-fifth backbench debate (part two). Motion that this House has considered the eighth report from the Public Administration Select Committee, on Truth to power: how Civil Service reform can succeed, HC 74, and the Government response, HC 955, and the first report from the Liaison Committee, on Civil Service: lacking capacity, HC 884, and the Government response, HC 1216. Motion lapsed.

Thirty-fifth backbench debate (part two). Motion that this House has considered the eighth report from the Public Administration Select Committee, on Truth to power: how Civil Service reform can succeed, HC 74, and the Government response, HC 955, and the first report from the Liaison Committee, on Civil Service: lacking...

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the functions are of the Regional Co-ordination Unit; what guidelines have been issued governing its acitivities; and to whom it reports.

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the functions are of the Regional Co-ordination Unit; what guidelines have been issued governing its acitivities; and to whom it reports.

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the functions are of the English Regions Network; what guidance has been issued governing its activities; and to whom it reports.

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the functions are of the English Regions Network; what guidance has been issued governing its activities; and to whom it reports.

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will place in the Library a copy of the most recent guidance issued to regional chambers on the expenditure of central Government funds.

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will place in the Library a copy of the most recent guidance issued to regional chambers on the expenditure of central Government funds.

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what reports have been made by regional chambers to his Department (a) directly and (b) through the Government Offices for the Regions accounting for the expenditure of central government funding.

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what reports have been made by regional chambers to his Department (a) directly and (b) through the Government Offices for the Regions accounting for the expenditure of central government funding.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to place police authorities under the control of elected regional assemblies where they are introduced.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to place police authorities under the control of elected regional assemblies where they are introduced.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to acquire (a) a stake in and (b) additional powers over Railtrack plc.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what plans he has to acquire (a) a stake in and (b) additional powers over Railtrack plc.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how much he has paid out in respect of the Bus Employees' Superannuation Trust and the National Bus Pension Fund pursuant to the investigation carried out by the Pensions Ombudsman; when these monies were paid; who he...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how much he has paid out in respect of the Bus Employees' Superannuation Trust and the National Bus Pension Fund pursuant to the investigation carried out by the Pensions Ombudsman; when these monies were paid; who he...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how he proposes to make decision-making on transport more accountable to local people. - Inc ref to White Paper: "A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone".

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, how he proposes to make decision-making on transport more accountable to local people. - Inc ref to White Paper: "A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone".