I made the following speech against an amendment to a policy letter on waste seeking to stop kerbside collections and undertake a review. Sir, Here we go again. How many pages of old speeches have been sent to recycling, how many speeches will be recycled or reused today for that…
I made this speech in the November 2016 debate on selection. Sir, Declaration of interest. LC Governor – very proud to be so given the latest ISI Inspection report that rated it excellent in all categories. Also pleased that Post 16 team not only beat Elizabeth College but was the…
I made the following speech in debate and focused on health and social care. Sir, I will focus on a couple of aspects related to health and social care. As members will be aware and as President of P&R and myself mentioned during the budget debate, significant funding for H&SC…
My speech on the budget debate focused on health and social care. Sir, There are 9 pages devoted entirely to Health and Social Care in this budget and a good chunk of Deputy St Pier’s speech was taken up with it, so it would be remiss of me not to…
On the last day of the last States meeting of the 21012-2016 term I presented the legacy report of the Public Accounts Committee. I have been proud and honoured to represent the Committee for 4 years and believe it is in a better place than at the start of the…
I laid a successful amendment to the Education Department’s report on Secondary Education in March 2016. My speech is below. Sir, I did think I heard a collective groqn that another amendment would be laid but hopefully this won’t be a mammoth debate as I believe the Education Department will…
Following the decision of the States to end the 11+ at the March 2016 States’ meeting, attention turned to the number of sites that should be retained. The choice was between the Education Department’s preferred model of one school across four sites, with the concept of a ‘hard’ federation, versus…
Probably one of the most divisive subjects that we have had to debate this term. It formed part of the Education Department’s policy letter proposals for secondary education. I thought it a very disappointing report with little in the way of evidence or desired outcomes. Financial information was sparse and…
HSSD presented its proposals for a new Capacity Law at the last States meeting. Included within this were recommendations for deprivation of liberty safeguards (DOLS) to protect the most vulnerable in society. It was subject to an amendment to delay until the UK has decided what it was going to…
An amendment was placed against the Healthy Weight Strategy by Deputy Hadley to introduce a sugar tax from the beginning of 2017. The Strategy sets out that this will be researched before bringing it in. My speech against the amendment is set out below. Sir, I do urge members…