Speeches by Cane.

“You have several times touched on the fact that your terms of reference allowed you to keep the inquiry open so that you could go back. Other inquiries may not have such wide terms of reference. Would it be wise for inquiries to produce interim reports and recommendations as a matter of course, so that they have a chan…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Hobhouse. I congratulate the hon. Member for Meriden and Solihull East (Saqib Bhatti) on securing this debate. Ely and East Cambridgeshire is a very rural area, and in many of my villages the pub is the only place left for local people to gather, meet and socialise. A…”

“I welcome investment in NHS dentistry, but it is all just playing around at the edges unless and until we change that contract, because it is the contract that is at fault. I understand the Minister said that he would consult on that in the summer. We are already part way through June. Can we please have a date for the…”

“Almost half of children in Cambridgeshire have not seen a dentist in the last 12 months. That will have many impacts that we can only imagine, but one of them is that one in every eight children in East Cambridgeshire have tooth decay by the time they are five. That should be utterly unacceptable to us all. In short, E…”

“I agree that it is vital that everyone supports the PSNI and encourages people from across Northern Ireland to engage with it positively. One would hope that a good, modern training centre would help to present it as a good organisation to join. To develop the site at Kinnegar, investment is needed. Patten recommended …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Roger. I congratulate the hon. Member for North Down (Alex Easton) on securing this important debate. Before I turn to the substance of the debate, I acknowledge the deeply troubling incident in north Belfast last night, in which a man was seriously injured in a knife…”

“To some extent, you have answered this, but I don’t know whether you want to add anything. Why do you think the commission did not give sufficient weight to the interests of victims and beneficiaries in deciding to close the case?”

“Okay. Why do you think the commission needed to take into account the failure to report and the holding of the requiem mass in deciding whether to close the case?”

“Right, so you were saying that the commission hadn’t set out its criteria well enough, and therefore there was no way, under the commission’s rule, of making a judgment on that.”

“There was a review, and that review did not say that the failure to report abuse since 1993 was an error. The commission doesn’t think it is an error, but you do. I am trying to understand the grounds for that.”

“I want to talk about the PHSO’s conclusion that the commission’s review of Mr Murray’s case was not compliant with the recommendation. The reviewer did not themselves refer to the commission’s approach to the failure to report abuse since 1993 as an “error”, and the commission has disputed that categorisation, so why d…”

“So who does have responsibility for delivering justice for past failures?”

“The Charity Commission does not regard its role as simply identifying misconduct and mismanagement. It considers that its role is to determine what impact any potential misconduct or mismanagement might have on the charity, and other charities, in the present and the future, rather than delivering justice for past fail…”

“So they hadn’t fully documented the process they had gone through in making the decision.”

“You seem to be saying that there is a mix—that their procedures were not clear enough, because they did not have clear enough criteria, but also they were not following their procedures.”

“Good morning. I am going to be looking at resources. Starting with what level of staffing and funding do you need in order to carry out the full scope of your remit?”

“Are you confident that you are going to get a positive answer?”

“There is always going to be a balance with any organisation, with having enough people to have them on each of the inquiries, but not having too big a group to actually work together collectively. How have you satisfied yourself that you have that balance right?”

“You said that you are hoping to get the independent commissioners in place soon. Do you have an idea of a rough date for that?”

“The political commissioners, how are you getting on with those?”