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                           <title><![CDATA[Douglas Alexander's letter on DfID Support to Pakistan]]></title>
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                           <title><![CDATA[22/07/08 - Prime Minister’s House of Commons statement on Iraq]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Check Against Delivery   Mr Speaker, with permission and following my visit last weekend to Baghdad and Basra I would like to update the House on the latest developments in Iraq.    Let me start by paying tribute to the British servicemen and women who have served there with distinction since March 2003 - and in particular to pay tribute to those who have given their lives in service of their country. I know the whole House will join with me in honouring the memory of the fallen and saluting the courage of all our military and...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[17/07/08 - Andy Burnham’s Written Ministerial Statement on Free
Swimming]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Following the announcement the
Secretary of State for Health and I made on 6 June 2008, I am today
setting out further details of the Government’s free swimming
scheme in partnership with local government. This cross-Government
announcement set out a £140 million package comprising
contributions from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the
Department of Health, the Department for Children, Schools and
Families, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department
for Communities and Local Government. 
 

This statement, and the
arrangements it sets out, have been developed across Government
with the help of the Amateur Swimming Association, the Local
Government Association, Sport England and others.
 

The Government is...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[10/07/08 - Prime Minister’s House of Commons statement on the G8
Summit]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Check Against Delivery
 
With your permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a
statement on the G8 Summit, which took place under the chairmanship
of Prime Minister Fukuda, between 7 and 9 July in Toyako, Japan
---- a summit that was unique not just for the range of issues
discussed in three interlocking summits - the African outreach, the
G8 plus five and the Major Economies summits - but also for the
large number of countries, 14, whose Presidents or Prime Ministers
took part.
 
Let me first draw the House’s attention to the
unprecedented G8 statement on Zimbabwe.
 

Mr Speaker, in the
face of the deepening tragedy in...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[04/07/08 - Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and
Families, article for Tribune on National Challenge]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Labour’s progressive mission is,
and has always been, to end cycles of disadvantage so that poverty
does not pass from one generation to the next. Instead of
preserving opportunity and excellence for some, our purpose is to
actively promote and pursue excellence for all.
 
 Central to this is breaking the
link between poverty and low attainment in education. Everybody
should have the opportunity to fulfil their potential regardless of
their background or the income of their parents.
 
 This is what any Labour
government’s education policy should be about. And it’s at the
heart of the National Challenge I launched last month. It’s aim is
simple, but challenging:...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[03/07/08 - Ed Balls’ Guardian Education article: Strengthening
children’s trusts and supporting the 21st century school]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Every headteacher I meet wants the very best
for the pupils at their school, but they all tell me they can't do
it alone. They know parents are the most important influence on
their children and, if they want to raise standards for all their
pupils, they have to tackle barriers to learning that lie well
beyond the school gates. They tell me that if a child arrives at
school hungry, or they have speech and language needs that are not
being met, or if they don't have a stable home to go back to at the
end of the day, then it can have a really damaging...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[07/07/08 - Speech by Foreign Secretary David Miliband at the
University of South Africa: “Freedom and Responsibility: New
Challenges in Africa”]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Check Against Delivery
 

This is my first visit to South Africa as Foreign Secretary and I’m
delighted to be here at the University of South Africa. The purpose of my visit is
simple: to recommit Britain to support the next steps in South
Africa’s progress and to lay the foundations for government,
business and civil society from our two countries to work together
in the future.
 

For my generation, not just in Africa, but around the world, South
Africa’s journey to freedom will always be an inspiration. A fortnight ago, the celebration of Nelson Mandela's birthday in
London was an opportunity for the whole world to honour...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[03/07/08 - Hazel Blears speech to the Local
GovernmentAssociationConference: Local Democracy in the
Twenty-first Century]]></title>
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                           <title><![CDATA[30/06/08 - Speech by Kitty Ussher, Economic Secretary to the
Treasury, at the launch of APPG on Credit Unions]]></title>
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Thank
you, Kerry for that introduction, and for the invitation to be
here. And it really is an absolute pleasure to be at the launch of
this new All Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Unions.
 
I’m sure
many of you know how passionate I am about Credit Unions, and about
the huge amount of good that they’re doing across the
country.
 
Benefits
of Credit Unions
 
Because
they work for their members, and not for shareholders, Credit
Unions can create a sense of trust and loyalty that companies can’t
– and that means that they can reach people and communities that
no-one else would.
 
That
gives them a particularly important role...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[02/07/08 - Speech by Foreign Secretary David Miliband to Progress]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Check Against Delivery
 
 A fortnight ago, travelling back from a meeting with fellow
European Ministers, I have to admit I felt uneasy. The Irish referendum had shaken
the confidence of European leaders.
 
 As usual, commentators and politicians were rushing to interpret
the result in a way that vindicated their pre-existing positions.
The debate was fracturing along familiar lines: two-speed Europe,
an end to enlargement, a trading bloc not a political
union.
 
 I knew I didn't want to end up in any of those cul-de-sacs. I’ve
always believed that Britain’s strength in the world needed
engagement in Europe, not isolation. But yet I didn’t feel comfortable
dismissing...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[26/06/08 - Harriet Harman’s House of Commons statement on the
Equality Bill]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[With permission, Mr Speaker I’d like to set
out to the House today how the government proposes to make further
progress towards the fair and equal society which we want to
see.
 
I am pleased to announce that we are today
publishing our key proposals for the Equality Bill in a document
entitled Framework for a Fairer Future. Copies are available in the Vote
Office.
 
For us, equality is a
matter of principle – it always has been. As the Prime Minister set out on Wednesday in his
announcement on social mobility, we want to address the serious
inequalities that persist. Addressing these inequalities
and creating a fairer society is...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[26/06/08 - Jack Straw’s House of Commons statement on the anonymity
of witnesses]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[With permission Mr Speaker, I
should like to make a statement following the judgment of the
Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, issued Wednesday last, in
the case of Davis
 

As the House will be aware, the
Law Lords decided that there was not sufficient authority in common
law to provide for the current arrangements for the admission of
anonymous evidence, and said that this was a matter for Parliament
to deal with by statute.
 

The Government, therefore,
urgently will be bringing forward a Bill to rectify the situation.
I hope, very much, that the Bill will be published next week, and,
that subject to the usual channels, it...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[26/06/08 - Prime Minister’s speech at the Low Carbon Economy Summit]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen
can I start by thanking Sir Tom McKillop and the Royal Bank of
Scotland for co-hosting this event and congratulate him for the
excellent work which RBS is doing to finance investment in low
carbon projects and support research into new technologies,
particularly renewables. You really are a testament to
the ways in which business can be energized by a low carbon
strategy and a model for the businesses represented at this summit
today. 
 

When I first proposed
holding this conference - last November - the price of oil was $90
dollars a barrel, up from just $60 dollars a year
before. Today it is
over $130 dollars....]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[23/06/08 - Prime Minister's speech on social mobility to the
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust,]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[I am delighted to
join you at this event, and to address you today, because I believe
the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust is a real success story
- and the most dynamic force at work in education in this country
today.
 

And I’m grateful for
the chance to pay tribute to your founding Chairman Sir Cyril
Taylor - and also to your Chief Executive Elizabeth
Reid;
 

To thank all the
business sponsors of specialist schools;
 

And to recognize the
individual contributions made by the headteachers and teachers here
this evening: what you do is nothing less than the transformation
of the lives of young people in every part of the
country....]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[23/06/08 - Foreign Secretary, David Miliband’s, House of Commons
statement on Zimbabwe]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Mr Speaker, with your permission I will make a statement on the
situation in Zimbabwe.
 

I am sure this whole House will unite in its condemnation of the
depravity of the Mugabe regime; in grieving at the needless loss of
life; and in wanting to send a clear message of support and
solidarity to the people of Zimbabwe at this time. We share both
their demand for a democratic future and their belief that they
should not be denied this by violence or intimidation. Our primary
concern has always been for them.
 

Mr Speaker, notwithstanding the violence, it is farcical to talk of
a free and fair vote...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[23/06/08 - Prime Minister’s House of Commons statement on the
European Council]]></title>
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                           <title><![CDATA[18/06/08 - Alan Johnson's Speech to the NHS Confederation Annual
Conference]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Health, speech to the NHS
Confederation Annual Conference, in Manchester
 

18 June 2008
 

Check Against
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I’m delighted to be able to
address NHS Confederation’s Annual Conference, particularly here,
in Manchester, where on 5 July, 1948, just a few miles from here,
Nye Bevan opened the very first NHS hospital.
 

It marked the beginning of the
remarkable adventure that we are still engaged
in.
 

It’s an adventure I am honoured to
be part of, particularly in the NHS’s 60th
year.
 

Just under a year ago, when I was
appointed Secretary of State for Health, I was asked what the NHS
meant to me. The...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[19/06/08 - Ed Balls’ speech to the National College for School
Leadership (NCSL) Annual Conference]]></title>
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It’s a real privilege to be here
today in Birmingham and to have the chance to speak to so many
education leaders – with many more I know watching over the
internet.
 

And let me start by congratulating
you Steve on what I thought was a really excellent speech earlier
this morning.
 

I thought you told a really
compelling story about the brilliant leadership at work in our
schools.
 

You set out the progress that
we’ve made over the past decade – and the challenges that we still
need to address.
 

And most importantly, I thought
you really captured really well the moral purpose that I
know:
 
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                           <title><![CDATA[18/06/08 - Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair
Darling, to Mansion House]]></title>
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My Lord Mayor, Mr Governor, my
Lords, Ministers, Aldermen, Mr Recorder, Sheriffs, ladies and
gentlemen. It is a privilege to be asked to address you this
evening.
 
It must also be something of a change for you as this
event has been addressed by the same man for eleven successive
years. 
 
In preparation for tonight, I have read my predecessor’s
speeches closely.
 
I have noticed that over the years, they tended to creep
up in length. And in scope. 
 
To allow you to enjoy
your coffee earlier, the Governor and myself – another sign of the
close co-operation between us – have agreed to copy...]]></description>
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                           <title><![CDATA[08/06/08 - Ed Miliband’s speech to Compass Annual Conference -
Idealism of the mainstream]]></title>
                           <description><![CDATA[Check Against
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I’d like to thank Compass, and
Gavin Hayes and Neal Lawson, for all the work they
do.
 

Let me start by saying some people
will have come to the Compass conference this morning not feeling
that confident. The last few months have not been a few months to
make people feel confident or optimistic – and that reflects
difficult economic and political times
 

Our first duty is to steer the
economy through these difficulties, but I want to talk today about
the wider political task we face.
 

I want to reflect at the beginning
that there are a couple of reasons the Left should be feeling
optimistic at...]]></description>
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