Older age allowance

A speech I made in the States against an amendment laid by Deputy Roffey who wanted to reverse the decision to equalise personal allowances. The amendment lost. Deputy Roffey has set out very clearly why he thinks the more elderly should have a higher allowance than those of working age…

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Pooled budgets

This is speech I made when I laid an amendment to the 2018 budget which gave power to Policy & Resources to set up pooled budgets across the States. The amendment said any such budgets needed States’ approval. It won. Sir, I think it is important to understand what this…

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Medium Term Financial Plan – 4

Speech regarding amendment to change MTFP. it passed. Sir, This amendment, is supported by Committee for Health and Social Care and if successful will replace amendment 20. It is intended, as with amendment 19 which is closely linked to it, to give some clarity around expectations both to the Committee…

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Medium Term Financial Plan – 3

Speech I made in the States to amend MTFP. It passed. Sir, a bit of light relief compared to the quite heavy amendments we’ve had to contend with today. This is the second amendment intended to give some clarity around expectations both to the Committee for Health and Social Care…

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Medium Term Financial Plan – 2

Second of the speeches I made in the MTFP debate. This one against an amendment laid by Deputy Yerby where I stated savings can be made but reliant on digital transformation. Sir, when I first read the MTFP, reinforced by re-reading it a number of times, I got a strong…

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Medium Term Financial Plan – 1

One of a series of speeches I made in debate on the MTFP. This against an amendment by Deputies Roffey and Ferbrache. Sir, On the back of Deputy Ferbrache’s speech I thought I would provide a few definitions. Let’s start with progressive – it says on my electronic communicator that…

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States of Guernsey Accounts 2016

Speech I made when the Annual Accounts were presented to the States. Sir, there are a few points that I think deserve consideration and should be borne in mind when we debate the Medium Term Financial Plan next week. Firstly, as the President of SMC has pointed out, there appears…

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GDPR

This is the speech I made in the States when we debated the introduction of GDPR. This is for anyone who thinks government is too big and there are too many civil servants. Sir, before I go any further I should like to point out up front that I will…

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ESS Uprating report 2017

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…

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Budget 2017

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…

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