John Hutton
John Hutton
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From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.
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I did not come into politics to make poor people poorer.
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What we certainly do accept is that many people have suffered serious losses through pension schemes having collapsed in this way and that's why we've already made 400 million pounds worth of public resources available to provide financial assistance to people in those circumstances.
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We want people of all ages from every section of the community to be involved.
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Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?
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An active welfare state must provide a floor below which no one should be allowed to fall, but its primary role must be to enable people to provide for themselves.
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We will not put the long-term stability of the public finances at risk,
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Is it his remit to have a functioning IT system? Yes. What will that new IT system be? I don't know. Sir David Henshaw is looking at designing a new IT system.
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Primary care must never be seen simply as a set of organisational structures.
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Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.
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As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better.
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At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.
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We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.
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Today, as a result, over 3 million jobs in the UK are linked, directly and indirectly, to the export of goods and services to the European Union.