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	Uncorrected Evidence 660
		Fiona Mactaggart: I think that people think that the regulatory regime is actually more onerous for these kind of charities than in practice it is because it is relatively easy for the overwhelming majority of grant-giving charities to demonstrate quite straightforwardly that they are meeting the compliance objective.
		Fiona Mactaggart: Because that is a duty of all public bodies at all times, to act proportionately and fairly, and if you were to put that in one kind of legislation, it would imply that in other bits of legislation you were expecting people to be disproportionate and unfair.
		Fiona Mactaggart: I do not think they thought it through, no. I think they were focusing on charitable trading which was a longer purpose of the charity, and they did not think about the fact that the frame that they did it with was for things which were completely non connected with the purpose.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/jt200304/jtselect/jtchar/uc660-xiv/uc66002.htm (14906 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Aristotle \| Fiona Mactaggart
		No one was more surprised than new Labour MP Fiona Mactaggart to find herself described as "disabled" in newspaper headlines when she disclosed in a Commons debate she was infertile and suffered from MS.
		Fiona Mactaggart stands out among Labour's new women: her frequent contributions display a high intelligence, independence of mind and special sensitivity to the needs of the many immigrants in her Slough constituency.
		But her politics owes more to Sir John Mactaggart, her great-grandfather, who was the first treasurer of the first ever branch of Keir Hardie's Labour party.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /profiles/story/0,9396,458045,00.html (416 words)

	Society \| Fine art of change
		Her charities brief came with high expectations in the voluntary sector: Mactaggart is one of their own, having worked at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), as general secretary of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, and as chairwoman of Liberty.
		Mactaggart says the draft bill will "provide the framework for the thing that I'm really passionate about, which is to help the whole [voluntary] sector stand on its own two feet".
		Mactaggart's background - she is thought to be Westminster's second-richest MP, through an inheritance from her father, the Conservative multi-millionaire property developer Sir Ian Mactaggart - seems not to have had much bearing on what followed.
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4810022-110462,00.html (1336 words)

	Politics \| Profile: Fiona Mactaggart
		Fiona Mactaggart, the new charities minister, comes to the post with personal experience of working in the voluntary sector, where she has campaigned for human rights and on behalf of immigrants.
		Daughter of multimillionaire Glasgow property developer Sir Ian Mactaggart, a Europhobic Tory, and granddaughter on her mother's side of Conservative MP Sir Herbert Williams, Ms Mactaggart is thought to be Westminster's second-richest MP, through an inheritance from her father.
		Ms Mactaggart was a member of the Commons Public Administration select committee from 1997 to 1998 and chaired the parliamentary Labour women's group from 2001 to 2003.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4693773-110251,00.html (587 words)

	Search: in Written Answers spoken by Fiona Mactaggart (TheyWorkForYou.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fiona Mactaggart: Information on the number of mothers sentenced to custodial sentences, and the offences for which they were sentenced, is not centrally available.
		Fiona Mactaggart: The Government's policy remains that certain very serious and complex fraud cases ought not to be tried by a jury and that trial by judge alone, as provided for by section 43 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, represents the best way forward.
		Fiona Mactaggart: Information taken from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform shows that between 2000 and 2004, there were no prosecutions of businesses at the magistrates courts in the Staffordshire police force area under S13a National Lottery etc. Act 1993.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /search?pid=10402&maj=wrans (738 words)

	ePolitix.com - Fiona Mactaggart MP - Home Office minister
		Fiona Mactaggart: The contribution of volunteering to essential public services is not really conceived as a substitute for what happens at the moment.
		Fiona Mactaggart: That was something I wrote in 2001 and it was very much about the way in which the election campaign ran and our preparation for it.
		Fiona Mactaggart: The point about the bill is that it is a paving bill that puts in place some, but not all, of the things that have to happen when we face a civil emergency.
	www.epolitix.com /EN/Interviews/200409/38b863b8-6114-4167-a837-b74bda1d139c.htm (1581 words)

	Indymedia UK - Slough Anti-Incinerator Network meet with Fiona Mactaggart MP.
		Mactaggart's position seems to be one of contradiction, whereby she accepts that there are concerns and potential dangers from the mass burn incinerators, yet does not accept much of the scientific and anecdotal evidence presented to her, preferring to rely upon the recent and discredited DEFRA report.
		Fiona Mactaggart MP explained her feeling that having two, much larger, new incinerators was better than one small old incinerator due to the supposed advancement in technology.
		Mactaggart has given us her assurance that she will continue to listen to any evidence presented to her, and will not try to hamper our efforts.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2004/09/297265.html (629 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fiona Mactaggart, 49, is no lightweight when it comes to a fight, be it personal or political.
		Since entering parliament, she has urged a speedier reduction in the backlog of immigration and asylum appeals and campaigned for an easier process by which the Pakistani relatives of some of her constituents would be allowed to visit Britain.
		On a more personal note, Miss Mactaggart talked of the stress felt by her and her family as a result of the disease and why the treatment made it hard for her to talk about her illness in public.
	www.mult-sclerosis.org /news/Jun2003/MoreonFionaMactaggartMP.html (575 words)

	Moral and intellectual bankruptcy on display \| Samizdata.net
		Fiona McTaggart tells us she has noticed many times that if a performance gets condemned, it attracts publicity (no!) and ends up having the unexpected consequence of enjoying larger audiences.
		Fiona MacTaggart (who incidentally is a former director of Liberty!) is MP for Slough, a town with a large Sikh population.
		Mactaggart certainly displayed utter disdain for it by painting the matter as a money making publicity stunt instead of what it was.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/007076.html (2103 words)

	Government against racism \| www.somethingjewish.co.uk
		Fiona Mactaggart MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary at the Home Office, told the officers of the Board of Deputies that the government would continue speaking out against racism and antisemitism.
		Fiona Mactaggart welcomed recent moves by the Board to build up relationships with the Muslim Council of Britain.
		We welcome Fiona Mactaggart's assurances on antisemitism and hope that she will be able to find an early opportunity to speak out on the subject.
	www.somethingjewish.co.uk /articles/567_government_against_r.htm (254 words)

	Response to Fiona MacTaggart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fiona explains her change of mind in one word, ‘biometrics.’ But absolutely nothing has changed in the 15 months since she contributed to a pamphlet we produced on ID cards.
		Fifteen months ago Fiona was convinced that compulsory ID cards would lead, as they have done in Europe, to a worsening of race relations.
		Fiona now tells us that we need compulsory cards to stamp out ‘entitlement fraud.’ That’s what Mr Blunkett was saying 15 months ago and our former chairwoman had this to say :‘The Department for work and Pensions has made clear that that identity fraud is a fairly minor part of benefit fraud.’
	www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk /press/press-releases-2003/response-to-fiona-mactaggart.shtml (352 words)

	Minister defends rights of protesters as Sikh play closes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fiona Mactaggart began yesterday morning mired in controversy for her reluctance to condemn the violence that led to the halting of the play Behzti's sell-out run at the Birmingham Rep.
		Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Miss Mactaggart said that the violence was not relevant to freedom of speech and was a policing matter.
		Miss Mactaggart said she had received assurances from West Midlands police that they would have policed the demonstrations had the theatre not decided to stop the run.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1306245/posts (1101 words)

	Clean & Safe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The relationship between government and community groups received a boost as a new Code of Good Practice was launched by Home Office Minister Fiona Mactaggart and Compact Working Group Chair Sir Michael Bichard.
		The document is the fifth and final Code of Good Practice to be published as part of the ‘Compact’ on relations between government and the voluntary and community sector (VCS) in England.
		Fiona Mactaggart said: "Community groups, when people come together to get things done, can really improve the quality of people living in some of our most deprived communities.
	www.cleansafeworldwide.org /doc.asp?doc=696&cat=4 (199 words)

	Election Candidates
		Fiona Mactaggart is aiming to make it three victories in a row when she bids for re-election as Slough MP.
		Ms Mactaggart, 51, claimed the Slough seat in 1997 and held it at the 2001 election.
		The former teacher is a Home Office minister and is responsible for race equality, community policy and civil renewal.
	www.thisisslough.com /election/candidates/mactaggart.php (69 words)

	Daimnation!: The angry mob wins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fiona Mactaggart refused to offer support for either the theatre, which came under siege, or the author, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, who is in hiding after reportedly receiving death threats.
		She said that ticket sales for Behzti, a fl comedy including scenes of rape and murder in a Sikh temple, would increase if the play returned to the stage because of the publicity caused by the violence.
		Miss Mactaggart, the minister for race equality, said: "I don't think we will have seen the end of this play because of the protest.
	www.damianpenny.com /archived/003696.html (784 words)

	What's New
		Home Office Minister Fiona Mactaggart today set out the national standards for services to all prosecution and defence witnesses with the publication of the Witness Charter consultation.
		A new code which will give victims statutory rights for the first time was laid before Parliament today by Home Office Minister Fiona Mactaggart as part of the Government's work to offer better support and advice to victims of crime and their families.
		Home Office Minister Fiona Mactaggart today unveiled the terms of reference for the first comprehensive review of murder law for more than fifty years.
	www.cjsonline.gov.uk /the_cjs/whats_new (3111 words)

	charter88 press release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fiona Mactaggart letter on House of Lords reform
		I am writing to tell you why you should be campaigning for a democratically elected second chamber.
		Show parliament that this is not an arcane constitutional matter in which the public has little interest, but an issue at the heart of British democracy.
	www.charter88.org.uk /press/0212mactaggart.html (565 words)

	Concluding evidence - VoluntaryNews Item
		However, no mention is made of the fact that Scottish law doesn't have the same ability to refer to English case law which is promoted as the basis for deciding public benefit criteria south of the border.
		Fiona Mactaggart also stated that the Home Office was working in the next few weeks to clarify, and move, the Charity Commission's position on how case law might or might not allow a review of the public benefit of independent schools and private hospitals, which currently count as charities.
		This was agreed to be such an important point that the committee will need to be kept informed over the summer parliamentary recess, so that it could be taken into account in writing their report.
	www.volresource.org.uk /kcnews/news2,352.htm (360 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Fiona MacTaggart
		Fiona MacTaggart was first elected to the Commons in 1997, having been selected from an all-woman shortlist.
		She proved to be one of Labour's most able and effective new MPs and many were surprised when she remained on the back benches after the 2001 election when Chris Smith, whom she had served as a PPS, lost his job.
		Ms MacTaggart worked as a primary school teacher in Peckham before becoming an education lecturer.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2173088.stm (189 words)

	Mactaggart calls for partnership — 11/09/03 - Fiona Mactaggart Ourpartnership news
		Speaking at an event about the cross-cutting review, Home Office Minister Fiona Mactaggart called for more partnership working between the voluntary sector and government.
		Backed by £93m in government funding, the cross-cutting review of role of the voluntary and community sector in service delivery was launched by the Treasury and the Home Office on 10 September 2002.
		Addressing an Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), Mactaggart said: “There are challenges the sector needs to meet if we are to work effectively in partnership.
	www.ourpartnership.org.uk /newspub/story.cfm?id=94&sid=31 (237 words)

	Hindu Press International December 17, 2004
		Fiona Mactaggart MP from Home Office in London responded to Mr.
		Fiona Mactaggart made this clear in her reply that the Government's intention by this Bill is to provide protection from extremism and hate and not to unnecessarily stifle debate on religious beliefs and practices.
		Part IV of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill contains provisions to combat the activities of the extremists within our community who stir up hatred against groups targeted because of their religious beliefs, or lack of religious beliefs, as well as those targeted on racial grounds.
	www.hinduismtoday.com /hpi/2004/12/17.shtml (1428 words)

	Writers Want Meeting About New Religious Hatred Law
		English Pen said Rushdie had received a response from home office minister Fiona Mactaggart and that they hoped the meeting would take place within the next week.
		A Home Office spokesman told The Guardian that: "Both Fiona Mactaggart and the home secretary understand the concerns some groups feel about this legislation and are happy to have meetings to discuss these and reassure them."
		In response, Mactaggart wrote a letter to the Guardian in which she said: "Free speech is a crucial right for everyone, faith groups as well as artists.
	arts.monstersandcritics.com /news/printer_3566.php (386 words)

	ePolitix.com - Fiona Mactaggart explains the importance of community capacity building
		Fiona Mactaggart explains the importance of community capacity building
		Building a healthy democracy means enabling communities to be in a position to help themselves, and engage more effectively with public bodies.
		All in all, it's a recipe that should ensure the strengthening of communities and that future policy in this area is based on firm foundations.
	www.epolitix.com /EN/TopicalComment/200412/4959645c-07b9-441e-9d1b-598c95045b95.htm (579 words)

	Redhotcurry - News. Religious Freedom is a Core British Belief
		The Government's duty to all its citizens is to give them the freedom to practise their own faith, said Home Office Minister Fiona Mactaggart today.
		Speaking at an Eid celebration in London, Ms Mactaggart said that it is neither the Government's role, nor intention to dictate to British people how and when they should express their religious affiliation.
		Ms Mactaggart said: "In Britain we have a proud tradition of supporting free speech and allowing people to follow their own beliefs.
	www.redhotcurry.com /archive/news/2003/religious_belief.htm (635 words)

	Religion survey highlights progress
		Seventy per cent of Hindu respondents, 62 per cent of Sikhs, 62 per cent of Muslims and 53 per cent of Christians thought that the government was doing enough to protect the rights of minority groups.
		Home Office Minister Fiona Mactaggart said the information, along with the 'Working Together' report published in March, would help the government to take account of religious affiliation when it develops policy:
		Ms Mactaggart also said it was encouraging to see that most people who were questioned felt that the government is doing enough to tackle religious discrimination.
	www.number-10.gov.uk /output/Page5813.asp (348 words)

	Government Offices \| East Midlands \|
		On the day when the Home Secretary announced that £340million would be made available by 2007/08 to fund 24,000 police community support officers (PCSOs), Home Office Minister Fiona Mactaggart was in Leicester to see for herself how neighbourhood policing operates.
		Ms Mactaggart visited the New Parks housing estate and chatted to residents in Pickwell Close where anti-social behaviour has been experienced and dealt with by the local police teams, including PC Geraldine Stevenson and PCSO Pete Chapman (pictured with the minister).
		Leicestershire Constabulary is one of the forces leading the way with the development of neighbourhood policing following the success of the New Parks reassurance project.
	www.go-se.gov.uk /goem/news/newsarchive/new-parks?view=TextOnly (342 words)

	Promoting Diversity in the Workplace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fiona Mactaggart MP Minister for Race Equality, Home Office
		It will explore how statutory race relations legislation should be used as a starting point to first of all ensure that employers comply with their responsibilities but more importantly learn to improve performance by benefiting from a diverse and creative workforce.
		The full day conference will include a keynote address by Fiona Mactaggart MP, the Home Office Minister for Race Equality as well as presentations and case studies by leading academics, employers, trade unions and local authorities.
	www.mollyguard.com /event/12905601 (220 words)

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