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	Patricia Hewitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Patricia Hope Hewitt (born 2 December 1948) is a British politician.
		Hewitt was elected to the House of Commons for Leicester West at the 1997 General Election following the retirement of the veteran Labour MP Greville Janner.
		Hewitt is known as a reliable Blairite within the cabinet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patricia_Hewitt (1566 words)

	Men's Rights Online - Patricia Hewitt's Biography
		During her reign as the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the United Kindom, Patrica Hewitt refused to accept the employment application from Malcolm Hanney; even though she believed he was the strongest candidate and the panel had previously agreed that he should be appointed to the position.
		The final decision was left to Patricia Hewitt who decided to appoint the position to councillor Christine Channon, who was the listed as the third-most preferred candidate.
		Patricia Hewitt refused to apologise to Malcolm Hanney for discriminating against him based on his sex, so he threatened to take the case to the High Court.
	www.mens-rights.net /feminists/hewitt_patricia.htm (269 words)

	New Statesman - The New Statesman Interview - Patricia Hewitt
		Hewitt first came to prominence as general secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties in 1974, but in 1983 was appointed press secretary to the new leader of the Labour Party, Neil Kinnock.
		Hewitt stood as a candidate in Leicester East in the 1983 election: she found that people there, who had voted Labour all their lives, "just thought we'd taken leave of our senses and gone to another planet".
		"Patricia's very bright and all that," said a ministerial colleague, "but the trouble is she just talks e-speak these days and no one can understand her." Hewitt is also much mocked by the sketchwriters for her choice of pastel jackets and her Australian vowels.
	www.newstatesman.com /200104160014 (1435 words)

	New Statesman - NS Interview - Patricia Hewitt
		Patricia Hewitt has hotfooted it from the Commons chamber to her little ministerial bolt-hole upstairs.
		Hewitt was one of those who argued for a referendum, seeing it as the only way to challenge the increasing power of the anti-European voices in politics and what she calls the "poisonous press".
		Hewitt says defeat would not necessarily bring down the government, but negotiations on leaving the Union would be fraught.
	www.newstatesman.com /200406280014 (1654 words)

	channel4.com - News - FactCheck: Hewitt caught out in childcare claim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Patricia Hewitt, the Trade and Industry Secretary, alleged twice on Easter Monday that the Conservatives had "backtracked" on plans to give parents £150 a week for childcare costs.
		At a press conference after her BBC appearance on Easter Monday, Ms Hewitt was challenged about the claim by a journalist who accused her of mixing up maternity pay and childcare allowances.
		"Patricia Hewitt made her remarks on the basis of briefings given to the press which were not entirely crystal clear and we had our press conference [on Monday] before they [the Conservatives] had theirs."
	www.channel4.com /news/factcheck/quote.jsp?id=44 (740 words)

	anti social behaviour - Patricia Hewitt - MP for Leicester West
		Patricia Hewitt MP for Leicester West, has added her support to an essay competition being run by the Parliamentary Press Gallery,
		Patricia Hewitt MP for Leicester West and Minister for Women has joined forces with other MP’s and Breakthrough Breast Cancer, the UK’s leading breast cancer charity, to highlight the need for all women aged 50 and over in Leicester West to attend their breast screening appointments when invited.
		Patricia Hewitt MP will be visiting local residents on Friday to tell them about the tough new firework laws which came into force last week.
	www.patriciahewitt.labour.co.uk /ViewPage.cfm?Page=17447 (1032 words)

	Patricia Hewitt to discuss topical issues in Moscow - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Patricia Hewitt, who serves as Great Britain's Secretary for Trade and Industry, is to discuss energy-and-investment cooperation prospects during her two-day Russian visit.
		Patricia Hewitt is to arrive in the Russian capital in the afternoon of June 24, lunching with representatives of Russia's business community that same day.
		Patricia Hewitt is to open an oil-and-gas seminar in the morning of June 25; that seminar will be organized under the auspices of the LUK-Oil corporation, involving representatives of Russian and British energy companies.
	english.pravda.ru /main/2004/06/24/54529_.html (693 words)

	PATRICIA HEWITT
		Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt called on NHS leaders to kick start a big programme of public engagement in order to shape the future of NHS family health services.
		Twenty-four hours after Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt was booed off the stage by angry nurses she braved meetings with NHS staff in the Midlands.
		Patricia Hewitt was shouted down last week when she addressed nurses.
	www.bushywood.com /patricia_hewitt.htm (5041 words)

	Patricia Hewitt: Another Wonder from Anderson Consulting! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hewitt, waxed lyrical, over her plans to solve the dreadful problem of MRSA, and other sundry dynamics, which beset the NHS (sic) - the once hallowed bastion of the Great Britain, which was.
		Hewitt's rate of absorption of data and mental acuity is a benchmark.
		Hewitt’s performance on Sunday is any benchmark of the future, one can expect simply a series of window dressing exercises which sadly, demonstrate the corporate media's power to exploit and deceive much of the British electorate.
	www.axisoflogic.com /artman/publish/printer_17695.shtml (1056 words)

	Amazon.fr : Pebbles in the Sand: Livres en anglais: Patricia Hewitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hewitt writes of her literary arrangement, "Whatever feeling or emotion they evoke is the reason for literature." This book will captivate readers, sweeping them off their feet with its powerful literary verse and kaleidoscope of heartfelt emotions.
		Residing in Dallas, Texas, Patricia Hewitt is an active participant of spiritual, charitable, and professional organizations.
		Hewitt has also worked as a teacher of secondary English in Louisiana public schools and private academies for sixteen years.
	www.amazon.fr /Pebbles-Sand-Patricia-Hewitt/dp/0805942726 (345 words)

	The World Today Archive - Patricia Hewitt speaks on Labor policy
		PATRICIA HEWITT: Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
		PATRICIA HEWITT: Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
		PAPTRICIA HEWITT: It was central to the modernisation of the British Labour Party was the decision that we were no longer a class based party.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s608519.htm (1037 words)

	Patricia Hewitt's bowel movements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As expected for our Health Secretary, Patricia Hewitt, 57, apparently leads a life of exemplary healthiness...a spokesman insisted that she eats "infinitely more" than the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables per day.
		In fact, according to the Media pages in Sunday’s Observer, Hewitt’s spokesman had never referred to her bowel movements: Neil Tweedie had put this in as a (rather appropriate) joke, expecting the sub-editor to remove it.
		Apparently, there is now discussion between Hewitt’s office and the Telegraph as to whether a printed retraction would make her look worse.
	www.searchukip.co.uk /post-144066.html (1181 words)

	BBC - Leicester - News - Patricia Hewitt gains cabinet post
		After the second labour landslide on Thursday the Leicester West MP, Patricia Hewitt, becomes one of seven women in the new Blair cabinet.
		Patricia Hewitt was first elected to parliament in Leicester West in May 1997, but had previously contested Leicester East in the general election of 1983.
		Hewitt told of her meeting with Tony Blair and the challenges ahead.
	www.bbc.co.uk /leicester/news/2001_06/09/hewitt.shtml (176 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Patricia Hewitt would help the health service meet its target (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ms Hewitt raised the spectre of service closures as she pledged to push forward with the patient choice agenda, an initiative which aims to offer people the option of picking from a range of hospitals and treatment centres to receive their care, including private providers.
		Ms Hewitt also said she had no plans to backtrack on increasing use of the private sector to provide services, as she announced that private companies would be carrying out an extra 1.7m operations, such as hip and knee replacements, for the NHS over the next five years, at a cost of £3bn.
		The health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, today signalled that NHS hospitals face the possibility of closure if they fail to attract sufficient numbers of patients More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /science/2005/05/13/59762.html (1866 words)

	BBC - Leicester - Features - Patricia Hewitt goes live (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Secretary of state for health Patricia Hewitt has made her presenting debut live on BBC Radio Leicester.
		Government minister Patricia Hewitt celebrated LeicestHERday by hosting her own show on BBC Radio Leicester.
		Patricia Hewitt, MP Ms Hewitt says she is keen to do anything to support the event, which she helped create while Minister for Women in 2001.
	bbc.co.uk /leicester/content/articles/2006/03/10/patricia_feature.shtml (279 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| Hewitt heckled by furious nurses
		Ms Hewitt was jeered and slow hand-clapped by nurses at a conference in Bournemouth as she tried to address their fears about NHS deficits.
		Ms Hewitt replied she had made all the points she wanted to, giving nurses the chance to ask her questions.
		At several points during the question and answer session Ms Hewitt was forced to stop and wait for noise to die down at the hall in Bournemouth.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/4943596.stm (666 words)

	Trade campaigners meet Patricia Hewitt
		Patricia Hewitt MP, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry met with representatives of the Trade Justice Movement, a coalition of 29 organisations, on 6 November to hear their concerns about trade issues.
		Sophie Dodgeon of Christian Aid's campaigns team said 'Patricia Hewitt had indicated that she wanted to see how many people were concerned about trade issues so we decided to present her with a photograph of the 8,000 people who took to the streets of London for the Parade.'
		Patricia Hewitt also received a staggering 35,000 postcards and thousands of emails on trade prior to the summit.
	www.christian-aid.org.uk /campaign/trade/pathpres.htm (265 words)

	Patricia Hewitt \| Aristotle \| Guardian Unlimited Politics
		Designer clothed and well coiffured, Patricia Hewitt, the Labour MP for Leicester West and the Department of Trade and Industry's e-commerce minister is the fastest rising woman of the 1997 intake (and so tagged as one of "Blair's babes").
		Ms Hewitt is given less than full credit because her drive, intelligence, energy and lack of easy charm can be read as needlessly abrasive, evoking bitchiness among her detractors (who generally lack her quickness of mind).
		A lot of envious noses were put out of joint when she was named economic secretary to the Treasury in 1998, then minister for small business and e-commerce at the DTI in 1999..
	politics.guardian.co.uk /profiles/story/0,,457922,00.html (537 words)

	Patricia Hewitt should mind her own fucking business and not try to ruin my life and fuck off back to Australia, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Patricia Hewitt should mind her own fucking business and not try to ruin my life and fuck off back to Australia, preferably for ever and ever
		A swingeing increase in tax on alcopops and other alcoholic drinks favoured by teenagers is being demanded by the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, in an attempt to stop young people damaging their health by binge drinking.
		Patricia Hewitt, whose name is anathema to Mr Eugenides and, of course, DK, decided to make an announcement about taxation policy - specifically that the rates charged on alcohol are too low and should be raised.
	tailrank.com /741215/Patricia-Hewitt-should-mind-her-own-fucking-bus... (473 words)

	Patricia Hewitt to resign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, admitted yesterday that the extra billions of pounds invested in the NHS have failed to make much difference to patients.
		Heading for the confessional Yesterday CPO Commissar Hewitt joined the lengthening queue of New Labour high-ups who are finally confessing the terrible truth we've known for ages- all that money they've poured into our public services has been flushed down the toilet.
		Patricia Hewitt has admitted that the NHS had not improved despite the extra billions the Government have poured into it.
	tailrank.com /posts/562949953983721/Patricia_Hewitt_to_resign (313 words)

	Patricia Hewitt (Health Secretary) News - Inbox Robot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I have written to Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt MP to express my anger at her proposals to consider the possible closure or...
		She also held a private meeting with Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, to prepare for the political battle against...
		Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, announced this month that trusts will be able to bid for up to £300,000...
	www.inboxrobot.com /news/patricia-hewitt (1051 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| Hewitt heckled by health workers
		Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt was heckled and booed by health workers as she tried to calm NHS job cuts fears.
		Ms Hewitt told angry delegates at Unison's health conference in Gateshead reforms were needed to preserve the NHS as the union warned of strikes ahead.
		Praising the efforts of health care staff, Ms Hewitt repeated her weekend claims that the NHS had seen its best year so far.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/4931648.stm (739 words)

	Asthma UK - Patricia Hewitt supports World Asthma Day
		To highlight World Asthma Day (2 May), Secretary of State for Health Patricia Hewitt (pictured) attended Asthma UK’s reception at the House of Commons to discuss the future of care for the 5.2 million people with asthma in the UK.
		Patricia Hewitt confirmed the Government’s commitment to reducing emergency hospital admissions and improving care in the community to help people with long-term conditions, including asthma, to manage their condition more effectively.
		Donna Covey, Chief Executive of Asthma UK, welcomed these developments: ‘It is a shocking fact that there are on average over 72,000 hospital admissions for asthma every year and that 75% of these are preventable,’ she said.
	www.asthma.org.uk /news_media/news/patricia_hewitt.html (447 words)

	Profile: Trade secretary Patricia Hewitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In a keynote speech last week Hewitt said the government is considering introducing auditor rotation and stripping executive directors of their powers to appoint company auditors in the wake of global accounting scandals.
		Hewitt of course knows the industry better than most of her ministerial peers.
		A Cambridge graduate, Hewitt has overall responsibility for the Department of Trade and Industry, the Office of Science and Technology, the Export Credits Guarantee Department, and the Women's Unit.
	www.vnunet.com /articles/print/2039995 (413 words)

	The Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ms Hewitt became a Member of Parliament in 1997.
		She was Deputy Chair of the Commission for Social Justice (1992-94) and a member of the Social Security Select Committee before taking up her Ministerial post.
		Patricia Hewitt was formerly Minister for Small Business and e-Commerce at the Department of Trade and Industry (1999-2001) and Economic Secretary at the Treasury (1998-1999).
	www.nhshistory.net /cvhewitt.htm (174 words)

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