The effect, coming on top of a very long period of civil strife in our capital city - we are a small community and the effects of events such as this are felt by everyone - was such that there occurred a distinct Crisis of Public Confidence.

It states:It stopped the research at a time of Crisis in Public Confidence in the food and farming industries, but also in the face of increasing numbers of academic papers suggesting that it is the Ministry's own commitment to the poultry and feed industries which has slowed important reforms in the regulation of the poultry and egg business.

Their failure to do so in the past 10 years has been the principal cause of the current Crisis in Public Confidence in our beef industry.

What the Secretary of State has said about the London ambulance service shows that she greatly underestimates the scale of the Crisis in Public Confidence now besetting it.

I am sure that I do not need to remind the House of the background to the new proposals and the public concern about recent tragic cases that has given rise to a Crisis in Public Confidence about the effectiveness of community care.

My concern with the Bill is that the Government are reacting to the Crisis of Public Confidence in mental health services rather than to the crisis in those services.

Does the Minister accept that there is a Crisis in Public Confidence about care in the community policies that has culminated in today's report on the tragic toll of suicides and homicides involving severely mentally ill people?

It is that belief in certainty when there was none that contributed to the delay and inaction and which has now led to a Crisis in Public Confidence.

notes that there is no sign of a strategy from the Government upon the ad hoc restructuring of the electricity industry in which companies and billions of pounds have changed hands but consumers have become an afterthought; further notes that, as more coal pits close, there is no sign of a strategy on the effect of the renegotiation of the coal contracts in 1998 or of the take-or-pay gas contracts problem and no sign of leadership on the introduction of competition into the domestic gas and electricity supply industries in 1998, risking chaos and a Crisis of Public Confidence in competition; and calls on the Government to establish a framework to promote efficient energy industries delivering a fair deal for consumers.

4 billion, well below the Government's early estimates and proof that the sale was a bad deal for the taxpayer which was carried through in defiance of basic common sense; notes that there is no sign of a strategy from the Government upon the ad hoc restructuring of the electricity industry in which companies and billions of pounds have changed hands but consumers have become an afterthought; further notes that, as more coal pits close, there is no sign of a strategy on the effect of the renegotiation of the coal contracts in 1998 or of the take-or-pay gas contracts problem and no sign of leadership on the introduction of competition into the domestic gas and electricity supply industries in 1998, risking chaos and a Crisis of Public Confidence in competition; and calls on the Government to establish a framework to promote efficient energy industries delivering a fair deal for consumers.

We do not want to face competition chaos, which risks causing a Crisis of Public Confidence in even the idea of competition in energy markets.

If there is not exactly a Crisis of Public Confidence in that sphere, there is real concern that the civil justice system fails adequately to fulfil its role as a guarantor of people's rights.

It may be that there is a raging Crisis of Public Confidence in standards of conduct in this House.

There is a Crisis of Public Confidence in the criminal justice system.

The huge Crisis of Public Confidence in the MMR vaccine in Japan in the 1990s was caused - for want of a better description - by a rogue vaccine that would not have been licensed here either.

There was then a massive Crisis in Public Confidence, not only in the safety of beef but in the trustworthiness of official advice, a point which my right hon. Friend made recently.

She referred to the Crisis of Public Confidence in the parliamentary process.

When the Financial Times calls in a leader, as it did on 13th March 2002, for the potential "Fat Four" - a new term for your Lordships - to spin off their consultancy businesses and to be banned from doing non-audit work for audit clients, we have a deep Crisis in Public Confidence.

These things brought a Crisis in Public Confidence about the food that is available to us.

Does the Minister realise that there is a growing Crisis of Public Confidence in the fairness of speed cameras and speed traps?

Our Report amendments, however, show that we still think that the Bill still has some way to go and that, despite the progress, it represents a missed opportunity to deal with the Crisis in Public Confidence in the political system.

It is the Government's decade of inaction and neglect which has resulted in a massive Crisis of Public Confidence in Parliament itself.

I think it is important, with a Crisis of Public Confidence in the House, to bring forward this measure and address it quickly.

Urgent action was required to address an unprecedented Crisis of Public Confidence in Parliament.

In moving this Motion, I anticipate that the gratifying number and distinction of those who are to contribute is a general recognition that we face a Crisis of Public Confidence-in politics, yes, but also in Parliament in particular.

The Human Tissue Authority was set up because of a Crisis in Public Confidence.

The FSA has not only failed people but caused a Crisis in Public Confidence.

The Government's continued dogmatic refusal to correct the business model means that we are now facing a Crisis of Public Confidence in these services.

This is not just a Crisis of Public Confidence in the Union, it is also a crisis of public confidence in politics more generally.