Lords debate on Queen's speech (fifth day) on local government, equality, transport, agriculture and the environment.
Queen’s Speech
Queen's speech debate on Wednesday, 10 December 2008,
in the House of Lords,
led by Baroness Andrews.
The answering
member was Baroness Warsi.
About these Parliamentary proceedings
Reference
706 c398-480Session
2008-09Department
Department for TransportDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Communities and Local Government
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamberProceeding contributions
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 706 c415 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, surely I can venture a little way towards the unitary local government issue.
Baroness Shephard of Northwold | 706 c415 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall focus on agriculture, particularly food security. I see that the Minister who will...
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Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 706 c417-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pity that the Government’s business managers decided to group equality together wi...
Baroness Shephard of Northwold | 706 c415-6 (Link to this contribution)
The noble Lord may enjoy responding to what I am about to say.
During debates on the gracious Speec...
Bishop of Chester | 706 c419-22 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I wish to speak on the environment. I confess at the outset to having had real difficulty ...
Lord Mawson | 706 c422-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome the Government’s proposals in the gracious Speech to bring forward legislation t...
Lord Parekh | 706 c425-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall begin with an apology. Although I have a very bad throat, I put my name down to sp...
Lord Patel of Bradford | 706 c427 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I should be grateful if noble Lords could keep to the eight minutes allocated to speeches;...
Earl of Mar and Kellie | 706 c427-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I put my name down to speak today in the mistaken belief that there would be a transport B...
Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick | 706 c429-31 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have been keen to speak on this dimension of the gracious Speech. In particular, I shall...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 706 c470-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I begin by declaring my interest as a farmer and grower and this evening I should like to ...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 706 c472 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am delighted to stand corrected. I misunderstood because of what the noble Lord’s collea...
Lord Teverson | 706 c468-70 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I do apologise. Still, I was surprised that there were not more.
My noble friend Lord Gre...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 706 c475 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, and I apologise for interrupting him. I made...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 706 c475-80 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I was coming to that. The noble Lord is absolutely right about the need for appropriate su...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 706 c472-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we are unequivocally so, and I shall elaborate on that. I am sorry if the noble Lord misun...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 706 c473-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this has been an excellent debate, which has ranged widely, as the noble Lord, Lord Tevers...
Lord Smith of Leigh | 706 c438-40 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I intend to concentrate on two aspects of the gracious Speech—on the snappily titled Bill ...
Lord Tope | 706 c440-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I begin by declaring some interests. For over 34 years I have been a councillor in the Lon...
Lord Greaves | 706 c434-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we are almost halfway through the list of speakers in this interesting debate. As with all...
Earl of Selborne | 706 c436-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall follow the theme introduced by the noble Lord, Lord Soley, and the right reverend ...
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 706 c431-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall contribute to the debate on the housing proposals in the gracious Speech. In doing...
Lady Saltoun of Abernethy | 706 c451-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am going to speak about something very important which was not mentioned in the Queen’s ...
Baroness Thomas of Walliswood | 706 c449-51 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a privilege, and it is rather frightening, to follow that brilliant, humane and thou...
Baroness Young of Hornsey | 706 c444-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall focus on the equality Bill. As has been noted, it is appropriate that we examine t...
Lord Whitty | 706 c442-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the Minister made a pretty good fist of imposing a degree of coherence on this debate, but...
Baroness Byford | 706 c456-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, before making my contribution to this debate, I wish to compliment the noble Lord, Lord Ro...
Viscount Simon | 706 c458-60 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, having listened to noble Lords’ speeches, I think that on reflection I could have spoken y...
Baroness Greengross | 706 c460-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, I declare an interest and welcome...
Lord Graham of Edmonton | 706 c462-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate the Minister on successfully embracing all the topics that form this debate...
Lord Watson of Richmond | 706 c452-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the gracious Speech contains the assurance of, "““measures to protect the environment for ...
Baroness Billingham | 706 c454-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome the Government’s determination to give greater powers to local government and lo...
Lord Berkeley | 706 c466-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, apologise for not being here at the start of the debate today. I wish to address m...
Baroness Prashar | 706 c464-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am sorry that I was unable to be here for the opening speech. I am afraid that my best l...
Lord Teverson | 706 c468 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this has been quite a long debate—although slightly shorter than I thought it would be at ...
Baroness Andrews | 706 c398-404 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure to open today’s debate on the gracious Speech. I am particularly pleased ...
Baroness Warsi | 706 c404-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews, for opening the debate and I look forward to hea...
Lord Soley | 706 c410-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I would like to speak today mainly about the environment and transport. In that context, I...
Bishop of Southwark | 706 c413-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will focus on the proposed equality legislation. Since the introduction of the first ant...
Lord Mitchell | 706 c447-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I struggled with the problem of whether my speech would fit into this evening’s debate, as...
Baroness Hamwee | 706 c407-10 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too thank the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews. I look forward to continuing to work with h...
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