Lords debate on motion to call attention to the report to the Prime Minister Common Sense Common Safety on the operation of health and safety laws and the growth of the compensation culture. Motion withdrawn.
Health and Safety: Common Sense Common Safety
Debate on Thursday, 25 November 2010,
in the House of Lords,
led by Lord Young of Graffham.
The answering
member was Lord Freud.
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Faulks | 722 c1188-90 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it has become something of a convention in maiden speeches to acknowledge the friendliness...
Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 722 c1187-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate and to mention something w...
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Baroness Donaghy | 722 c1185-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to debate this subject. As author of a report for the previous G...
Lord Sugar | 722 c1182-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Young, for having initiated this debate. I am sure t...
Lord Black of Brentwood | 722 c1194-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am delighted not only that we have an opportunity of an early debate on my noble friend’...
Lord Jordan | 722 c1192-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare an interest as president and a trustee of RoSPA, whose mission is to save lives ...
Lord Black of Brentwood | 722 c1195 (Link to this contribution)
It seems to me, my Lords, that that would be an admirable way forward. The Jackson report has had wi...
Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 722 c1195 (Link to this contribution)
Can I ask the noble Lord to comment on the proposal in the Jackson report to replace conditional fee...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 722 c1190-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is my privilege to pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Faulks for what I believe to hav...
Baroness Turner of Camden | 722 c1196-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. The report is interesting, althoug...
Lord Taverne | 722 c1197-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I greatly welcome the balanced report of the noble Lord, Lord Young, as well as his declar...
Lord Ramsbotham | 722 c1179-80 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Young, on initiating this debate and I welcome his rep...
Lord German | 722 c1177-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Young for his report and, in particular, for the wide range o...
Lord Bhattacharyya | 722 c1175-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I begin by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Young, for securing this debate. In politics, it ...
Lord Young of Graffham | 722 c1172-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it has been some 21 years since I last opened a debate in your Lordships' House. Over thes...
Lord Young of Graffham | 722 c1172 (Link to this contribution)
To call attention to the report to the Prime Minister Common Sense Common Safety on the operation of...
Lord Brougham and Vaux | 722 c1184-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, thank my noble friend for introducing this important debate and I declare my vario...
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 722 c1180-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, Members of the House may be aware that I chair a task force looking into the red-tape burd...
Lord Monson | 722 c1199-201 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I join other noble Lords in congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Young, on what I found to ...
Lord Smith of Finsbury | 722 c1206-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I begin by declaring my interest as chairman of the Advertising Standards Authority and pa...
Viscount Younger of Leckie | 722 c1204-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I warmly welcome this debate and the report produced by my noble friend Lord Young of Graf...
Lord Haskel | 722 c1203-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Young, has done us a great service by bringing a common-sense approac...
Lord Skelmersdale | 722 c1201-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as a result of my noble friend Lord Young’s introduction to this debate, it seems to me we...
Lord Freud | 722 c1215-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Young, on his work in investigating the concerns about...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 722 c1212-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Young, for his overdue visit to our House and for introducing...
Lord Rooker | 722 c1210-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare my interest as chair of the board of the Food Standards Agency. I do not speak f...
Lord Vinson | 722 c1207-10 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I join other noble Lords in congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Young, on introducing this...
Lord Skelmersdale | 722 c1218 (Link to this contribution)
Does that require legislation?
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 722 c1219 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, perhaps I may draw the attention of my noble friend to the fact that 100,000 people in thi...
Lord Freud | 722 c1219 (Link to this contribution)
I fully accept the concern of noble Lords on that issue and, as I say, we will push this point. In c...
Lord Freud | 722 c1218-9 (Link to this contribution)
My noble friend will forgive me for not being able to answer him off the top of my head. I am not ab...
Lord Young of Graffham | 722 c1219-20 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the House for this contribution to discussion on health and safety. I wil...
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