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Debate on the Address

Queen's speech debate on Wednesday, 15 November 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton. The answering member was Tony Blair.
Queen's speech debate (first day).
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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
453 c7-119 
Session
2006-07
Department
Prime Minister
Procedure
Addresses to the Crown
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 453 c7 (Link to this contribution) Before I call the mover and seconder, I want to announce the proposed pattern of debate during the r...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 453 c18-9 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister will not be around to see this Queen’s Speech through. There is going to be a new...

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Speaker | 453 c18 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House should let the right hon. Gentleman speak. While I am on my feet, Mr. Ruane and Mr....
Michael Jabez Foster | 453 c19 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is coming to the end of his speech, so can he tell us whether he has a sing...
Alun Michael | 453 c7-9 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows:""Most Gracious Sovere...
Alun Michael | 453 c9-10 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, Mr. Speaker. Common sense is needed to complement the co-operative approach that is ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 453 c13-7 (Link to this contribution) Before I go on to comment on the proposer and seconder of the Gracious Speech, I wish to pay tribute...
Rosemary McKenna | 453 c10-3 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour and a privilege, not only for me but for my constituency, to be asked to second the ...
Rob Marris | 453 c18 (Link to this contribution) Given the right hon. Gentleman’s party’s voting record in Parliament in the past nine years on crimi...
Tony Blair | 453 c23 (Link to this contribution) Of course we collect evidence and we do bring them to trial. But for the very reason that we introdu...
John Redwood | 453 c23 (Link to this contribution) Before the Prime Minister moves on from terrorism, if the head of the security forces is right that ...
Tony Blair | 453 c22 (Link to this contribution) I think that the best answer to that was given the other day by the Iraqi Prime Minister, who said t...
David Winnick | 453 c22 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that the reason why opinion is moving away from our continued posit...
Tony Blair | 453 c20-2 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Speaker, before I come to my speech, let me just say to the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Ca...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 453 c19 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should be patient. As I have said, the only good ideas in the Queen’s Speech are ...
Tony Blair | 453 c23 (Link to this contribution) The strategy is to go when our job is done. That job is important because if we end up in a situatio...
Alex Salmond | 453 c22 (Link to this contribution) On that point, in response to the Prime Minister's video contribution to the Baker commission reasse...
Tony Blair | 453 c27 (Link to this contribution) I have been giving way quite a lot. [Interruption.] I am so generous.
Shailesh Vara | 453 c27 (Link to this contribution) As regards terrorism, written answers from the Home Office have revealed that neither the Home Offic...
Shailesh Vara | 453 c27 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister give way?
Tony Blair | 453 c28 (Link to this contribution) In that case, I am very happy to say that in respect of those people who, for example, have just bee...
Tony Blair | 453 c27-8 (Link to this contribution) This—[Interruption.] I think that that is a very poor point for the reason that I will give. The hon...
Tony Blair | 453 c28 (Link to this contribution) First, I do not know that that particular figure is correct, but, in any event, let me say to the ho...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 453 c28 (Link to this contribution) If the Government are going to act tough on terror—and rightly—can the Prime Minister explain to the...
Tony Blair | 453 c28 (Link to this contribution) I have been very generous. I am sure that there are other hon. Members who want to speak. [Interrupt...
Tony Blair | 453 c23 (Link to this contribution) I will take one more intervention and then I will have to make a bit of progress.
John Baron | 453 c23 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister for his generosity. Whilst I think most of us would accept, with regard t...
Tony Blair | 453 c23-5 (Link to this contribution) First, let me make it clear—we do not want there to be any danger of people misunderstanding the Gov...
Tony Baldry | 453 c25 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister give way?
Tony Blair | 453 c25 (Link to this contribution) Wait; I have one more. In case we have not had enough changes of policy, another of the Leader of t...
Tony Blair | 453 c26-7 (Link to this contribution) The decommissioning costs have to be met in any event. [Interruption.] We have nuclear power station...
Tony Baldry | 453 c25-6 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the Prime Minister for giving way. When John Wakeham and I privatised the elec...
Tony Blair | 453 c27 (Link to this contribution) The rules on proscription, of course, are one of the changes that we made. There is a process that h...
Michael Gove | 453 c27 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister will be aware that it has been reported that a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir is workin...
Keith Vaz | 453 c44-5 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Ho...
Alex Salmond | 453 c45 (Link to this contribution) This is an observation from an outsider to some of these issues. In the past 10 years there have bee...
Stuart Bell | 453 c40-2 (Link to this contribution) As someone who lost half his pension requirement through Equitable Life, I have every sympathy with ...
Lord Howard of Lympne | 453 c42-4 (Link to this contribution) I should like to begin by making three observations about the Prime Minister’s speech. First, togeth...
Keith Vaz | 453 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman; he is absolutely right. Obviously, there is a place for legislation...
Paul Keetch | 453 c37 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman has been to Iraq in the run-up to the war or since. I visit...
Stuart Bell | 453 c37 (Link to this contribution) I have not served in the Army, not even during military service. However, were I in the Army and lis...
Speaker | 453 c37 (Link to this contribution) Order. An intervention must be brief.
Stuart Bell | 453 c38-40 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me the opportunity to answer that point, which was to...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 453 c37-8 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is a constitutional outrage that the Prime Minister is prepare...
Graham Stuart | 453 c40 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentions pensioners, and he will have noticed that the Prime Minister made very l...
Lord Beamish | 453 c37 (Link to this contribution) I have been to Iraq four times now and have spoken first hand to troops on the ground, for whom I ha...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 453 c36 (Link to this contribution) I will allow the hon. Gentleman his attacks on my position, but I will not allow him to undermine th...
Stuart Bell | 453 c35-6 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Sir Menzies...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 453 c35 (Link to this contribution) No. I want to make some progress. Efforts to engage Syria and Iran, yes; efforts to give the United...
Lord Robathan | 453 c35 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Stuart Bell | 453 c37 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says ““Ask the soldiers.”” I do ask the soldiers. I see them. My soldiers in my c...
Stuart Bell | 453 c36 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for that clarification. He also talks about th...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 453 c33-5 (Link to this contribution) The Government’s previous proposals on detention without charge were rejected by Parliament, as was ...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 453 c33 (Link to this contribution) I gave way to the right hon. Gentleman because, from time to time, we get flashes of that intellectu...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 453 c32 (Link to this contribution) May I have an assurance that, in the discussion of the repeal of certain laws and Acts, the Honours ...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 453 c32 (Link to this contribution) No. Parliament has a duty to consider every proposal in the Queen’s Speech on its own merits. Where...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 453 c32-3 (Link to this contribution) We should remember that Lloyd George played a certain part in the gestation of that Act, but we do n...
Jack Straw | 453 c31 (Link to this contribution) Was, therefore, the BBC website inaccurate about that?
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 453 c32 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 453 c32 (Link to this contribution) It would appear so. There is no opposition to suspects being obliged to give DNA samples, just as th...
Jack Straw | 453 c31 (Link to this contribution) The BBC website—it might have been inaccurate, of course—when it reported this so-called freedom Bil...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 453 c31 (Link to this contribution) If I may say so, this is not an occasion for sectarianism. This is a remarkable parliamentary occas...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 453 c30-1 (Link to this contribution) And Helen Liddell, too. I suppose one had better say that in case one finds oneself needing consular...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 453 c30 (Link to this contribution) I begin, as is all too often necessary on these parliamentary occasions, by joining the Prime Minist...
Speaker | 453 c30 (Link to this contribution) I call Sir Menzies Campbell. [Interruption.] Order. Would hon. Members leave the Chamber quietly?
Tony Blair | 453 c29 (Link to this contribution) No, I have given up on that. It does not matter what the area of policy is, from the right hon. Gen...
Philip Davies | 453 c29 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister give way?
Tony Blair | 453 c28-9 (Link to this contribution) Let me tell the hon. Gentleman what the country will believe. The country will believe that when I f...
Roger Gale | 453 c28 (Link to this contribution) The country does not believe you.
Alex Salmond | 453 c78-80 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary is always in charge of anything he is doing. He may not be in charge for too long...
Lord Robathan | 453 c78 (Link to this contribution) The question I ask is who would want to be a judge. The law keeps changing dramatically in so many w...
Alex Salmond | 453 c78 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely correct. The cock crowed three times for Ofgem economists, who three ti...
Mike Weir | 453 c78 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend recall that he and I went to visit Ofgem to put those very points to it? We spec...
Ian Taylor | 453 c77 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is raising some interesting points that too often get forgetten—I am sorry, I hav...
Alex Salmond | 453 c77-8 (Link to this contribution) But that is not the reason for the locational charging of Ofgem. The reason is that it has calculate...
Nigel Evans | 453 c76 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the Government have missed so many targets that we can understan...
Alex Salmond | 453 c76-7 (Link to this contribution) That is an excellent point. Aha! I think my main point stands, in terms of that dramatic front page...
Rob Marris | 453 c76 (Link to this contribution) May I gently correct the hon. Gentleman on his use of language? The front page of The Independent wa...
Alex Salmond | 453 c76 (Link to this contribution) I accept the correction. I am just fascinated by the fact that when the Government have so many targ...
Alex Salmond | 453 c73-6 (Link to this contribution) I will address some of the points made by the hon. Member for West Bromwich, West (Mr. Bailey) on ca...
Adrian Bailey | 453 c70 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valuable point. The use of mobile phones, the constant changing of mobile pho...
Nigel Evans | 453 c70 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the Government will have a responsibility for keeping the public...
Tony Baldry | 453 c67 (Link to this contribution) Is it not disappointing that there is now complete chaos on the VAT issue? Ministers must have known...
David Evennett | 453 c67-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point, and it adds insult to injury that those in London must deal with ...
Adrian Bailey | 453 c68-9 (Link to this contribution) I join others in paying tribute to the former Members of the House who are no longer with us. I join...
Rob Marris | 453 c69 (Link to this contribution) Part of the difficulty the police face in respect of the dilemma of 28 days in contradistinction to ...
David Evennett | 453 c65-7 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to participate in this debate on the Queen’s Speech, the contents of which were rather ...
Ian Taylor | 453 c91-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall not answer for the Government, but my hon. Friend makes an interesting point. I shall simply...
Lord Robathan | 453 c91 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks with great knowledge on this subject. He mentioned Government hypocrisy. Will ...
Rob Marris | 453 c90 (Link to this contribution) I was not putting forward intellectual nonsense. The hon. Gentleman assumes, quite wrongly, that I a...
Ian Taylor | 453 c90 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman forgets that the most uneconomic processes are renewable energies. I had some res...
Rob Marris | 453 c89 (Link to this contribution) May I assist the hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry)? I am member of the Tr...
Ian Taylor | 453 c89 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman puts his finger precisely on the reason why the Government are behaving so hypocr...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 453 c90 (Link to this contribution) I invite the hon. Gentleman to speculate on how much further forward the renewables industry would b...
Ian Taylor | 453 c90-1 (Link to this contribution) The Government and their predecessors have invested in renewable energy. As I said, there was a non-...
Ian Taylor | 453 c90 (Link to this contribution) Nuclear did not work any less than renewables worked. Is the hon. Gentleman saying—I do not wish him...
Tony Baldry | 453 c89 (Link to this contribution) But we must consider not only the cost of building nuclear power stations, but the cost of the conti...
Ian Taylor | 453 c87-9 (Link to this contribution) I am about to come to that subject, on which the hon. Gentleman and I agree to a great extent. None ...
Ian Taylor | 453 c89 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. If we wish there to be investment in nuclear power, we cann...
Lord Beamish | 453 c80-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the mover and the seconder of the response to the Gracious Speech and associate mysel...
Speaker | 453 c85 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hope that, now that the hon. Gentleman has given us some examples, he will relate his remar...
Ian Taylor | 453 c85 (Link to this contribution) This is not a local council debate.
Lord Beamish | 453 c85-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that, but I had to sit through the drivel uttered by one of his colleagues, ...
Alex Salmond | 453 c87 (Link to this contribution) I, too, am a Prime Minister watcher and today I detected enthusiasm for a range of subjects, but I d...
Rob Marris | 453 c98-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree that that is most regrettable, and I will come to it in a moment. The midlands Environment ...
David Amess | 453 c109 (Link to this contribution) Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice—the House and the country should rejoice that this is the last time that t...
Lord Robathan | 453 c108-9 (Link to this contribution) It may be, but as one or two of my hon. Friends have said, we need more people being trained in skil...
David Amess | 453 c110 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to irritate my hon. Friend, so I will give way, just once.
Tony Baldry | 453 c102-4 (Link to this contribution) No. With respect, I know that other hon. Members want to speak. I am not sure that the Government h...
Rob Marris | 453 c102 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Robathan | 453 c104-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry), under whose chairman...
Rob Marris | 453 c92-3 (Link to this contribution) What a pleasure it is to follow that thoughtful speech from the hon. Member for Esher and Walton (Mr...
Rob Marris | 453 c97-8 (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Gentleman’s point entirely. At the weekend I saw a television programme called ““Coa...
Mike Weir | 453 c97 (Link to this contribution) I agree with much of what the hon. Gentleman is saying. The coastline has a particular problem becau...
Rob Marris | 453 c97 (Link to this contribution) As I have said in at least two speeches in the Chamber, referring specifically to Norfolk although n...
Norman Lamb | 453 c96-7 (Link to this contribution) As I walked into the Chamber, the hon. Gentleman happened to mention my constituency. We feel that w...
Rob Marris | 453 c94-6 (Link to this contribution) On one level, that is very nice for my hon. Friend; on another, it is distinctly and disturbingly wo...
Lord Beamish | 453 c94 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in my hon. Friend’s comments. Will he also note that my geraniums in North Durham ar...
Rob Marris | 453 c93-4 (Link to this contribution) I accept the point made by the hon. Gentleman, who, like me, is a member of the Trade and Industry C...
Mike Weir | 453 c93 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Chinese Government have perhaps finally begun to recognise the ...
Norman Lamb | 453 c98 (Link to this contribution) Is it not incredible that the budget this year for flood and sea defences is being cut at the very t...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 453 c114-9 (Link to this contribution) We know that the central theme of the Queen’s Speech is the terrorist threat and our security respon...
David Amess | 453 c110-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend slightly embarrasses me, because I was the first Member in the House to propose an ID...
Lord Robathan | 453 c110 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that we can keep the Minister here until 10 o’clock. I do not expect my hon. Friend to ans...
Lord Blencathra | 453 c57-8 (Link to this contribution) I cannot resist commenting that of course we in Cumbria would like some of the benefits that the peo...
Lord Beamish | 453 c58 (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with the right hon. Gentleman. Does he agree with me that the banks knew that some o...
Lord Blencathra | 453 c58 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for those comments. They lead me into my next line, as I was abo...
John Hemming | 453 c58 (Link to this contribution) The issue that particularly concerns me about Farepak is that the deposited money should have been o...
Lord Blencathra | 453 c59 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. There might be scope to attach some form of amendment to deal...
Alex Salmond | 453 c59 (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree with anything that the right hon. Gentleman says on Farepak; many of my constituen...
Lord Blencathra | 453 c59-60 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes another valid point. That matter should be investigated. However, as the DT...
David Clelland | 453 c60-2 (Link to this contribution) On looking at the Queen’s Speech, the first thought that goes through my mind is, ““Is all this legi...
Lord Beamish | 453 c62 (Link to this contribution) I am listening very carefully to what my hon. Friend has to say about the north-east, but does he ag...
David Clelland | 453 c62-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes his point well. I cannot believe that by the end of the 21st century high-spee...
Rob Marris | 453 c53 (Link to this contribution) In terms of joining up policy on immigration and housing, we need to address the huge problem, to wh...
Ken Purchase | 453 c53 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that point, to which I was going to refer briefly. Another aspect of the ...
Lord Blencathra | 453 c54 (Link to this contribution) It is a privilege to follow the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mr. Purchase). I, too, p...
Chris Ruane | 453 c54 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that, since 1986, £45,000 million has been paid in farming sub...
John Hemming | 453 c53 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman share my concerns about the system for sale of land? If one demolishes a cou...
Ken Purchase | 453 c53-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a sensible point. Tony Crosland once described housing finance as, I think,...
Lord Blencathra | 453 c56 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I will give him the other side of that equation. In the town of Penrith, we...
Alex Salmond | 453 c56-7 (Link to this contribution) I am listening with great care to the right hon. Gentleman and I sympathise greatly, representing a ...
Lord Blencathra | 453 c55 (Link to this contribution) I think that if the hon. Gentleman bothered to look at what DEFRA has been doing in the last 12 mont...
John Bercow | 453 c55-6 (Link to this contribution) Is it not illogical and invidious that the Government fail even adequately to provide for the infras...
Sammy Wilson | 453 c50 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman not illustrating a point that has been made time and again during this debate:...
Ken Purchase | 453 c50 (Link to this contribution) I take the point; I possibly laid myself open to it. The Bill that became the Fireworks Act 2003 cam...
Mike Weir | 453 c50 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. The problem with the 2003 Act was not the Act itself, but the fact ...
Ken Purchase | 453 c50 (Link to this contribution) Again, we hear the central theme that the Queen’s Speech contains too much legislation, or not enoug...
Ken Purchase | 453 c51-3 (Link to this contribution) Might I remind the hon. Gentleman that he would not even let Robin have a pencil? None the less, tha...
Ken Purchase | 453 c50 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that reminder. Newspapers and radio stations have been running phone-...
Lord Beamish | 453 c51 (Link to this contribution) I know that Wolverhampton is a unique and special place. The experience from my constituency this ye...
Ken Purchase | 453 c51 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased for my hon. Friend and his constituents, and I wish I could say the same for mine. News...
Ian Taylor | 453 c51 (Link to this contribution) I was a Trade and Industry Minister at that time. Without commenting on what the Scott report did an...
Keith Vaz | 453 c48 (Link to this contribution) That would be an excellent opportunity and I am sure that my hon. Friend would be very much part of ...
Lord Bannside | 453 c48-50 (Link to this contribution) I identify myself and my colleagues on this Bench with the sympathy that has been expressed in relat...
Stuart Bell | 453 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend intervened on me last year when I spoke on Europe in last year’s debate on the ...
Ian Taylor | 453 c86-7 (Link to this contribution) I harbour no ill will toward the hon. Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones), but listening to parts of...
Speaker | 453 c9 (Link to this contribution) Order. I read out a statement saying that hon. Members—in this case, a right hon. Member—should be h...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 453 c18 (Link to this contribution) As the Prime Minister might have said, the hon. Gentleman has been practising that one in the mirror...
Adrian Bailey | 453 c71-3 (Link to this contribution) I shall at least touch on that, but essentially I agree with the hon. Gentleman. If taxation is rela...
Lord Beamish | 453 c85 (Link to this contribution) I am, Madam Deputy Speaker, in speaking about consultation.
John Bercow | 453 c46 (Link to this contribution) Given that 60 per cent. of adult offenders are reconvicted within two years of their release from pr...
Tony Baldry | 453 c99-102 (Link to this contribution) This has been a fascinating day. The conduct of the debate has convinced me, if ever I needed convin...
Stuart Bell | 453 c37 (Link to this contribution) As they would say in a court of law, the hon. Gentleman wishes me to answer several questions at the...
John Redwood | 453 c33 (Link to this contribution) Given the need to be responsible and to make good judgments, will his party now repay the money from...
Keith Vaz | 453 c46-7 (Link to this contribution) I do think that that is an important issue, but there is the catch-all phrase at the end of the Quee...
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