Parliamentary search - Queen’s Speech

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

706 c398-480

Session

2008-09

Department

Department for Transport
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Communities and Local Government
Department of Energy and Climate Change

Procedure

Addresses to the Crown

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding 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...

Earl of Selborne | 706 c468 (Link to this contribution) Three.

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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