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Queen's Speech

Queen's speech debate on Wednesday, 2 June 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Wilcox. The answering member was Lord Myners.
Lords debate on Queen's speech (fourth day) on business and economic affairs, environment, energy, agriculture and transport.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
719 c268-364 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Deposited Paper DEP2010-1314
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Deposited papers
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Lord Myners | 719 c272-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, on her appointment to governmen...
Baroness Wilcox | 719 c269-72 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great privilege to open this debate on Her Majesty’s gracious Speech. I thank my n...

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Lord Low of Dalston | 719 c304-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, and I, too, welcome the Ministers ...
Lord Moynihan | 719 c306-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I warmly welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, to her portfolio and congratulate both h...
Lord Truscott | 719 c308-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I also congratulate the Minister on her well deserved appointment. As Energy Minister in t...
Lord Monson | 719 c293-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the gracious Speech emphasised the Government’s commitment to freedom, fairness and respon...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 719 c296-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that the right reverend Prelate will forgive me if I do not follow on from his spee...
Bishop of Ripon and Leeds | 719 c295-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I first acknowledge the need so well expressed in the coalition document and the gracious ...
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay | 719 c299-301 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that was a sparkling and penetrating speech. I am sure that if the noble Lord, Lord Myners...
Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan | 719 c297-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I follow the noble Lord who, in other circumstances, I would call a friend, but that word ...
Lord Whitty | 719 c302-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a wide-ranging debate and I intend to say a few sentences about every area of it. ...
Lord Higgins | 719 c301-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Wilcox on her speech and on her appointment. I am sorr...
Lord Haskel | 719 c290-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, congratulate noble Lords opposite. I wish them every success. I also welcome the f...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 719 c292-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I too welcome the Minister to her new post and look forward to working with new-found prof...
Baroness Byford | 719 c288-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am greatly privileged and highly delighted to rise to my feet on this side of the Chambe...
Lord Lyell of Markyate | 719 c289-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am glad to follow my noble friend Lady Byford, and warmly to congratulate my noble frien...
Bishop of Wakefield | 719 c280-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on behalf of these Benches, I, too, congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, on her n...
Lord Bilimoria | 719 c278-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the Minister on her appointment. We have all witnessed the hard work that s...
Lord Oxburgh | 719 c286-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, welcome the noble Baroness and the noble Lord in their new roles on the government...
Lord Teverson | 719 c285-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I also congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, on her appointment to the Government....
Lord Bhattacharyya | 719 c283-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I offer my congratulations to the new Government, and to the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, ...
Lord Lawson of Blaby | 719 c282-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate, who speaks with such authorit...
Lord Skidelsky | 719 c321-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the Minister, the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, on her appointment to her im...
Lord Desai | 719 c319-21 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall miss my noble friend Lord Myners and the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, but I welcom...
Bishop of Liverpool | 719 c316-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, thanks to the Benches opposite, the United Kingdom has established its reputation on the w...
Lord Broers | 719 c314-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, take great pleasure in congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, and the nob...
Lord Bradshaw | 719 c313-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am going to speak about the bus and rail industries, in which I have no financial intere...
Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 719 c311-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, extend my warmest congratulations to new Ministers and wish them well in their rol...
Lord Marlesford | 719 c310-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in 1966, Iain Macleod said of George Brown: ""There is a society for being nice about Mr B...
Viscount Eccles | 719 c322-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Skidelsky, has entertained us with much the same thesis on a number o...
Lord Hunt of Chesterton | 719 c323-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, congratulate the coalition on its pragmatic pro-European and pro-nuclear policy. I...
Lord Jones | 719 c334-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for her exposition of coalition policy and wish her well in her department. It ...
Lord Ryder of Wensum | 719 c333-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate my noble friends on the Front Bench and pay full tribute to the skills of t...
Lord Lea of Crondall | 719 c337 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way in his last minute. When he referred to the banks, I ...
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach | 719 c335-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow a fellow Welshman with such an intimate knowledge of the ...
Lord Selsdon | 719 c328-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, over the years that I have been in this House, I have found myself more and more confused ...
Duke of Montrose | 719 c327-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Parliament now has a coalition, which, with any luck, will guide the policies of the Unite...
Lord Greaves | 719 c331-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, wish the new Ministers the best of luck, which they will need, and success in thei...
Lord Lea of Crondall | 719 c330-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should like to address my remarks to social cohesion in the developing government scenar...
Lord Smith of Clifton | 719 c325-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Wilcox for introducing today's debate on the gracious Speech....
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach | 719 c337 (Link to this contribution) This is a complex subject, and we do not have time tonight to deal with it in detail. Clearly, we ne...
Lord Plumb | 719 c348-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join the other 47 speakers in offering my congratulations and good wishes to my noble fr...
Lord Giddens | 719 c347-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that I am number 47 in line to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, on he...
Earl of Caithness | 719 c346-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, congratulate my noble friends on their appointment as Ministers, particularly my n...
Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 719 c344-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall come to my noble friend Lady Wilcox in a moment. First, once upon a time, the nobl...
Lord Birt | 719 c343-4 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the noble Lord will allow me to move to the end of my remarks and hear my argument in full. ...
Lord Lea of Crondall | 719 c343 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord makes play of a very interesting point about the recession-related deficit—in other w...
Lord Birt | 719 c342-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I share the universal delight in the ascent of the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, who during...
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall | 719 c340-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by joining in the congratulations that have been offered to the two new Ministers....
Lord Bates | 719 c339-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a privilege to follow my noble friend. I was reminded that the paragraph in the grac...
Earl of Glasgow | 719 c337-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is encouraging to learn from the gracious Speech that the Government are still committe...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 719 c356-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, rise, after some time, to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, on her app...
Lord Newby | 719 c355-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like all other noble Lords, I begin by congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, and...
Lord Lea of Crondall | 719 c361 (Link to this contribution) It is an important question. Perhaps the Minister could write to me and put his reply in the Library...
Lord Henley | 719 c359-61 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it has been quite a long time since my noble friend Lady Wilcox opened the debate, since w...
Lord Myners | 719 c361 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for allowing me to ask just one small question. It is clear that the s...
Lord Henley | 719 c361 (Link to this contribution) That is a question that the noble Lord will have to put to the previous Government, who saw it rise ...
Lord Henley | 719 c361-2 (Link to this contribution) The forecasts of the OBR, as I made clear, will be independent. It is for it to make those independe...
Lord Rana | 719 c350-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, add my best wishes and congratulations to the ministerial team. They have a challe...
Baroness Kingsmill | 719 c353-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the hour is late and the debate has been long. I am the 52nd speaker, so I am not kidding ...
Lord James of Blackheath | 719 c351-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, by this hour of the evening I had confidently been expecting to rip up my speech on the gr...
Lord Henley | 719 c362-4 (Link to this contribution) I remind the House for its amusement that the second occasion on which the noble Lord was sacked, or...
Lord Reay | 719 c318-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, although they are not present, I pay tribute and express my thanks to the Ministers with w...
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