Lords debate on Queen's speech (fourth day) on business and economic affairs, environment, energy, agriculture and transport.
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.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
719 c268-364 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for TransportDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Treasury
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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.
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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 Desai | 719 c362 (Link to this contribution)
I was sacked.
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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