Economy: Growth

My Lords, I am a simple lad. Can the noble Lord tell me what the difference is between his party’...

The figure of £2 billion was purely for illustrative purposes; it was a simple number. I thought ...

My Lords, I join the noble Lord, Lord Eatwell, in welcoming the noble Lord, Lord Deighton, to the...

My Lords, I join with other Members of the House in congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Deighton,...

The noble Lord mentioned a point of history. Of course, American unemployment fell very rapidly i...

No. President Roosevelt initiated back to work programmes—that is true—but the private sector, th...

My Lords, I, too, would like to congratulate the Minister on his leading role in a brilliantly su...

My Lords, I also welcome the Minister and am pleased to see a fellow businessman on the governmen...

My Lords, I am afraid to say—yet another businessman. It is getting rather dangerous. In many cas...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Mitchell. I just wonder whether he is a...

The noble Lord mentioned that we are devaluing the pound but nothing is happening. Why is that? D...

I have been saying for the past 15 minutes that we need to create an environment in which our bus...

It is a pleasure to follow the keenly felt and eloquent speech of the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth. I...

My Lords, I join in warmly welcoming my noble friend Lord Deighton to his Front Bench responsibil...

My Lords, like other noble Lords, I welcome and congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Deighton. His p...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Barnett, who has often been a distingui...

I most grateful to my noble friend for giving way. I wonder whether I might tempt him on this ver...

My noble friend is absolutely right. That is one of the possible solutions and I hope that it is ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Lang, for mentioning the pensions issue which is ...

My Lords, I remember coming to this country as a boy in the 1970s, when my father was posted here...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bilimoria, because he always int...

My Lords, I, too, welcome the noble Lord, Lord Deighton. I must also express my condolences to hi...

My Lords, I welcome this opportunity to discuss the UK economy and the Government’s role in promo...

My Lords, I also welcome the Minister to the Front Bench and thank the Government for this import...

My Lords, I am very grateful to have the chance once again to contribute to a debate on what has ...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Lord on his new appointment. I am afraid I was out of to...

My Lords, when the noble Lord, Lord Desai, joined this House in 1991, I always found myself speak...

My Lords, I add my rather hoarse voice to other speakers, who, almost to a man, congratulated my ...

My Lords, I begin by adding my voice to the many expressions of congratulation and welcome which ...

My Lords, the Minister is going to be tired of being welcomed to his new role, but let me join wi...

My Lords, this has been a most fascinating debate, which has covered a wide range of issues and i...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for the serial welcome. It was very kind of noble Lords to reco...

I am most grateful to my noble friend. Before he leaves quantitative easing, will he answer the q...

I thank my noble friend for reminding me about unwinding quantitative easing. In summary, the cen...

Before the Minister sits down, may I thank him for his answer to me that the interest rate paid b...

I thank the noble Lord for the follow-up question. The scheme which we have employed to encourage...

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