Government Spending Review 2013

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Kramer, who makes the very import...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for this opportunity to contribute to this debate. I am especially ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Truro. My own remar...

My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Noakes, and I very much ag...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Higgins for raising the Open University, which re...

My Lords, I hope it will be the privilege of all of us to live long enough to see the judgment of...

My Lords, after that global tour de force from my noble friend Lord Flight I am going to focus, r...

My Lords, I should like to make a few comments in the gap. Like many people in this country, I am...

My Lords, I did not intend to participate but could not resist doing so when the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, this has been a fascinating and somewhat lopsided debate. It is my task to at least try...

Can the noble Lord remind the Committee what happened to manufacturing industry on Labour’s watch...

The very tragedy, in my view, of Labour’s watch was that it actually continued too many of the po...

I am most grateful but a little confused by what the noble Lord is saying. We have just had a rec...

My Lords, I was making a point that the noble Lord ought surely to take into account. Far from th...

Can the noble Lord, Lord Davies, confirm that, during the years of the Labour Government, job cen...

I am not well enough equipped to answer that question, nor am I quite sure of the point of the qu...

I shall try to be helpful. Like many people, I take the view that we live in a country where food...

Food banks are developing in almost every constituency in Britain because the so-called supply-dr...

My Lords, first, I thank all noble Lords for their insights, ideas and challenge. It has been a m...

What is the assumption on interest rates in calculating debt interest payments?

I thank my noble friend Lord Higgins for reminding me of that question; I was intending to deal w...

Is that the assumption that is being made?

That is the impact, but those are not the assumptions. We must consider the impacts, so the assum...