Queen’s Speech

My Lords, in 2010 the Governor of the Bank of England warned the negotiators of the coalition Gov...

My Lords, I believe that every so often an event occurs that should lead Governments to reconside...

My Lords, employment is up, the growth rate is up but, still, too many ordinary people are not ge...

My Lords:

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt,

Finds tongues in trees, books...

My Lords, I cannot possibly match the knowledge of the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of Richmond, on th...

My Lords, as someone who has campaigned on the issue of plastic bags for many years, I strongly w...

My Lords, following the gracious Speech, it is a privilege for me to take part in the debate toda...

My Lords, I will speak briefly this afternoon about one very important aspect of employment: empl...

My Lords, I am an engineer and a manufacturer—a manufacturer of construction and agricultural mac...

My Lords, it is my privilege to congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Bamford, on such an attractive ...

My Lords, as chair of the all-party group on responsible business practice, I look forward to bei...

My Lords, the Queen’s Speech promises Bills on pensions and on zero-hours contracts, or ZHCs. Wit...

My Lords, sometimes the socially and economically desirable clash head on with the environmentall...

Liberal?

A Labour Government. That was a deliberate mistake—you never know how these coalitions will be fo...

My Lords, it is one of the essential roles of any Government to ensure that the conditions are ri...

My Lords, in a long debate such as this, covering so many subjects, it is probably reassuring if ...

My Lords, I begin by thanking your Lordships for the way in which I have been welcomed and suppor...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to speak in this debate and to have heard the outstanding speech by th...

My Lords, we have been extremely fortunate to hear two of the most outstanding maiden speeches ev...

My Lords, the Queen’s Speech demonstrated the Government being dragged, I am afraid reluctantly, ...

My Lords, I shall focus on the commitment in the Queen’s Speech to,

“increase the total num...

My Lords, I start by adding my congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Bamford, and the right rev...

My Lords, this Queen’s Speech gives us an appropriate occasion to take stock, as we enter the fin...

My Lords, a week ago I enjoyed an evening with the Involvement and Participation Association, of ...

My Lords, I start with the sentence in the gracious Speech that,

“Legislation will be intro...

My Lords, when opening this debate, the Minister said that his proposed legislation would encoura...

My Lords, I follow the noble Lord, Lord Haskel, with a similar approach to the problems we are al...

My Lords, it is a great honour to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Howe of Aberavon. In th...

My Lords, I was going to apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Higgins, who I see is just leaving his...

My Lords, I am a refugee in the sense that this is the only night on which I can be present for t...

My Lords, I, too, pay tribute to the gracious Speech. It scanned the horizons of the social and e...

My Lords, in many respects the Queen’s Speech is to be welcomed, precisely for the fact that it d...

My Lords, one of the glories of these four days of debate on the Queen’s Speech is the wide-rangi...

My Lords, I shall focus my comments today on the environment. I know that the Minister who will r...

Like the noble Lord, Lord Soley, I would like to focus my remarks on the environment. The purpose...

My Lords, this year the Speech from the Throne has been a very dull affair; it is distinguished m...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my erstwhile academic colleague the noble Viscount. I want t...

My Lords, I hope that the Minister will send a copy of today’s Hansard to HM Revenue and Customs ...

My Lords, it is surprising that there is so little in the gracious Speech about employment law. D...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Turner of Camden, who speaks ...

My Lords, at this time of day, following a long, wide-ranging and absorbing debate, most of the p...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Young of Norwood Green, and what he say...

My Lords, I, too, want to comment on the bits missing from the gracious Speech. I shall speak to ...

My Lords, before I turn to the centrepiece of the gracious Speech’s measures, I would like to say...

My Lords, I start by congratulating the two excellent maiden speakers. The noble Lord, Lord Bamfo...

My Lords, I thank our two maiden speakers today, my

noble fr...