Queen’s Speech

Could my noble friend tell the House how much extra revenue the Government are receiving in taxat...

My Lords, I know that the amount is substantial, but I do not have the particular figure to hand....

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her introduction to the gracious Speech and send our good wish...

My Lords, let me take this opportunity to join in the many thanks to Her Majesty the Queen and ex...

My Lords, I declare my interest as co-chair of Peers for the Planet. I will speak mainly on issue...

My Lords, in view of the limited time to discuss the economy, I shall concentrate on inflation an...

My Lords, the Queen’s Speech contained no emergency measures to address the cost of living crisis...

Could the noble Baroness bring her comments to a close, please?

Sorry. Okay, well, the FCA’s new consumer duty and consumer vulnerability guidance concentrates o...

It is a huge honour to be able to address your Lordships’ House today. I thank noble Lords for ki...

My Lords, it is a huge pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Edmundsbury...

My Lords, it is an honour to follow the noble Lord, Lord Howell of Guildford. As a member of Peer...

My Lords, the gracious Speech in Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee year starts with the Government...

My Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the register of interests, particularly to my partnersh...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hunt. I will make some remarks on the m...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a director of Aldustria Ltd, which is into battery storage. We...

My Lords, I declare my membership of Peers for the Planet and I shall speak chiefly to my amendme...

My Lords, I am tempted to start by saying that, for the last three or four speeches I have made i...

2050.

2050—I am just 100 years out. Even if we get to that, a lot of countries in the world will not. T...

The Government

“will drive economic growth to improve living standards and fund sustainable...

My Lords, the spectre of stagflation is a stark reminder of the need to generate real economic gr...

My Lords, I agree entirely with what my noble friend has just said about the imperative of drivin...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Young. I agree with what he said on roa...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, and the noble Barones...

My Lords, as others have remarked, the spectre of stagflation now stalks our country. The make-be...

My Lords, I identify with the comments on constitutional matters led by the noble and learned Lor...

My Lords, we know that the most vulnerable in our society are in for a very rough ride in the nex...

My Lords, I feel that the circumstances in which this debate is being held are rather like those ...

My Lords, I very much welcome the commitment in the Queen’s Speech to introduce an energy securit...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to speak on the humble Address to Her Majesty’s speech, and it i...

My Lords, first, I must declare my interest as a non-practising member of the Institute and Facul...

My Lords, I look forward to debating the forthcoming energy Bill. Once again, it looks set to be ...

My Lords, I share many of the hopes for our economy expressed in the gracious Speech, but that is...

My Lords, as many noble Lords have said, the UK economy is clearly in difficulties. In economic t...

My Lords, the Queen’s Speech provides little guidance as to how the Government intend to tackle t...

The noble Lord has just passed the advisory time limit of five minutes in any case.

In that case I will bring my remarks to a close now.

6.33 pm

My Lords, it is a pleasure to take part in this debate on the gracious Speech and, in doing so, I...

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate on Her Majesty’s gracious Spe...

My Lords, I follow my noble friends Lady Donaghy, Lord Monks and Lord Haskel in regretting that t...

My Lords, I declare my interests as a rural business owner in Wales, as a committee member of His...

My Lords, I will speak briefly on three issues. The first is the economy, the second is financial...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Sikka, and particularly the noble Lord, L...

My Lords, I am sorry that I cannot follow the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, down the path of Welsh aff...

My Lords, I want to talk about what must, alongside defence, be the most important concern of any...

My Lords, as other noble Lords have already said, there was no mention of the Government’s much...

My Lords, it would be hard to argue that this Queen’s Speech has sufficient urgency to deal with ...

My Lords, my background being related to employment matters, I will first comment on the economy ...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my Whip, especially when I agreed with almost everythi...

I shall concentrate my remarks today on the energy sector and the Government’s plan as outlined i...

My Lords, I will focus my remarks on an issue that is so pivotal to the economy that our failure ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Shinkwin, who has just delivered a thou...

My Lords, as speaker number 49, I realise that we are now galloping into the last straight. As Gr...

My Lords, when I think of all Britain’s success stories over the years, it is hard to look at our...

My Lords, I congratulate the right reverend Prelate on an excellent maiden speech. I spent five h...

My Lords, Her Majesty’s gracious Speech is full of good intentions. The first paragraph states th...

My Lords, I do not for one moment underestimate the herculean difficulty of planning to achieve n...

My Lords, I welcome the right reverend Prelate to this House, and I look forward to hearing more ...

My Lords, by my calculations I was due to speak in five minutes, so we have all done incredibly w...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to speak in the debate on Her Majesty’s gracious Speech. I congr...

My Lords, the economy, energy and the environment are three of the biggest challenges that we as ...

My Lords, as always, it has been a great pleasure to hear so many varied and valuable contributio...

I hesitate to interrupt my noble friend, but I asked my noble friend Lady Penn how much the Gover...

Of course there will be other increases in the likes of VAT and other taxes, which are estimated ...

It sounds as if my noble friend is coming to the end of his very good speech. I actually asked wh...

We hope that it will do. Of course the market is in turmoil at the moment, but the noble Lord rig...

I apologise, but my questions were about wave power as well as tide power. It would be very helpf...

We are funding a number of innovative projects—from memory, I think that there was one in the Sco...

I appreciate the Minister giving way and the time constraints. I asked some specific questions on...

I will be happy to write to the noble Lord, as always. I seem to write lots of letters to the nob...

Tabled by

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

My Lords, I thank the many noble Lords from all sides of your Lordships’ House who have raised th...