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Queen's speech debate on Thursday, 19 May 2005, in the House of Commons, led by Alan Johnson. The answering member was Lord Willetts.

Industry and the Environment

Queen's speech debate (third day) on industry and the environment.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
434 c283-389 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department of Trade and Industry
Procedure
Addresses to the Crown
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Nia Griffith | 434 c321-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make my maiden speech during this debate on the ...
Stephen Hammond | 434 c318-21 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Judy Mallaber), who gave us a clear expos...
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Baroness Ussher | 434 c297-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for the opportunity to make my maiden speech so early in the new Parliament ...
John Hemming | 434 c366-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to make my first speech. I congratulate my hon....
Julia Goldsworthy | 434 c360-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my maiden speech. I add my cong...
Danny Alexander | 434 c363-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to make my maiden speech in this House today. I s...
Tobias Ellwood | 434 c345-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to participate in the Queen’s Speech debate. It is an honour to fo...
David Howarth | 434 c341-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make my first speech to the House. I hope that th...
Robert Flello | 434 c343-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Cambridge (David Howarth) and, indeed, other hon. Members on maki...
Anne Snelgrove | 434 c329-31 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to make my maiden speech today, and I congr...
Speaker | 434 c312 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the hon. Gentleman, who is experienced in the ways of the House, of the importance o...
Alan Johnson | 434 c284-5 (Link to this contribution) We have taken millions of low-paid workers out of tax altogether. As a result, statistics show that ...
John Bercow | 434 c284 (Link to this contribution) I do not dispute what the right hon. Gentleman has just said. However, may I invite him, in the name...
Alan Johnson | 434 c285 (Link to this contribution) I certainly accept my hon. Friend’s congratulations. The minimum wage was introduced with great deft...
Andrew Miller | 434 c285 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend join me in welcoming the recently announced increase in the minimum wage, ...
Alan Johnson | 434 c285-6 (Link to this contribution) The fact that we have such a problem with basic literacy and numeracy among many adults is a result ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 434 c285 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the Secretary of State on his new job. He will be aware of the recent employmen...
Alan Johnson | 434 c286 (Link to this contribution) I was reading that soundbite only this morning. As the father of a four-and-a-half-year-old child, I...
John Bercow | 434 c286 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State cannot get away with his response to my hon. Friend the Member for Cotswold (...
Alan Johnson | 434 c286-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to become embroiled in an education debate, but let me make it absolutely clear that w...
Julian Lewis | 434 c286 (Link to this contribution) Before we leave this point, may I add that we cannot just blame society when people at the Qualifica...
Alan Johnson | 434 c284 (Link to this contribution) It is still the case that we are determined to maintain the opt-out, and we believe that we have the...
Lord Bellingham | 434 c283-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on his appointment. Does he recall that when he was a Minister...
Alan Johnson | 434 c283 (Link to this contribution) It is a delight to be opening the debate on the Gracious Speech this morning, and to be debating ind...
Richard Burden | 434 c289 (Link to this contribution) My constituency and that of the hon. Member for Bromsgrove (Miss Kirkbride) cover different parts of...
Richard Burden | 434 c289 (Link to this contribution) Well, we shall sort out the relevant quote a little later, or next week. I pay tribute to the Govern...
Alan Johnson | 434 c289 (Link to this contribution) I am visiting the west midlands next Tuesday to meet all the people involved in this matter. The hon...
Julie Kirkbride | 434 c289 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Secretary of State will not conclude his remarks without speaking about Rover, where...
Alan Johnson | 434 c290-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the right hon. Gentleman to his new position. I can confirm the first part of his question...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c290 (Link to this contribution) Before the Secretary of State moves on, will he now admit to the House that carbon dioxide emissions...
Andrew Miller | 434 c293 (Link to this contribution) : The hon. Gentleman is aware that my constituency is a significant manufacturing centre. As such, r...
Lord Willetts | 434 c292-3 (Link to this contribution) I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Member’s Interests. I welcome the Secre...
Damian Green | 434 c287 (Link to this contribution) While the Secretary of State is still feeling proud of his record, can he confirm that in 2002 green...
Alan Johnson | 434 c287 (Link to this contribution) I know that the right hon. Gentleman chaired the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in th...
Michael Jack | 434 c287 (Link to this contribution) Secondly, why have transport emissions continued to rise, seemingly without any brakes being applied...
Michael Jack | 434 c287 (Link to this contribution) With all that the Secretary of State has said, and acknowledging that the Prime Minister attaches gr...
Alan Johnson | 434 c288-9 (Link to this contribution) I trudged the streets as a postman for 13 years, and I found out yesterday that I now own 59,999 sha...
John Grogan | 434 c288 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend mentions sustainable businesses. Given the importance attached by the Prime Min...
Norman Baker | 434 c288 (Link to this contribution) We propose a carbon tax, which is far more effective in tackling climate change than a climate chang...
Alan Johnson | 434 c287-8 (Link to this contribution) For various reasons that the hon. Gentleman may be aware of, there was an increase over those two ye...
Michael Jack | 434 c324-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Llanelli (Nia Griffith) on her maiden speech. Wales is the heart ...
Judy Mallaber | 434 c314-8 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow a fellow officer of the all-party clothing, textiles and footwear group and I...
Nicholas Winterton | 434 c312-4 (Link to this contribution) May I say, Madam Deputy Speaker, how courteous you are and how appropriate it is for you to repriman...
Nicholas Winterton | 434 c309-12 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Andrew Miller) because he an...
Michael Jack | 434 c326-9 (Link to this contribution) I was about to come to that. The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the EU-Mercosur regional trade ag...
Damian Green | 434 c305 (Link to this contribution) While he is extolling the virtues of wind power, would the hon. Gentleman care to list the number of...
Norman Baker | 434 c304-5 (Link to this contribution) That is something of a side issue, but I shall try to deal with it. [Hon. Members: ““It is not a sid...
Norman Baker | 434 c305-6 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman is giving a commitment that no Conservative council will fo...
Brian Iddon | 434 c304 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman tell us what is the Liberal Democrat policy on nuclear fusion, as distinct f...
Norman Baker | 434 c304 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that there are necessarily any long-term solutions. What I do accept is the Brudtlan...
Andrew Miller | 434 c306-7 (Link to this contribution) I can say unequivocally that I agree with the hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker) on one point: his...
Norman Baker | 434 c308 (Link to this contribution) We are not anti-science. We are anti-nuclear.
Andrew Miller | 434 c308-9 (Link to this contribution) The idea that cutting back fusion research is not an attack on the foundation of Britain’s scientifi...
Lord Willetts | 434 c296-7 (Link to this contribution) I am pressing the Government for a clear statement on not only their policy but the way in which the...
Norman Baker | 434 c303 (Link to this contribution) I certainly accept the argument that the Clinton Administration did not do enough—although they did ...
Damian Green | 434 c302-3 (Link to this contribution) : I share some of the hon. Gentleman’s views on the current American Administration’s environment po...
Norman Baker | 434 c299-302 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Burnley (Kitty Ussher) on an excellent maiden speech. She was elo...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c303 (Link to this contribution) : His constituency was not one of the Liberal Democrats’ targets.
John Bercow | 434 c303 (Link to this contribution) : Further to what my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Damian Green) just said, does the hon. Gent...
Norman Baker | 434 c303 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to see the hon. Gentleman back in Parliament.
Michael Jack | 434 c304 (Link to this contribution) : Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that, with the advent of the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency, a ...
Nicholas Winterton | 434 c294 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend refers to manufacturing. The fall that he highlights is both accurate and depressing,...
Lord Willetts | 434 c293-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall be reviewing all our policies affecting the Department of Trade and Industry, and we want pu...
Adrian Bailey | 434 c294 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman spoke about the biggest drop in manufacturing for a decade. Obviously, that takes...
Lord Willetts | 434 c294 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The statistics across the piece show an economic slowdown, and it was consp...
Lord Willetts | 434 c294-5 (Link to this contribution) If one looks at manufacturing and manufacturing employment overall, one sees that, under this Govern...
Michael Jack | 434 c295 (Link to this contribution) : Did my hon. Friend notice the Secretary of State trying to position the United Kingdom economy by ...
Lord Willetts | 434 c295 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a good point. The British economy’s productivity performance has barely m...
John Bercow | 434 c295 (Link to this contribution) : My hon. Friend referred to a missed public service agreement target, the significance of which oug...
Lord Willetts | 434 c295-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and Conservative Members will continue to hold the Government to account fo...
Norman Baker | 434 c296 (Link to this contribution) : I entirely agree with the proposition that parties should make clear their intentions before the e...
Lord Garnier | 434 c359-60 (Link to this contribution) Exactly. What more can I offer the right hon. Lady, especially as I now want to talk about Nottingha...
Lord Garnier | 434 c359 (Link to this contribution) Let me introduce a culture change for the right hon. Lady. I thought that she campaigned on the slog...
Speaker | 434 c373 (Link to this contribution) Oliver Heald. Sorry, Oliver Letwin.
John Hemming | 434 c368-9 (Link to this contribution) Exactly. A single currency in 800 rather than in 2000. Members may not be aware of another interest...
Norman Lamb | 434 c369-73 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Yardley (John Hemming) on a fine and assure...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c357 (Link to this contribution) I have heard such moans from Conservative Members on a number of occasions. Anyone who has been here...
Lord Garnier | 434 c358 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is Chairman of the Procedure Committee and a man of immense parliamentary experience....
Baroness Beckett | 434 c358 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Lord Garnier | 434 c358-9 (Link to this contribution) May I finish my sentence first? I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c359 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. and learned Gentleman. I do not intend to detain the House with any furthe...
Lord Garnier | 434 c357-8 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to be criticised when that criticism is justified and based on fact. For the right hon. L...
John Bercow | 434 c358 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. and learned Friend recall that, in the last Parliament and the one that preceded it, it...
Lord Garnier | 434 c358 (Link to this contribution) In so far as my hon. Friend’s point is a point that I have already made, I agree with it. As for his...
Harry Cohen | 434 c349 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Bournemouth, East (Mr. Ellwood) on his impressive speech. The las...
Lord Garnier | 434 c353-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for being called in the Queen’s Speech debate. May I dare say, however, that this Quee...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c357 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Harry Cohen | 434 c349-53 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes his point. The Opposition have needed lessons in opposition since 1997. I ...
Lord Garnier | 434 c357 (Link to this contribution) May I just finish this sentence? I will then, of course, give way to the right hon. Lady, because I ...
Damian Green | 434 c331-4 (Link to this contribution) It is my first and delightful duty to congratulate the hon. Member for South Swindon (Anne Snelgrove...
Bernard Jenkin | 434 c334 (Link to this contribution) I am new to the shadow energy portfolio, but precisely what is required to resolve the question of n...
Damian Green | 434 c334 (Link to this contribution) It is a bit of both, to be frank. We know that the technical problems have been solved by other coun...
Norman Baker | 434 c334 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman leaves nuclear power, may I ask him about the economics? In the late 1980s...
Damian Green | 434 c334-6 (Link to this contribution) The temptation to make future party policy from the Back Benches is almost irresistible, but I will ...
John Bercow | 434 c336 (Link to this contribution) The Government have consistently shifted their ground on the arguments for identity cards. Does my h...
Damian Green | 434 c336-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an especially powerful point. Few are as eloquent as he in expressing any point...
John Bercow | 434 c339-40 (Link to this contribution) : Given that a former Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, the right hon. Member for North Tyn...
Adrian Bailey | 434 c337-9 (Link to this contribution) I should like to start by welcoming the maiden speeches of my hon. Friends the Members for Burnley (...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c388-9 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely conscious of how grave the problem is. As the hon. Gentleman knows, the Government’s ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 434 c388 (Link to this contribution) I have been patiently waiting to see whether the Secretary of State would raise the issue of bovine ...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c386-8 (Link to this contribution) A policy commitment there, perhaps, and so early in our Parliament! I am sure that my right hon. Fri...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c386 (Link to this contribution) I am immensely grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way and for listening rather more caref...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c388 (Link to this contribution) I will do what I can. If I can meet the hon. Gentleman and his constituents I shall certainly do so,...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 434 c388 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State, not only for what she has just said but because she has bee...
Lord Garnier | 434 c385 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to repeat the arguments of a few moments ago, but has the Secretary of State had an op...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c385 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way first to the hon. and learned Member for Harborough.
James Paice | 434 c385 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has rightly said that the Bill will be technical and we will want to engage w...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c381-5 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the right hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin) and the hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Wil...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c380-1 (Link to this contribution) I must correct my hon. and learned Friend. We have studied the ratio, and it is not quite as he says...
Lord Garnier | 434 c380 (Link to this contribution) Does not the list that my right hon. Friend read out inform us about the way in which the Government...
Oliver Letwin | 434 c373-80 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As Oliver Heald or as Oliver Letwin, I am delighted to be in the Hous...
Alan Johnson | 434 c289-90 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my hon. Friend’s involvement in this issue over many years, and I can confirm that ...
Alan Johnson | 434 c288 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not accept that. What I do accept is that the affordability of waste disposal is as central...
Norman Baker | 434 c306 (Link to this contribution) There is a draft Bill. We have had proposals for many years on the marine environment, and Ministers...
Norman Baker | 434 c303-4 (Link to this contribution) That is quite true. I confess it readily. But I am pleased to see the hon. Gentleman back, and he ha...
Adrian Bailey | 434 c340-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman tempts me down a rather long and winding path, which I will not follow. Although ...
John Bercow | 434 c349 (Link to this contribution) : I do not want the hon. Gentleman to feel alone. If he was not guided exclusively by the contents o...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c385-6 (Link to this contribution) I shall certainly do my utmost to achieve that. I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman was in his ...
Baroness Beckett | 434 c385 (Link to this contribution) I was just coming to that, but I had better give way again first.
Norman Lamb | 434 c326 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that, unless urgent progress is made, the risk is that we will s...
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Agriculture Employment Environment protection Industry Minimum wage
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