Ministerial statement on Monday, 17 November 2008, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Royall of Blaisdon.

World Leaders Summit

Lords statement on the G20 summit in Washington on financial markets and the world economy.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 705 c945-59
Session: 2007-08
Department: Lord President of the Council
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions: Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 705 c952-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, these are difficult times in this country, but they are difficult times in the rest of the...; Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 705 c951-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we on these Benches join in sending condolences to the families of the three people killed...; Lord Strathclyde | 705 c949-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness the Leader of the House for repeating the Statement. I join her...; Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 705 c945-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall repeat a Statement made by my right honourable friend...; Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 705 c955 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree with my noble friend on each one of those three points.; Lord Anderson of Swansea | 705 c955 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend said that the G8 is not dead, but is it not significant that, at a time of...; Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 705 c955 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the point made by my noble friend about the reform of international institutions is absolu...; Lord Barnett | 705 c955-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have a serious global economic and financial problem. It is all the more serious that t...; Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 705 c955 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it would not be appropriate for me, at this Dispatch Box, to sound the death-knell of the ...; Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 705 c956 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on fiscal stimulus and the increase of capital expenditure, I will leave these issues for ...; Lord Kinnock | 705 c954 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is intriguing to students of political etymology to hear the interpretation of the nobl...; Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 705 c954 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry that the people of New York were not able to read in the New York Times of the ...; Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 705 c958 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, speaking from the Independent Labour corner, we must remember that the present problems ha...; Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 705 c958-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, profligacy and greed might be at the root of some of our problems, but so are excessive ri...; Lord Bates | 705 c956-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, 10 years ago after the Asian financial crisis, the then Chancellor and now Prime Minister ...; Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 705 c957 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord is right that my right honourable friend the Prime Minister was arguing 10 ...; Lord Cope of Berkeley | 705 c957 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the Leader of the House think that the issue of derivatives raised by the noble Lord,...; Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 705 c957 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it was made clear at the weekend that while there must be concerted and, where appropriate...; Baroness Ford | 705 c957 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will my noble friend join me in congratulating my right honourable friends the Prime Minis...; Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 705 c957-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join my noble friend in her congratulations, and in noting the effect of the Government’...; Lord Monson | 705 c958 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the Government want people who can afford to do so to go on saving at the present tim...; Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 705 c958 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, some people need to save, but there are many people who need to spend. At this point, it i...; Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 705 c958 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my Lords. What more can I add? It is extremely important that the world is now taking concerted...; Lord Soley | 705 c955 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does my noble friend accept that the great importance of the meeting is that it begins the...; Lord Baker of Dorking | 705 c953-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if this meeting was as important as the Prime Minister has made out, how is it that the Ne...; Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 705 c958 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have been travelling fairly extensively in the Middle East over the past five weeks or s...
Subjects: Banks Credit Borrowing Finance Financial institutions International cooperation Fiscal policy Financial markets Monetary policy Regulation G20 World economy
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