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Economy

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

710 c670-743 

Session

2008-09

Department

Treasury

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding contributions

Bishop of Bradford | 710 c681-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, on securing this debate to call attention to ...

Lord Myners | 710 c737 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Lawson, for that observation—albeit that it is one t...

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Lord Lawson of Blaby | 710 c737 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the Minister give way?

Lord Lawson of Blaby | 710 c738 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I promise the Minister that this will be the last time that I shall intervene in his very ...

Lord Patten | 710 c741 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps the Minister can explain why so many UK companies are bent on heading for the exit...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 710 c743 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not want to disappoint the Minister, but I was not going to spend a lot of time going...

Baroness Noakes | 710 c732-3 (Link to this contribution) That figure is not much short of average earnings, my Lords. In the next two years, the Government w...

Baroness Noakes | 710 c733 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the noble Lord will just wait, I will come to that. As I said, the rate may well be cou...

Lord Eatwell | 710 c733 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness said that the Conservative Party would not fall into the trap of the 50...

Bishop of Bradford | 710 c735 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have a couple of season tickets which I am very happy to lend to the noble Lord.

Baroness Noakes | 710 c733-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not making a backtrack or a forward track; I am just telling the noble Lord that I co...

Lord Myners | 710 c735 (Link to this contribution) I will accept the noble Baroness’s intervention, my Lords, but I am conscious of time.

Baroness Noakes | 710 c735 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the Minister give way?

Lord Myners | 710 c735 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as a supporter of Plymouth Argyle, I look forward to the opportunity of playing in the Cha...

Lord Lawson of Blaby | 710 c737 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister slightly misrepresented what the Governor of the Bank of England said. The go...

Baroness O'Cathain | 710 c737 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Myners, had a bit of a go at us for politicking, but he has done prec...

Baroness Noakes | 710 c736 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, just let us clear this up. I outlined the view that has been expressed that it will raise ...

Lord Lawson of Blaby | 710 c686-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a very great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord MacGregor, who was a really exc...

Bishop of Portsmouth | 710 c688-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to take part in this debate, which sometimes feels a little like a semina...

Baroness O'Cathain | 710 c691-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great honour to take part in this debate which has been so ably introduced by my n...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 710 c693 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not want to take too much of the noble Lord’s time, but does he think that the all-pa...

Lord Haskel | 710 c693-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is a party political matter, but this is not. It does not matter which party you supp...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 710 c671-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I know that the noble Lord has an opportunity to make his own speech and of course, he is ...

Lord Morris of Handsworth | 710 c672-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord has given us his version of the record of the Labour Government. Can he rem...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 710 c670-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful for this opportunity to call attention to the economic prospects of the...

Lord Lea of Crondall | 710 c671 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the noble Lord continues, he has given us a litany of what has been happening witho...

Lord Butler of Brockwell | 710 c679-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, for giving the House the opportunity to have thi...

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay | 710 c677-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bhattacharyya. I am afraid that I found hi...

Lord Broers | 710 c717-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, on gaining this timely debate and on his exce...

Baroness Noakes | 710 c731-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I follow other noble Lords in congratulating my noble friend Lord Forsyth on securing the ...

Lord James of Blackheath | 710 c720 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Myners, may be an exception. There will be no trade-out solutions, b...

Lord Northbrook | 710 c724-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like other speakers, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, on securing this debate....

Lord Reay | 710 c700-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall concentrate on a narrow field, perhaps a narrow byway, but if we want this country...

Lord Plant of Highfield | 710 c714-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like other noble Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, for facilitating this debate...

Lord Sheikh | 710 c715-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, congratulate my noble friend Lord Forsyth on securing today’s debate. I am very gr...

Lord Patten | 710 c710-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in declaring my long-established corporate and financial interests in the City, I am sadde...

Lord Ryder of Wensum | 710 c712-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Forsyth on his fluent and penetrating speech. The Prim...

Lord Lang of Monkton | 710 c707-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Forsyth on securing this well-timed and important deba...

Baroness Valentine | 710 c703-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, for calling this debate. I want to focus...

Lord Myners | 710 c738 (Link to this contribution) In a moment, my Lords. We are producing a White Paper on banking regulation and the outlook for the ...

Lord Myners | 710 c738-41 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, of course a truly narrow bank would be the Post Office, in terms of the academic approach ...

Lord Myners | 710 c741-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with all respect to the noble Lord, out of more than 3 million incorporated companies in t...

Lord Myners | 710 c734-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have enjoyed a frightfully good debate, which was thoroughly thought-provoking, in most...

Baroness Noakes | 710 c734 (Link to this contribution) No, my Lords, I did not say that at all; I said that I was not going to cover the financial sector i...

Lord Lea of Crondall | 710 c734 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness says that we are now discussing morality. Has she anything to say about...

Lord Myners | 710 c735 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with all due respect to the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, it is very difficult to square the c...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 710 c735 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend said nothing of the kind. She said that we would get rid of it at the firs...

Lord Myners | 710 c737 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Government recognise the importance of the banking system to ensuring that the economy...

Lord Myners | 710 c736-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in a debate in which we have been honoured by the presence of the noble Baroness, Lady Tha...

Lord Lamont of Lerwick | 710 c690-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Forsyth on introducing this debate and on his excellen...

Lord Haskel | 710 c693 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, on initiating this debate. Judging by w...

Lord Wakeham | 710 c695-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I always enjoy listening to the noble Lord, but the proposition that an all-party Select C...

Lord Smith of Clifton | 710 c696-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, for initiating this debate. The la...

Lord Marlesford | 710 c698-700 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I find it a little curious that in the debate we have 20 Conservative speakers, led by tha...

Lord Bhattacharyya | 710 c675-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, for securing this important debate though I do not a...

Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market | 710 c684-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, congratulate my noble friend Lord Forsyth on his splendid and penetrating speech i...

Lord Eatwell | 710 c682-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to be the first to congratulate the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Br...

Lord James of Blackheath | 710 c718-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, two weeks ago today, I was at the meeting of Lloyds Bank’s intensive care and corporate re...

Lord Higgins | 710 c725-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Northbrook, has pointed out, the National Institute of Economic an...

Lord Newby | 710 c727-31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, for introducing this debate on what will clearly be ...

Lord Selsdon | 710 c720-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I get the feeling that a lot of people think that we have sold our birthright for a mess o...

Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe | 710 c722-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join others in thanking the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, for initiating the debate and comp...

Lord Lea of Crondall | 710 c702-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Marlesford referred to the paucity of Labour Members on these Benches...

Lord Judd | 710 c708-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, for giving us this opportunity to debate such an imp...

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay | 710 c733 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for asking but as that was a firm and first commitment, the fac...

Viscount Eccles | 710 c705-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in past Gordon Brown comment, it has been fashionable to rely on country comparisons—on le...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 710 c670 (Link to this contribution) To call attention to the economic prospects for the United Kingdom; and to move for Papers.

Subjects

Business Banks Bank of England Borrowing Housing Income tax Fiscal policy Government assistance Financial Services Authority Economic situation Economic policy National insurance contributions Public expenditure Monetary policy Public sector debt Regulation Taxation Tax rates and bands Unemployment

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