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Debate on Monday, 1 November 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Sassoon. The answering member was Lord Eatwell.

Comprehensive Spending Review

Lords debate on motion to take note of the Spending Review 2010. Agreed to on question.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
721 c1432-54, 1463-552 
Session
2010-12
Department
Treasury
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord St John of Fawsley | 721 c1446 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, what the country now needs is not blame for the deficit—we all know who is responsible for...
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay | 721 c1451-4 (Link to this contribution) Well, my Lords, that was the noble Lord, Lord Peston, at his peppery professorial best. I welcome wh...
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Baroness Nye | 721 c1509-11 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should like begin by thanking your Lordships for the generous and warm-hearted welcome w...
Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill | 721 c1516-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is with great pleasure and equal trepidation that I rise to speak for the first time in...
Lord Allan of Hallam | 721 c1491-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank all those officials and Members who have helped our class of 2010 to have such a s...
Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 721 c1550 (Link to this contribution) I do not need to protect my Minister. My Minister is here to protect the economy of this country.
Lord Sassoon | 721 c1549 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one of the responses is that if we give children who would not otherwise have the opportun...
Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 721 c1550 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I remind the House that it is a courtesy for a Minister to give way during the debate to a...
Lord Sassoon | 721 c1550 (Link to this contribution) The pupil premium will be used to ensure that those schools that have a particular proportion of dis...
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 721 c1550 (Link to this contribution) Will the pupil premium be taken from funding for those young people aged 16 to 19 in schools?
Lord Davies of Stamford | 721 c1482-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that was a very eloquent and well-informed speech and I hope that the Government have take...
Lord Bates | 721 c1493-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a privilege to follow my noble friend Lord Allan after his excellent maiden speech, ...
Lord Judd | 721 c1498-501 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we certainly faced a very severe global financial challenge. Corrective action at national...
Lord Berkeley | 721 c1495-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Allan of Hallam, on his speech. He managed to be non-c...
Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 721 c1487 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, following inquiries from many of those taking part in this important debate and discussion...
Baroness Turner of Camden | 721 c1485-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to concentrate on what I believe to be the general direction of government policy, ...
Baroness Sherlock | 721 c1489-91 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish to focus on the impact of the spending review on families with children. Having loo...
Lord Higgins | 721 c1487-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, by a quite extraordinary coincidence I was about to raise that very matter in my opening r...
Lord Skidelsky | 721 c1501-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a sign of the jittery state we are in that a slower-than-expected slowdown in the ra...
Lord Tugendhat | 721 c1474-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like other noble Lords, I look forward to hearing the maiden speakers who are yet to come ...
Lord Haskel | 721 c1471-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not going to speak about the economics of the CSR. My noble friend Lord Myners did th...
Lord Low of Dalston | 721 c1480-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that the Minister will have got the message that we are beginning to get rather tir...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 721 c1478-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Hollis, who is probably the greatest...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 721 c1475-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister has insisted today that the CSR cuts are fair and that they support the DWP’s...
Viscount Eccles | 721 c1533-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is complicated to follow the noble Lord, Lord Graham of Edmonton. I will not even compe...
Lord James of Blackheath | 721 c1536-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not know what you have done to deserve me this late in the evening but I am afraid th...
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 721 c1534-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as other noble Lords have said, this stage of the debate is quite difficult. However, I re...
Lord James of Blackheath | 721 c1538-40 (Link to this contribution) Not into my pocket. My biggest terrorist client was the IRA and I am pleased to say that I managed t...
Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 721 c1463-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I became aware during the Thatcher years that, if something that was untrue was repeated o...
Lord Peston | 721 c1451 (Link to this contribution) That is not true—that was not his view. What is interesting, if I may give a lecture on the history ...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 721 c1469-71 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow that speech by the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell, and I ...
Baroness Campbell of Surbiton | 721 c1466-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome this debate on the impact of the comprehensive spending review. For the benefit ...
Lord Peston | 721 c1450 (Link to this contribution) No, it is not in there. That is not a document from the OBR; it is a document from the Government. ...
Lord Marlesford | 721 c1451 (Link to this contribution) I was brought up on the great Kalecki and my recollection of one of his fundamental theses was that ...
Lord Peston | 721 c1449-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my contribution is based on three premises: this is the most reactionary economic statemen...
Bishop of Leicester | 721 c1446 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it seems to me that hope for the future depends on ensuring that those who are most vulner...
Lord Lamont of Lerwick | 721 c1446-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the comprehensive spending review. The noble Lord, Lord Myners, made a point of ...
Lord Sassoon | 721 c1432 (Link to this contribution) Moved By That this House takes note of the Spending Review 2010.
Lord Shipley | 721 c1540-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, back to the spending review, which is understandably a tough settlement for the public sec...
Lord Eatwell | 721 c1544-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been a remarkable debate. There have been some very fine speeches, mostly from th...
Baroness O'Loan | 721 c1542-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have heard much about the seriousness of the position in which the United Kingdom finds...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 721 c1549 (Link to this contribution) I have no wish to delay the House, but the Minister cannot be allowed to get away with that. The nob...
Bishop of Leicester | 721 c1444-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I must crave the indulgence of the House for speaking to your Lordships with laryngitis, b...
Lord Newby | 721 c1440-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, no doubt the CSR makes me, like many other noble Lords, angry and frustrated—angry that th...
Lord Bilimoria | 721 c1442-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have always believed that a wise person learns from other people’s mistakes, a sensible ...
Lord Myners | 721 c1435-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the Minister on mastering something which it took me a long time to underst...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 721 c1526-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is with great pleasure that I have listened to the maiden speeches tonight. They were a...
Earl of Listowel | 721 c1529-31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall endeavour to be brief, as the hour is late. I thank the Minister for his opening r...
Lord Graham of Edmonton | 721 c1531-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at the end of such a long debate, one tends to hear phrases such as, ““Everything that can...
Lord De Mauley | 721 c1540 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is into his fifteenth minute. I wonder whether he can draw his remarks to a conclusio...
Lord Sassoon | 721 c1432-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in another place, my right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out the c...
Lord Stewartby | 721 c1507-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I nearly forgot to get up, I was so interested in what the noble Lord, Lord Clark, had to ...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 721 c1550 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the House will forgive me for delaying the Minister once more, but I thought that the nobl...
Lord Watson of Invergowrie | 721 c1523-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this view has been expressed on numerous occasions in the six or so hours over which we ha...
Lord Sassoon | 721 c1552 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if we start getting into who was present at which meetings at this hour of the night, we w...
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 721 c1552 (Link to this contribution) On a minor point of information, were any of the Minister’s Liberal Democrat noble friends present a...
Lord Sassoon | 721 c1552 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, our plan will help drive growth in this country. Our plan will create the jobs of the futu...
Lord Sassoon | 721 c1551-2 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Myners. He had great trouble keeping a straight face. I h...
Lord Myners | 721 c1551 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister is getting close to the point where he will not answer any further questions....
Lord Sassoon | 721 c1550 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have got all night. I am very grateful to my noble friend. It is late, and we will have ...
Lord Sassoon | 721 c1551 (Link to this contribution) A lot of points were raised today, and I said at the outset that I cannot address them properly toda...
Lord Sassoon | 721 c1547 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, today we have had an important debate on the Government’s spending review and I thank ever...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 721 c1548 (Link to this contribution) We have sat through nearly eight hours of debate to which a large number of Members have contributed...
Lord Sassoon | 721 c1548-9 (Link to this contribution) I am struck by the contrast of the optimism that we have heard today from businessmen in this House ...
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 721 c1549 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the Minister care to fill in a little gap concerning the 16 to 19 year-olds?
Lord Sassoon | 721 c1549 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, we are coming forward with a £150 million fund that, by 2014, will enable those on l...
Lord James of Blackheath | 721 c1540 (Link to this contribution) The total value of the Vatican bank reserves would claim to be more than the entire value of gold ev...
Baroness Billingham | 721 c1503-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, let us not beat about the bush but focus our attention on one specific area by considering...
Lord Plumb | 721 c1504-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had the privilege of listening to some interesting, varied and sometimes provocati...
Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke | 721 c1511-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a real privilege for me to respond to the maiden speech of the noble Baroness, Lady ...
Lord Clark of Windermere | 721 c1505-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Plumb, has spent a lifetime in politics very successfully defending a...
Lord Greaves | 721 c1520-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this very great debate has concentrated on four aspects of the spending reductions: the ti...
Baroness Gould of Potternewton | 721 c1518-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it gives me enormous pleasure to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Healy of Primrose H...
Baroness Browning | 721 c1513-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness. I apologise to my noble friend the Mi...
Subjects
Child benefit Capital investment Infrastructure Employment schemes Pre-school education Local government finance Public expenditure Non-departmental public bodies Social security benefits Public sector debt Schools Regional planning and development Social rented housing Science Cuts Public finance Bank levy
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