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Ministerial statement on Monday, 12 December 2011, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Strathclyde.

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Lords statement on the outcome of the European Council held in Brussels on 9 December 2011.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
733 c1025-44 
Session
2010-12
Department
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Deposited Paper DEP2011-2124
Monday, 12 December 2011
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House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1044 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a good note on which to finish. I thank my noble friend for his constructive comme...
Lord Dholakia | 733 c1033 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for repeating the Statement in your Lordships’ House. I have two qu...
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Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1033-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wholly understand why my noble friend would ask for a debate; obviously this is an area ...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 733 c1032 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are not the Government. The noble Lord is in the Cabinet and represents the Government....
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1032-3 (Link to this contribution) It is very hard for the noble Baroness to criticise when she is not able to tell us what her party w...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 733 c1029-32 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Leader of the House for repeating the Statement on the EU Council made today i...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1032 (Link to this contribution) It is always good to hear the noble Baroness, the Leader of the Opposition, on such fine form. I str...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1025-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it may be a convenient time for me to repeat a Statement made 18 minutes ago in the House ...
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 733 c1034 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry. This may be unwelcome to the Tea Party on the Back-Benches opposite but the country want...
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 733 c1034 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the Leader on the ebullience of his response to the noble Baroness, Lady Ro...
Lord McNally | 733 c1035 (Link to this contribution) This is a Question Time. Even though we have 40 minutes, we have already used five and are only on t...
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 733 c1035 (Link to this contribution) May I ask one question of tactics? I am grateful to the noble Lord. Will he confirm that, exactly 20...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1035 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I know that the noble Lord, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, is trying to be constructive and help...
Lord McNally | 733 c1035 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this sounds very much like a speech for the coming debate.
Lord Lawson of Blaby | 733 c1036 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I warmly support my right honourable friend the Prime Minister. He took an extremely diffi...
Lord Mandelson | 733 c1036 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, people will differ in their view about whether the Government’s negotiating position last ...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1036 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I cannot agree with the noble Lord, even though he brings immense experience to this House...
Lord Skidelsky | 733 c1037 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there are three questions which the Prime Minister ducked, and I hope that the Leader of t...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1037 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I spelt out in some detail what safeguards we asked for in reply to the noble Baroness the...
Lord Lawson of Blaby | 733 c1036 (Link to this contribution) Finally, perhaps I may commend my right honourable friend on being determined to protect the interes...
Lord McNally | 733 c1035 (Link to this contribution) I think that it is the turn of the Labour Party, and then we will come back to the Conservatives.
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 733 c1037 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my gratitude is exceeded only by my surprise. I trust that the Leader of the House will fo...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1037-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on all proposals emanating from the Commission on financial services, we will vigorously d...
Lord Brittan of Spennithorne | 733 c1038 (Link to this contribution) Would my noble friend agree that, as financial services regulation can be passed without unanimity, ...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1038 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we very much want to retain goodwill and there is no reason why we should not do so. I say...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 733 c1038 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does it not beggar belief to suppose that anybody could be so stupid or incompetent, if he...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1038 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, only the noble Lord could come out with that particular quip. Of course we feared the dang...
Lord McNally | 733 c1038 (Link to this contribution) I am trying to keep count here. We will have the Liberal Democrats and then the Cross-Benchers.
Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon | 733 c1039 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, given that we have now cast the veto without stopping anything; that in the name of protec...
Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 733 c1039 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, would the Minister confirm that, had the texts before the Council in Brussels been agreed ...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1039 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I cannot agree with my noble friend. We believe that we are very firmly in the game. Our v...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1040 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I did not hear that interview, but my noble friend is right. In any negotiation, particula...
Lord Trimble | 733 c1040 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are not absolutely sure of this but is it not likely that the issue will come back to t...
Lord Bilimoria | 733 c1040 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the veto of the treaty, we are losing sight of the essence of this; it is about sorti...
Lord Harrison | 733 c1039 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, would the Minister give one clear, crystal example—
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1039 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my right honourable friend the Prime Minister made an entirely appropriate and sensible de...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 733 c1039 (Link to this contribution) The complacency of the Leader of the House is mind-boggling. Has he not managed to discomfort the ma...
Baroness Williams of Crosby | 733 c1041 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the Leader of the House recognise the huge damage done to Britain’s influence and rep...
Baroness Morgan of Ely | 733 c1041 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the Minister agree that, if the Prime Minister had not attempted to pacify his party ...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1040-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord says that the eurozone is in a mess and that it will not succeed. That is n...
Lord Wigley | 733 c1043 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the Prime Minister had secured the safeguards that he sought for the financial services...
Lord Howe of Aberavon | 733 c1042 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if I may strike a slightly more optimistic note, is my noble friend aware that our achieve...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1042 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I cannot give an exact date as to when the proposals were put to the French, but, if I can...
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 733 c1042 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there has been a lot of controversy about when exactly the British proposals were put befo...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1041-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I really do not believe that Britain’s influence or reputation have been affected in any w...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 733 c1043 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate my right honourable friend the Prime Minister on standing up for Britain and spea...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1043 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I entirely agree with my noble friend that the substance of the issue is to solve this eco...
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 733 c1043 (Link to this contribution) I think this may be the last time that I get called. On the substance of the meeting, why did no one...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1043 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not at all agree with the noble Lord. This is not about the newspapers. I think that ...
Lord Lea of Crondall | 733 c1043 (Link to this contribution) Are the Government aware that the British press—the Daily Mail, the Daily Express and the Telegraph—...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1044 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is a huge question and one that requires a much longer debate on another occasion. Ho...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 733 c1043-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Leader of the House has time and again stated the clear intention of Her Majesty’s Gov...
Lord Garel-Jones | 733 c1044 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does my noble friend agree that under the terms of Article 136 of the treaty of Rome, to w...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1036-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend for his unqualified support for what the Prime Minister has done a...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1041 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a nicely put question, but I cannot agree with the noble Baroness. We left the EPP f...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1040 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am bound to say that I disagree with all of that. This was not about party but national ...
Lord Strathclyde | 733 c1042 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I very much welcome the positive note that my noble and learned friend brings to all of us...
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Banks EU countries Financial services Financial institutions EU internal trade EU action Economic and monetary union Euro Referendums Treaties Regulation UK membership of EU European Council
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