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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a minimum price per unit of alcohol for beers and ciders.

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Lord Field of Birkenhead (Independent (affiliation))
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
1 November 2018
Reference
184885
House
House of Commons

Is the hon. Gentleman going to declare his earnings at the higher rate now?

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c864
House
House of Commons

I confess that I do not know the answer. I am merely reciting the IFS figures. Today it said that 500,000 households would lose, and 1.3 million individuals. I assume that most of those individuals will be in those households. If our constituents were asked whether they believed the Treasury...

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c866
House
House of Commons

There is clearly something wrong with our procedures when Members who wish to reform a Budget constructively have to resort to tabling a new clause that, according to my right hon. Friend, will blow the House and everything else asunder if we press it to a vote. It is very...

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c892-3
House
House of Commons

I am grateful for that intervention, because it allows me to point out that the Minister keeps saying that the Government are open to suggestions, but we have been making suggestions ever since they got us into this mess by abolishing the 10p rate. The most obvious way to bring...

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c893
House
House of Commons

As I have been explaining, I cannot do that. The House of Commons has this absurd procedure whereby either we let things through or we table proposals such as this just to hold the Government back for a moment, so that they have to think again. We are then accused...

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c893-4
House
House of Commons

Did the hon. Gentleman notice that as Birkenhead was mentioned, the gods showed their displeasure at the fact that we had to have this debate?

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c869
House
House of Commons

I have been bending over backwards not to suggest this is a very easy thing that fits into nice little boxes. There are clearly what my grandmother would have called swings and roundabouts, and I accept my hon. Friend's point, but I nevertheless believe that the main thrust of the...

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c867-8
House
House of Commons

I am sure that those sentiments are reflected on both sides of the House. The disappointment that I feel can be summed up as follows. I am not trying to decry the moves that the Government have made to try to rectify the unnecessary burden that we have placed on...

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c866-7
House
House of Commons

Well, I am sure, because it comes from the IFS. When I was broadcasting with representatives of the IFS today, they said that that was their estimate.

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c866
House
House of Commons

I do not dispute that point, and the hon. Gentleman may be able to make his case later in the debate.

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c866
House
House of Commons

The hon. Gentleman is perfectly right, and the figures, if they are to be trusted, show that 2 per cent. of people did not benefit in this way. When I said "we", I was trying, perhaps too crudely, to identify us with our constituents for once, given the yawning gap...

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c865
House
House of Commons

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c861
House
House of Commons

I know that the hon. Gentleman has only just begun, but before he finishes I hope that he will comment on the measures advocated by my right hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, West and Royton (Mr. Meacher), which aim to stop the poison from coming into the system in...

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c853
House
House of Commons

I agree entirely. We benefited by the 2p rate reduction—I say "we" because those of us in this Chamber benefited.

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c864
House
House of Commons

I will very happily stand corrected and I hope that my hon. Friend catches your eye later, Mr. Deputy Speaker.

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c863
House
House of Commons

They certainly have. I repeat that I hope my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mark Fisher) catches your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to develop his point. There have been benefit changes on top of tax allowance changes for us pensioners. There have been two welcome and major initiatives...

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c863-4
House
House of Commons

I have been in the House for 30 years, and have moved many motions on new clauses and many amendments. I have always taken real pleasure in doing so, but I cannot say that I take much pleasure in moving this new clause, or from the feeling that we are...

Member
Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
7 July 2009
Reference
495 c862-3
House
House of Commons

That this House endorses the current system of small breweries' relief that has helped small brewers to compete with larger brewers who enjoy greater economies of scale of production, and has enabled small brewers to invest in gaining access to market; notes the importance of small and independent brewers for...

Primary sponsor
Greg Mulholland (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Early day motions
Date
30 March 2006
Reference
1955; 1955A1; 1955A2; 1955A3
House
House of Commons

That this House expresses concern at current proposals to define a pint of beer as not less than 95 per cent. liquid; notes that the Campaign for Real Ale, the Trading Standards Institute and Local Authority Co-ordinators of Regulatory Services believes that the proposal will result in the proposed five...

Primary sponsor
Joan Walley (Labour)
Type
Early day motions
Date
27 June 2005
Reference
404
House
House of Commons