Roads: Traffic Lights

Debate between Earl Attlee and Lord Skelmersdale

Monday 27th February 2012 Lords Chamber

[Earl Attlee]

My Lords, I am very grateful for the noble Lord’s observations.

[Lord Skelmersdale]

My Lords, although this question refers specifically to the United States, has my noble friend considered the position in France, where the conditions are very similar to our own?

[Earl Attlee]

My Lords, if you look at Paris the conditions are more similar but, as I understand it, Paris was relaid out at one point so the road conditions there are different from those in the United Kingdom. In addition, as I said in my initial Answer, our traffic light system is responsive, so allowing left turns would not give the improvements in productivity that you would get in other countries.

Arrangement of Business

Debate between Earl Attlee and Lord Skelmersdale

Monday 12th December 2011 Grand Committee

[Earl Attlee]

My Lords, the Statement or Division is likely to occur very shortly. Unless any noble Lords object, I propose to adjourn the Committee until after the Statement.

[The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Lord Skelmersdale)]

My Lords, this is a most unusual procedure. I note that the Opposition Front Bench spokesman has not yet finished speaking in the Chamber, nor has the Minister responded. However, I am of course in the hands of the Grand Committee.

[The Marquess of Lothian]

In referring to the end of the Statement, does the noble Earl mean the end of my noble friend Lord Strathclyde’s Statement or the end of proceedings on the Statement as a whole, which I see has been extended to 40 minutes?

Intelligence and Security Committee Annual Report for 2010-11

Debate between Earl Attlee and Lord Skelmersdale

Monday 12th December 2011 Grand Committee

[The Deputy Chairman of Committees]

My Lords, I apologise for interrupting the noble Marquess. The Committee is now in session.

[Earl Attlee]

My Lords, it will be for the convenience of the House and the Committee if we adjourn the Committee until a point three minutes after the conclusion of the Statement in the Chamber.