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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 11 Oct 2018
Employee Shareholding and Participation in Corporate Governance

"My Lords, this is a subject on which the Prime Minister is beating a quick retreat since she referred to it rather positively a couple of years ago. The slew of reports recently proved that it is becoming part of a new consensus, but I think it is still not …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 11 Oct 2018
Employee Shareholding and Participation in Corporate Governance

"Does the doctrine of diversity not mean that the Government are ruling out, almost for all time, any legislation?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 07 Sep 2018
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I have heard some convoluted arguments in my life but we are getting into near-nonsense territory. I ask the House to consider whether the noble Lord, Lord Wakeham, for whom the whole House has the greatest respect, can really sustain the argument—I hope he will correct me if …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 19 Jul 2018
Referendums: Parliamentary Democracy

"What about the Labour Party?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 15 Jan 2018
Carillion

"My Lords, is not a picture emerging of some prima facie creative accounting going on? The noble Lord, Lord Lawson, makes a fair point when he suggests that not every contract should come directly from the Government. The picture now is that in almost everything done by Wimpey, Costain and …..."
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Written Question
Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Legal Costs
Wednesday 20th December 2017

Asked by: Lord Lea of Crondall (Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the legal costs (1) incurred to date, and (2) likely to be incurred, in relation to the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry; and how much of those costs will be met by the public purse.

Answered by Lord Young of Cookham

The Prime Minister has made clear that survivors, families of victims and local residents affected by the Grenfell Tower tragedy will have government funding for legal representation. The Prime Minister’s notice of determination to the Inquiry, published on 22 August confirms this. The Inquiry will publish details of legal costs in due course.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 20 Oct 2016
Community Pharmacy in 2016-17 and Beyond

"My Lords, my question is in the same territory as the previous question. It is not just the nomenclature but the knock-on effects between this Statement and GP dispensaries that is concerning. Have I understood this correctly? On the one hand, the Government expect more traffic to be diverted into …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 May 2016
Trade Union Bill

"My Lords—..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 May 2016
Trade Union Bill

"My former noble friend Lord Murray of Epping Forest was a man of great integrity. One of his straplines or catchphrases was, “We always deliver what we say we will deliver”. That was true of prices and incomes policy through the 1960s and 1970s. I challenge anybody to contest that …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 25 Apr 2016
Trade Union Bill

"Before the noble Baroness sits down, would she consider answering my noble friend Lord Whitty’s question, unless she thinks she already has?..."
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