"My Lords, UKHospitality has calculated that this tax will cost 33,000 jobs, raise ÂŁ1.6 billion and reduce GDP by ÂŁ2.2 billion. That is its assessment. What assessment have the Government made of the financial impacts of this proposal and will they publish it?..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"My Lords, I attended a boarding school in the 1980s and was the governor of another one for 10 years in the 2010s. I spoke two years ago at the debate in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Lexden. It hardly seems like two years ago, but it was, …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"My Lords, I also thank the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Hereford for tabling this debate. It is an important subject which is very much at the forefront of many people’s minds.
Even the Prime Minister has agreed that the war on the countryside has gone too far. It …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"My Lords, if the Minister will allow me, she seems to be referring to the special pleading made by the Cross-Benchers, to which I am sympathetic. However, I raised the point about the almost complete eradication of our colleagues from Northern Ireland. Will she address that point too?..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"My Lords, I was new then, but I am reminded of the March 2024 debate in the Moses Room on veterinary medicine regulations, which was going nowhere until a Cross-Bench Baroness told us that she was a retired president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons: she proposed a course …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"My Lords, last week 18 maritime nations responsible for about a fifth of global shipping tonnage warned that global shipping rules are collapsing. We are an island nation and we depend on ship-borne trade, but the dark fleet threatens a structural risk to trade under IMO rules—of course, the IMO …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Sikka, though I must say I think I have heard some of those arguments before.
This is a big Bill, but it misses the big point. Instead of strengthening democracy, it fiddles around the edges. I fought …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"My Lords, it is common ground that we need more homes, but this Government are going entirely the wrong way about it. We are on track to complete fewer new homes in this Parliament than in the last—a period that was disrupted by Covid and the strategic supply shocks unleashed …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"My Lords, water companies have warned that there is enough water supply to handle only another 420,000 new homes—far fewer than the 1.5 million planned by the Government. How will the Government ensure that sufficient water infrastructure is built to keep pace with the building of new homes—homes our nation …..." Lord Fuller - View Speech
"My Lords, in the absence of my noble friend Lord Bailey of Paddington, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in his name on the Order Paper...." Lord Fuller - View Speech