"I hope that the Committee will indulge me if I ask a further question on this point. After 23 June, it will not be possible for the Home Office or whichever other department it is—this will arise again in the next debate—to bring forward measures using statutory instruments to adjust …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"My Lords, I have cast my remarks mainly in the form of a series of questions. Before I come to the first question, let me just say that my noble friend Lady McIntosh of Pickering has put her finger on a very important point. The effect of these regulations is …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"My Lords, I want to throw my tuppence into this. Building on the question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, what strikes me is just how shoddy and tawdry our great city streets are looking. They have been turned into great parking lots of bikes for the benefit of …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"At end insert “but that this House regrets that the draft Regulations will increase the fee payable in respect of clean air zone payments processed through the central services website from £2 to £4; risk additional costs being passed on to motorists who are already facing high fuel costs; fail …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"My Lords, I start by saying that if the purpose of the recent changes in procedure for dealing with statutory instrument regret amendments and fatal amendments was to limit the scrutiny applied to government instruments, it has already proved very successful. What we see is that there are three speakers …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"My Lords, it is not a revenue-raising measure, the Minister says—unless you are the Department for Transport, which will raise the revenue to cover its costs, as that is the prime directive it is following.
It has been a useful debate. There is little to be superadded to it at …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"My Lords, it has been an excellent debate. Most of my points have been made; in the course of the afternoon, I have been tearing up and disposing of parts of the speech that was prepared for me, so I hope noble Lords will forgive me if what is left …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"My Lords, it has been a truly interesting and wide-ranging debate. I hope that noble Lords will forgive me if I confine my remarks to the transport aspects of the debate. There were a number of interesting speeches in respect of transport. I do not propose to respond to them …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Pack, uses the word “backlog” to describe the situation with the implementation of these recommendations. Does the Minister agree that there is a backlog in implementing these recommendations and will she say unambiguously whose responsibility it is for clearing the backlog? Is it not …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech
"My Lords, my noble friend Lord Sharpe referred to the threat made yesterday by the RMT to bring about a total stoppage of the railways nationwide if they did not receive an above-inflation pay rise with no strings attached. Last week, I asked the noble Lord, Lord Hendy of Richmond …..." Lord Moylan - View Speech