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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 03 Nov 2014
Barnett Formula

"My Lords, I thank my noble friend for his Question, with which I know for a fact that my noble friend Lord Barnett was in total agreement. I also thank the Minister for his kind remarks, because he might be forgiven for thinking that one of Lord Barnett’s missions in …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 30 Oct 2014
Bank of England

"I congratulate my noble friend for raising this Question, but I am sorry to say that I disagree with him. Changing the name of the Bank of England would be economically very damaging to our country. Is the Minister aware that there is a lesson to be drawn from this? …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 09 Jul 2014
Tax: Aggressive Tax Avoidance

"My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lord Barnett, and at his request, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in his name on the Order Paper...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 09 Jul 2014
Tax: Aggressive Tax Avoidance

"My Lords, the reason that your Lordships are stuck with me and not my noble friend is that he is very ill indeed, and I know that all noble Lords will wish to send wishes that he recovers quickly...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 09 Jul 2014
Tax: Aggressive Tax Avoidance

"In particular so that he can occupy his usual place and ask some really difficult questions.

In so far as I understand this subject at all, is it not the case that aggressive tax avoidance leaves companies making enormous sums of money and millionaires paying lower rates of tax than …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 18 Jun 2014
Economy: Interest Rates

"My Lords, to place this important Question in context, is it the Government’s view that there are two possible aims of economic policy: the first is that we should maintain as high a rate of real, sustainable growth as is feasible, and the second is that we should maintain a …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 18 Mar 2014
Finance: Interest Rates

"My Lords, as background to this Question, we should remember that when we were debating the 1998 Act the Minister went to great lengths to emphasise that the activities of the Monetary Policy Committee would be scrutinised not only by other place but also by this House. Certainly, when I …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 10 Feb 2014
Economic Inequality

"My Lords, I must apologise to your Lordships for being an economist and for allowing some economics to get into an economics question. Is the Minister aware of the research evidence on these matters, which is that we need some inequality in our society in order to provide a proper …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 15 Jan 2014
Employment

"My Lords, is the Minister aware that quite a few people in full-time employment are in jobs below their qualifications and abilities, so the figures need to be looked at more carefully? Much more to the point, is he aware that if we look at the present state of the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 15 Jan 2014
Education: Academy Chains

"My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, referred to raising standards for all children. If the schools that the Minister is talking about are so good, why do not any noble Lords opposite send their own children—or more likely, their grandchildren—to those schools, as many of us did, because we …..."
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