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Tobacco: Smuggling — Question (16 May 2013)

Lord Cormack: My Lords, when the last Northern Ireland Affairs Committee looked into this grave issue, we found that a very large percentage of the smuggling into Northern Ireland involved substances far more noxious than tobacco. Can the noble Lord say how much of this smuggling is of genuine cigarettes, which are harmful enough, and how much is of more dangerous substances?

Bailiffs — Question (14 May 2013)

Lord Cormack: My Lords, my noble friend will know that when the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, moved an amendment earlier this year the House voted decisively on this issue of bailiffs. Can my noble friend assure me that the noble Baroness, and others who led this campaign, are being consulted on these guidelines?

Queen’s Speech — Debate (2nd Day) (9 May 2013)

Lord Cormack: Will Ministers in this House have a free vote as they had in the other House?

Queen’s Speech — Debate (2nd Day) (9 May 2013)

Lord Cormack: My Lords, the House always listens with interest and respect to my noble friend when she talks on police matters. She has great experience and real passionate feeling for the police, as was evident in her peroration. I am not saying that I agree with everything she said this afternoon, but I was particularly grateful, as a former chairman of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee in the other...

Queen’s Speech — Debate (2nd Day) (9 May 2013)

Lord Cormack: Should we not also remember that it featured in no manifesto?

Childcare Ratios — Statement (9 May 2013)

Lord Cormack: Further to the observations of my noble friend Lord Hamilton, can the Minister assure the House that consultation means precisely that and that, if the weight of evidence indicates that the Government’s course should be changed, the Government’s course will be changed?

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill — Commons Amendments (24 April 2013)

Lord Cormack: I briefly follow the noble Baroness, first in thanking my noble friend the Minister for responding as she did to that very powerful vote on Monday, which was not the first powerful vote on this subject. Most of all, I hope and believe that I speak for everyone in this House in congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell, on her tenacity, her courage and her articulate presentation of a...

Procedure of the House — Motion to Take Note (24 April 2013)

Lord Cormack: My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Grenfell, is right in what he says. We are only asking for a very modest proposal to be accepted by the House. We are asking for an experimental period of one parliamentary Session. We are not suggesting that, during that period, the present system should be completely abandoned. So the House will have the opportunity, as a self-regulating House, to look at the...

Procedure of the House — Motion to Resolve (24 April 2013)

Lord Cormack: My Lords, I would like very briefly to support the noble Lord, Lord Elton, and to say that he would be assisted in his aims if people were not allowed to read Questions.

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill — Commons Reasons and Amendments (22 April 2013)

Lord Cormack: My Lords, whether it is a runner wearing a black ribbon in a marathon or a coffin draped in the Union flag, there is a real and proper place for symbolism. If this is all that we are debating, why on earth are we removing this particular symbol? In our last debate at Report, I abstained, feeling slightly guilty, I have to admit. One reason I abstained was that the commission had not come out...

Growth and Infrastructure Bill — Commons Reasons (22 April 2013)

Lord Cormack: My noble friend has not yet reached this point, but will this also include the time that will be taken to build the extension? The disruption factor is very real in people's lives.

Growth and Infrastructure Bill — Commons Reasons (22 April 2013)

Lord Cormack: My Lords, I agree entirely with what my noble friend Lord Deben says about conservation areas. I would like to make one point and ask one question of my noble friend the Minister. Like others, I thank her for the movement that has been made. I enthusiastically supported the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord True, either on Report or Third Reading. It seems that the Government have moved...

Succession to the Crown Bill — Third Reading (22 April 2013)

Lord Cormack: My Lords, I am grateful to those who have taken part in this brief but, I think, important debate. I listened with particular care to the speech of the right reverend Prelate and, of course, to what my noble and learned friend said. I believe that we have gone some distance in our three debates. We now have certain statements on the record that I believe are helpful to those of us who have...

Succession to the Crown Bill — Third Reading (22 April 2013)

Lord Cormack: Of course, the right reverend Prelate and I have discussed this privately and in the company of others. Does he accept that the incorporation of this amendment into the Bill would in no way cast any different doubts or cause any problems with what he has just referred to?

Succession to the Crown Bill — Third Reading (22 April 2013)

Lord Cormack: My Lords, this is the third time that I have raised this subject on the Floor of the House and I hope that my noble and learned friend will feel that this amendment is more modest and more acceptable than the two previous ones. The background is that the monarch in our country is also the Supreme Governor of the Church of England. Whether we use a modern or-as I personally prefer-a...

Growth and Infrastructure Bill: Third Reading (26 March 2013)

Lord Cormack: My Lords, you have only to go the Republic of Ireland to see that what the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, has just said is absolutely right. I believe we are well served by our planning laws in this country. I do not want to detain the House for more than a few moments but I remember so often, as a constituency Member of Parliament, finding constituents particularly aggrieved by specific...

Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust Inquiry — Statement (26 March 2013)

Lord Cormack: My Lords, is my noble friend aware that many people in Staffordshire will welcome this report but will wonder whether the present chief executive is the best person to oversee the implementation of the many recommendations to which my noble friend has referred?

Crime and Courts Bill [HL] — Commons Amendments (25 March 2013)

Lord Cormack: My Lords, I intervene briefly because for five years I had the privilege of chairing the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee in another place. The first major inquiry we conducted was into organised crime. The report was received with concern, but also with considerable approval across Northern Ireland. I am deeply concerned to hear that the National Crime Agency is not going to be able fully...

Crime and Courts Bill [HL] — Commons Amendments (25 March 2013)

Lord Cormack: My Lords, I underline the importance of what has been said because we have been given an extra week's recess, which none of us particularly wanted because many of us have many engagements in London that week. It is quite wrong to steam-roller something through. This is the Executive treating this House with something approaching contempt. That is something up with which we should not put.

House of Lords: Debates — Question (25 March 2013)

Lord Cormack: My Lords, although I strongly agree with what my noble friend Lord Jenkin of Roding said, perhaps there is a case for allowing some "injury time" so that interventions can be taken during time-limited speeches. We could profitably adopt that proposal, and I hope that my noble friend will be prepared to consider it.