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

Lord Brabazon of Tara: I welcome parts of this report, particularly paragraph 6, which gives us extra time for QSDs, but I am not so keen on this idea of a Back-Bench business committee. I know that it was proposed in the Goodlad report, but not everything in the Goodlad report was gospel. I well remember bringing the first half dozen proposals from the Goodlad report to the Floor of the House when I occupied the...

Government: Cars — Question (25 October 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: My Lords, Toyota is a leading manufacturer in this country and a great asset to British manufacturing. It makes a great many cars here and, better still, exports a great many of them. Does it really matter if the particular model concerned is not made here, when Toyota contributes so much to this country?

European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill [HL]: Committee (13 June 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: I wonder whether the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, would reconsider his suggestion that Greece might be forced to leave the eurozone purely because of the action of the speculators. Is the real reason why Greece is in trouble not because it has been spending money it does not have, it has been borrowing money that it cannot pay back, and it is basically bust?

House of Lords: Stonework — Question (30 April 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: My Lords, the Parliamentary Estates Directorate is planning to begin trials of stone-cleaning work in Chancellor's Court and State Officers' Court in October 2014. It is hoped that work on these courtyards will be completed by October 2015, after which work on Peers' Court will begin in October 2015 to be completed by October 2016. I should point out that these are only estimated timings at...

House of Lords: Stonework — Question (30 April 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: My Lords, there are a great many other works going on in the palace-principally fire safety, mechanical engineering and cast iron roofs. All those require facilities for contractors on the estate, which on the whole means portacabins. I am afraid that they will be around for as long as is required. As for other bits of tidying up, we obviously do our best to make sure that there is not too...

House of Lords: Stonework — Question (30 April 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: My Lords, having come from home yesterday, I can say to the noble Lord that there was a great deal of rain around there too. A lot of the roads and pavements were flooded. Until this drought is over, we may have to put up with that. As for the provision of waders to noble Lords, a few years back there was a project of issuing umbrellas. That was not a success as most of them disappeared...

House of Lords: Stonework — Question (30 April 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: I am most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Trefgarne, and for the expression from the House. It is indeed the last time on which I shall answer a Question on these sorts of matters. But I can tell noble Lords that the issue of the works going on in the palace will go on for a lot longer and many more of my successors will be dealing with it.

House of Lords: Stonework — Question (30 April 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: I am not certain that I should try to answer that question, mainly because I do not know the answer, but I would have thought that they would go up in value as historic items.

House of Lords: Stonework — Question (30 April 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: That is an interesting suggestion. I am old enough to remember the great London smogs that caused this damage to the building in the first place, and therefore on the face of it the noble Lord's suggestion is a good one. However, I would resist it because of the damage being done to the building as of now, and therefore it is necessary to get on with cleaning and repairing it.

Liaison Committee: Third Report — Motion to Agree (26 March 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: I would say only that membership can be up to 14. There is no need for the European Union Committee to appoint 14 on each of its sub-committees; it can continue at 12, as it wants to at the moment. Noble Lords have made a number of other points but I do not think I can add much more. On the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, about the Science and Technology Committee, there is nothing...

Liaison Committee: Third Report — Motion to Agree (26 March 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: I am sorry to disappoint the noble Baroness but I do not speak for the Government.

Liaison Committee: Third Report — Motion to Agree (26 March 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: I will be brief because I know that certain Members of the House want to get on to the next business with rather a great deal of impatience. I shall not take long. I will not be able to name everyone in the impressive list of noble Lords who have spoken, particularly the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, and the massed ranks of fellow scientists that he has managed to assemble today. In what I thought...

Liaison Committee: Third Report — Motion to Agree (26 March 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: My Lords, I certainly was not trying to be contemptuous of the noble Lord, Lord Winston-rather the opposite; I was impressed by the number of scientists who had spoken. I am sorry that the noble Lord misunderstood me, or maybe I did not express myself well. As the noble Lord, Lord Alderdice, said, it is a question of resources. We cannot continue to spend more and more money. In this report...

Liaison Committee: Third Report — Motion to Agree (26 March 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: My Lords, the Liaison Committee's terms of reference require it to advise the House on the resources required for Select Committee work, to review the Select Committee work of the House and to consider requests for ad hoc committees. Its terms of reference also include a requirement to consider the availability of noble Lords to serve on committees, which I think we would all agree is not an...

Procedure of the House — Motion to Agree (26 March 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: My Lords, I shall be extremely brief because, fortunately, none of the points made in the debate on the report require an answer from me. As I said in the first place, the committee was not unanimous on this subject and therefore my position is completely neutral. On the question of Questions for Written Answer, there was not a voice against the proposal in the Procedure Committee's report. I...

Procedure of the House — Motion to Agree (26 March 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: My Lords, in moving this Motion, I would first like to apologise for the fact that the debate has been brought forward by a day. The date was rearranged at the request of the usual channels, in order to avoid disrupting business tomorrow, when I know the House will be keen to make progress on the legal aid Bill. However, the Procedure Committee report has been available for almost two months...

London Local Authorities Bill [HL] — Commons Amendments (21 March 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: My Lords, I do not intend to move these amendments individually as many of them deal with rather minor matters. There are, however, a number of amendments to the Bill which it may be helpful to draw to the House's attention. First, the Select Committee in another place deleted in its entirety the provision that would have required food hygiene information to be displayed in food premises....

House of Lords: Peers' Car Park — Motion to Resolve (15 March 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: My Lords, I am grateful for the short debate that has taken place, and I shall attempt to deal with some of the questions that have been raised. I am very grateful to other members of the Administration and Works Committee: the noble Lord, Lord Laming, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Exeter and the noble Lords, Lord Campbell-Savours and Lord Faulkner of Worcester, for their support....

House of Lords: Peers' Car Park — Motion to Resolve (15 March 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: I probably didn't.

House of Lords: Peers' Car Park — Motion to Resolve (15 March 2012)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: I think that we have already dealt with that problem about the desirability. As the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, said, it really is not a good idea to talk about detailed security matters. I take the point that the noble Baroness made about whether I should have made an Oral Statement on 9 February. Maybe I should have done, but I did give these details in the Written Statement. Although I...