Results 1-20 of 186 for in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates' speaker:Lord Morgan
- Education: Languages — Question (12 March 2013)
Lord Morgan: My Lords, is it not ironic, in view of what we have heard, that modern languages are a particular casualty of the disastrous changes in the Government's funding regime in universities? Does this not completely contradict what the Minister has been saying?
- Regional Development — Question (12 March 2013)
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- Dr David Livingstone — Question (27 February 2013)
Lord Morgan: My Lords, the Prime Minister has spoken about a shameful episode in our imperial past, the Amritsar massacre, and quite rightly so. Would it not be very valuable if the Prime Minister could speak, perhaps not only in Scotland, about a pacific, idealist, Christian visionary, like David Livingstone, who presents a very contrary view of our imperial past and perhaps shows how this country should...
- Transforming Rehabilitation — Statement (9 January 2013)
Lord Morgan: My Lords-
- Transforming Rehabilitation — Statement (9 January 2013)
Lord Morgan: The statement very properly deals with some very important issues in our society, such as the high rate of reoffending. The great bulk of offences are committed by people who have already offended and this is adding to the pressure in our prisons; there is also the absence of an integrated system to deal with offenders who, as the noble Lord has said, are immediately thrust back into the...
- Equal Marriage Consultation — Statement (11 December 2012)
Lord Morgan: Like others in the Labour Party, I declare my support for this measure, which is liberal, humane and in accordance with the progressive consensus in our society, particularly among young people. This is not a young House and it is important that we strike a chord with younger people. However, the Statement contained a quite absurd historical error: it referred to the established church in...
- Immigration: Home Office Meetings — Question (3 December 2012)
Lord Morgan: Is the Minister aware of the appalling damage done to graduate studies at our universities, both academically and financially? The figures that we saw last week indicate very clearly that tens of thousands of graduate students have not come to this country, not because they are bogus but because of other qualifications-including financial-imposed by the Border Agency, whose policies have...
- Welsh Government: Tax-varying Powers — Question (27 November 2012)
Lord Morgan: My Lords, the Silk commission admirably proposed a valuable extension of devolution by linking representation and taxation. Nevertheless, is not the Welsh Labour Party correct in saying that we cannot properly resolve these matters until there is fair funding for the Welsh Government, which means the abolition of the Barnett formula?
- Justice and Security Bill [HL] — Report (2nd Day) (21 November 2012)
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- Justice and Security Bill [HL] — Report (2nd Day) (21 November 2012)
Lord Morgan: Thank you. I am very anxious to hear the noble and learned Lord, Lord Lloyd, too. I will not speak for very long. I am not a lawyer and I sit on the Back Benches, as I always have, where one is required to vote but not necessarily to think. Yet occasional flickers of thought agitate our minds. This clause is deeply unfair and the amendments are profoundly right. It seems characteristic of...
- First World War: Centenary — Question (20 November 2012)
Lord Morgan: My Lords, should we not recognise-I think that the Minister wisely does-that the First World War was a very important chapter in our social and cultural as well as our military history? Should we not therefore focus on aspects such as the role of women, the centrality of trade unions in our life and the sensibilities of war poets, who were disgusted by that obscene episode? Should we not...
- Police and Crime Commissioners — Question (5 November 2012)
Lord Morgan: My Lords, is not one group of electors particularly disadvantaged in this election? I refer to those who are Welsh speaking. What progress are the Government making in answer to the excellent points raised by my noble friend Lord Touhig?
- David Livingstone Bicentenary — Question (23 July 2012)
Lord Morgan: My Lords, we are prone to celebrate the more exploitative and squalid aspects of empire in the history of this country and many of its practitioners are celebrated in key points of our squares and roads in the centre of London. David Livingstone surely embodies the humanitarian and idealist strain that we ought to honour, so could we perhaps have a statue of him as well?
- Draft House of Lords Reform Bill: Motion to Take Note (30 April 2012)
Lord Morgan: Will the noble Lord kindly explain to the House why Lloyd George was against an elected House of Lords?
- Migration: University-sponsored Students — Question (30 April 2012)
Lord Morgan: My Lords, is this policy not the result of a basic intellectual confusion that has very serious and harmful effects? First, it distorts the statistics on immigration, which causes concern. Secondly, as we have heard, it is extremely harmful to universities and deters many would-be bona fide students from overseas countries, with a great loss of revenue. Thirdly, it seriously imperils...
- Universities: Fees — Question (28 March 2012)
Lord Morgan: My Lords, why are university vice-chancellors thought to be so passive in this matter? We were told the other evening that they had no alternative, and that the lawyers had explained this to them. We were told that they could not revise their financial calculations. University vice-chancellors are supposed to be chief executive officers capable of responding quickly to sudden changes. Why can...
- Scotland Bill: Report (1st Day) (26 March 2012)
Lord Morgan: That was not my experience as vice-chancellor, and I reject that argument. The situation is divisive and is more extreme than in Wales. I regret what has happened there, but at least Welsh-origin students have to pay something. In a sense, they all suffer because there is top-slicing of the grant for higher education. In that sense, the situation in Scotland is more extreme than in Wales. The...
- Scotland Bill: Report (1st Day) (26 March 2012)
Lord Morgan: I intervene very briefly, not as a member of the Labour Party but as a former vice-chancellor. The present situation is deeply harmful to the very concept of a university. Universities are founded on the ethic of equality, whereby all students should be treated the same. We have legislation to deal with some of the more harmful aspects of discrimination-with regard to racial matters, for...
- Her Majesty the Queen's Diamond Jubilee: Commonwealth — Question (20 March 2012)
Lord Morgan: One of the Commonwealth's truly important and precious links with this country is through higher education. Is it not the case that many Commonwealth countries-for example Malaysia, and also India-find immigration restrictions extremely difficult for them in terms of bona fide students coming to this country? Do they not also resent bona fide students being categorised under immigration...
- Health: Pneumoconiosis — Question (29 February 2012)
Lord Morgan: My Lords, perhaps in common with other noble Lords I have members of my family who worked in the slate quarries and died as a result of their employment. When the Act was passed by the Callaghan Government in 1979, Members of the Commons were assured that there would be an equality of authority for workers in the slate quarrying industry-a small, fragmented, rural industry-and those in more...