Results 1-20 of 720 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 Tebbit

Enterprise Champion — Question (12 Nov 2009)

Lord Tebbit: My Lords, will the Minister now answer the question that has now been asked twice of him? Does the noble Lord, Lord Sugar, speak with the authority of the Government or not?

Prisoners: Voting — Question (12 Nov 2009)

Lord Tebbit: My Lords, on the right to vote, should prisoners be confined to voting on European referenda?

Immigration: Yarl's Wood — Question (12 Nov 2009)

Lord Tebbit: My Lords, is the Minister not entirely right to imply that these people are not detained against their will? They are perfectly free to leave Yarl's Wood at any time with their children, but they are not allowed to enter this country. Detention is not the right word. They are voluntarily there and they have an alternative.

Coroners and Justice Bill: Commons Reasons and Amendments (11 Nov 2009)

Lord Tebbit: The Minister is on an important point. Perhaps he can give us a guarantee that the Government will not seek to remove the similar provision concerning religious discrimination.

Coroners and Justice Bill: Report (2nd Day) (Continued) (26 Oct 2009)

Lord Tebbit: My Lords, this amendment is about life and death, and there are not many matters of greater import. We have to look at it a little broadly. The law provides that we, as individuals, have no right to take life except in self-defence. It provides that the state, in acting for society, may take life or license the taking of life only in defence of the state or society itself. In short, the right...

Iraq — Question (22 Oct 2009)

Lord Tebbit: My Lords, I do not think that the Minister quite answered the question put by my noble friend Lady O'Cathain. How much will it cost? He said that it was worth while. How can he know that it is worth while if he does not know what it will cost?

Yemen: Al-Qaeda — Question (21 Oct 2009)

Lord Tebbit: My Lords, the noble Baroness has mentioned the good work done by the Royal Navy in combating piracy off the coast of Yemen. Can she tell the House what has happened to the pirates who were captured earlier this year by the Royal Navy?

Coroners and Justice Bill: Committee (6th Day) (9 Jul 2009)

Lord Tebbit: Are there any sections of the Koran that would fall foul of the law?

Coroners and Justice Bill: Committee (6th Day) (9 Jul 2009)

Lord Tebbit: Are there any sections of the Koran that, if read out in a public place, would cause an offence under the law?

Coroners and Justice Bill: Committee (6th Day) (9 Jul 2009)

Lord Tebbit: With respect, I asked the noble Lord not whether it would be offensive to read it but whether reading it might constitute an offence under the law, particularly the law without the Waddington amendment.

Coroners and Justice Bill: Committee (6th Day) (9 Jul 2009)

Lord Tebbit: Almost all that was necessary to be said today was said by the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss. In my own way, I will turn from the generality of what she said to a more specific case. In his original speech, the noble Lord, Lord Lester, made some perhaps less than kind remarks about the intellectual capacity of certain police officers in relation to one incident that had been...

Coroners and Justice Bill: Committee (6th Day) (9 Jul 2009)

Lord Tebbit: I am grateful to the noble Lord, but he has already explained that perfectly reasonable police officers have interpreted it in exactly that way and have arrested and detained people for behaving and speaking in a way which the noble Lord says no one could possibly misunderstand. But they did and it has happened.

Arrangement of Business — Announcement (6 Jul 2009)

Lord Tebbit: My Lords, does that mean that the noble Lord expects the arrangements to be rejected?

EU: Financial Institutions — Question (2 Jul 2009)

Lord Tebbit: My Lords, would the noble Lord like to confirm what I think he said, which was that President Sarkozy has got it all wrong and that the Minister and his colleagues, with their usual brilliance and charm, have negotiated in Europe an agreement that enables us to do exactly what we want, despite the opposing views of many in Europe? That is what he implied. Is that what he meant?

EU: Lisbon Treaty — Question (1 Jul 2009)

Lord Tebbit: My Lords, can the noble Baroness tell us when this Parliament will have an opportunity to debate and vote on the arrangements being made for the Republic of Ireland, which clearly have an effect on this kingdom?

Banks: Lending — Question (17 Jun 2009)

Lord Tebbit: My Lords—

Justice: Sharia Law — Question (4 Jun 2009)

Lord Tebbit: My Lords, the Minister sets out the legal position very well, and I am sure that we all absolutely support him in that. However, does he recollect that, a few years ago in the East End of London, there was a system of arbitration of disputes run by the Kray brothers? Is he not aware that extreme pressure is put on vulnerable women to go through a form of arbitration that results in them being...

Human Rights: Women — Question (1 Jun 2009)

Lord Tebbit: My Lords, does the noble Lord think that Western Governments intervening in Muslim countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq to tell Muslims how they should construct their society and what values they should observe within their own countries is going to be helpful in winning hearts and minds in those countries, or is it more likely to push people towards Islamic fanatics instead?...

EU: UK Citizens' Attitudes — Question (11 May 2009)

Lord Tebbit: My Lords, the noble Lord said that the Government were trying to persuade British people that our membership of the European Union was a good thing. It is a very long journey. Could they start with one small step along that journey by wresting back from our European masters the power of decision over whether Danish meat or any other foreign meat can be described as British when it is brought...

Questions for Written Answer: Late Answers — Question (30 Apr 2009)

Lord Tebbit: To ask the Leader of the House, further to her Written Answer on 4 March (WA 169-70), whether she will ascertain what the constraints were which delayed the answer to Lord Corbett of Castle Vale's Question for Written Answer tabled on 3 December 2008 until 3 March (WA 140-41) and that of Lord Hylton tabled on 8 December 2008 until 11 February (WA 196).