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- Death of a Member: Baroness Thatcher — Tributes (10 April 2013)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, this has been a most amazing debate but I felt absolutely compelled to say a few words as one who speaks of being, in a sense, of the next generation. I was not lucky enough, as many who have spoken today were, to have worked with her but I knew her a little. She had a profound effect on me and my generation, both men and women. For a few moments, perhaps I may share with noble...
- Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Report (4th Day) (Continued) (11 March 2013)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, I support this amendment, to which I have added my name. I support everything my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones has already said. This amendment would go some way to mitigate risks to the individual creators, without whom there is no creative economy. We have here more risks of unintended consequences of the government proposal for extended collective licensing. Already before the...
- Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Report (4th Day) (Continued) (11 March 2013)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, I should like to speak to Amendment 84AF, to which I have added my name. I spoke at some length in Committee on the extended collective licensing measures in Clause 69, and I made it clear then that I do not like the principle of ECL. I cannot see how it materially benefits the UK and it will bring uncertainty by not being truly voluntary. I believe-and I have said so...
- Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Report (4th Day) (Continued) (11 March 2013)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, I support my noble friend in relation to diligent search. I think the amendment speaks for itself, and I echo the words of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones.
- Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Report (4th Day) (11 March 2013)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, I have added my name to this group of amendments, which, as my noble friend has already explained, are to deal with the situation where the Bill as drafted would permit a number of unintended consequences, including permitting the publication of confidential family papers and destroying the value amassed in archives of works. Clause 68 contains a particular quirk of historic...
- Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Report (4th Day) (11 March 2013)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, I support my noble friend the Minister in his Amendment 84A to Clause 67. It is a sensible amendment that recognises that the IPO's original Henry VIII wording was not fit for purpose. If I may say so, it skilfully overcomes legal and parliamentary complexities to meet this stated aim of the Government since this clause was first introduced in another place. As I understand it, the...
- Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Report (3rd Day) (Continued) (6 March 2013)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, I add my support to my noble friends who have already spoken and congratulate the Minister on all that he has done to engage with us and our concerns in relation to this part of the Bill. When I have spoken on this Bill previously, I have said that it has much to commend it, and I am still of that view-very much so. Close scrutiny through Grand Committee has given the Government the...
- Burma — Question (28 February 2013)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, can the Government explain what they are doing to resolve the plight of the Rohingya?
- Leveson Inquiry — Motion to Take Note (11 January 2013)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, at last I have the chance to speak. However, there is little time and I hope that the Government genuinely want to take note of what we have to say. Having submitted written evidence to the Leveson inquiry, including a number of recommendations for change, I resolved to keep my powder dry, thinking that, as the immediate past chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, I would...
- Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill — Second Reading (14 November 2012)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, the Bill has much to commend it and I welcome it to your Lordships' House. I found the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, from the Dispatch Box opposite a little surprising given the previous Government's lamentable track record in this area. I well recall, as it was so close to Christmas, standing in the same place almost alone on 21 December 2000. I spoke on behalf of Her...
- Education: Development of Excellence — Motion to Take Note (18 October 2012)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, I would also like to congratulate my noble friend Lady Perry on bringing forward this hugely important debate. I like the idea put forward by my noble friend Lord Lloyd-Webber for an awards ceremony. I would actually go further and say that we should have an Olympics for business, including-most importantly-the creative industries that contribute so much to our economy. I want to...
- Elephant Poaching — Question (4 July 2012)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, can the Government do more in terms of the cultures of those who are involved in this trade? Perhaps there are ways in which we could use technology to encourage young people who live in countries which deal in this trade to change their hearts and minds about the use of elephant tusks, and rhino horn in particular, and then ask them to have an influence on their elders.
- Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Foreign Languages — Question (28 June 2012)
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- Directors' Pay — Statement (20 June 2012)
Baroness Buscombe: Will the Minister explain what she meant when she said that private equity is "something else"?
- Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill — Committee (5th Day) (Continued) (24 January 2012)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, I was the shadow Minister on the Proceeds of Crime Bill. I have rather a good memory, and I can say that the Minister is absolutely accurate in his comments about why the Government chose not to use the Proceeds of Crime Act as an opportunity for dealing with this issue.
- Media: News Corporation — Motion to Take Note (15 July 2011)
Baroness Buscombe: I am grateful to the noble Lord for allowing me to intervene. In declaring my interest as chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, I can confirm that the Daily Telegraph had to publish a full, half-page apology.
- Phone Hacking — Statement (13 July 2011)
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- Phone Hacking — Statement (13 July 2011)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, in declaring an interest as chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, may I place on record the fact that it very much welcomes the announcement of the inquiry into the regulation of the press and, indeed, the appointment of Lord Justice Leveson to lead that inquiry? Will the Leader of the House note that last week the Press Complaints Commission, led by its independent members,...
- Defamation Bill [HL]: Second Reading (9 July 2010)
Baroness Buscombe: My Lords, I join other noble Lords in congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter of Kentish Town, and the noble Lord, Lord Willis of Knaresborough, on their excellent maiden speeches. I must declare an interest as chairman of the Press Complaints Commission. In that capacity, I welcome this Bill as an important and, frankly, overdue step towards reform of our libel laws. I congratulate...
- Children: Criminal Responsibility — Question (10 June 2010)
Baroness Buscombe: In developing his thinking, will the Minister look at the tremendous amount of work done by the Conservative Party in opposition in 2001-02, when we looked in great detail at how we prevent young people getting on to the conveyor belt to crime? I think that that would help him. Will the Minister agree to do that?