Results 161-180 of 500 for speaker:Lord Beaumont of Whitley

Address in Reply to Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech (25 Nov 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: My Lords, when the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, told me that he had unfortunately to leave and would not be able to follow the noble Lord, Lord Broers, I was much taken aback—first, because I always welcome listening to what the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, has to say. I also believe that the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, would join me in agreeing entirely with the content of the maiden speech...

Unadopted Roads (11 Nov 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether, in the interest of local government, they will ensure that definitive lists of unadopted roads are compiled.

Unadopted Roads (11 Nov 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: My Lords, while almost thanking the noble Lord for that Answer, does he realise that when a large number of citizens are without basic services, for whatever reason, at least the size of the problem should be known to both central government and the people at large?

Unadopted Roads (11 Nov 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: My Lords, is the Minister aware that he has not even touched on the basis of my Question, which is that it is the duty of the state as a whole to know, not necessarily about roads, but about citizens who are deprived of essential services and, therefore, it should know about unadopted roads? The central point is that the Government should know about the problems of citizens.

Annuities and Smoking (14 Oct 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they propose to take to prevent financial institutions selling annuities conditional on buyers continuing to smoke.

Annuities and Smoking (14 Oct 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: My Lords, while thanking the Minister for that Answer, I wonder if he is aware that a leader in the latest issue of The Week magazine said that companies selling annuities to smokers at discounts threatened to cancel the annuities and confiscate the payments if the annuitants thereafter dropped to smoking fewer than 10 cigarettes a day. This is not a question of codes of practice. Is it not...

Hunting Bill (12 Oct 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: My Lords, I should like to intervene to make two short points, one about the ethical basis of this provision and one about the method in which it is being applied. The ethical basis for this Bill seems to make no distinction between our treatment of the animals for whom we are personally responsible on a one-to-one basis, so to speak, and animals of the wild, which is very different. Of...

Disabled Residents: Unadopted Roads (16 Sep 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they are taking to ensure that disabled residents living on unadopted roads will be able to take full advantage of the provisions in the draft Disability Discrimination Bill.

Disabled Residents: Unadopted Roads (16 Sep 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord to a certain extent for that Answer. I know that he knows that there are about 40,000 unadopted roads in England, because we have discussed this before. Does he know that many of them, particularly in the north of England, are in such a state of disrepair and are so badly lit that disabled people cannot safely leave their houses? Does he not think that it is...

Rural Strategy 2004 (21 Jul 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: My Lords, will the noble Lord comment on whether he has any plans to do something about the stranglehold that the big stores such as Sainsbury's and Waitrose have on farmers, and the inability of farmers to fight them and to get a fair deal out of them? Unless that is tackled, farmers, particularly those with small farms—which, contrary to what the noble Lord, Lord Haskins, says, I...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Battery Recycling (6 Jul 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: asked Her Majesty's Government: What are the next stages towards implementation of the European Union Directive on Batteries (2003/0282 CD); when these are likely to take place; and what steps they are planning to take to implement domestic battery recycling to meet the targets laid down.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Plastic Bags (2 Jul 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they have any plans to impose a tax on plastic bags similar to that imposed by the government of the Republic of Ireland.

Civil Partnership Bill (24 Jun 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: My Lords, the Bill is not about economics, whatever anyone may say, it is about human rights and justice. Gay people in Northern Ireland suffer more than usual from prejudice. They are as entitled as anyone else in what is still a United Kingdom to have their human rights protected. I hear from the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association that it would feel extremely bitter if such people were...

St Helena (10 Jun 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps they intend to take to encourage immigration to St Helena in view of the depopulation of the island.

St Helena (10 Jun 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: My Lords, while I thank the Minister for that helpful reply and for her helpful letter to me recently on this subject, is not encouraging immigration one of the ways of combating such an enormous amount of emigration? When there is an island community, no matter how worthy in itself—and worthily called "Saint"—would it not be a good idea to inject some entrepreneurship from...

Overseas Territories (18 May 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: My Lords, I too join in thanking the noble Baroness for introducing this debate tonight. It is a good thing that we should, from time to time, consult about the overseas territories. As we have heard, it is necessary to pick and choose when dealing with them because there is a wide variety involved. As I have raised the issue of St Helena over a long period of time, your Lordships will not be...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Tristan da Cunha: Post and Supplies (12 May 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: asked Her Majesty's Government: What are the arrangements for the inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha to receive post and supplies from the rest of the world.

Political Parties (5 May 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: My Lords, I am a party man—all sorts of parties, but particularly political ones—from the moment when my father held me up on the balcony of the Bull's Head in the market square in Aylesbury in 1935 and, secure in his 20,000 majority, introduced me to the crowd as its future Conservative Member of Parliament; through the moment when I made a speech as a cocky late arrival at...

Supermarkets: Independent Watchdog (29 Apr 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether they intend to appoint an independent supermarket watchdog.

Supermarkets: Independent Watchdog (29 Apr 2004)

Lord Beaumont of Whitley: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for that Answer, which offers me rather more hope than I had expected. The matter is an urgent one. The Prime Minister has admitted that the supermarkets have an armlock on the farmers. The rate of suicide among farmers continues to rise. The rate of salaries paid to people who run supermarkets also continues to rise. That is a crying scandal and a disgrace...