Results 1-20 of 1,087 for speaker:Lord Barnett
- Upcoming Business – Lords: Main Chamber (4 June 2013)
Meaning of "flexibility in the fiscal framework" in the Chancellor’s speech to the IMF in Washington in April – Lord Barnett.
- EU: Reform — Question (16 May 2013)
Lord Barnett: My Lords, I am not sure whether the noble Lord can speak for the Prime Minister on this occasion, but will he tell us whether the major changes that he said he was looking for will require treaty change and the agreement of all 27 member states?
- EU: Budget Report — Motion to Approve (25 April 2013)
Lord Barnett: My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend on powerfully reinforcing what my noble friend Lord Eatwell said from the Front Bench about why this government policy is so inadequate. I must say to the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, that I thought she was telling us that she was not too happy about even bothering with these Motions and why did we have do it. We did sign the Maastricht treaty and now...
- Procedure of the House — Motion to Take Note (24 April 2013)
Lord Barnett: My Lords, my naive noble friend Lord Peston and the Leader of the House may inadvertently have been misleading us in talking about this Back-Bench committee. Like the noble Baroness, I have my doubts about it, but let us be clear that we are talking about experiment here, not an established Select Committee. If anybody reads this report, they will see that we are talking about a temporary...
- Retail Prices Index — Question (24 April 2013)
Lord Barnett: My Lords, the problem is not whether the Minister agrees with my noble friend Lord Peston. Is not the real problem with all these statistics whether anyone believes any forecast of anything? Is not the problem therefore not which is used but believing them?
- UK Industry: Competitiveness — Question (22 April 2013)
Lord Barnett: My Lords, as competitiveness is not going to be helped in any way by the Chancellor changing his fiscal policy, despite the strongest advice from people he depended on until recently, such as the IMF, can we take it that he will now be totally dependent for improving anything at all on help from the new Governor of the Bank of England through increasing monetary policy, even though it may...
- Banking: Quantitative Easing — Question (27 March 2013)
Lord Barnett: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they agree with Sir Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, that quantitative easing should be increased by £25 billion, as stated at the most recent meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee.
- Banking: Quantitative Easing — Question (27 March 2013)
Lord Barnett: My Lords, under Section 19 of that Act the Chancellor has power by order to stop the committee doing that just that. Can I assume that as he did not say he did, he does not oppose the idea of there being more QE? On the other hand, we have a new remit for the new Governor of the Bank of England. The Chancellor said: “the Monetary Policy Committee may need to use unconventional monetary...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Bank of England (27 March 2013)
Lord Barnett: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the Bank of England’s Asset Purchase Facility Fund Limited over their purchase of gilts, since 2009. To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the Bank of England’s Asset Purchase Facility Fund Limited over the purchase of private sector assets. To ask Her Majesty’s...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Bank of England (27 March 2013)
Lord Barnett: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Bank of England shares information it collects through surveys with HM Treasury.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Banks: Funding for Lending Scheme (26 March 2013)
Lord Barnett: To ask Her Majesty's Government what evidence they have received, if any, that some lenders of the Funding for Lending Scheme have higher charges than the starting headline rate of 0.25%.
- Infrastructure: Expenditure — Question (25 March 2013)
Lord Barnett: My Lords, is not the difference between the figures that he quoted and those quoted by my noble friend Lord Hollick that the previous figures were allocated but not actually spent?
- Written Answers — House of Lords: EU: Taxation (20 March 2013)
Lord Barnett: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Newby on 5 March (HL Deb, col. 1377), what taxes the United Kingdom helps to collect within European Union law.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: EU: Taxation (20 March 2013)
Lord Barnett: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Newby on 5 March (HL Deb, col 1378), whether they are actively seeking an agreement to a global financial transaction tax.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: EU: Taxation (20 March 2013)
Lord Barnett: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Newby on 5 March (HL Deb, col 1377), whether there will be a revised European Union treaty affecting only eurozone countries directly; whether the United Kingdom would be involved indirectly in collecting the financial transaction tax; and, if so, whether the agreement of all 27 member states would be required to implement it.
- Bank of England: Monetary Policy — Question (19 March 2013)
Lord Barnett: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to give more powers over monetary policy to the Bank of England.
- Bank of England: Monetary Policy — Question (19 March 2013)
Lord Barnett: My Lords, there have been widespread reports that the Chancellor was looking at that remit with the possibility of changing it. I appreciate that it may have been only a Lib Dem Budget leak but is it true and, if so, what does he propose to do about that kind of leak? Does the Chancellor, as has been said, believe in a looser monetary policy, and has he told the new Bank governor that that is...