Lord Clark of Windermere: My Lords, the Government deserve congratulations for bringing forward this Agriculture Bill. It offers the same potential as the Attlee Government’s efforts in 1947 and the common agricultural policy that has dominated us for so long. I am particularly pleased that the Government have realised that farming is changing and changing quite dramatically. I sometimes feel that those at the...
Baroness Garden of Frognal: The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is responsible for the Olympic torch relay. On 18 May LOCOG announced the 66 evening celebrations and six of the island visits. The schedule of evening celebration events for the north-west is as follows: Chester ( 29 May);Bolton ( 31 May);Liverpool ( 1 June);Isle of Man ( 2 June);Carlisle ( 20...
Following is the list:Bath Chamber of CommerceBattle & District Chamber of Commerce.Birkenhead Chamber of Commerce.Blackpool Chamber of Trade.Bowness on Windermere Chamber of Trade.Broadmead & District Trades Association, Bristol.Bromley (Kent) Chamber of Commerce.Chesterfield & District Chamber of Trade.Cleethorpes & District Chamber of Trade Coventry Chamber of...
Mr Michael Jopling: I cannot quite understand why the Government have tried to pursue a policy of regional development, with the establishment of regional economic planning boards and councils and so on, and why, at the same time, they are anxious to bring in a tax of this sort. I agree with the hon. Gentleman the Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton) that the effect of this tax, without any question,...