Results 1-8 of 8 for climate change speaker:Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon

The Royal Navy (27 Jun 1991)

Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...that so self-evidently compose themselves against us is all wrong. That task should be approached on no other basis but that of a proper defence review. We know that the threat to this nation has changed. In the light of the collapse of the Soviet empire—albeit the Soviet Union is still producing submarines at a faster rate than ever before—the threat to our nation has...

Orders of the Day — Opposition Day: EC and Eastern Europe (31 Jan 1990)

Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...along with the huge opportunities it presents come immense dangers. It will require great imagination, a good deal of forward thinking, and enormous sensitivity to achieve stability out of profound change. It is important to acknowledge also that each of the emerging central European democracies is different, and that none of them can be treated the same. The model that we should look to...

Chancellor of the Exchequer (Statement): Education (26 Oct 1987)

Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...is about measuring the Government's true intent in dealing with choice and establishing whether this is the truth or a cover for more centralised control. It is about establishing what will be the climate of change that dominates a period of profound change in the education system as a result of the Government's proposals. What will that climate be? That is what it is about. Many regard...

Opposition Day: European Community (Research and Development) (3 Dec 1986)

Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...have been lost. We are now running a balance of trade deficit that will mount in the years to come and will become one of the most significant factors in our economic decline unless policies are changed. For the first time in 150 years Britain had been reduced to being an importer of manufacturing goods. The devastation wreaked by this Government in the last seven or eight years has been a...

Opposition Day: City of London (12 Mar 1986)

Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...that these are the facts of life in the City. If the hon. Gentleman is patient enough, he will hear how I believe that the Government have contributed to that. We must encourage an attitudinal change in the City. I understand that there are young men not yet 30 earning vast sums of money. Some of them—and this will perhaps illustrate the problem of looking at things purely in the...

Opposition Day: British Steel Corporation (Borrowing Powers) (2 Jul 1985)

Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...about the restitution of our existing infrastructure but about the building of an infrastructure which will be suitable for a modern industrial nation moving into the 21st century. BSC needs a climate of political stability and an economy restored to more permanent fitness. Unhappily, until we see a change of Government, or until we can persuade the Government to change direction, none of...

Orders of the Day — Small Business Bill (18 Jan 1985)

Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...by saying that it is designed to remove burdens from small industry. He rightly pointed out the expenses that small businesses have to carry to observe legislation. The Bill is designed to create a climate or a set of benchmarks for the Government to aim at and for us to prompt them to achieve. I pay tribute to the Under-Secretary of State. He knows that we would have preferred to see a...

Orders of the Day — Ordnance Factories and Military Services Bill (16 Jan 1984)

Mr Paddy Ashdown: ...hon. Members have pointed out, to explain why the undertakings and recommendations of the crucial Mallabar report have been overturned and largely ignored. Tory Members said that the position had changed since the Mallabar report was written, which may be true, but when the Minister presented the Bill, he did not tell us how things had changed or how and why the crucial detailed studies...