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Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy: North East (25 Nov 2008)

Alan Beith: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether planning consents already given in renewable energy projects in the North East meet or exceed the renewable energy targets in the North East Regional Spatial Strategy for (a) 2010, (b) 2015 and (c) 2020.

Clause 1: Rates of Duty on Hydrocarbon Oil (24 Apr 2001)

Mr Alan Beith: .... He underlines my earlier point that conversion would be easy: indeed, people would only need to put a different fuel in their tanks at petrol stations. No engine adaptation is required, so the change would be easy to make. I mentioned the strong support for the amendment in the agriculture industry, and I draw the Government's attention to this week's edition of Farmers Weekly. In a ...

Orders of the Day — Crime and Disorder Bill [Lords] (8 Apr 1998)

Mr Alan Beith: ...research advice was received in his office. I think that the new Government should break with that tradition, and recognise that a standing body can work efficiently and expeditiously, and create a climate of consensus in regard to sensible measures. We recognise the need for many of the new orders in the rest of chapter I of the Bill, but we feel that in some cases the standard of...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Lloyd's Underwriters: Special Reserve Funds (13 Jul 1993)

Mr Alan Beith: ...Chief Secretary sketched in the economic background, which it was reasonable for him to do, and I do not quarrel with the main elements he quoted as favourable and positive in the current economic climate, although he was inclined to leave out some unfavourable elements. For example, the construction industry is still not showing the signs of recovery that are vital in that crucial sector...

Orders of the Day — Car Tax (Abolition) Bill (25 Nov 1992)

Mr Alan Beith: ...a Nissan plant, one sees few Japanese workers there. The large north-east work force has adapted to methods brought here from Japan—methods that themselves were adjusted to meet the British climate. They have set new standards, not just for the motor industry but for other industries. The result is that Nissan can claim that it has the best of a large available work force. Many...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Charge and Rate of Corporation Tax for 1992 (10 Jun 1992)

Mr Alan Beith: ...to which anyone could take strong exception. It is just not that kind of Bill. Other legislation might justify that sort of treatment, but not this. The amendment suggests a sensible way of changing corporation tax arrangements to protect companies from inflation adding to their corporation tax burden. Providing a long-term, stable corporation tax framework is more likely to provide the...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Small Companies (10 Jun 1992)

Mr Alan Beith: ...the recession and are hanging on desperately, and although they may be worried about a number of matters —about the uniform business rate and the impact that it had on them until this year's changes, about the VAT inspector and the burdens that he places upon them and about sorting out their employees' pay-as-you-earn—corporation tax is certainly not top of their anxiety list....

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (2 Jun 1992)

Mr Alan Beith: I agree. I supported the clauses and said, at the time of the Budget and since, that I would continue to do so. In the current climate, many farmers are saying to their sons, "You will have to think carefully before you even decide to keep the farm going, because I am not sure whether there is an income for the family now." But for the possession of a farmhouse and the ability to run a...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (20 Mar 1991)

Mr Alan Beith: ...keep down unit labour costs. If the recovery is as slow as the Government forecast, how will productivity rebound? I suppose the Government would argue that it will do so because business will have a better climate as a result of the Budget measures. How good is the Budget for business? Many of the tax changes, large and small, are welcome. Indeed, they follow closely the submissions...

New clause 2: Capital Allowance: Manufacturing Incentives (17 Jul 1990)

Mr Alan Beith: .... Business is paying the price for the high level of inflation. One of the elements that could contribute most to encouraging investment is stability in economic policy and that includes stable exchange rates and stable interest rates. That argues for membership of the exchange rate mechanism, which has been the universal call of business for a long time. It also argues for the mechanisms...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (25 Apr 1989)

Mr Alan Beith: ...be as dismissive of that as he originally sought to be. The Finance Bill is lengthy, but that is not a tribute to its gravity or radicalism. The Bill does not achieve any of the radical, tax-reforming changes that remain to be effected. I refer to proper integration of the tax and benefit systems, for example. The Bill does not even integrate properly the tax and national insurance...

Orders of the Day — The Economy (29 Nov 1988)

Mr Alan Beith: ...new subject for a confidence debate had been spawned, following the latest trade figures. The message that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has given to Conservative Members is that there will be no change in policy, that "What we shall do will be unpopular" and that "It is all very simple and it will be all right in the end." Those are the key points of the message. The Chancellor of the...

State of the Economy (25 Oct 1988)

Mr Alan Beith: ...to move around the country to obtain jobs, especially those who wish to do so, but present housing finance does not allow that. Another long-term problem is that the Government are not creating a climate for real business growth. A large proportion of the development and growth now taking place is dependent on the inflation of property values. One can see that vividly illustrated by the...

Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill: The University Commissioners (19 Jul 1988)

Mr Alan Beith: ...compensation regulations at least as favourable as those in being at present will be continued. The third feature of the background which caused great anxiety in the universities is the general climate of opinion in which such a fundamental change as the abolition of tenure is seen to have taken place—a climate in which the Government's dislike of dissent is very obvious. Comment...

Finance (No.2) Bill (26 Apr 1988)

Mr Alan Beith: ...it seemed that the Chancellor could not put his head around the door of No. 10 Downing street for fear that the Prime Minister would bellow at him because of his latest act of intervention on the exchange rate. The Chancellor has made some attempt to reassert his position, and it was noticeable in his radio interview on Sunday. I noted not so much what he said about charity as what he...

Coal Industry (Restructuring Grants) (2 Mar 1988)

Mr Alan Beith: ...worth turning down applications because they will only be overturned on appeal and they may be wasting their time in refusing the application in the first place. This has created an unfortunate climate of much greater hostility towards opencast coal operations. It calls for a little more caution in the pace at which the applications go ahead and a more determined attempt to enable the...

Orders of the Day — Nuclear Arms Control (13 Jul 1987)

Mr Alan Beith: ...such an offer to Mr. Gorbachev when he and I and the noble lord Lord Whitelaw were in Moscow. Mr. Gorbachev was, understandably, most receptive and offered reductions in strategic weaponry and changes in the targeting of Soviet weaponry if the policy of the removal of all American bases from Britain and the removal of the British deterrent could be accomplished. That is not the way in...

Opposition Day: Terrorism (26 Nov 1986)

Mr Alan Beith: ...countries should make that possible. The fact that Congress has eventually enabled these reciprocal arrangements, of which the order is but half, to be brought into effect is the result of a changed and more realistic climate of opinion in the United States and the recognition, even among those with emotional and historical links with Ireland, that terrorism is an evil wherever it is...

Orders of the Day — Members' Interests: Acklington and Castington Prisons (17 Feb 1986)

Mr Alan Beith: ...an hour on the subject of prisons and those who work in them. When the former Royal Air Force airfield at Acklington was taken over by the Home Office about 15 years ago to become a prison, the change was not universally welcomed in the surrounding area. At times, in the short history of the prison, there has been quite a lot of local concern either about escapes or the decision to...

Supplementary Estimates 1985–86: Overseas Aid (17 Dec 1985)

Mr Alan Beith: ...weather conditions. Some of them, by a combination of that and food aid, are now in a much better position for the immediate future than they were months ago. Other countries continue to experience climatic difficulties. All still face the fundamental, long-term problem of dealing with what could be recurring famine and recurring hunger if we do not ensure that proper development...