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Public Accounts (12 Mar 2009) has video

Austin Mitchell: ...today and from our work over the years. It is useful to discuss that. One thing that emerges, for instance, is the constant desire of this Government—and of most Governments in the populist climate in which we operate, where every Government want to show that they are in command of the problems, that they are dealing with the problems as they arise and that they are responding to...

Orders of the Day: Clause 2 — Addition to list of treaties (26 Feb 2008)

Austin Mitchell: ...fishing industry is making as much money out of catching shellfish—including crabs and lobsters—as it was out of catching fish. My hon. Friend must not attribute the consequences of climate change to a lack of national control over fishing resources—

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: European Affairs (20 Jun 2007)

Austin Mitchell: ...we shall probably discover that the red lines have turned orange and possibly even green, because Europe is reinventing itself as an environmental organisation that will lead the battle against climate change. The Government have the voting strength to put through almost anything they want, but if they accept the treaty that calls itself a constitution two problems will arise. First, we...

Uk Relations (Australia/New Zealand) (30 Jan 2007)

Austin Mitchell: ...the hon. Gentleman is teaching at the moment, but from the fact that Australia has followed a very different policy from New Zealand and has been a sycophantic follower of American policy on climate change and on Iraq. New Zealand, on the other hand, has maintained an independent line on both issues—as we should have done in the UK—especially on Iraq, where it wisely stayed...

Point of Order: Fisheries (14 Dec 2006)

Austin Mitchell: ...that fishing of haddock and many other fish would be banned. The real problem is getting sustainable yields from cod stocks. The question is whether we can return to that situation in the light of climate change, which is pushing the cod stocks north.

Orders of the Day: Company Law Reform Bill [ Lords] (6 Jun 2006)

Austin Mitchell: ...cacophony of examples where action should have been taken but has not been. The Bill is a particular disappointment to those who felt in 1997 that an incoming Labour Government would be able to change the climate in business and ensure that companies were run with the participation of the workers and the stakeholders, and above all, that there was for accountancy and audit a framework of...

Orders of the Day: Company Law Reform Bill [ Lords] (6 Jun 2006)

Austin Mitchell: ...by British companies, but we do not know the damaging effects of that because as long as a company does not go bankrupt, we never find out what has been going on. I fear that there has been a change in the climate, in that corporations are no longer entitled to the respect that they once had as national champions, the producers of British products and the employers and trainers of a work...

Fisheries (7 Dec 2005)

Austin Mitchell: ...to recover. In the North sea, the decline was mainly caused by over-catching. That has brought stocks to the point where it is questionable whether they will survive. There is also the problem of climatic effects and the warming of the waters, which was mentioned by the Opposition spokesman. Frankly, we do not know in scientific terms whether cod stocks will recover if the cod recovery...

National Offender Management Service (17 Mar 2004)

Mr Austin Mitchell: I am grateful for the conveniently labelled plan before me, so that I know in what terms I should talk. I want to concentrate on the speedy way in which the change has been brought in. It has been produced out of the blue and imposed without consultation. There has been far too much of that in Government policy in recent times. One of the Prime Minister's policy advisers gets a bright idea...

Common Fisheries Policy (6 Dec 2001)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...sea stocks under survey—those that they are researching—are not now reaching the size and weight appropriate to their age. Why is that? The explanation that is most often put forward involves climatic change and global warming. The food source for the cod larvae—the phytoplankton—has decreased because the waters are warming. The fact that the waters are warming is...

Orders of the Day — Insolvency Bill [Lords] (24 Oct 2000)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...already by vested interests to which a Labour Government should not be making concessions. Now, the Minister tells us that there have been last-minute representations from those vested interests to change the legislation's proposed regulations. Although small businesses are struggling, and some of them are dying, we seem to want to consult the vultures that are hovering overhead. We seem...

Economic and Monetary Union (24 Jan 1991)

Mr Austin Mitchell: It is like the climate in that sense. That is the role of the exchange rate. We cannot abolish it without disastrous consequences for the life that is sustained in that climate. Hon. Members have argued that transaction costs will come down—a huge gain, particularly when we are in deficit. Transaction costs come down for importers as well as for exporters, and with us in substantial...

Orders of the Day — Industry and Environment (22 Nov 1989)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...his point of view, it is deeply out of fashion even with this Government. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will find a happy place in the monetarist museum at Liverpool university which, given the change in the climate, is probably where he should go. I shall concentrate on industry, about which the Queen's Speech said little. That is a tragedy, because industry is the basis by which we as...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (29 Apr 1986)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ..., however strenuous the ceremonising to the rest of the community, there are always five or six handouts to wealth. There have been handouts in several forms—a fiddle here, a fudge there, a change there, a cut in the rates, an adjustment, a little trimming, some fiddle on the capital transfer tax or a rebasing of the capital gains tax. Behind the deluge of public relations words...

Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill (22 Oct 1985)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...shouts for it. The Bill is born out of dithering and duplicity. The dithering involves the procedures by which the Government decided to implement intergovernmental agreements, although they later changed their minds. In 1984, the Government introduced the first intergovernmental agreement under the European Communities Act 1972 and as being ancillary to the treaty, although it was a...

Opposition Day: Prices (19 Jun 1985)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ..., and the Government have harmed the real economy of the country. It is no use talking about small businesses replacing the massive job losses in big business, unless the Government provide the climate and framework for expansion, the stimuli, and low interest rates for small businesses to flourish. The Government's policies can never work. They could not have worked, and we warned the...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Initial Allowances and First-Year Allowances (1 May 1984)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...that give incentives, and in which we have to deal with the inertia of the status quo. Investment cannot suddenly pick up sticks and march into another sector as the allowances in one sector are changed. We are dealing with existing industries, particularly in manufacturing, which compete in the international trading sector, and which have been unsuccessful in it, even with the tax...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Corporation Tax for Financial Years 1983 to 1986: Charge Rates and Consequential Provisions (1 May 1984)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...men. This issue is central to the sector of the economy that Conservative Members claim to represent, yet there have been few contributions from them and, apparently, even less interest. The changing balance between clause 57 and clause 18 and the abolition of stock relief means a substantial change in the climate in which business must operate. In 1979 when it came to power, the...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Corporation Tax for Financial Years 1983 to 1986: Charge Rates and Consequential Provisions (1 May 1984)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...to be in the county of Humberside. In the 1982 corporation tax Green Paper, the Government said that full and informed public discussion …is an essential precondition for any further major change …before bringing forward any further major change in structure (of corporation tax), the Government would wish to establish very carefully whether there was a general consensus that...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Corporation Tax for Financial Years 1983 to 1986: Charge Rates and Consequential Provisions (1 May 1984)

Mr Austin Mitchell: The effect of the change in clause 18, taken with the change in the allowances in clause 57, is to discriminate against the manufacturing sector of the economy, and that must be pointed out in any analysis of the changes introduced by the Finance Bill. However, I leave that and move on to the changes introduced in corporation tax, for we are seeing not only a regime that is less favourable...