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Economy: Enterprise, Taxation and Manufacturing (22 May 2008)

Baroness Buscombe: ...unnecessary regulation and over-taxation, which would drive business and investors elsewhere. Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of the advertising firm WPP, has warned against the planned tax changes that would see large chunks of multinational companies' overseas profits brought within Britain's tax net. He said: "If the measures ... are introduced, ratified, confirmed and implemented,...

Education: Science and Technology (20 Apr 2006)

Baroness Buscombe: ...broaden out, spreading the actual scientific content so thinly that one does not need a graduate to teach it". Professor Bernard Lamb of Imperial College, London, has echoed growing concerns that changes to GCSE and A-level syllabuses, which effectively demand less from pupils, are dumbing down education. Common sense as well as facts tells us that making subjects easier does not achieve...

Civil Contingencies Bill (14 Oct 2004)

Baroness Buscombe: ...I was sleeping. I had not realised that I was that important. The point is that there was a strong sense of what we should do and what precautions we should sensibly and quietly take. That has changed. Earlier today, we were saying that we were living in a new climate in a dangerous world. We just want to feel that the Government are doing all that they can to inform and educate people,...

Communications Bill (25 Mar 2003)

Baroness Buscombe: ...the Bill in its entirety. Although we support the Bill in principle, there are a number of important issues on which we do not agree with the Government. We hope to persuade the Government to change their minds on those issues as we proceed. Given the list of eminent speakers today, I have no doubt that we can look forward to some eloquent, lively and, it is to be hoped, constructive...

Licensing Bill [HL] (12 Dec 2002)

Baroness Buscombe: ...the Bill. However, having said that, I wish to return to what I said at Second Reading. I said then that we were not convinced that the case had been made by the Government for this radical change of procedure from magistrates' courts to local authorities. We have nothing but praise for the magistrates who give up their time for no reward and for their clerks, without whom the magistrates'...