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Carbon Emissions (30 Jun 2008)

Lord Barnett: ..., I assume that he has now taken the opportunity to read the book written by the noble Lord, Lord Lawson. Even if he agrees only with part of it, like me, would he accept that making decisions on climate change, which are based on the assumption that forecasts for 50 years and 100 years are accurate, does not make a lot of sense to anyone, especially as it is very difficult to make...

Taxation: Green Taxes (10 Jan 2007)

Lord Barnett: asked Her Majesty's Government: What is their assessment of the impact of current green taxes on climate change.

Pre-Budget Report (18 Dec 2006)

Lord Barnett: .... I put a question at Question Time to my noble friend a few weeks ago on this precise issue. I said that if the tax was not high enough, it would raise some revenue but do nothing whatever about climate change. If you want to do something about climate change, you must raise no revenue by placing it at such a high level that you will not get any tax. People will stop emitting, if that is...

Debate on the Address (27 Nov 2006)

Lord Barnett: ...than we could have achieved for another reason, to which I shall come in a moment. I do not often speak kindly of government policy, but in four successive quarters the Government have achieved an unchanged UK GDP growth record of 0.7 per cent per quarter: 2.8 per cent annually. That is a considerable record and achievement, for which the next Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, deserves our...

Globalisation (4 Jun 2003)

Lord Barnett: ...anything. On the one hand, the nations of the western world talk glibly about help and the integration of trade and so forth, while, on the other hand, they refuse to do anything seriously to make changes to the system that would really help the developing world. As we set out in the report, one is bound to say that there are shameful levels of poverty. Speaking in economic terms, the...

Barnett Formula (7 Nov 2001)

Lord Barnett: ...a clear explanation of precisely what it is. I shall then try to explain why it was invented—if that is the right term—why it has survived for more than 20 years, whether it should be changed and, if so, how? The formula was invented—I have used that word incorrectly—in 1978. Perhaps I should say at the outset that it did not occur to me at the time that it would...

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