Results 1-4 of 4 for climate change speaker:Baroness Barker

Health: Disease Control (Intergovernmental Organisations Committee Report): Motion to Take Note (24 Feb 2009)

Baroness Barker: ...factors in the international health scene. In addition, we have the forthcoming G8 summit. For reasons that I shall make clear later on, we have at the end of 2009 the important UN conference on climate change. Recent events since the report was produced have demonstrated how important it is. In December 2008, cholera infected 80,000 people in Zimbabwe. As far as we know, approximately...

Debate on the Address (8 Nov 2007)

Baroness Barker: ...circumstances is a powerful force exerting discipline on highly skilled professionals and goes far beyond that made possible by formal lay involvement. There has been much discussion about the Government's proposal to change the standard of proof for medical practitioners from the civil standard of "on the balance of probability" to the criminal standard of "beyond reasonable doubt". We on...

Pensions (5 Mar 2003)

Baroness Barker: ...investment in property might be about to find out soon that what they believed to be a prudent course of action is just as insecure. Uniquely, the Government have the power to create the necessary climate in which to manage those risks in the long term. The proposal to simplify the taxation regime has been universally welcomed. We on these Benches endorse it also. However, the reaction to...

Pension Policy (15 May 2002)

Baroness Barker: ...pensioners to people of working age is increasingly fuelling a trend towards private and pre-funded pensions. But here and in the USA the private sector seems to be increasingly problematic. In the climate of today's headlines it is tempting to focus solely on the subject of occupational pensions but I believe that that would be wrong. In order to avoid the position where government...