Results 1-5 of 5 for hunting speaker:the Earl of Northesk

Regulatory State (2 Dec 2004)

The Earl of Northesk: ...who have spoken so far, I am disappointed by the Government's lukewarm response to that. I freely confess that I approached the work of the Merits Committee, chaired so ably by the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, with a certain amount of dread. Many within Parliament, let alone among the wider public, see statutory instruments and the regulations that they encompass to all intents...

Address in Reply to Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech (29 Nov 2004)

The Earl of Northesk: ...the background of a collapse of public trust in the current administration resulting from the methodology used to justify the war in Iraq, the unedifying spectacle of Parliament wrestling with the Hunting Bill and the re-routing of the constitution's hidden wiring, we can, I think, be forgiven for supposing that that aspiration is tarnished and threadbare. Given the YouGov poll reported in...

Written Answers — House of Lords: NHS IT Projects (11 Dec 2002)

The Earl of Northesk: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 7 November (WA 147), whether no spending from central government on National Health Service information technology projects and procurement has taken place over the past five years.

Public Services (18 Apr 2002)

The Earl of Northesk: .... . . They spend vast sums of the public's money, yet few of the public feel well served". The fact is that this stands at the very top of the domestic political agenda—notwithstanding hunting or anything odd like that. Indeed, as we all know, public service reform is the platform upon which the Government came into office. The Labour Party manifesto states: "Renewal of our public...

Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [HL] (15 Mar 2002)

The Earl of Northesk: ...substance of the issue, your Lordships are only too well aware that it has had an elephantine gestation period. I refer your Lordships to a Written Answer that I received from the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, on 2nd May 2001. In response to my query on whether the technical standards directive applied to the Government's Bill, the Minister unequivocally stated: "No, because its provisions are...