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Lord Fearn

Former Liberal Democrat Peer

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Lord Fearn

🗣️ Speeches and Debates

  • Short-Term Holiday Lets — Question 8 Dec 2014

    My Lords, will the Minister state what special regulations there are as regards fire in these sorts of sublets? In the constituency of Southport, there are many young people who cannot find anywhere to live who are cohabiting in flats of this nature. Is there any particular reason why there are no fire restrictions on many of those flats?

  • Pensioners: Savings — Question 9 Mar 2009

    My Lords, will any pressure be brought upon the banks in which the Government have taken a stake to increase pensioners' income by increasing the interest rate? By that, I mean all pensioners rather than a few. It is all right to talk about fuel poverty, but this is about no one particular thing; it is about what they have saved up for their whole lives.

  • Aviation (EUC Report) 8 Dec 2003

    My Lords, it is now more than a year since the European Court of Justice ruled that the UK and seven other EU members had broken European Community law by including nationality in the bilateral agreements with the US. The judgment stated that that was a case of discrimination. Excluding air carriers of other member states from the benefit of national treatment in the host member states is...

  • Iraq 26 Mar 2003

    My Lords, can the Minister explain why Turkish troops have amassed on Iraq's borders? Is there a reason for that?

  • Tourism 9 Jul 2002

    My Lords, will the Minister join me in congratulating the BTA, which, through its Britain Visitor Centre, now deals with 450,000 visitors a year? Most of those are shelved off to other areas of Britain. Many of them come to Southport for golf, because we have seven golf courses.

  • Homelessness Bill 15 Jan 2002

    My Lords, I also rise to support Amendment No. 2. On 15th November, when rough sleepers were counted, the figure totalled 532 for the whole of England, which I found hard to believe. It has since been proven wrong by many institutions that look after rough sleepers, such as the Simon Community. It said that there were many more rough sleepers but that that night there was a purge by police,...

  • Homelessness Bill 12 Nov 2001

    My Lords, I would normally speak on tourism and most people expect me to do so. However, when considering my maiden speech in this House, I decided that homelessness and especially homeless young people is a subject dear to my heart and should take priority. Some time ago I slept with Jeremy Irons in a cardboard box on the steps of Westminster Cathedral. Half way through the night a group of...

  • Opposition Day: Rural Economy 25 Apr 2001

    Never before has the importance of tourism to the rural economy of the United Kingdom been more apparent; never before has the industry been so much in the forefront of the news; and never before has the future, the core and the infrastructure of tourism been so thoroughly under threat. Britain's tourism industry, as we have heard, is the fifth biggest industry and comprises 120,000...

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