Results 7381–7400 of 7802 for speaker:Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

Orders of the Day — Gas Bill: Compensation for Damage or Loss Caused by Public Gas Suppliers (15 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: Has my hon. Friend thought of another aspect? If the gas industry is not required to pay proper compensation for loss of business, it will have no incentive to expedite works to minimise that loss.

Prayers: Pension Funds (15 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the right hon. Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners if he will make a statement on the findings of the Social Security Committee in its second report of Session 1994–95, HC 354, in respect of the operation of the Church of England pensions provision. [22497]

Prayers: Pension Funds (15 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to reflect on the full and searching debate which took place in the Chamber on Thursday night, in which it emerged that virtually every mistake in the book had occurred in the management of the Church Commissioners' funds? Does he agree that it is now urgent to establish a properly funded pension scheme so that past members of the clergy will be relieved...

Prayers: Legal Aid (15 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: On the other hand, has my hon. Friend observed the type of case that I have come across in my advice surgeries recently, involving people who have previously been reported to be wealthy but who have passed the income assessment and been legally aided by the Legal Aid Board for civil cases? That cannot be right.

Church of England Pensions (11 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: On the financial management, does my hon. Friend agree that as the capital value of the fund decreased, it was inevitable that the income decreased? The commissioners moved to make up the shortfall by buying high-interest coupons, therefore exacerbating the future capital growth of the capital fund.

Church of England Pensions (11 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I take part in this debate with a sense of sadness. At a time when the congregations of the Church of England are at their historic low point and when some of us, at any rate, who are members of the Church of England, feel that the Church is not giving a sufficient moral and spiritual lead, to heap this financial crisis—as, inevitably, it is—on to that dilemma is a cruel double blow. I...

Church of England Pensions (11 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I am grateful for that clarification. Nevertheless, the individual concerned has had professional financial training and is involved in a firm that gives pensions advice. He is therefore expected to know something about such matters. The lesson that must be learnt from the whole debacle is that we need a proper accountable, open, democratic system. As I said to the hon. Member for Birkenhead...

Church of England Pensions (11 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I thank my hon. Friend for that guidance, because he was a member of the Committee that produced the excellent 1991 report. Undoubtedly, wrong decisions were made. We need a proper financial structure. I should like to see the results of the quarterly meetings at least summarised in the annual report. I should like to see proper accounts showing the performance of each section of the Church...

Church of England Pensions (11 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: An examination of each section of a commercial pension fund against an index of performance of other pensions funds is undertaken every quarter at least. In his capacity as a Church Commissioner, would my right hon. Friend tell us whether that happens in the Church Commissioners' fund? In his opinion, is the re-balancing happening—quickly enough? The Lambeth report recommended that the...

Church of England Pensions (11 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I fear that my right hon. Friend has slightly missed my point. Any investment fund can be measured on its performance against a basket of other funds. Therefore, it is quite possible to measure whether the Church Commissioners' fund in agriculture measures up to other pension funds in agriculture. It is quite possible to measure whether the Church Commissioners' equity fund matches the equity...

Church of England Pensions (11 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: Is not the whole investment in Ashford symptomatic of what happened in the crisis? The Ashford development was not mentioned in the Church Commissioners' reports until 1991, by which time £72 million had been spent on it. It was valued then at between £10 million and £20 million, and today it is valued at £3 million. The problem was the secretive way in which the commissioners went about...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Privatisation (11 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the effect on the Exchequer in the last financial year of industries privatised since 1979; and what was their effect in 1979. [22227]

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Privatisation (11 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that those figures demonstrate the outstanding success of our privatisation policy, which has been widely recognised throughout the world by such regimes as North Korea and Cuba? Does he not find it strange that the last bastion of socialism, the new Labour party, has yet to appreciate the effects of privatisation?

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Agricultural Surpluses ( 4 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: Can my hon. Friend confirm that intervention stocks of beef, cereals and butter have been reduced dramatically since 1993? Will he give the percentage reductions and confirm that that is very good news for the taxpayer as it has reduced expenditure on intervention stocks under the common agricultural policy?

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq ( 3 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of whether UN sanctions against Iraq should remain in force. [20417]

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq ( 3 May 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: Does my right hon. Friend agree that Iraq's failure fully to comply with United Nations resolution No. 687 on co-operation in relation to weapons of mass destruction and on peaceful intent, together with human rights violations and the failure to agree on small sales of oil to give humanitarian assistance to the people of Iraq, mean that the Government should do their utmost to persuade the...

Orders of the Day — Agricultural Tenancies Bill [Lords]: Consequential Amendments (19 Apr 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I think that the hon. Gentleman misinterpreted what I said. There are few farmers who do not have some form of City funds, as the hon. Gentleman calls them, involved in their operations. They are called farm overdrafts. What is better: to have a long-term City institution owning the land on which they have a low return or for the tenant farmer to have an overdraft in the knowledge that...

Orders of the Day — Agricultural Tenancies Bill [Lords]: Consequential Amendments (19 Apr 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I am grateful to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to speak on Third Reading of what has been described as a milestone in landlord and tenant legislation. I pay great tribute to my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture and to my hon. Friend the Minister of State, who piloted the Bill through Committee. They listened to the Country Landowners Association, National Farmers Union and...

Orders of the Day — Agricultural Tenancies Bill [Lords]: Consequential Amendments (19 Apr 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I welcome that intervention, in the sense that I hope to be proved wrong and hope that the industry will have the confidence to let under the Bill's provisions, because I desperately want a flourishing landlord and tenant sector. The Opposition's stance can only endanger that process, which is why I appeal to them to think again, even at this late hour. I say as loudly and clearly as I know...

Orders of the Day — Agricultural Tenancies Bill [Lords]: Consequential Amendments (19 Apr 1995)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: In my experience, the number of short-term agreements are increasing rather than decreasing. The number of contractual, Gladstone v. Bower agreements have actually increased over the past few years, because of uncertainty in the industry about embarking on full landlord and tenant letting under the 1986 legislation. I hope that the Bill will reverse that trend. I agree with the Opposition...


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