Results 21–40 of 1590 for speaker:Lord Brabazon of Tara

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Christmas Bonus (11 Dec 2015)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the value, in current prices, of the £10 Christmas Bonus for pensioners when it was first introduced.

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Christmas Bonus (11 Dec 2015)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to change the £10 Christmas Bonus for pensioners.

Written Answers — Department for Transport: Aviation: Safety (21 Oct 2015)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking in conjunction with the Civil Aviation Authority to reduce the risk to life caused by passengers on United Kingdom registered aircraft who retrieve, or attempt to retrieve, and remove cabin baggage from the aircraft during an emergency evacuation, against the explicit instructions and lawful orders of the aircraft's crew and...

Taxation: Capital Gains Tax — Question ( 7 Jul 2015)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: Does my noble friend recall that, when capital gains tax was first introduced many years ago, there was a rate for exactly one year that you had to pay on income tax rates and after that it became 30%, which is the sort of suggestion that the noble Lord, Lord Lee, was making. That was a disaster, actually, and resulted in significant distortions in the market. It would be a disaster to move...

Vehicle Excise Duty: Carbon Dioxide Emissions — Question (29 Jun 2015)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to change the basis on which Vehicle Excise Duty rates for new cars are calculated by carbon dioxide emissions alone.

Vehicle Excise Duty: Carbon Dioxide Emissions — Question (29 Jun 2015)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: I congratulate my noble friend on that Answer. The Budget will be with us shortly, but will the Chancellor bear in mind that the present system strongly favours diesel cars, whereas we now know that nitrogen oxide emissions are far more harmful than CO2 emissions? Will the Government consider moving to a system that takes emissions of both gases into the equation? While they are about it,...

Severn Bridge: Tolls — Question (24 Jun 2015)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: I remind my noble friend that when the Dartford crossing was built, the plan was that when the thing had been paid for the tolls would be stopped. It was the party opposite who decided to continue with them, and they continue now.

RBS — Statement (11 Jun 2015)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: My Lords, I thought that somebody from the other side might get up, but evidently not. I welcome the Statement, as it goes, particularly in terms of selling the RBS shares. However, I hope my noble friend and the Government will not take too much criticism for selling them at a price below that which the Government paid. As an old stockbroker—admittedly, it is 30 years since I was one—one...

Written Answers — Department for Transport: Driving: Licensing ( 6 Feb 2015)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Kramer on 27 January (HL4238), when they last made an assessment of driver training and testing standards in each of the designated countries; which body carried out the assessment; where the assessments were carried out; and whether any countries have been removed from or added to the list of the designated...

Health: Diesel Engine Pollution — Question ( 6 Jan 2015)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: Does my noble friend recall that until very recently people were encouraged to buy diesel cars because they produced less CO2 and had very attractive rates of vehicle excise duty? What does my noble friend say to those people now?

Calais: Illegal Immigrants — Question (27 Nov 2014)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assistance they are giving to British lorry drivers at Calais to deter illegal immigrants from attempting to board their lorries.

Calais: Illegal Immigrants — Question (27 Nov 2014)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: I thank my noble friend for that reply. I am pleased that the Government have now made arrangements for new fencing, paid for by the Government, and for rearranging the border controls, which should help in a modest way, because lorry drivers are having a very difficult time at the moment. With, apparently, more than 2,000 people trying to come in as illegal immigrants at the moment, what...

House of Lords (Expulsion and Suspension) Bill [HL]: Committee (21 Nov 2014)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: I very much support the amendment, and apologise that I was unable to be in the House for Second Reading, but I also support the Bill. As some of your Lordships may recall, I was chairman of the Privileges Committee during the saga of the first suspensions to take place in the modern era. They were not as simple as all that, because a number of people thought that we should not have been able...

EU Budget Surcharge — Statement (10 Nov 2014)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: My Lords, would my noble friend not agree that, when the announcement was first made that we had to pay £1.7 billion—it is pounds, not euros—we were told by the Commission, other member states and, no doubt, the party opposite that it had to be paid by 1 December, or else we would have to pay interest? We have now reached a situation where it does not have to be paid by 1 December;...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Lasers (26 Sep 2014)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they propose to take in respect of the import, mainly through the internet, of laser pointers above classes 1 and 2, in the light of the study “‘Toy’ Laser Macular Burns in Children”, published in Eye, the scientific journal of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, in January; and what assessment they have made of the impact of such...

Jobseeker’s Allowance — Question (21 Jul 2014)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the latest employment data released by the Office for National Statistics; and what implications that has for the number of claimants of Jobseeker’s Allowance.

Jobseeker’s Allowance — Question (21 Jul 2014)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: I thank my noble friend for that reply. Can he confirm that those excellent figures are spread across the whole country, not just London and the south-east as some might have us believe? Will he also comment on the leader in last Thursday’s Times, which suggested that part of the responsibility for the reduction in unemployment lay with the Government’s welfare changes?

Written Answers — House of Lords: Electronic Government (17 Jul 2014)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answers by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 21 November 2013 (HL Deb, cols 1061–3), what progress they have made in clamping down on copycat websites that charge for services that are provided free of charge by government departments.

Cabinet Office: Efficiency and Reform Programme — Question (15 Jul 2014)

Lord Brabazon of Tara: If we did sell the Post Office too cheaply, surely that pales into insignificance in comparison with the sale of the gold reserves some years ago.


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