Lord Ryder of Wensum: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Department for Communities and Local Government has made since May 2010 in respect of commitments relevant to it in the coalition agreement.
Lord Ryder of Wensum: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has made since May 2010 in respect of commitments relevant to it in the coalition agreement.
Lord Ryder of Wensum: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Department of Health has made since May 2010 in respect of commitments relevant to it in the coalition agreement.
Lord Ryder of Wensum: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Attorney General's Office has made since May 2010 in respect of commitments relevant to it in the coalition agreement.
Lord Ryder of Wensum: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has made since May 2010 in respect of commitments relevant to it in the coalition agreement.
Lord Ryder of Wensum: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Department for International Development has made since May 2010 in respect of commitments relevant to it in the coalition agreement.
Lord Ryder of Wensum: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Scotland Office has made since May 2010 in respect of commitments relevant to it in the coalition agreement.
Lord Ryder of Wensum: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has made since May 2010 in respect of commitments relevant to it in the coalition agreement.
Lord Ryder of Wensum: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Cabinet Office has made since May 2010 in respect of commitments relevant to it in the coalition agreement.
Lord Ryder of Wensum: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Department for Transport has made since May 2010 in respect of commitments relevant to it in the coalition agreement.
Lord Ryder of Wensum: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Ministry of Justice has made since May 2010 in respect of commitments relevant to it in the coalition agreement.
Lord Ryder of Wensum: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Department of Energy and Climate Change has made since May 2010 in respect of commitments relevant to it in the coalition agreement.
Lord Ryder of Wensum: To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has made since May 2010 in respect of commitments relevant to it in the coalition agreement.
Lord Ryder of Wensum: My Lords, do the Government adhere to the principle of pricing people into jobs?
Lord Ryder of Wensum: My Lords, can my noble friend please tell the House about the last time that the IMF forecasts for the British economy were accurate?
Lord Ryder of Wensum: My Lords, is my noble friend aware of the fact that the clinicians at the Institute of Cancer Research where I am the chairman regard the working time directive as being of no benefit at all to their patients? In view of this fact, can he please tell me now-or if not now, in a letter with a copy placed in your Lordships' Library-the details of the meetings that have taken place between...
Lord Ryder of Wensum: My Lords, is not the use of "growth" incredibly mistaken in the context not only of my noble friend's Statement but of the European Council's conclusions, which I have before me? Indeed, the first paragraph of the Council's conclusions states: "The European Union will continue to do everything necessary to put Europe back on the path of smart ... and inclusive growth". Perhaps my noble friend...
Lord Ryder of Wensum: My Lords, leaving aside the welcome reductions in corporation tax, will my noble friend please remind your Lordships of the three main supply-side measures promoted by the Treasury to encourage growth?
Lord Ryder of Wensum: Is my noble friend aware that unemployment in Germany has fallen by a significant margin over the last five years, largely as a result of supply-side measures that have been introduced by the German Government? Will my noble friend please draw these measures to the attention of the Business Secretary and ask him why he has not already followed the German example, if he really is serious about...
Lord Ryder of Wensum: I am very grateful to my noble friend. I have known him for many decades and I would never accuse him of naiveté, but I have been following his speech carefully. If the other House continues to automatically guillotine every piece of legislation, what is to prevent this House from doing exactly the same and therefore being a mirror image of the other House by not revising legislation properly?