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Corporate Profits: Inflation - Question (29 Jun 2023)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ...country is performing poorly in relative terms compared with them? Our inflation is higher and our productivity is lower—why is that so? Is this not to do with some of the points pressed about Brexit by people on the Tory Back Benches opposite and the 4% loss to our economy as a result of us coming out of Europe?

Living with Covid-19 - Statement (22 Feb 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ..., Lord Dubs, so peremptorily. We have one of the worst records on deaths from Covid in Europe. We have seen that we have one of the unhealthiest countries in Europe. We now have the freedom with Brexit to make many changes which people previously said we were unable to make. When will a programme be set out to make this country the healthiest in Europe?

Shortages: Protection for the Vulnerable - Question (20 Oct 2021)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, I do not agree with the Minister that everything has been fine following the shocks that we have suffered from Covid and Brexit over the past few months, and neither would the underprivileged in our society. Are the Government doing some contingency planning, as we have really big threats coming, possibly with climate change, to protect the most underprivileged and deprived in...

Standards in Public Life - Motion to Take Note ( 9 Sep 2021)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ...in that area. I might suggest that a start would be to do some MORI-type work among the public at large on how they perceive us in the light of where we stand in 2021, particularly after Brexit. In 2016, we were well out of touch with the mood of the public, notwithstanding all our intelligence and expertise. We have to be close to the people and we need to find ways in which we can get...

Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill [HL] - Second Reading (25 Jun 2021)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ...of the very important part of the Bill, to which I subscribe, on the environment. We are now going through Covid, an experience we have never had before. In the past five years since 2016, with Brexit, we have seen massive changes and government struggling day by day to cope with what is thrown at it—Covid being the ultimate. It was totally unexpected. If we look at what we have been...

House of Lords: Remote Participation and Hybrid Sittings - Motion to Take Note (20 May 2021)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ..., we have little representation from Catholics and little talk about those pressing for the unity of the whole of Ireland. To be a representative House, we need those people here with us. How many Brexiteers do we have? I hope that the issue of democracy, representation and wider participation will also be on the agenda when we come to review where we have got to. I suggest to my noble...

Brexit - Motion to Take Note (19 Oct 2019)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ...I do not like the deal. With any deal that we reach—and I return to unison with my colleagues here—the Prime Minister will have to go the extra mile and find a way of putting it to the people. Brexit came from the people. It is difficult to realise that only four years ago we would never have believed that we would be having these kinds of debates. Before David Cameron was elected, it...

Trade Unions - Motion to Take Note (18 Jul 2019)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ...inequalities that we see in our society. In particular, we need to raise low-paid workers out of in-work poverty, which is a modern scourge and the source of so much discontent in UK workplaces. If Brexit exacerbates this—we hear all the talk of moving, as some want, to a Singapore-style economy—do not be surprised if the anger around us becomes uncontrolled and we start to see...

NHS: Future UK Trade Deals - Motion to Take Note ( 4 Jul 2019)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ...-decker bus—another great British emblem—which the head of the UK Statistics Authority called, “a clear misuse of official statistics”, in a letter to Boris Johnson. What Mr Johnson and the Brexiteers carefully concealed by omission is that the EU affords a degree of protection for the NHS from predators and profiteers by limiting market forces’ intervention in public health,...

Verify: Digital Identity System - Question (26 Nov 2018)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, can the noble Lord explain what Verify will do to make our borders safe after Brexit? Will he now review his position on compulsory and voluntary ID and agree that the only way for us to have safe borders is by a compulsory form of recognition?

High Street Retailers - Question ( 4 Jul 2018)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ...and we should start planning for it now? Many high streets will be decimated and will not be what we have known in the past. That means that there will have to be investment. Given that we have Brexit coming and we will have freedom on VAT, are the Government, as part of their review, looking to see how they can use changes in VAT rates to ensure that we get the appropriate payments from...

Trades Union Congress 150th Anniversary - Motion to Take Note (14 Jun 2018)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ...organisation. We now have the trade unions being very clear indeed about where they see the interests of their members lie in various different countries. As regards the current big issue, that of Brexit, they are in favour of internationalism rather than narrow nationalism. However, there is no point in denying that the trade union movement has problems. The membership is ageing and it is...

Brexit: Health and Welfare - Motion to Take Note (29 Mar 2018)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ..., for securing this debate and for her persuasive arguments. I am grateful to all others who have contributed to what has been a very comprehensive debate. I will say something on the impact of Brexit on health inequalities. I am sure that many of your Lordships are aware of the work by Michael Marmot, who has highlighted that there is a social gradient in health—that is, the lower a...

European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - Committee (8th Day) (Continued) (19 Mar 2018)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ...Deben, to incorporate this into the Bill. There is no real reason why it should not go in. It should go in because that would send a wider message about what life might look like in future. Post Brexit, the Government will have to negotiate about 760 treaties on different subjects with 168 countries. Many of these will affect people’s health in a variety of ways, many of which have been...

Integrated Communities - Statement (15 Mar 2018)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ...places such as Blackburn, Bradford and Walsall, where we have high levels of unemployment in all aspects of the community there? That is one way we can find our way out of it. God only knows how Brexit is going to provide investment in those areas in the future. As we are focusing on these areas, could he say what additional incentive he may have been considering to get extra investment in...

Written Answers — Department for International Trade: Trade Agreements ( 6 Mar 2018)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: To ask Her Majesty's Government what are their plans for parliamentary scrutiny of post-Brexit trade deals.

European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - Second Reading (2nd Day) (Continued) (31 Jan 2018)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ...the will of the people, and it behoves us to listen to what he said about trying to know and follow the will of God, rather than focusing so much on humanity. He suggested that we should know what Brexit is about, where it is taking us, what kind of society we are seeking and how to get out of this confused and divided country in which we now find ourselves. He gave us much food for...

Brexit: Mental Health Research Funding - Question (23 Nov 2017)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ...UK the leading research and technology economy in the world for mental health”? I am reassured by some of the Answer he gave, but he has not given a firm commitment that this will continue after Brexit. Will he give such a commitment; and given the promise that was made in the manifesto, will he outline how the Government intend to increase the amount of research that will be undertaken...

Health: Duties on Food and Drink - Question ( 6 Mar 2017)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her reply, but disappointed. I wonder whether she might be persuaded to reflect on the need for a further examination of the subject. Does she agree that Brexit provides the opportunity for us to look at VAT, customs and excise duty, and a whole range of taxes in a much more flexible way than we have been able to when linked to Europe? Does she...

European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill - Second Reading (2nd Day) (Continued) (21 Feb 2017)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: ...saying that today. I am in the moment, and we have to move forward. We should come together in any way we can and in doing that help the Government to protect the majority in the country—not the Brexiteers, not the minorities or anything—and try to get them behind the Government. It will not be easy. I come back to the point the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, made. A price will be paid at the...


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