Results 141–160 of 2000 for (in the 'Commons debates' OR in the 'Westminster Hall debates' OR in the 'Lords debates' OR in the 'Northern Ireland Assembly debates') speaker:Lord Taylor of Goss Moor

Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill: Rebates (20 Apr 1988)

Matthew Taylor: The hon. Gentleman is jumping up and down like a Jack-in-the-box, so I shall give way to him.

Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill: Rebates (20 Apr 1988)

Matthew Taylor: Interestingly, in this year's round of rate increases, we managed to have the lowest average of all parties, so the hon. Gentleman does not make a good point. We have fundamental criticisms of the present grant system. I believe that a report today suggested that the gains would be almost exclusively in Tory constituencies, but that is not surprising when the grant system is biased in that...

Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill: Rebates (20 Apr 1988)

Matthew Taylor: The hon. Gentleman will not find that when his constituents spell out their financial difficulties. In three or four years' time he will be writing letters to Ministers and the Secretary of State, begging them to intervene to help constituents who have got into financial difficulties.

Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill: Rebates (20 Apr 1988)

Matthew Taylor: Will the hon. Member give way?

Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance Bill: Rebates (20 Apr 1988)

Matthew Taylor: Will the Minister give way?

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Gaming Machines (21 Apr 1988)

Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is now able to announce whether he proposes to seek to amend the law concerning the accessibility of gaming machines to children and young persons; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Gaming Machines (21 Apr 1988)

Matthew Taylor: I am sure that the Minister is as worried as I am about the increasing addiction and the devastation that that causes to parents, particularly in tourist areas such as mine, which have many such units and many applications coming in for more. I understand that the Minister has had the reports for some considerable time. Will he say how long they have been in his possession? At present,...

Clause 39: Occupied Hereditaments: Liability (21 Apr 1988)

Matthew Taylor: As the hon. Member for Cornwall, South-East (Mr. Hicks) will know, I have put my name to this amendment. Much will depend on the amount of support the Government choose to give. That will be a decision for the Government to make at a later stage; it need not be a problem in respect of the amendment. I am sure that the hon. Member for Cornwall, South-East agrees that the provision is aimed at...

Clause 39: Occupied Hereditaments: Liability (21 Apr 1988)

Matthew Taylor: The hon. Member for Billericay (Mrs. Gorman) is absolutely right, as this assumes, even with a phasing-in period, that that business is able to generate more income to meet the increase. For example, rural village post offices, as in my constituency, tend to be flat on income or even squeezed out. No matter how long one spins out an enormous increase, such increases will still have to be...

Clause 39: Occupied Hereditaments: Liability (21 Apr 1988)

Matthew Taylor: Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Clause 39: Occupied Hereditaments: Liability (21 Apr 1988)

Matthew Taylor: As I understand it, the Secretary of State is saying that if rates rise considerably over time, that will force rents down, and that will sort out the problem. Yet he is introducing a uniform business rate on the grounds that execessive rates increases in certain local authority areas are hitting business badly. I cannot understand how he can argue one point about what happens now and a...

New Clause 10: Acquisition of Interests Less than Freehold (25 Apr 1988)

Matthew Taylor: I thank the Secretary of State for his courtesy in giving way. It is not easy, hearing about such concessions in a debate like this, to understand specifically what the Secretary of State intends. He will be aware that two major projects in Carrick district council, within my area, have been affected, and the council has made representations to him. Would it be possible to make some effort...

New clause 12: Information. (25 Apr 1988)

Matthew Taylor: At the start of the final debate on the Tory tax—the poll tax—the Secretary of State prefaced his remarks by saying that the Bill had stood up remarkably well to examination in this House. A majority of 25 for the showpiece of the Government is remarkable. I am not entirely sure that that is the type of remarkable event that the Secretary of State wanted his flagship to enjoy. As the...

Rover Group ( 4 May 1988)

Matthew Taylor: I have listened with some disillusionment to the debate. I thought that sterile toing and froing between nationalisation and privatisation had been written into the history books. The Minister had to start with a sterile description of the benefits of privatisation. I suppose that that would be what the hon. Member for Bromsgrove (Mr. Miller) would describe as one of the new panaceas. The...

Rover Group ( 4 May 1988)

Matthew Taylor: As the hon. Gentleman says, it was decided at a cocktail party. Clearly, Lord Young had no thoughts on the matter until it was presented to him. At the press conference where Rover announced its 1987 results, he said: I have literally an open mind on it…I will wait for Mr. Day to tell me even whether privatisation is feasible. I have no thoughts of my own on the subject at the moment. That...

Clause 4: Metering Trials Schemes ( 4 May 1988)

Matthew Taylor: I am sure that hon. Members on both sides will welcome the amendment, which was pressed on many occasions in Committee. It represents a substantial part of the case that we put forward. As such, we welcome it, and I am sure that the Labour party will do the same. We still have serious concerns about the impact that metering may have on individuals and about differentials. I am a little sad...

Oral Answers to Questions — Energy: Neighbourhood Energy Action ( 9 May 1988)

Matthew Taylor: The Minister may be aware that, under the new employment training programme, there is worry that funding will not be sufficient for energy projects and that approved training organisations will not be keen to keep them going? Will he liaise with officials at the Department of Employment about that, and has he any helpful advice to offer for those projects?

Oral Answers to Questions — Energy: Magnox Reactors ( 9 May 1988)

Matthew Taylor: The Minister will be aware that the advisory committee on the safety of nuclear installations has recommended that there should be a 50 per cent. increase in the number of Nuclear Installations Inspectorate personnel working on decommissioning. Will he tell the House how many are currently working on decommissioning and whether he will accept the advice to increase the numbers?

Clause 42: Misleading Advertisements (Control) (10 May 1988)

Matthew Taylor: I must make it clear that, committed as we are to the extension of consumer rights, Democrats welcome the regulations and their effect in reining in misleading advertisers. It is a pity that the regulations have been so long in gestation, but they are, nevertheless, a necessary and important addition to the present self-regulatory powers. No one should doubt the value of the changes to...

Clause 42: Misleading Advertisements (Control) (10 May 1988)

Matthew Taylor: I would not want to accuse the Government, wrongly, of deliberately and directly misleading people in a leaflet, but the leaflet says that people cannot be approached for gossip and rumour about their neighbours. We were told in the Committee considering the Bill to introduce the poll tax into England and Wales that they could. Is there to be a different situation in Scotland—in which...


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