Results 121–140 of 900 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 Brooke of Alverthorpe

Nuclear Energy (22 Nov 2005)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, is the Minister aware that the Liberal Democrats' shadow spokesman on the environment is the Member of Parliament for Lewes and that, even though he is opposed to civil nuclear power development, his constituents are within a relatively short distance of innumerable nuclear power stations on the French coast? When examining future policy, will the Government take into account that,...

NHS: Staff Facilities ( 8 Dec 2005)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, this side.

NHS: Staff Facilities ( 8 Dec 2005)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: No, my Lords, we have not.

NHS: Staff Facilities ( 8 Dec 2005)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, although I welcome the news that we will have a review that will report in the spring, could we make certain that that it looks at European practice? The information that I have indicates that, in some European countries, legislation exists to prevent nurses and doctors going out into the streets in their uniforms. They must change before they go out. Could we ensure that, while we...

Airports: Proposed Motor Vehicle Access Charge (13 Dec 2005)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, is the Minister aware that newspapers are carrying reports that all car parking spaces at Heathrow are likely to be booked up already for the Christmas period? Therefore, the imposition of a £5 charge is likely to make little difference to people who are, notwithstanding good public transport facilities out to Heathrow, quite determined to take their cars there? Is it not important...

Terrorism Bill (13 Dec 2005)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: Could the noble and learned Lord say how many such people there are in GCHQ and whether he has been in GCHQ?

Terrorism Bill (13 Dec 2005)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: I am one who did not intend to speak in this debate, but I have felt moved to do so by some of the contributions. I take a slightly different line. My answer to the questions would be that 60 people have been killed by suicide bombers, something that we have never encountered previously in this country. I feel the Committee has great merits in mounting a debate of this nature. We bring to the...

Royal Mail (12 Jan 2006)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Clarke of Hampstead for sponsoring the debate. This is the first of two debates today on trying to improve public services. The issues are about change and competition, but this debate has a strong European dimension. I shall follow a vein similar to that of the noble Lord, Lord O'Neill, and I share a good number of the points that he made. The...

NHS: Postponement of Operations (31 Jan 2006)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, is the Minister aware that many of us on this side welcome the prospect of a White Paper on tackling health inequalities? Many of us were therefore very disappointed that this important topic was not in the Statement that was due to be repeated here yesterday. Is there any reason why that was so?

Citizenship: Young People (16 Feb 2006)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, is not the opportunity to have a job an important factor too in enabling the growth of better citizenship? Are the Government convinced that the New Deal is working effectively and helping much in that regard? To withdraw it would be a negative factor in improving respect.

Identity Cards Bill ( 6 Mar 2006)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, will the noble Lord kindly say why the British population keep consistently returning a Labour government?

Civil Aviation Bill ( 8 Mar 2006)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, I can see that the Government have a difficult balancing act here. Aviation is one of our growth industries and many jobs are involved in it, and, although we all want to be green, I do not think that people would be very happy if we saw substantial job losses. I can see why the Government want to ensure that we continue to maintain Heathrow, in particular, as our central hub. Many...

Voluntary Sector ( 9 Mar 2006)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Goodlad, for selecting this topic for debate. I am sure that we shall hear contributions reflecting widely different backgrounds and experiences. I started as a volunteer at 16 years of age in the trade union movement as an office representative acting on behalf of tax staff. I suspect that many people do not see the trade union movement as...

Violent Crime Reduction Bill (29 Mar 2006)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, I welcome the Bill, as I am sure the overwhelming majority of the British public will also. It is mainly about alcohol misuse and its links with crime and disorder. Regrettably, they affect many people in this country these days. It is on those topics that I wish to speak. The links are well documented. Prior to the publication of the Government's alcohol harm reduction strategy in...

Violent Crime Reduction Bill (26 Apr 2006)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: Before the noble Baroness responds, may I just say that I, too, had a briefing from Alcohol Concern on a good number of the issues that she has brought to our attention? She has saved me a lot of breath on those matters and I congratulate her on the way in which she has moved the amendments to many of the Government's proposals, which I welcome. This is a step in the right direction and puts...

Violent Crime Reduction Bill (26 Apr 2006)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: I do not think that the Bill is about naming and shaming. We should look for some consistency of approach in its purpose of protecting other persons from criminal or disorderly conduct while the subject is under the influence of alcohol. Those of us who have some experience of living in cities know that, like it or not, youngsters these days increasingly drink before the age of 16. Youngsters...

Private Finance Initiative (12 Jun 2006)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords—

Migrant Workers (15 Jun 2006)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, does the Minister agree that perhaps we might get a better handle on those figures if we had compulsory identity cards? Perhaps she might also agree with me that we should do our best to try to persuade those who constantly criticise and complain about the number of illegal migrants that we do not know about in this country to support compulsory identity cards.

Oil Prices (24 Jul 2006)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, would it be very green if we started reducing the duty?

Children: Bed-and-Breakfast Accommodation ( 1 Nov 2006)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, some months ago, my noble friend circulated a consultation document on the way in which long-standing unoccupied private residential accommodation might be used. Where have we got to with that consultation, and could that accommodation not be used in this context?


<< < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > >>

Create an alert

Advanced search

Find this exact word or phrase

You can also do this from the main search box by putting exact words in quotes: like "cycling" or "hutton report"

By default, we show words related to your search term, like “cycle” and “cycles” in a search for cycling. Putting the word in quotes, like "cycling", will stop this.

Excluding these words

You can also do this from the main search box by putting a minus sign before words you don’t want: like hunting -fox

We also support a bunch of boolean search modifiers, like AND and NEAR, for precise searching.

Date range

to

You can give a start date, an end date, or both to restrict results to a particular date range. A missing end date implies the current date, and a missing start date implies the oldest date we have in the system. Dates can be entered in any format you wish, e.g. 3rd March 2007 or 17/10/1989

Person

Enter a name here to restrict results to contributions only by that person.

Section

Restrict results to a particular parliament or assembly that we cover (e.g. the Scottish Parliament), or a particular type of data within an institution, such as Commons Written Answers.

Column

If you know the actual Hansard column number of the information you are interested in (perhaps you’re looking up a paper reference), you can restrict results to that; you can also use column:123 in the main search box.