Results 61–80 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 Marlesford

Agriculture Bill - Committee (2nd Day): Amendment 13 (to Amendment 12) ( 9 Jul 2020)

Lord Marlesford: My Lords, I repeat the declaration of interests that I made on Tuesday. Many things have been said on this wide-ranging collection of amendments; I will focus briefly on just a few of them. I echo what the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, said, about the intrinsically unsatisfactory nature of discussing a Bill in Committee in this form. I know it cannot be avoided, but it falls far short of the...

Agriculture Bill - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 2 ( 7 Jul 2020)

Lord Marlesford: I want to follow on closely from what the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, was saying. I believe that the Bill has to be changed somewhat. First, the emphasis should be more on the rural economy, of which farming is of course a key element. I believe that the way forward is to consolidate and formalise the diversification approach that many farmers have already moved on to. We should do so through...

Agriculture Bill - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 1 ( 7 Jul 2020)

Lord Marlesford: My Lords, I declare my interest as a Suffolk farmer. It must be a matter of real regret that the Second Reading of this important Bill was, in effect, guillotined. Only six hours were allocated for that debate, meaning that some 65 of the 90 Members who wished to speak were able to do so—and they had only four minutes each. Frankly, if there had been another two hours at least the other 30...

Covid-19: Support and Accommodation for Asylum Seekers - Commons Urgent Question (30 Jun 2020)

Lord Marlesford: My Lords, in her reply last week to my Written Question on the asylum process, the Minister said: “Individual applications are referred to Ministers where they are identified as potentially sensitive”. Unfortunately, she was unable to give me any information on how often this happens. Does she agree that in determining an asylum application, the authorities must always consider potential...

Black Lives Matter: Protests - Private Notice Question (15 Jun 2020)

Lord Marlesford: My Lords, can the Minister see that for both sides of the argument on the removal of statues, every day that the statue of Winston Churchill remains boxed up is a day when the banner of anarchy is raised over Parliament Square? Does this direct action on statues not echo horribly the fascist days of Islamic State, when it attacked the city of Palmyra and publicly decapitated the archaeologist...

Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies - Private Notice Question (28 Apr 2020)

Lord Marlesford: You did. I want to comment on the question about Dominic Cummings. Does my noble friend the Minister agree that anyone who has worked in No. 10 knows that the better informed the Prime Minister’s personal staff can be on background policy decisions, the more use they are to the Prime Minister?

Ministerial Code: Breaches - Statement ( 2 Mar 2020)

Lord Marlesford: My Lords, the undignified whinge in front of television cameras by the former Permanent Secretary at the Home Office certainly shows that he is no Sir Humphrey Appleby. What matters is that the Home Office is arguably the most constipated department in Whitehall, but one of the most important. There is much still to be done to follow up what the noble Lord, Lord Reid, said in May 2006 about...

Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill - Second Reading (and remaining stages): Amendment to the Motion (24 Feb 2020)

Lord Marlesford: My Lords, I do not welcome the Bill but I support it, because it is needed to protect our national security from the deadly threat posed by convicted terrorists who, if released from prison, may still believe that their mission is to kill without discrimination, under the banner of Islamic jihad. There have been eight such attacks in Britain since March 2017. Many others have been detected...

Operation Midland - Question ( 3 Feb 2020)

Lord Marlesford: My Lords, do the Government not realise that it is not acceptable to this House or to the country that Sir Edward Heath’s reputation should be trashed and no attempt made to have a judicial review, which would be independent and respected, into the circumstances of Operation Conifer, bearing in mind that the chief constable who was responsible for it was subsequently retired in disgrace...

Facial Recognition Surveillance - Statement (27 Jan 2020)

Lord Marlesford: My Lords, the lamentable decline in security on our streets and elsewhere makes it essential that every modern technique to increase security is used. Will the Minister agree to a seminar or something so that those noble Lords who are particularly interested in this subject may be given a briefing in some depth?

Queen’s Speech - Debate (2nd Day) ( 7 Jan 2020)

Lord Marlesford: My Lords, I think the whole the House will regard those comments as unworthy of a great political party and quite inappropriate when we are discussing serious things today.

Brexit: Preparations - Statement ( 8 Oct 2019)

Lord Marlesford: My Lords, does my noble friend agree that for Northern Ireland to be outside the single market when Great Britain is inside it in no way infringes the constitutional position of Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom? If he does so agree, could not exactly the same argument apply to the customs union?

Brexit: Negotiations - Statement ( 3 Oct 2019)

Lord Marlesford: My Lords, I have spent quite a lot of my life observing and taking the temperature of the House of Commons. Does my noble friend agree that the change today was quite remarkable? I would not be at all surprised if there was consensus to at least support the new approach the Government have taken. That approach has several alternatives within it and, at any rate, is a base which did not seem...

International Climate Action - Statement (26 Sep 2019)

Lord Marlesford: My Lords, I have a practical suggestion for how we can save the Amazon rainforest and similar areas. The international community, through the IMF and the World Bank, should take over a proportion of the government debt of the countries concerned, on the basis that the debt would not be liable to interest nor have to be repaid provided that these areas were conserved. To give a real incentive,...

Iran - Statement (25 Sep 2019)

Lord Marlesford: My Lords, my noble friend referred rightly to the Iranian “regime”. Does he agree that that is the right word to use, given that Iran is run by a tripartite outfit? On the one hand, there is the Iranian Government of President Rouhani, his Foreign Minister and colleagues, who would like to come back into the international community. They are sound and we should encourage them. On the...

Business of the House - Motion on Standing Orders: Amendment to the Motion (2B) ( 4 Sep 2019)

Lord Marlesford: I very much echo what my noble friend says. It is a disgrace that the closure Motion is constantly moved, and on one occasion—after the brilliant speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Deech—before anybody else had any chance of commenting. The Liberal Benches did it; they have not apologised and they should. Then, to make it all worse, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Goldsmith, took it upon...

Business of the House - Motion on Standing Orders: Amendment to the Motion (2A) ( 4 Sep 2019)

Lord Marlesford: I thought that the noble Lord, Lord Harris, would have realised that we were trying to make clear the implications of the guillotine Motion which we are discussing, which is an extremely arrogant Motion.

Business of the House - Motion on Standing Orders: Amendment to the Motion (2A) ( 4 Sep 2019)

Lord Marlesford: I am afraid I do not agree at all. If the noble and learned Lord is proposing to move the closure of my speech, let him go ahead and do so. I wish to make my own speech, and I do not wish to be told by him what or what not to say. Is that clear? I thank him very much. At any rate, it was not until Maastricht that we attempted to have in Europe a policy similar to the rights of states; it was...

Business of the House - Motion on Standing Orders: Amendment to the Motion (2A) ( 4 Sep 2019)

Lord Marlesford: Yes, indeed. Of course, all that is what caused David Cameron to call a referendum in the first place. One must realise that when we voted to leave the EU, the Commission was outraged. It was also fearful. Once one country had taken such a step, others might follow and the whole edifice could come crashing down. Methodically and skilfully, it set about making the UK’s departure either...

Business of the House - Motion on Standing Orders: Amendment to the Motion (2A) ( 4 Sep 2019)

Lord Marlesford: My Lords, my noble friend Lord True asked me to speak to this amendment; it is an interesting amendment to speak to. The amendment relates particularly to the 17.4 million people who voted for Brexit and the effect of this guillotine on them. I point out that fact because, in the past, noble Lords have not always read the amendment. As the amendment says, it comes, “in recognition of the...


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