Results 61–80 of 800 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 Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay

Political Parties and Elections Bill: Report (1st Day) (Continued) (15 Jun 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: My Lords, briefly, I support this amendment and the excellent speeches made by the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, and my noble friend Lord Tyler. The speeches were in support of the amendment, with the sole exception of the noble Baroness, Lady Gould. She made two points. First, she broadly agrees with the amendment but thinks that it does not go far enough. That is no reason to oppose...

Political Parties and Elections Bill: Report (1st Day) (Continued) (15 Jun 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: My Lords, this is what I mean when I say that we should not accept any donations from companies at all. That is the solution to that one. My Bill, which is currently in Committee, requires that no one who is not ordinarily resident or domiciled in this country shall sit in this House. The Government say that they are very sympathetic to that. I am very glad for that sympathy, and I hope that...

Economy — Debate ( 7 May 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for asking but as that was a firm and first commitment, the fact that she is saying from the Conservative Front Bench, "We have to wait for the manifesto", is a very significant backtrack.

Economy — Debate ( 7 May 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bhattacharyya. I am afraid that I found his speech a little corporatist. I blinked particularly at the new look of the noble Lord, Lord Mandelson, as the high priest of old Labour corporatism. I declare my interest as a pension fund manager for the past 33 years. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, on introducing the debate....

Unemployment — Question (22 Apr 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: My Lords, we may not be able to see green shoots but we can certainly see a green plant on the Labour Back Benches. Did the Minister notice in the figures today the very chilling increase in the redundancies total? The number has more than doubled over the past year, with an increase of 40 per cent in the past quarter alone. In construction, there has been a fourfold rise in the figures. They...

Pensioners: Savings — Question ( 1 Apr 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: My Lords, does the Minister believe that it is fair to dock pensioners' means-tested benefits when they have £7,000 or £8,000 in savings, which is barely enough to pay for two funerals?

Taxation: Offshore Financial Centres — Debate (26 Mar 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: My Lords, I declare my interest as a pension fund manager since I first joined Warburg's in 1976; these days I manage British commercial property for pension funds, charities and investment trusts. When I buy a warehouse from Sainsbury's, neither of us pretends that Tamworth is in the Cayman Islands to dodge stamp duty land tax. Tax havens are sunny places for shady people. No one sends their...

Taxation: Offshore Financial Centres — Debate (26 Mar 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: My Lords, I have only 10 minutes and I want to make my speech in my own way. Why will the Prime Minister and the Treasury not use their power over the banks to stamp out tax abuse right under their nose in London? You do not have to take a Caribbean cruise; all you have to do is get on a boat down the Thames to Canary Wharf. The superb tax gap series in the Guardian shows how big British...

Taxation: Offshore Financial Centres — Debate (26 Mar 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: My Lords, I would have thought that question cheap even by the standards of the House of Commons.

Taxation: Offshore Financial Centres — Debate (26 Mar 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: If that is not clear, my Lords, this debate is about tax havens and our country, not about any particular political party. I do not propose to get into that. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. That was a cheap and unnecessary intervention by the noble Lord, who has had plenty of time to make that sort of intervention when we have been discussing my Bill or other matters....

Unemployment — Question (18 Mar 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: My Lords, has the Minister noticed the chilling redundancy figures announced today? There have been 266,000 over the past quarter, up by a half over the previous quarter and by more than double over a year. The reason is simple: companies are running out of cash. Is not the jobcentre network now suffering chronic overstretch and is not closing down jobcentres over the past year like sacking...

House of Lords (Members' Taxation Status) Bill [HL]: Committee (12 Mar 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: I am happy to respond to that but I am trying to answer the first amendment. I am happy to accept—indeed, it was the whole point of the article—that the noble Viscount, Lord Astor, is close to David Cameron, but I hope that I may make the key point that I was trying to make, particularly to the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, but also to other noble Lords who have spoken, almost entirely...

House of Lords (Members' Taxation Status) Bill [HL]: Committee (12 Mar 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: It will have to be accepted by the Treasury if we pass the Bill that says so. I base my remarks on the fact that my noble friend Lord Goodhart has worked on this with me, has earned a very good living for many years advising people on these matters and is one of the leading experts in this field. The key point about domicile, which is a simple statement of fact, is that in order to claim...

House of Lords (Members' Taxation Status) Bill [HL]: Committee (12 Mar 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: Before the noble Lord sits down, because he is obviously replying, I am happy to clarify, although I did not think that it was worth it, that those statements were actually made in the Sunday Times, but these days the Murdoch press, particularly the Telegraph, reprints large chunks of what has been in the British papers. I noticed that when I was in Australia last year. So, yes I did and they...

House of Lords (Members' Taxation Status) Bill [HL]: Committee (12 Mar 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: That last point highlights how unsatisfactory—indeed I could probably go further than that if I was not feeling so good-natured today—and unfortunate has been the way in which the Conservative Benches have used the first 10 minutes of this debate. I would say to the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, that that point is in the next group of amendments and when we get on to that we can discuss...

House of Lords (Members' Taxation Status) Bill [HL]: Committee (12 Mar 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: I was asked to quote from this article and so I shall. It said: "Lord Astor ... denied his amendments were 'wrecking', and added: 'Lord Oakeshott's Bill is not going anywhere—it hasn't got a chance'". I thought that I would give noble Lords something to chew on.

House of Lords (Members' Taxation Status) Bill [HL]: Committee (12 Mar 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: How nice it is to be able to say a few words on my own Bill. If the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, does not recognise a filibuster when he sees one, perhaps he would like to go and read the 28-minute opening speech of his noble friend Earl Selsdon. I was just clarifying, because the noble Viscount, Lord Astor, accused me of something that I did not say. It is on the record. Now, may I—

House of Lords (Members' Taxation Status) Bill [HL]: Committee (12 Mar 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: Will the noble Lord address a very important point here? The word "citizen" is not mentioned anywhere in the Bill for the very good reason that we are not seeking to change anyone's citizenship. That is not the intention behind the Bill, and I wonder whether it is appropriate to try to go totally outwith the meaning of the Bill.

House of Lords (Members' Taxation Status) Bill [HL]: Committee (12 Mar 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: My Lords, it is slightly unusual and novel for me to deal with this matter, but I am happy to do so. I say to the noble Lord, Lord Trefgarne, that this is the second time—not any other number of occasions—that I have introduced a Bill in this form. He is right: I introduced a separate, rather different and much smaller—and, I believe, not effective—Bill in previous Sessions, but that...

Financial Services Authority — Question for Short Debate ( 2 Mar 2009)

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay: My Lords, it has obviously been a very difficult few days for the Minister, and it reflects well on him that he took the trouble to set that out in that way. Certainly from this Front Bench I am happy to accept that explanation. He did, though, say that it is not for a Minister to seek to break a legal agreement of this kind. So could he please explain why the Leader of the House of Commons...


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