Lord Kerr of Kinlochard

My Lords, will the Minister have the White Paper consider, and perhaps consider for the Bill, the idea of setting minimum annual investment requiremen...

I see the point that the noble Lord is making, but it is important that he recognise that what the Australian Government did, and did again, was to ar...

If I may correct the noble Lord, the Australian arrangement was offshoring, not offloading.

We are all on the same side here, and I appreciate the spirit of the Minister’s remarks. I appreciate that he stated that he will reflect on what we h...

My Lords, I support these two amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for the very reasons she gives. Clause 34 is very welcome and...

The thing I find odd about the argument just advanced, and, indeed, about the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson, and the way in ...

I join the tributes to the noble Lord, Lord Boswell, whose chairing of the European Committee I greatly admired, and the tributes to an excellent maid...

The alleged saving is compared with the current price, which is astonishingly high. It is a saving because the wholesale price of electricity all over...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for speaking in the way she did. I am a member of the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, which produced the...

I agree with the noble Baroness. In fact, I agree with everything she has said, with one exception: she implied that negotiations started under Domini...

The core of the problem is that the learning centre is too cramped, small and poky. I do not think it should be underground, but the real problem is t...

If I were to set our annual borders Bill debates to music, I would pick Stravinsky. It has become a rite of spring, with clashing discords from the Co...

I have never been a member of the Constitution Committee; I have asked regularly to become a member and have regularly been rejected. It is my youth a...