Employment Tribunals

Lord Davies of Coity Excerpts

Monday 18th June 2012 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Wilcox]

The Government are committed to a fair and flexible labour market that helps businesses to manage their staff productively. Nothing in the Bill removes individual employment rights and neither should it intend to. It is very important that we encourage businesses to take on more staff. That is what we require. That is what we all need, but we need a flexible workforce and flexible employers so that, as the world changes around them, they can make the changes that they need.

[Lord Davies of Coity]

My Lords, will the Minister advise me on an issue—

[Noble Lords]

Order.

Libya and the Middle East

Lord Davies of Coity Excerpts

Monday 28th February 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Strathclyde]

My Lords, I understand exactly why the noble and gallant Lord has asked the question, and the way in which he did so. We believe that, even with the strains on the MoD budget, we still have the capability to carry out the evacuation process that has been carried out over the past few days.

[Lord Davies of Coity]

My Lords, I, too, express appreciation for the Statement made by the Leader of the House, repeating what the Prime Minister said. I am also pleased with the evacuation measures that have been taken. However, early on in this crisis, millions of British people saw the Foreign Secretary on the television saying that Colonel Gaddafi, the tyrant of this issue, was in Venezuela. Have the Government made any assessment of the impact that that incorrect statement has had on the British public?

[Lord Strathclyde]

No, my Lords, and I think that it would be impossible to do so.

House of Lords: Allowances

Lord Davies of Coity Excerpts

Tuesday 20th July 2010 Lords Chamber

[Lord Tomlinson]

My Lords—

[Lord Davies of Coity]

My Lords, I want to ask a very simple—

[Noble Lords]

Tomlinson!