"My Lords, much revenue is raised from motorists through vehicle licensing, fuel duty and indeed congestion charges. If there was a move towards raising more from road pricing, can the Minister confirm that it would be coherent and reasonable and not just a policy of soaking the motorist? I have …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech
"My Lords, I am honoured to speak, in the last group, to my Amendments 361A and 361B, on encouraging SME builders, and to Amendments 363 and 364, on mechanisms for encouraging the speedy rollout of planning reform. Amendment 275A, which I was unable to speak to this morning, belongs in …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank those who have spoken from the Front Benches, and I thank the Minister for some of her reassurance. I will look carefully at Hansard. I do not think we are quite there on Natural England. There is the choice of the existing system, which has …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech
"My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for introducing the statutory instrument crisply and clearly. I am also grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, for her usual well-informed comments, including those on the digital aspects of this proposal. I think that I am, however, more in favour of …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech
"My Lords, in the Government’s plan for SMEs, Backing Your Business, they claim that they are prioritising growth and productivity potential—good news. However, in a Written Answer last week to the noble Baroness, Lady Maclean of Redditch, the Government revealed that they have no idea of the …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech
"My Lords, this is a different world. Given that the economy is actually struggling to gain momentum, as every serious economic commentator is saying, thanks to the Government’s disastrous tax and regulatory policies, will the Minister answer my noble friend Lord Leigh’s questions? Will the Minister think again on the …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech
"My Lords, as someone who campaigned on the need to reduce the use of plastics, I was devastated by the collapse of the treaty negotiations. When does the Minister think they will start again? What are the milestones for that? How can we get this international action finished? That is …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech
"My Lords, I support the general thrust of the amendments in the name of my noble friend Lord Roborough.
The focus of Natural England is bureaucratic and precautionary, as we heard from my noble friend Lord Caithness. We need to find a way around the freezing of housing developments by …..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech
"When I visited the excellent Chase Farm Hospital last year, I talked to the pharmacy. It had a lot of shortages of particular medicines. I have experienced the same in my local pharmacy. Is this a problem that the Minister is concerned about?..." Baroness Neville-Rolfe - View Speech