"My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the typically energetic noble Lord, Lord Hunt. I enjoyed his contribution as ever. I am yet another to add my congratulations to the committee and particularly to its redoubtable chair, the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Bolton, who must have been …..." Earl of Kinnoull - View Speech
"My Lords, the Interministerial Group for Business and Industry last met on 3 February by videophone. The communique lays out the four items that were discussed, which did not include this very important area. Will the Minister, whom I welcome to his position, tell us when the interministerial group will …..." Earl of Kinnoull - View Speech
"My Lords, No. 10 North is approximately 200 miles north of where we are. Perthshire, where I am from, is more than 200 miles further north than that. The north of Scotland is another more than 200 miles north of that. I wondered whether there were any plans to rethink …..." Earl of Kinnoull - View Speech
"My Lords, there is some speculation in the press that farmland might be included in the calculation of the value of a home when it comes to the mansion tax. Perhaps the Minister could confirm whether or not that is true because, clearly, if it is, an awful lot of …..." Earl of Kinnoull - View Speech
"My Lords, Section 44(4) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act says that you must not tell your auditor either “knowingly or recklessly” something which is incorrect. Can the Minister tell me whether there have been any prosecutions under that section? I am sure she will have to write …..." Earl of Kinnoull - View Speech
"My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow three such wonderful speeches that have so captured the man who is so dear to my colleagues on the Cross Bench here. Herbert Laming was born in 1936. He left school at 15, and in 1954 he was called up for …..." Earl of Kinnoull - View Speech
"My Lords, another language in Scotland is Scots. Indeed, Burns wrote roughly half his poetry in in Scots, not least “Address to a Haggis”. Can the Minister tell us whether there will be money directed at the preservation of Scots as a language as well in this process?..." Earl of Kinnoull - View Speech
"Can the Minister tell us what the Treasury is doing to collect the stamp duty that should be chargeable on transactions where there is documentation executed in the United Kingdom, and whether looking at that might represent some method of providing a toolkit to defeat these bad practices?..." Earl of Kinnoull - View Speech
"My Lords, is it not the case that one thing that has allowed Reform and Nigel Farage to get off a little here is the sheer complexity of electoral law and the whole area around this? We are about to start consideration of the 27th Representation of the People Bill, …..." Earl of Kinnoull - View Speech
"My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow three such speeches. The cries of dismay that greeted the Lord Speaker’s sad news of the death of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, were as loud on our Benches as anywhere else in the House, having, as …..." Earl of Kinnoull - View Speech