"My Lords, should not the Government look at the incredible difficulty that youngsters have in getting into work, with very bureaucratic HR processes for making applications? Should they also not say to employers who are on contracts to the Government that they need to provide a certain ratio of training …..." Lord Spellar - View Speech
"My Lords, might I suggest to the Minister, in the same way as I did to her Conservative predecessors when I was trying to introduce legislation to ban the import of hunting trophies, that there is nothing I am aware of in the Representation of the People Act that prevents …..." Lord Spellar - View Speech
"My Lords, is not the fundamental, underlying problem that the prosperity of Venezuela has been destroyed by the corrupt dictatorship, which is being propped up by other dictatorships in Russia, China and Cuba? What help are our Foreign Office and other Governments giving to the legitimate opposition in Venezuela, which …..." Lord Spellar - View Speech
"My Lords, if this were one isolated regulator falling down on the job, that would be one thing; but one after another, these quango regulators are failing. Is it not time to look not just at an individual regulator but at the whole model and the sort of people appointed …..." Lord Spellar - View Speech
"My Lords, the fundamental issue here is that many previously professional organisations now seem intent on acting not as trade unions but as parodies of the trade unions of the 1950s. Underlying that are the appallingly low turnouts in the election for executives; they are normally in single figures. What …..." Lord Spellar - View Speech
"My Lords, has the Minister or the department received any representations from the Opposition—including from their spokesman who just spoke—that Mr David Kogan, with all his experience in sports management, is not an excellent choice? If he is, in fact, eminently well qualified and probably the best person for the …..." Lord Spellar - View Speech
"My Lords, did the Minister note that, in his second intervention, the Opposition spokesman in no way made any criticism of David Kogan in relation to whether he was a fit and proper person to undertake the post? Does that not speak volumes?..." Lord Spellar - View Speech
"My Lords, in looking at the system of regulation, can we consider that Ofwat’s failures are not in isolation? Many regulatory authorities in this country are showing similar failings, although sometimes in slightly different manifestations. Do we not need not only individual changes, but to look at the whole regulatory …..." Lord Spellar - View Speech
"My Lords, have not a lot of the problems with the conditions of the rolling stock arisen from the ludicrous decision to put out the work to the leasing companies, for which it was a massive licence to print money? Certainly, neither passengers nor the Treasury benefited from that...." Lord Spellar - View Speech