"To ask His Majesty’s Government whether they intend to apply to reinstate the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service...." Lord Berkeley - View Speech
"My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to introduce this short debate. I have an interest to declare in that I live in the Isles of Scilly much of the time, to which the only passenger access in the winter is by air. There are a few problems there, which …..." Lord Berkeley - View Speech
"My Lords, my noble friend has given us a very interesting progress report on any discussions taking place with the European Union, the CAA and others, but no decisions have been made. Can he give us any estimate about when the next decision might be achieved?..." Lord Berkeley - View Speech
"To follow up on the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, and my colleague on this lovely front door, I have good information that it is the first time that such a design has been used. Why should we be guinea pigs? We believe in precedent here for a …..." Lord Berkeley - View Speech
"My Lords, we have had an interesting series of days commemorating World War II 80 years on. In your Lordships’ House, we have had wonderful tributes from many people and heard about their experiences.
However, it is interesting that many other countries are reported to have marked the event with …..." Lord Berkeley - View Speech
"My Lords, one of the contributors to clean power, which the Government are quite rightly promoting, is solar panels on the roofs of new houses. I commend what the Government are trying to do, but has my noble friend not seen all the opposition from the housebuilders, who say it …..." Lord Berkeley - View Speech
"My Lords, I add my voice to the many noble Lords who have thanked my noble friend the Minister. It is his first Bill. He is a real expert on buses and transport generally, and the House owes him a debt of gratitude for the way he has dealt with …..." Lord Berkeley - View Speech
"My Lords, can my noble friend explain why it is called a road map? Is it going to include all those new roads that I hope the Government are not going to build over farmland? Can we not have a better name for it?..." Lord Berkeley - View Speech
"My Lords, at the weekend I was reading a history of Dartmoor prison, which I live quite close to. In the last century, the prisoners were allocated candles to read by, but in fact they were so hungry that they had to eat them. We have not yet been allocated …..." Lord Berkeley - View Speech
"My Lords, one of the ways of reducing the emissions from heavy goods vehicles is to use fewer of them and send the goods by rail. What is my noble friend’s Government doing about electrifying some of the rail network, which would enable much more freight to go by electrically …..." Lord Berkeley - View Speech