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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Nov 2014
Consumer Rights Bill

"My Lords, I support the amendment that has just been spoken to. I declare in interest in that I am a vice-president of the Trading Standards Institute and I have been the president so I have a long understanding of the work of trading standards people up and down the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 03 Nov 2014
Child Abuse Inquiry

"I will resist the temptation that there must be, not only to myself but to many in the Chamber, to criticise the Home Office and Ministers for the pretty pass we find ourselves in. On the basis of what the Minister said when repeating the Statement made in the other …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 19 Jun 2014
House of Lords: Labour Peers’ Working Group Report

"My Lords, it is a delight—as it would have been on other occasions—to follow the noble Viscount, Lord Tenby. We have known one another for many years now and I am not surprised that he has given a measured and generally favourable comment on the report that we are debating. …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 19 Jun 2014
House of Lords: Labour Peers’ Working Group Report

"I note what my noble friend is saying. My feeling is that, despite this being a difficult question in terms of history—and it certainly seems to be regarded by a number of colleagues through the House of Lords generally as an embarrassing question to raise—I would like to hear whether …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Mar 2014
Public Bodies (Abolition of the National Consumer Council and Transfer of the Office of Fair Trading’s Functions in relation to Estate Agents etc) Order 2014

"My Lords, my noble friend Lady Hayter of Kentish Town gave a brilliant exposé and critique of the Government’s approach on this vital matter of organisations and their relationship with each other in the order. I want to concentrate on two matters. One is the National Consumer Council, which is …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 12 Nov 2013
Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill

"My Lords, I support the amendment —I suppose because it comes from my Front Bench. However, I do not like the provision in the Bill at all. Shoplifting has been with us, as it were, for a long time. Correct me if I am wrong, but it is unprecedented for …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 29 Oct 2013
Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill

"My Lords, reading the House of Commons Hansard in relation to this Bill, I noticed that one Conservative Member of Parliament said that it was,

“a Christmas tree of a Bill”.—[Official Report, Commons, 15/10/13; col. 696.]

That makes it very difficult to discuss many of its aspects …..."

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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 18 Jun 2013
Intellectual Property Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I am delighted that the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, indicated that he supports most of the proposed amendments to this clause, and that the Minister looks kindly upon them. I take the same view but I want to discuss the amendment proposed by my noble friend Lord Howarth …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 18 Jun 2013
Intellectual Property Bill [HL]

"My Lords, the noble Lords, Lord Jenkin and Lord Clement-Jones, made a clear and convincing case for doing something about so-called lookalikes. I like the word “cheat”, which the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, used, because it is a simple, human word, which does not rest on any statute. It is …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 18 Jun 2013
Intellectual Property Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I want to intervene in a small way. I had a certain nostalgic feeling when reference was made to setting up a director-general of intellectual property because I was once the director-general of fair trading for some 16 years and I enjoyed that. I enjoyed the fact that …..."
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