"My Lords, I think we all know that money is very tight and getting tighter. I am trying to understand why the very distinguished trustees, who are charged with governing these great institutions, cannot be trusted to decide themselves on the charging or non-charging policy...." Lord Grade of Yarmouth - View Speech
"My Lords, I also thank the Minister for his support of the Jewish community and his keen understanding of what the Jewish community in this country is going through at the moment. There is no possibility of underestimating the complexity of this problem; we are all struggling with it. I …..." Lord Grade of Yarmouth - View Speech
"My Lords, following up the question of the noble Lord, Lord Birt, I ask the Minister a simple question: does she think it is fair that UK licence fee payers should have to pay so much towards the World Service?..." Lord Grade of Yarmouth - View Speech
"My diplomatic friends tell me that, if they are up for a sensitive posting abroad, the due diligence that the FCO carries out is a brutal, intrusive and pretty degrading exercise, but a very effective one. Why is the system of due diligence for a political appointment different?..." Lord Grade of Yarmouth - View Speech
"My Lords, is the Minister aware that one of the great transport scandals in this country is that it costs something like £20 per mile to take the smallest car from Portsmouth to Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight? There is a monopoly there that operates completely against the economic …..." Lord Grade of Yarmouth - View Speech
"My Lords, I have had the nod to speak in what is called the gap—I hope that meets with your Lordships’ approval. As a declaration of interest, I am currently chairman of Ofcom, and I have had a long career in various bits of British public service broadcasting which would …..." Lord Grade of Yarmouth - View Speech
"My Lords, although great strides are being made in medicine, as I understand it, to study individuals’ genetics to predict a propensity to get diseases later in life, this raises a serious question about how the insurance market is going to respond to that. I would be very dubious about …..." Lord Grade of Yarmouth - View Speech
"My Lords, perhaps I might pose a somewhat more prosaic but urgent question. The crisis at Jaguar Land Rover had immediate and predictable consequences for the supply chain. The immediate call was for the taxpayer to stand in. Do the Government have a view about whether the banks should play …..." Lord Grade of Yarmouth - View Speech
"What a privilege, but what a responsibility, to be a part of this debate. It is clear from every speaker that we all feel that responsibility.
If this legislation passes into law and subsequently proves, like all legislation, defective in some respects, there is no way in which subsequent revisions …..." Lord Grade of Yarmouth - View Speech