"My Lords, I beg to move the new clause standing in my name. To begin with, perhaps I may say that I was very grateful for the opportunity to talk to my noble friend Lady Kramer about this and for the help that the department was able to give …..." Lord Jenkin of Roding - View Speech
"I start by saying that I am most grateful to noble Lords who have voiced their support for the amendment. If we were to debate this in a wider forum, we might find a good deal more support. I certainly have that in mind. We may return to this matter …..." Lord Jenkin of Roding - View Speech
"I quite understand that. I take that point. Indeed, I read the evidence that was given to the Public Accounts Committee by John Kingman. He made that point very thoroughly. He is an extremely able civil servant and he declared himself very firmly as the chief official in the Treasury …..." Lord Jenkin of Roding - View Speech
"My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey. I am sometimes inclined to refer to him as my noble friend, because we work together on a number of issues, not least the all-party group to which he referred. I will refer to what he said, but …..." Lord Jenkin of Roding - View Speech
"My Lords, my noble friend the Minister has made a very brave and thorough attempt to explain all these complicated regulations to the Committee and I do not envy her her task. This is an immensely complicated business, and I approach this as one who has spent many months over …..." Lord Jenkin of Roding - View Speech
"I am grateful to my noble friend for that. She reiterated the statement made this morning by her Secretary of State regarding 6%. I hope that my noble friend Lord Deben will forgive me for asking this question again. The sums spoken of in the EU Commission’s consent for state …..." Lord Jenkin of Roding - View Speech
"My Lords, this is an important amendment. I was glad that the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, gave the Government credit for what has been done. A good deal has been done. I am sure that the noble Lord will have studied, as I have, the paper produced last month on …..." Lord Jenkin of Roding - View Speech
"My Lords, I apologise to my noble friend the Minister, the noble Viscount, Lord Simon, and to officials for having put down notice of my intention to oppose the Question that Clause 26 stand part so late, but after I studied the amendments that had been tabled it seemed that …..." Lord Jenkin of Roding - View Speech
"I should have explained that the question of the Government giving the impression that they do not trust industry is something of which I was informed by RenewableUK. One of its senior officials is a chairman of the task force. I have to assume that she understands that lack of …..." Lord Jenkin of Roding - View Speech
"My Lords, I take some comfort from what my noble friend said in response to this short debate. She said she will do her best to see that we get some indication of what is going to be in the regulations, and I very much welcome that. I understand her …..." Lord Jenkin of Roding - View Speech