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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 17 Dec 2013
EU: Financial Transaction Tax (EUC Report)

"My Lords, I simply want to reinforce one specific point that has just been made by the noble Lord, Lord Harrison. Our report raises an important issue concerning the deployment of the enhanced co-operation procedure itself. The FTT case is only the third time the procedure has been used since …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 26 Mar 2012
Scotland Bill

"My Lords, I declare an interest as the chairman of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, which as a higher education institution would be directly affected by the amendment if it were agreed. I will not take up much of your Lordships’ time, but I feel that I should draw attention …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 26 Mar 2012
Scotland Bill

"I am coming to that. For the next academic year and for the years beyond, places have already been offered to and readily accepted by students who are resident south of the border. Bursary and scholarship arrangements have been substantially modified to help them. Indeed, the financial basis and plans …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 26 Mar 2012
Scotland Bill

"I share entirely my noble friend Lord Forsyth’s willingness and desire to keep the United Kingdom united. We should not discuss here the circumstances of a hypothesis in which we are no longer a United Kingdom.

To alter the provisions of the 1998 Act now would outlaw arrangements already in …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 26 Mar 2012
Scotland Bill

"Such divisiveness already occurs as regards international students. The only foreign students who are treated differently are other European Union students...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2011
Sovereign Credit Ratings: EUC Report

"My Lords, I first congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Harrison, on his admirable chairmanship of our committee during the production of the report. My first brush with the credit rating agencies was when the Select Committee on Economic Affairs produced its report, Banking Supervision and Regulation, in June 2009. …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 03 Nov 2010
Private Finance Projects (EAC Report)

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To move that this House takes note of the Report of the Economic Affairs Committee on Private Finance Projects and off-balance sheet debt (First Report, Session 2009–10, HL Paper 63)...."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 03 Nov 2010
Private Finance Projects (EAC Report)

"My Lords, although I am no longer a member of the Economic Affairs Committee, I am pleased to introduce its report, Private Finance Projects and off-balance sheet debt, which was published in March while I was still chairman. Before I do so, I should declare an interest as a …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 03 Nov 2010
Private Finance Projects (EAC Report)

"My Lords, PFPs clearly present a complex set of financing and procurement issues, and it is relatively easy for them to become politicised—although not, of course, in your Lordships' House. The very adjectives “public” and “private” can produce knee-jerk reactions—a point to which the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey, alluded. As …..."
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