Queen's speech debate on Thursday, 4 December 2008, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Taylor of Bolton. The answering member was Lord Howell of Guildford.

Queen's Speech

Lords debate on Queen's speech (second day) on foreign and European affairs, international development and defence.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 706 c29-44,57-142
Session: 2008-09
Department: Department for International Development; Ministry of Defence; Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Procedure: Addresses to the Crown
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions: Bishop of Bath and Wells | 706 c60-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by expressing my thanks to Members of the House for their kind and generous welcom...; Lord Howell of Guildford | 706 c34-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the House will be very grateful to the noble Baroness for opening the debate on the humble...; Baroness Northover | 706 c40-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on behalf of these Benches I, too, express our support for the tributes paid by the noble ...; Lord Selsdon | 706 c125-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is extraordinarily difficult for me to speak today, because I feel that I am something ...; Lord Gilbert | 706 c128-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I first apologise to your Lordships’ House, particularly to my noble friend Lady Taylor an...; Viscount Waverley | 706 c130 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise to the House. Would the Minister kindly keep an eye on developments leading up...; Lord Dykes | 706 c130-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, apart from the extremely short intervention of the noble Viscount, Lord Waverley, in the g...; Lord Astor of Hever | 706 c133-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been an excellent debate. We have a very impressive speakers’ list, but one name ...; Lord Malloch-Brown | 706 c136-42 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great honour for a second year running to respond to this debate on Her gracious M...; Lord Tunnicliffe | 706 c142 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lord Mandelson, I beg to move that the debate be adjourned un...; Lord Clinton-Davis | 706 c123-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, some hours ago this debate started and, in his usual amiable way, the noble Lord, Lord How...; Lord Truscott | 706 c104-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before I focus on the subject of my speech, I refer to recent proposals to disgorge your L...; Lord Glenarthur | 706 c107-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by echoing the comments of my noble friend Lord Howell when he said that one eleme...; Earl of Sandwich | 706 c116-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the gracious Speech is a little thin on global issues such as world poverty and the millen...; Baroness Turner of Camden | 706 c118-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to participate in this debate on foreign affairs, although it is...; Lord Rana | 706 c112-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the economy is one of the most fraught issues facing this country, this Government and Adm...; Lord Steinberg | 706 c114-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Rana, because like me he has strong connecti...; Lord Hylton | 706 c121-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, last month I was privileged to visit Baghdad. The international zone in that city is a tru...; Lord James of Blackheath | 706 c120-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in my two years in your Lordships’ House I have seldom heard a debate so unanimously led b...; Lord Blaker | 706 c90-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that the noble Lord, Lord Owen, and the noble Baroness, Lady D’Souza, who is no lon...; Lord Addington | 706 c92-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, going through the gracious Address, I discovered that there was comparatively little about...; Lord Jay of Ewelme | 706 c94-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I searched in vain in the gracious Speech for any mention of the fight against global pove...; Bishop of Chelmsford | 706 c96-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have been heartened to hear so many of your Lordships address the subject of Europe. I i...; Lord Steel of Aikwood | 706 c82-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Brittan, I believe that in a short space of time it is possible ...; Lord Owen | 706 c85-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, within this present grave global financial crisis, which will, I suspect become ever grave...; Lord Anderson of Swansea | 706 c87-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Owen, speaks as always with great experience and great authority on Z...; Lord Ashcroft | 706 c102-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I returned this morning from a visit to Chad that I made earlier this week. The purpose of...; Baroness Jay of Paddington | 706 c98-102 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Chelmsford. I hope tha...; Lord Wright of Richmond | 706 c103-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the reassurance included in what has otherwise been described as a rather anorex...; Lord Howe of Aberavon | 706 c65-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it gives me pleasure to be able to follow the noble Baroness in two respects immediately: ...; Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon | 706 c69-72 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord, whom I have always admired an...; Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 706 c62-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by thanking the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Bath and Wells and congratula...; Lord Bramall | 706 c57-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very honoured to open the batting after that Twenty20 on a rather sticky wicket. We ...; Lord Brittan of Spennithorne | 706 c79-82 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall focus on what our approach should be to what is or should be going on in the Europ...; Lord Ahmed | 706 c77-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Malloch-Brown for the excellent leadership he provides in the...; Bishop of Winchester | 706 c74-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is good to be in the House on the day when the right reverend prelate the Bishop of Bat...; Baroness D'Souza | 706 c72-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I make no apology for returning to the subject of Zimbabwe despite it and, indeed, Africa ...; Baroness Prosser | 706 c110-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to participate in this debate and to raise issues regard...; Lord Avebury | 706 c108-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, a few hours ago the Minister said that we invaded Afghanistan to prevent it becoming a hav...
Subjects: Armed forces Defence Armed conflict Developing countries Development aid Diplomatic service Cluster munitions Elections European Union Iraq Foreign policy Foreign relations Nuclear fuels Peacekeeping operations Procurement Politics and government Piracy Pakistan Terrorism Treaties USA Afghanistan Israel Sudan Zimbabwe Palestine Iran Middle East Peace negotiations Darfur Gaza Democratic Republic of the Congo Somalia al Qaeda Taliban Treaty of Lisbon Malawi Chad World economy
Contains statistics: Yes
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