King's speech debate on Monday, 13 November 2023, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Callanan. The answering member was Baroness Penn.

King’s Speech

Lords debate on King's speech (fourth day) on the economy, energy, transport and the environment.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 834 cc281-378
Session: 2023-24
Department: Department for Transport; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Treasury; Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Procedure: Addresses to the Crown
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions: Lord McInnes of Kilwinning | 834 c281 (Link to this contribution)
Moved on Tuesday 7 November by
Lord McInnes of Kilwinning; Lord Callanan | 834 cc281-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, on behalf of your Lordships’ House, I thank the King for delivering the gracious Speech...; Lord Livermore | 834 cc285-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the King’s Speech promised to “strengthen our economy” and
“put the country on a ...; Baroness Sheehan | 834 cc286-291 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure to open day three of the debate on the gracious Speech from these Benc...; Baroness Hayman | 834 cc289-292 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare my interests as chair and a director of the associated company Peers for the ...; Bishop of Durham | 834 cc292-4 (Link to this contribution)
I look forward to the maiden speeches of the noble Lord, Lord Gascoigne, and my right reverend fr...; Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 834 cc294-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Durham. We all shar...; Lord Woodley | 834 cc295-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I never thought I would agree with a contribution of the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, but ...; Lord Stern of Brentford | 834 cc296-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the Government’s backsliding on climate action is a deeply damaging mistake, damaging f...; Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway | 834 cc298-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare my interests in respect of the Bank of England court and as former leader of ...; Lord Bridges of Headley | 834 cc299-300 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I very much look forward to the speeches by my noble friend Lord Gascoigne and the righ...; Lord Snape | 834 cc300-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in the nearly 20 years I have spent in your Lordships’ House—and even longer than that ...; Lord Gascoigne | 834 cc302-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is the honour of a lifetime to rise to speak for the first time in your Lordships’ H...; Baroness Hoey | 834 cc303-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is with genuine pleasure that I congratulate my good friend the noble Lord, Lord Gas...; Lord Lilley | 834 cc304-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I know we are not supposed to reiterate congratulations to the maiden speaker. However,...; Lord Ravensdale | 834 cc307-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, first, I declare an interest as a project director working for AtkinsRéalis, a director...; Lord Mandelson | 834 cc308-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will focus on economic growth and the need for investment to achieve this.
Week...; Bishop of Norwich | 834 cc309-311 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a privilege to offer my maiden speech following the first gracious Speech given b...; Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 834 cc311-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we have heard two brilliant maiden speeches, and I congratulate both speakers on making...; Lord Birt | 834 cc313-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in the debate last year following the gracious Speech, the Minister declared that she w...; Bishop of Oxford | 834 cc314-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a privilege, as ever, to take part in the debate on the most gracious Speech. I t...; Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke | 834 cc315-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this was a very lightweight gracious Speech, especially on critical aspects of the econ...; Baroness Moyo | 834 cc316-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I start by saying that I very much enjoyed the maiden speeches of my noble friend Lord ...; Lord Whitty | 834 cc318-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, that impressive and wide-ranging speech by the noble Baroness, Lady Moyo, indicates wha...; Lord Cromwell | 834 cc319-321 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I add my congratulations to today’s two maiden speakers for their eloquent, thought-pro...; Baroness Drake | 834 cc321-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I reference my interests as a trustee in occupational and master trust pension funds. P...; Lord Bradshaw | 834 cc322-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, when I was introduced to your Lordships’ House some 24 years ago, the then Chief Whip o...; Lord Lennie | 834 cc323-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am not the first, and I certainly will not be the last, to say that this Government’s...; Duke of Wellington | 834 cc324-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in this very wide-ranging debate this afternoon, I wish to speak about the environment,...; Lord Leong | 834 cc325-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Duke, the Duke of Wellington. I take this opportun...; Lord Wakeham | 834 cc326-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I enjoyed the speech of the noble Lord. I have not heard him speak before. As he said a...; Baroness Blake of Leeds | 834 cc327-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Wakeham, and to welcome him back to the...; Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle | 834 cc329-330 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, last week the Hackney mayoral election saw the Green Party candidate, Zoë Garbett, take...; Lord Hain | 834 cc330-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, especially on climate change and ...; Baroness Noakes | 834 cc331-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, there is predictably little in the gracious Speech on the Government’s economic policie...; Baroness Whitaker | 834 cc332-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords. the gracious Speech reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to net zero, but without muc...; Lord Londesborough | 834 cc334-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will focus on the economy, in light of the Prime Minister’s rather baffling introduct...; Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich | 834 cc335-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to speak in this debate on His Majesty’s gracious Speech, even i...; Lord Razzall | 834 cc336-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as a number of noble Lords have found, the debate on the gracious Speech provides the o...; Lord Davies of Brixton | 834 cc337-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we have had presented in the gracious Speech a Potemkin village of a legislative progra...; Lord Warner | 834 cc338-340 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as a number of people have said this afternoon, the UK has an economy that is flatlinin...; Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 834 cc340-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will speak about Britain’s railways and in doing so remind the House of my interests ...; Viscount Waverley | 834 cc341-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the economy will rightly be centre stage as we approach the general election, so the Ki...; Lord Jones | 834 cc343-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the always insightful noble Viscount, Lord Waverley.
O...; Bishop of St Albans | 834 cc344-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare my interest as president of the Rural Coalition as set out in the register. T...; Lord Altrincham | 834 cc345-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare my interest as a director of the Co-operative Bank in Manchester. I will make...; Lord Grocott | 834 cc346-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I should apologise in advance for what inevitably will be rather gloomy remarks, the fi...; Viscount Trenchard | 834 cc348-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is indeed an honour and a privilege to have this opportunity to debate the gracious ...; Earl of Glasgow | 834 cc349-350 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I was deeply depressed when the Government announced they were abandoning HS2—or at lea...; Lord Hendy | 834 cc350-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, 67 million people live in the United Kingdom. Of them, 35 million, just over half, are ...; Lord Balfe | 834 cc351-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hendy. I think he is misplacing ...; Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 834 cc352-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure to participate in this debate on the gracious Speech. In particular, I...; Lord Liddle | 834 cc353-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, never in the last 40 years has there existed a bigger gap between the grim realities of...; Lord Sarfraz | 834 cc354-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Norwich and my noble friend Lor...; Lord Sikka | 834 cc355-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, a sustainable economy requires high investment and good disposable income for the masse...; Lord Desai | 834 cc357-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Sikka, but unfortunately he has said s...; Lord Horam | 834 cc358-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Gascoigne on his maiden speech. He and I come from ...; Lord McNicol of West Kilbride | 834 cc359-360 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as commentators have noted, this King’s Speech had the most words but fewest Bills in a...; Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist | 834 cc360-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I join the House in congratulating my noble friend Lord Gascoigne on his excellent maid...; Lord Berkeley | 834 cc362-3 (Link to this contribution)
This was a fairly lightweight King’s Speech, and the elements of transport about which I shall sp...; Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville | 834 cc363-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Norwich and the noble Lord, Lor...; Baroness Hayman of Ullock | 834 cc366-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Gascoigne, and the right reverend Prelate the Bisho...; Lord Callanan | 834 c367 (Link to this contribution)
King’s Speech.; Baroness Hayman of Ullock | 834 c367 (Link to this contribution)
The kept animals Bill and the animals abroad Bill were in Queen’s Speeches. What has happened to ...; Baroness Penn | 834 cc367-374 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I add my words of welcome to the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Norwich and my no...; Baroness Whitaker | 834 c373 (Link to this contribution)
I am sorry to hold up the Minister in her magnificent tour de force but I asked her a specific qu...; Baroness Penn | 834 cc373-7 (Link to this contribution)
I will be happy to write to the noble Baroness.
We have launched a nuclear revival. The Gov...; Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 834 c375 (Link to this contribution)
I am most grateful to my noble friend. I appreciate her courtesy in referring to what I said. As ...; Baroness Penn | 834 cc375-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I could not possibly comment on that, but I join my noble friend in welcoming David Cam...
Subjects: Conditions of employment Animal welfare Climate change Exports Environment protection Energy Horticulture Economic situation Floods Inflation Motor vehicles Livestock Nuclear power Railways Public finance Public sector debt Renewable energy Water companies Carbon emissions Low emission zones Peat Artificial intelligence Cost of living High Speed 2 line Electronic cigarettes Pedicabs Driverless vehicles
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