Topic Archives: Business, industry and consumers

Banking it

Baroness Deech 27/01/2012 – 5:18 pm

The solution to the dilemma of the banker's bonus is obvious.  Mr. Hester should take it, and give it to charity.  That way the contract he seems to have had with RBS is fulfilled; honour is preserved; and the money goes back to the people for good purposes. The chair of RBS and of the remuneration committee is Sir Philip Hampton. A Sir Philip Hampton was the author of the Hampton Report on G […]

Written at 5:18 pm on 27/01/2012, by Baroness Deech

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Shopping at Christmas

Baroness Deech 18/12/2011 – 4:46 pm

Mary Portas, shopping guru, has delivered to the Prime Minister a review of the state of our high streets and town centres.  I was able to get a copy from the Printed Paper Office of the Lords.  I noticed this weekend that there are considerably fewer people out shopping on my own local high street than there were a year ago, due no doubt to the recession, internet shopping and the discount "vil […]

Written at 4:46 pm on 18/12/2011, by Baroness Deech

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Value in Business

Lord Haskel 18/11/2011 – 11:57 am

  In these difficult times we are hearing a lot about the importance of getting value for money and the need for business to create value.  We hear it from bankers, from Chancellors of the Exchequer, Prime Ministers and business people.   But also in these difficult times we are hearing a lot more about ethical and moral values in business.  How unbridled capitalism no longer seems credi […]

Written at 11:57 am on 18/11/2011, by Lord Haskel

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Legal Highs

Baroness Murphy 13/07/2011 – 7:30 am

Baroness Meacher has tabled amendments at Report Stage of the Police and Social Responsibility Bill (for debate today Wednesday 13th July) to discuss the issue of ‘legal highs’. Mephedrone was one of the early ones, now there are clever chemists in China and indeed everywhere else creating new synthetic chemical stimulants every week. As one is detected and outlawed, another six pop up. The […]

Written at 7:30 am on 13/07/2011, by Baroness Murphy

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Government Support for Industry

Lord Haskel 11/07/2011 – 10:52 am

Like everybody else I was disappointed that the new Thameslink carriages will be made in Germany and not in Derby.  This decision seemed contrary to our ambition to balance the economy more in the direction of manufacturing and less in financial services.  After all, look at the success of rescuing Rolls Royce, which is now a cornerstone of British manufacturing and the aero engine industry. […]

Written at 10:52 am on 11/07/2011, by Lord Haskel

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