Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab)

My Lords, rather like the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, when I came to your Lordships’ House, I was well under the average age—in fact, 30 years under. Sadly, I am now over the average age, and under

My Lords, once upon a time we owned the water industry: local authorities used to run water services very well up to 1974. Will my noble friend look, alongside security issues and the White Paper work

Thank you. As I was saying, we know that infrastructure development in this country is more expensive than in many other developed countries and takes longer, mainly due to our planning system and the

My Lords, there is hard evidence—we have just had a Conservative speaker.

My Lords, does my noble friend accept that where some PFI projects went wrong it was usually because the people negotiating the contract at the local level on behalf of the public sector did not have

My Lords, I will briefly follow the noble Lord, Lord Markham, and the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, in supporting this amendment. The noble Lord, Lord Alton, who is the architect of the amendment—inde