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Jul 01 - Budget Speech By The Minister for the Environment

Mr Speaker

Introduction

This past year has seen the consolidation of environmental thinking in Government policy and action, cascading and percolating well into the private sector. On looking back and taking stock, Mr Speaker, I am at the same time embarrassed at the huge environmental deficit Gibraltar held to the rest of the world in 2011, as I am proud of the way that it has advanced since.

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Jul 01 - Defenders Of Gibraltar Meet With Lidington

The Defenders of Gibraltar met yesterday with the Minister for Europe David Lidington. ACSTEG, For A Humanitarian Border and VOGG were also present.The Defenders of Gibraltar expressed their concerns regarding the continued harassment and bullying of Gibraltarians and cross frontier workers by the Spanish Government. The group explained that not enough was being done from a UK perspective to rein in Spain, adding that the the effect of this “fence-sitting” was beginning to affect “our economy and way of life.”

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Jun 30 - Full Text of Deputy Chief Minister's Budget 2014 Speech

govt crest The full text of the Deputy Chief Minister's Budget 2014 Speech is as follows:

Mr Speaker,
this is my sixteenth contribution to a debate on the Appropriation Bill in this House, my third as a member of the Government.

PARLIAMENT

There have been many changes to this place over those sixteen years.
Some have been physical changes to the building like the introduction of air conditioning and the refurbishment of the Chamber itself.

Other changes have been of substance, to the rules, the procedures and the practices of the House.

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