At a time when the fishing industry is facing its most serious Crisis in Decades, can the Parliamentary Secretary imagine a more serious threat to its future than Conservative policy?

None the less, we have seen the worst schools funding Crisis in Decades.

Since the launch of Health is Global we have seen the start of the most serious global economic Crisis in Decades - referred to by several noble Lords, including my noble friend Lord Desai.

In relation to the annual growth survey, we noted the Commission's cautious optimism about the year ahead, and its conclusion that the EU was slowly emerging from the deepest financial and economic Crisis in Decades, and that there were signs that in the course of 2013 we would see a recovery.

When the other great nations in Europe are standing side by side to work together to tackle the largest humanitarian Crisis in Decades on our shore, the UK should not seek to stand back from our responsibility, distancing ourselves from the collective responsibility of European membership.