"It was an ill wind that blew nobody good," and the Crisis in the City had a very favourable effect on the muster rolls.

We want, if credit should dry up and there should be another possible Crisis in the City of London, to have something available in the way of a credit instrument".

He tried to explain the fall in Stamp Duties by the financial Crisis in the City.

The withdrawal of this subsidy could lead to a massive Crisis in the City of Newcastle and on Tyneside as a whole.

He knows that his financial policies - the free-for-all in the City and the competition and credit control White Paper - created the present Crisis in the City with secondary banks and other financial institutions.

Everyone had been clamouring for lower interest rates, but when interest rates fell a little there was a Crisis in the City, the pound was apparently threatened and interest rates were raised again.

I hope that that will not result in a grave Crisis in the City of Liverpool later in the year.

Should we not, therefore, debate the intransigence of the Secretary of State in refusing to meet the leader of Liverpool city council, Councillor John Hamilton, to discuss the financial Crisis in the City?

He has not attempted to recognise the enormity and seriousness of the Crisis in the City.

We know that the measure of that organisation will come in the Crisis in the City.

The low incidence of defenestration during the Recent City Crisis may not be related directly to the incidence of integrity on the Conservative Benches; it may merely be a product of the increase in double glazing over the past 10 years.

The whole of the Chancellor's speech was complacent, and either he does not or he will not understand the threat of the Crisis in the City.

Does the Minister accept that one of the main reasons for the sinking of the Tory flagship in Bradford last week was the Crisis in the City's education service, which arises directly from the £276 poll tax set by the Conservative party?

The current Crisis in the City should be regarded as an opportunity.

My Lords, is it not somewhat perverse that Parliament spends its time criticising people for putting up tents in protest when those who are responsible for the Crisis in the City and in the banking institutions are walking away into the sunset with their millions?

Three years after the financial Crisis in the City, the shock waves are making their way out to local government and to charities.