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HANSARDCivil Service: InternsThe noble Lord is absolutely right; as someone who spends their time in Stoke-on-Trent, I think that everybody and every government department should be based in my city. Noble…02 Sept 2025HANSARDCivil Service: InternsI rarely wish to disagree with my noble friend, but in this instance I do. Obviously, she has huge experience, but this is one of a series of measures the Government are taking to…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, for stepping in and moving the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Wei. I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, this has been a useful and considered debate. I thank noble Lords for their participation. Local authorities have existing duties under the Education Act 1996 to…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI am happy to commit to write to the noble Lord and reflect on what he has said.02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillShe was not here.02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillNo.02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI thank the noble Lord, Lord Hampton, for initiating such an important debate, which has already had an effect by ensuring that more Members of your Lordships’ House are aware of…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, we seem to have gone awfully quickly. On that basis, may I ask that we adjourn during pleasure for five minutes in order for all participants in the next business to…02 Sept 2025HANSARDInfected Blood Inquiry: Additional ReportThe impact on the noble Baroness’s family reminds us every time we hear of it that there is a real human cost. It is very easy for all of us to consider this just to be news and…24 Jul 2025HANSARDInfected Blood Inquiry: Additional ReportMy Lords, I am grateful, as ever, for the contributions of the noble Baronesses, Lady Finn and Lady Brinton. Their responses were, as they have always been in previous debates in…24 Jul 2025HANSARDInfected Blood Inquiry: Additional ReportI thank the noble Baroness for the questions. She is absolutely right: how we speed this up is vitally important. We cannot slow it down. It has to be about speeding it up so…24 Jul 2025HANSARDInfected Blood Inquiry: Additional ReportThe noble Baroness makes an important point. Although it is vitally important that we focus on the victims and doing as much as we can to support them, more fundamental learnings…24 Jul 2025HANSARDInfected Blood Inquiry: Additional ReportThe noble Lord raises an incredibly important point. We live at a time when people do not want to trust our institutions and we have given people far too many reasons not to trust…24 Jul 2025HANSARDInfected Blood Inquiry: Additional ReportI would like it all out of the door today but, candidly, it will take longer than that. The noble Baroness is absolutely right: we pledged £11.8 billion in the Autumn Budget, and…24 Jul 2025HANSARDInfected Blood Inquiry: Additional ReportThe noble Lord is very kind, but he does know me well and he knows quite how determined I can be. I will do everything I can to make sure that my Government deliver on these…24 Jul 2025HANSARDCasement Park: Spending ReviewThe noble Baroness raises what is at the heart of this: in 2011 the last Government allocated £14.7 million of funding for the redevelopment of Ravenhill rugby stadium, £25.2…23 Jul 2025HANSARDCasement Park: Spending ReviewMy Lords, before I answer the substantive Question, noble Lords will have seen on the news this morning the heartbreaking reports of a shooting in Fermanagh. My thoughts and…23 Jul 2025HANSARDPensions: Low-income and Self-employed WorkersMy noble friend is very aware that I am a former trade union official who represented local government workers. I can give a complete commitment to the Local Government Pension…23 Jul 2025HANSARDPensions: Low-income and Self-employed WorkersThe noble Baroness makes a genuinely important point about how we make sure that everybody has access to appropriate funding in their retirement. Even the language of pensions…23 Jul 2025