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HANSARDHealth: HIVMy Lords, does the Minister agree that in order to end HIV by 2030 all children need to understand their own risks through comprehensive relationship and sex education and that…25 Mar 2019HANSARDCivil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for the statements she made from the Dispatch Box. She has gone a long way towards dealing with my concerns. I also thank the noble Baroness, Lady…01 Mar 2019HANSARDCivil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) BillMy Lords, in moving the amendment I want to return to the issues I talked about at Second Reading and in Committee. The matter is about the involvement of coroners in the…01 Mar 2019HANSARDCivil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Bill01 Mar 2019HANSARDCivil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, for the considered way in which he introduced his amendment. The way that he set out for the House how he has prosecuted his case…01 Mar 2019HANSARDCivil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) BillMy Lords, at earlier stages of this Bill, I informed the House that I was brought up in a religious household. It was a nonconformist household, so in this debate I find myself…01 Mar 2019HANSARDMental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [HL]My Lords, I will make three quick points. One is to thank the Minister for the way in which she set out the ways in which the Government listened to the debates at an earlier…26 Feb 2019HANSARDRelationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education, and Health EducationMy Lords, the Minister referred to good tools and materials such as those made available by the Sex Education Forum, but he will know that there are a lot of tools and materials…25 Feb 2019HANSARDAssisted SuicideMy Lords, given the statistics which the noble and learned Lord has just quoted, does he not consider that that in itself is an indication that the law is not working properly?14 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillMy Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Blackwood of North Oxford, on the clarity with which she introduced this legislation. On the basis of her speech, I look…05 Feb 2019HANSARDHealth: Public Health GrantTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the decision announced on 20 December 2018 to reduce the Public Health Grant to local authorities…04 Feb 2019HANSARDHealth: Public Health GrantMy Lords, local authority public health budgets have been reduced by £700 million since 2014. Due to rising rates of gonorrhea and syphilis and the problems young people have in…04 Feb 2019HANSARDCivil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) BillMy Lords, I intend to be as brief as possible, not least because I wish that the noble Baroness, Lady Hodgson, will not have to continue to be as amazing in her stamina as she has…01 Feb 2019HANSARDCivil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses. I take the Minister’s point that the drafting of the amendment is not correct, but I share the concerns set out in the report of the…01 Feb 2019HANSARDCivil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) BillHaving sat through debates on all the relevant legislation, I believe it is not possible to be simultaneously in a civil partnership and a marriage. That is not allowed under…01 Feb 2019HANSARDCivil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hodgson, for struggling in today; she is clearly not on top form. I thank her very much for the comprehensive way in which she took us…01 Feb 2019HANSARDCivil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Bill01 Feb 2019HANSARDCivil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) BillMy Lords, I want to ask a question of the noble Lord, Lord Faulkner of Worcester, who was precise in referring to the Church of England. My understanding is that the same…01 Feb 2019HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, this week 28 women will come from Northern Ireland to Britain to have health treatment that they should be able to get at home. They do so because the definition of…31 Jan 2019HANSARDCivil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hodgson of Abinger, for the way in which she introduced this Bill, which deals with matters of enormous importance and sensitivity to a…18 Jan 2019