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HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I cannot call Amendment 71 due to pre-emption.15 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]The noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, is participating remotely. I invite her to speak now.15 Jun 2022HANSARDEvacuations from AfghanistanMy Lords, I am part of a charity that managed to facilitate the extraction of a number of LGBT people from Afghanistan. Fortunately, some of them came to Britain. However, others…26 May 2022HANSARDNHS Dental ServicesMy Lords, the Government announced £50 million in extra support for dental practices earlier this year. How many of the practices which received some of that money are in rural…24 May 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Eaton, is a stalwart of these debates and she always takes a view that is contrary to mine. I say at the beginning of my speech that I do not…05 Apr 2022HANSARDBritish Sign Language BillMy Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Thomas of Winchester, is taking part remotely and I invite her to speak. For the middle section of her speech, the noble Baroness will be…25 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, yet again I support the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts. I share his view that it is good for charitable and voluntary organisations and campaign groups to be…17 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I wish that many Members of your Lordships’ House who have spoken this evening could have come to the meetings that I have attended in the last two years with people…16 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I too have spent many hours in your Lordships’ House discussing the subject of single-sex wards in hospitals. There is a continuing discussion to be had about single-sex…16 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I will follow up on the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Khan. It is quite puzzling to see how extensive a problem it could be to have entities registered as both…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, at this late stage, I want to thank the noble Baroness for her introduction. I do not intend to repeat many of the points that she put forward, which were entirely…15 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I have the great privilege of being a member of the Select Committee chaired by the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, which considered citizenship and civic…10 Mar 2022HANSARDArrangement of BusinessMy Lords, Members are encouraged to leave some distance between themselves and others and to wear a face covering when not speaking. If there is a Division in the Chamber while we…10 Mar 2022HANSARDEarly Legal Advice Pilot Scheme Order 2022My Lords, the Committee will adjourn for a few moments until the people involved in the next business are in place.10 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, at this late hour, I simply want to express my support for the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, and Amendments 154 and 155 in his name by making three simple points. First, we are…07 Mar 2022HANSARDOlder Workers: Job Market OpportunitiesMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to take part in this debate on a subject to which I first had to pay attention in the run-up to the millennium, when the organisation for which I…03 Mar 2022HANSARDUkraineMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, is taking part remotely, and I invite him to speak now.25 Feb 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, electoral law is perhaps a somewhat arcane topic, but it often defines a society because it tells us who are regarded as being citizens with power in a particular…23 Feb 2022HANSARDGovernment Contracts: Randox LaboratoriesMy Lords, since the start of 2020, Randox has secured almost £620 million of government contracts and the firm has been shown repeatedly to produce goods which are faulty or do…21 Feb 2022HANSARDMedical Abortion PillsMy Lords, the telemedical abortion service has been evaluated separately in England, Wales and Scotland and it has proven to be world leading. The US Food and Drug Administration…10 Feb 2022