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HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels: Border Security) Regulations 2023My Lords, I note that the Minister did not address my admittedly unanswerable question about the next Government. The news from the noble Lord, Lord Fox, might make us wonder when…06 Dec 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels: Border Security) Regulations 2023My Lords, I rise to move my fatal amendment on the border security minimum service levels regulations. I will be very brief in doing so, in the interests of progressing the…06 Dec 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels: Border Security) Regulations 2023As an amendment to the motion in the name of Lord Sharpe of Epsom, to leave out all the words after “that” and to insert “this House declines to approve the draft Strikes (Minimum…06 Dec 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels: NHS Ambulance Services and the NHS Patient Transport Service) Regulations 2023My Lords, I note that no Tory Back-Benchers are speaking in favour of the Government in this part of the debate. I note also the comments made by the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, who…06 Dec 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels: NHS Ambulance Services and the NHS Patient Transport Service) Regulations 2023My Lords, in speaking after the noble Baroness, Lady Merron, I must respectfully disagree with and indeed correct her on one point. I do not now accept that your Lordships’ House…06 Dec 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels: NHS Ambulance Services and the NHS Patient Transport Service) Regulations 2023As an amendment to the motion in the name of Lord Markham, to leave out all the words after “that” and to insert “this House declines to approve the draft Strikes (Minimum Service…06 Dec 2023HANSARDCode of Practice on Reasonable Steps to be taken by a Trade Union (Minimum Service Levels)I thank the Minister for that information: it is useful for the world to know that we will be facing this situation in three days’ time. We have had a useful debate: this code of…06 Dec 2023HANSARDCode of Practice on Reasonable Steps to be taken by a Trade Union (Minimum Service Levels)My Lords, we have had a very strong debate. I do not think the Minister answered my direct question about when, if your Lordships’ House allows this through, it will come into…06 Dec 2023HANSARDCode of Practice on Reasonable Steps to be taken by a Trade Union (Minimum Service Levels)My Lords, the House is colloquially calling this a “fatal amendment”. I know there are many people watching this debate who may not regularly watch your Lordships’ House, so I…06 Dec 2023HANSARDCode of Practice on Reasonable Steps to be taken by a Trade Union (Minimum Service Levels)As an amendment to the motion in the name of Lord Johnson of Lainston, to leave out all the words after “that” and to insert “this House declines to approve the draft Code of…06 Dec 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillThank you. I have an interest in seeing that that is not open to being rehashed, reused or recycled without my consent, yet as far as I am aware we have no capacity to do that.…05 Dec 2023HANSARDLegal MigrationMy Lords, just to follow up on a previous question, I am currently looking at reports of Home Office modelling that suggests that there are 140,000 fewer students arriving.…05 Dec 2023HANSARDLegal MigrationMy Lords, following on from the question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Brixton, on the Government’s own figures they expect there to be 140,000 fewer people coming in…05 Dec 2023HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, in that spirit of consensus, I declare my former position as editor of the Guardian Weekly . Noble Lords will find an unusual degree of confluence between what you might…05 Dec 2023HANSARDEarly Years EducationMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Goudie, and to share her passionate concern about the level of inequality that affects children’s start in life and…30 Nov 2023HANSARDBenefit Claimants: Free PrescriptionsCould the noble Viscount put that in the Library and share it with everyone in this debate?30 Nov 2023HANSARDEarly Years EducationI do not necessarily expect an immediate answer, but can the Minister perhaps think about whether it is possible to extend such a programme to nursery settings?30 Nov 2023HANSARDBenefit Claimants: Free PrescriptionsMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the powerful speech of the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Brixton, who has reminded us of how in many ways our society is going back to…30 Nov 2023HANSARDAutumn Statement 2023My Lords, I welcome the Minister to her new post at the Treasury. That is currently a hugely and unduly powerful department. We are all familiar with departmental Ministers at the…29 Nov 2023HANSARDClimate Change: Aims for COP 28My Lords, since there is space, an issue that is fast rising up the climate agenda is private jet flights, which of course have enormous levels of carbon emissions per passenger.…28 Nov 2023