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HANSARDEU ProgrammesMy Lords, a number of noble Lords have referred to the stress, pressure and extra work that the scientific community has had to suffer through the years of see-sawing and…07 Sept 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 221A on swift bricks, as your Lordships might expect. My noble friend Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb has, in the terms of the noble Lord, Lord…06 Sept 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I rise with pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Stunell, and the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, to speak to Amendment 201, to which I have attached my name.…06 Sept 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I will briefly comment on two of the amendments. First, the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews, introduced Amendment 204A so powerfully. I share others’ strong preference for…06 Sept 2023HANSARDNutrient Neutrality: Levelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I was speaking today with businesses which have been working with farmers and land managers to develop mitigation schemes that could be used by housing developers. They…05 Sept 2023HANSARDWork Capability Assessment ConsultationMy Lords, my question is informed by a study published this May by a group called INvolve, which spoke to 500 UK employed adults with invisible disabilities, including visual…05 Sept 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I offer Green support for all the amendments in this group, but in the interests of time I will restrict myself to commenting on just two of them. It is a pleasure to…04 Sept 2023HANSARDReinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete in Education SettingsMy Lords, the Minister may be aware of a school that has been particularly badly affected: Myton School in Warwick, where 1,800 pupils face losing three days of school due to a…04 Sept 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I rise briefly, having attached my name to Amendment 192 in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, and the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell. The case has…04 Sept 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I rise very briefly to offer the strongest possible Green support for all these amendments, which really fit into the intersection of Green policies on public health,…04 Sept 2023HANSARDMMR VaccineMy Lords, in April the UK Health Security Agency’s director of public health told the Health and Social Care Committee in the other place that the workload for delivering vaccines…20 Jul 2023HANSARDEmergency Healthcare (Public Services Committee Report)My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Morris of Yardley, and to join others in thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Armstrong of Hill Top, for this report. I…20 Jul 2023HANSARDHigher Education ReformMy Lords, looking round the House, I venture to ask the Minister two questions. The Statement refers to trying to deal with students “paying far into the future for a degree that…20 Jul 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, having attached my name to Amendment 67 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor of Stevenage, I will speak briefly while noting my position as a vice-president of…18 Jul 2023HANSARDNuclear Test VeteransMy Lords, to return to the issue of nuclear tests, I am sure that the Minister is aware of the Montebello Islands off the coast of Western Australia, which are at the centre of a…18 Jul 2023HANSARDArrangement of BusinessMy Lords, may I move an alternative motion, which is that this House do now adjourn and recommence at 11 am tomorrow? I am holding in my hand the papers—not yet the complete…12 Jul 2023HANSARDArrangement of BusinessMotions can be amended.12 Jul 2023HANSARDArrangement of BusinessWith extreme reluctance, as I think the world is watching and I invite the House to consider what message the world is getting from the way we are supposedly doing democracy, I…12 Jul 2023HANSARDSmall and Medium-sized HousebuildersMy Lords, the House often discusses problems of labour and skills shortages. Yesterday the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Apprenticeships, of which I declare that I am an…12 Jul 2023HANSARDBank of England: Interest Rate PolicyMy Lords, the Minister has referred to the drivers of inflation, but she did not mention greedflation—the fact that, as the OECD figures which came out this week show, British…12 Jul 2023