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HANSARDSocial Security (Up-rating of Benefits) BillMy Lords, I am pleased to support this amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Sherlock. I thank her for that incredibly good and detailed outline of what the problem…26 Oct 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, I support the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lady Brown of Cambridge, who has already laid out why interim targets are so badly needed. When the chairs of the…26 Oct 2021HANSARDSocial Security (Up-rating of Benefits) BillI will be very brief, given the hour. As I said, I am chair of Feeding Britain, and I would like to briefly report from the front line, so to speak, on the effect of the stopping…26 Oct 2021HANSARDAssisted Dying Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to support this Bill very strongly. I also strongly support the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Mallalieu: this should be an issue on which the whole House…22 Oct 2021HANSARDCOVID-19: Type 2 DiabetesI am sure that the Minister is aware of the great social inequality in levels of obesity, as there has been with Covid levels. If you cannot afford a healthy diet you run a much…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNutrition for Growth SummitMy Lords, I remind noble Lords that the ODA specific nutrition spend from 2016-19 was almost £110 million; this year it is projected to be only £37 million. Does the Minister not…13 Oct 2021HANSARDEmissions Trading Scheme: TransportAre the Government supportive of the citizens’ climate assembly recommendation to introduce a frequent flyer levy? This would fit well with the polluter pays principle, which…11 Oct 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillI thank the noble Earl, Lord Caithness, and the noble Baronesses, Lady McIntosh of Pickering and Lady Hayman of Ullock, for supporting this amendment. I also need to declare my…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillI have put my name, although only online, to my noble friend Lady Meacher’s amendments as well as to Amendment 121 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Randall. We outsource so…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, I am pleased to support the noble Baroness in this amendment. It is astonishing that we even have to have this debate and consider this amendment. Trees are astonishing.…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment Bill15 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, I am very pleased to support this amendment. It is very late so I want to say that this would become the fifth offence that the ICC would prosecute. I will quote the…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillI thank the Minister and all noble Lords who have spoken in support of the amendment. Many interesting points have been made. I definitely agree with the noble Baroness, Lady…15 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillIt is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett. I just want to say a few words about these chemicals and to talk about it from the point of view of the industry…13 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, my noble friend Lord Colville has today had to go to a family funeral, so he asked me to deliver his speech. I am very happy to do so, and I absolutely support this…13 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, I am very pleased to support the noble Earl, Lord Caithness, in this amendment. If anything needs a strategy, it is the soil. As was talked about on Monday night, the…08 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, I am in agreement with the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, on this amendment about nappies. Three billion a year are used in Britain. It is roughly 6,000 a…08 Sept 2021HANSARDClimate ChangeMy Lords, the UK still has no fully costed plan to reach net zero. The Office for Budget Responsibility has made it clear that the cost of delaying will increase dramatically the…07 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, I am very happy to support this amendment. As the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, said, I joined up a little too late. Biodiversity is all too often seen as the poor relation…06 Sept 2021HANSARDDeep Seabed MiningDoes the Minister agree that it seems deeply ironic that we are now about to dig up these nodules from the ocean without full knowledge of what that will do environmentally? We…06 Sept 2021