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HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI just want to intervene on what the noble Baroness was saying about the importance of councils being able to take it up, by just making a quick reference to one of our most…11 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 239. I support all the amendments that have just been talked about—it is vital that communities can buy land. However, I am, in a way, offering…11 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI thank the Minister, but half of the amendment is not about allotments. Having run this scheme in London, I know that allotments are almost impossible to get. It is also about…09 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Freeman. What I have to add is that my Amendments 160, 161, 163, 164, 165 and 169 would bring a more climate…04 Feb 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, my Amendment 243 deals with climate mitigation and adaptation. It would make statutory existing government guidance that new school buildings must be both net zero in…03 Feb 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI very much support all the amendments around trying to make uniforms more affordable, but I want to speak about a health time bomb that we are sitting on, much in the way that we…28 Jan 2026HANSARDYorkshire: Sustainable Water Management SolutionsMy Lords, flood defences in Monmouth were built in 2020, survived a storm in 2022 and fell down in 2025. It seems that a lot of the concrete stuff that is built is not actually…28 Jan 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I support both amendments from the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, in particular Amendment 113 on the school food improvement scheme. I am incredibly glad to see how many…21 Jan 2026HANSARDCOP Climate Negotiations: CitiesMy Lords, it is now accepted that the majority of the world live in cities, so they are the victims of climate change more than pretty much anyone else. It seems extraordinary…14 Jan 2026HANSARDSexual Harassment in Educational SettingsMy Lords, it is a follow-up question to the previous one. As I understand it from Ofcom, the maximum fine that X will receive for having Grok on its website is £18 million. This…12 Jan 2026HANSARDFree School MealsTo ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that schools’ core budgets in more deprived communities are not disproportionately used to meet the costs of…16 Dec 2025HANSARDFree School MealsMy Lords, I thank the Government very much for extending the remit of free school meals—that is excellent news. I declare my interest as chair of Feeding Britain. One of our…16 Dec 2025HANSARDBiodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction BillMy Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 19 but very much support the amendments around plastic. When I was in the Pacific, I too found myself on a quite deserted desert island full…16 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I support all the amendments in this group, so well put forward by the noble Baronesses, Lady Bertin, Lady Kidron, Lady Kennedy and Lady Benjamin, but I particularly…09 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I support all the amendments in this group, and in particular I pay tribute to the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, for her endless work in this capacity. This is the first…27 Nov 2025HANSARDDomestic Abuse: Emergency AccommodationMy Lords, it is just over 50 years since Erin Pizzey opened the first women’s refuge in Chiswick. I went there myself. At the time, about 1.5 women a week were being killed. That…26 Nov 2025HANSARDAirport ExpansionMy Lords, can the Minister answer a question that is very puzzling to me? When we proposed airport expansion, it was about increasing business traffic into this country. Since…11 Nov 2025HANSARDAirport ExpansionMy Lords—11 Nov 2025HANSARDRiver PollutionMy Lords, there was a report last week in the Guardian about the operators of intensive chicken and pig units that are apparently withholding their emissions data from the public.…10 Nov 2025HANSARDOnline Safety Act 2023: Online Hate and RacismAre the Government taking account of the level of misogyny online that seems to be an inbuilt bias? I was speaking to unions last week, which were saying that, for instance, if…05 Nov 2025