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HANSARDIncome Equality and SustainabilityMy Lords, I welcome this debate and thank the most reverend Primate for introducing it. Since the crisis began and the lockdown was enforced, extraordinary hardship has been…06 May 2020HANSARDFruit and Vegetable HarvestI thank the Minister for his reply. I have seen the website; the level of publicity is very low at the moment and not many people know about it. The cheap wages that have been…30 Apr 2020HANSARDFruit and Vegetable HarvestTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that any fruit and vegetables ready for harvest during the COVID-19 pandemic are harvested.30 Apr 2020HANSARDWindrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) BillMy Lords, it is a great delight to follow so many wonderful speeches setting out all the ghastly details of the Windrush affair. In the next few minutes—I assure noble Lords that…21 Apr 2020HANSARDWellbeing of Future Generations Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a great pleasure to speak in my noble friend Lord Bird’s debate. I have had many adventures with him over my life and I am a great fan. I want to talk briefly…13 Mar 2020HANSARDWomen’s RefugesIt is nearly 50 years since I went to the first women’s refuge in Chiswick High Road, started by Erin Pizzey. At that point the grim statistics were that 1.5 women a week were…10 Mar 2020HANSARDUniversal CreditDoes the Minister understand the correlation between new attendants at food banks and universal credit sanctions? What are the Government going to do about that? Almost all new…02 Mar 2020HANSARDSingle-use PlasticsMy Lords, further to the noble Baroness’s question about banning plastics altogether, at the moment the supermarkets seem to be having their cake and eating it. They are charging…27 Feb 2020HANSARDHousing InsulationMy Lords, I congratulate the Minister on his new post. Can he share with the House any thinking in the forthcoming White Paper that will ensure that the cost of cutting carbon and…25 Feb 2020HANSARDFlooding UpdateMy Lords, absent from the discussion has been farming and the crops lost due to the flooding—not just winter planting but spring as well. What are the Government going to do to…25 Feb 2020HANSARDClimate Change: COP 26 and Civil SocietyTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to engage civil society in climate change issues ahead of COP26, to be held in Glasgow in November 2020.15 Jan 2020HANSARDClimate Change: COP 26 and Civil SocietyI thank the Minister for his Answer, but people now accept that civil society has a very important role to play. The location of Madrid was agreed at the last minute, but the fact…15 Jan 2020HANSARDUK Aid: Nutrition-sensitive ProgrammesMy Lords, without good nutrition at key points in a child’s growth, it is impossible for them to develop a healthy immune system, and, nowadays, malnutrition is the number one…13 Jan 2020HANSARDQueen’s SpeechMy Lords, it is an honour to follow the noble Lord and his 12 very good and challenging points. I want to make some points about the principles we must abide by if we want to…09 Jan 2020HANSARDChildren: Rights and Well-beingMy Lords, I declare an interest as the chair of Feeding Britain. We recently saw new and disturbing academic research. Children in Britain who are on free school meals are…09 Jan 2020HANSARDExtinction RebellionMy Lords, we invented the combustion engine, but I take the Minister’s point about emissions from China. But this is a climate emergency, as the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, said. Why…31 Oct 2019HANSARDQueen’s SpeechMy Lord, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Roberts, and I was very pleased to hear about the Welsh dairy farmers. As far as I know, Stoke Newington was an area…22 Oct 2019HANSARDAsylum Seekers: EmploymentMy Lords, can the Minister give an assurance that the current position whereby the children of asylum seekers do not receive free school meals is going to be reconsidered? This…07 Oct 2019HANSARDNational School Breakfast ProgrammeNo one has any doubt about the importance of breakfast and yet, at the moment, apart from the scheme mentioned by my noble friend Lord Curry, almost all these breakfasts are being…05 Sept 2019HANSARDPlastic Bag ChargeMy Lords, while I appreciate the 10p tax, why can the Government not go further and ban these bags? Certain plastic items are being banned. There are 500 billion single-use…17 Jul 2019