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HANSARDCivil Aviation (Consumer Protection and Regulatory Reform) Bill [HL]My Lords, I signed the two amendments from the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, in this group. As she said, they are pertinent to the next group, when we get into the detail. I…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDCivil Aviation (Consumer Protection and Regulatory Reform) Bill [HL]My Lords, I apologise for not apologising, when I intervened on the last group, for missing Second Reading. I am very grateful for the Minister’s comments on my return after some…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDVictims and Courts BillMy Lords, I am going to intervene very briefly to say that it is good that an agreement has been reached on the difficult issue of the processes and arrangements relating to…23 Apr 2026HANSARDInfected Blood Compensation SchemeMy Lords, I thank the Government for this Statement, and the technical expert group—TEG—at IBCA for its detailed report, which sits behind the proposed changes to the scheme…21 Apr 2026HANSARDSouthport Inquiry: Prevent ProgrammeMy Lords, our thoughts are with the victims and their families, especially this week with the publication of the inquiry report, which will have brought back many sad memories.…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Young of Acton, has set out his reasons for insisting on his Motion Q1, which would delete records that the police hold non-crime hate incidents in…16 Apr 2026HANSARDVictims and Courts BillMy Lords, I start by thanking the Minister, her ministerial colleagues in the justice department, officials and staff, who have been available for conversations both during the…15 Apr 2026HANSARDVictims and Courts BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lord Marks for his comments on private prosecutions, and for the discussions we have had with the Minister, and separately with the…15 Apr 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I signed this amendment, which was originally laid by my late noble and learned friend Lord Wallace of Tankerness. I think that he would have been very pleased to hear…18 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, for bringing this amendment back and for her speech, and to the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, and…18 Mar 2026HANSARDVictims and Courts BillMy Lords, on behalf of the Liberal Democrat Benches, I am very grateful that the Conservatives have already expressed their thanks for the Bill. We echo that thanks. I welcome the…17 Mar 2026HANSARDNHS: Heart Valve DiseaseMy Lords, the Resuscitation Council UK, the British Cardiovascular Society and the National Council for Palliative Care have excellent and sensitive joint guidance on the use of…12 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, the government amendments are welcomed from these Benches. In their scope and depth, they ensure that offenders who have committed the heinous crime of child cruelty…11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, from these Benches, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Levitt, for the meeting that she had with my noble friend Lord Marks and the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby. I gather…11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I have one sentence to add to the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Paddick. The Office for National Statistics, in response to an FoI, said on the collection of data in…11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am struggling to hear the question in the noble Baroness’s intervention. I repeat the point that the Office for National Statistics and the police data that is currently…11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Cameron of Lochiel, introduced Amendment 402, which proposes that the police should be exempt from the public sector equality duty under the…11 Mar 2026HANSARDVictims and Courts BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister and her officials for the helpful meetings between Committee and Report and for the correspondence. I have retabled my amendment from Committee,…10 Mar 2026HANSARDVictims and Courts BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for her helpful meeting between Committee and Report. As a result of her concerns about the practicalities of summing up for victims,…10 Mar 2026HANSARDVictims and Courts BillMy Lords, I have tabled Amendment 10 in this group, on bereaved victims of murder abroad. I have also signed the three amendments tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Russell, on…10 Mar 2026