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HANSARDBus Services (No. 2) Bill [HL]My Lords, I want start by echoing the many tributes to our friend and colleague Baroness Randerson, who died so suddenly last weekend. She and I came into your Lordships’ House at…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Abuse Inquiry: RecommendationsMy Lords, one of the IICSA recommendations was on providing a mandatory aggravating factor in sentencing where a child was exploited—that is, controlled, coerced, manipulated or…08 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseI thank the Minister for the Statement. From these Benches I also thank the Government for the progress that is finally being made on the acceptance of the recommendations from…08 Jan 2025HANSARDElectric Scooters and Electric Bicycles: Pedestrian SafetyMy Lords, I am really grateful that the Minister just referred to disabled people. Many people in wheelchairs are finding that dockless bikes being dumped all over the pavements…07 Jan 2025HANSARDHospice FundingMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for explaining about the capital grant, but can she get the Government to commit to a long-term revenue funding formula for hospices…06 Jan 2025HANSARDWindrush Compensation SchemeMy Lords, I am very grateful that the Minister just referred to the two other schemes that are ongoing at the moment, but victims of those schemes are saying that it is not just…19 Dec 2024HANSARDGeorgiaI am grateful for the Minister’s response. Georgian Dream, the pro-Putin party of unconstitutional actions and democratic backsliding, last Saturday appointed a new President,…17 Dec 2024HANSARDGeorgiaTo ask His Majesty’s Government, following the Foreign Secretary’s statement on 9 December concerning attacks on protesters and journalists by authorities in Georgia, whether they…17 Dec 2024HANSARDDomestic Abuse: Victims and SurvivorsMy Lords, I also congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Chisholm, on securing this important debate and all the other speakers who have so movingly talked about the scourge of…12 Dec 2024HANSARD75th Anniversary of Formula 1My Lords, nine years ago I was in Mexico at the same time as the grand prix there, sharing a hotel with the Ferrari back-office team. I got stranded at the hotel because the…12 Dec 2024HANSARDPost Office: Capture SystemMy Lords, it is appalling that the key information for the Kroll report forensic investigation into Capture, which pre-dates Horizon, was provided only the day before the report…12 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I thank the Minister—I am grateful.11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, for tabling these three amendments. I have a question about Amendment 59. Paragraph 9 of the Schedule says that: “Medicines and…11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, my amendments in this group—Amendments 69, 91 and 107—cover a somewhat wider area than those in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe of Epsom. I shall return to his…11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Fox, is unable to be in his place at this stage of the day because today’s Committee date was confirmed only after he had made an appointment that…11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, for his question because it reminded me that when all the primary and secondary legislation on Covid was going through, most of the…11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, the Minister has been very helpful in explaining about the affirmative process, and he has talked about the Explanatory Memorandum, but he has not responded to my…11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I am grateful to the speakers in this debate and to the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, for his Amendments 103, 104 and 104B. They aim, I think, to achieve the same objective as…11 Dec 2024