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HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare my interests as a patron of the Traveller Movement, a member of the All-Party Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma and a founding chair of the All-Party…27 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. Amendments 156 and 171 address the issue of school land and buildings that may not be…27 Jun 2022HANSARDRoma Community: Levelling UpMy Lords, mission 7 of the Government’s White Paper on levelling up in the UK aims to narrow the gap in healthy life expectancy by 2030. However, there is no mention in it at all…27 Jun 2022HANSARDDiabetic Prevention ProgrammeMy Lords, the observational study by academics of the 2018-19 wave of the NHS diabetes prevention programme, published by BMC Health Services Research, observed disengagement…23 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, in Part 4, on independent educational institutions, particularly Clause 60, the detail seems to put independent schools on a standards system closer to that of publicly…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I too thank Tom Perry and Mandate Now, who have been advocating for mandatory reporting for many years, all the survivors of abuse at schools who have been in contact…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, especially today when the Anti-Bullying Alliance is asking all of us to encourage children to talk to someone…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, has already expressed the worries from home educators and why she is opposing the clause standing part. My queries are more probing as to…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I have two amendments in this group: Amendment 137D and 143IB. Amendment 137D replicates Amendment 171V that I had in an earlier group, for children who are home…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, the comprehensive introduction by the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, to the wide-ranging amendments in this group has once again set the tone for many of us with concerns about…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, for his introduction to Amendment 112A and the many others in this group. Amendment 112A is important, as it gives parents the right…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSocial Security (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill [HL]My Lords, my noble friend Lady Janke cannot be in her place today, so I am delighted to thank, on behalf of the Liberal Democrat Benches, the Minister for her remarks and all…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSocial Care: AdultsMy Lords, I go back to the previous question: this ADASS survey shows that almost 170,000 hours of homecare a week could not be delivered for the first three months of this year,…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy of Cradley, whose introduction to this clause stand part debate was helpful, especially with the examples she…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, before I speak to the amendments in this group, I wish to ask the Minister a question about her contribution at the end of the previous group. She said that it was…20 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare my interests as a vice-president of the Local Government Association and as a former chair of governors of Mayfield Primary School in Cambridge, which at that…20 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, is right that we need to know about all children, whether in school or not. In this part of the Bill, the problem is the focus on a…20 Jun 2022HANSARDNursing: StaffingMy Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Tyler on securing this important and timely debate and her excellent introduction to it. Its content is perhaps no surprise to many…16 Jun 2022HANSARDVaccinationsMy Lords, the shingles vaccine is available in the UK only to those aged between 70 and 79, whereas in the USA it is automatically available to everyone over 50. NICE data says…15 Jun 2022