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HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 17, to which I have added my name, but first I thank the Ministers for listening to the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, and others, and for…01 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I wish to speak briefly to the amendments in this group, particularly in relation to the issue of perpetrator pays for fire hazard remediation—work that must be carried…24 Feb 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I declare my interests as a vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Fire Safety and Rescue Group and a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I support…24 Feb 2022HANSARDCovid-19: Effect on Education in Deprived CommunitiesMy Lords, last year, Sir Kevan Collins resigned when the Government allocated only 1/10th of the funds he said were needed to deliver a real post-pandemic education recovery plan.…23 Feb 2022HANSARDLiving with Covid-19My Lords, the 3.7 million clinically extremely vulnerable people already follow government advice for them, regularly checking the daily Covid dashboard to see how many cases…22 Feb 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I support both amendments in this group so helpfully introduced by my noble friend Lord Stunell. We heard in our debate on the previous group of amendments about the…21 Feb 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, just before I speak to the two amendments in this group, I ask the Minister whether I might be copied into the answer about permitted development rights on the previous…21 Feb 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I shall speak specifically to Amendment 6 but I endorse the others, for reasons that will become apparent. One thing we have all become aware of, post Grenfell and the…21 Feb 2022HANSARDFCDO Nutrition PolicyMy Lords, whilst the Government’s commitment to investing £1.5 billion in nutrition over the next eight years is a start, it is still less than one quarter of what the…21 Feb 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I shall speak to a number of amendments in this group, broadly divided into two areas. The…21 Feb 2022HANSARDIntegration White PaperMy Lords, I declare my interest as a vice president of the Local Government Association. Both the Statement and the White Paper set out a laudable ambition to integrate health and…10 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I want to speak very briefly to thank the Ministers for listening to the noble Baroness, Lady Sugg, and the noble Lord, Lord Patel, and others who have been working with…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for outlining the amendments in this group, and look forward to my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones’s contribution shortly. I…09 Feb 2022HANSARDCovid-19: LockdownsMy Lords, this paper’s economist authors admit that it reflects their opinions. Extraordinarily, they chose to exclude the most recognised epidemiological research on excess…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, this amendment is a companion piece to the previous amendment on declarations of interest that we believe should be made by doctors and other regulated healthcare staff,…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I will be very brief, as the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, has comprehensively explained why her amendment, Amendment 287, which seeks to create a dispute resolution…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I am delighted to support Amendment 297L from the noble Baroness, Lady Hollins, which proposes mandatory training on learning disability and autism and how to care for…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Greengross, and others for the amendments in this group, which would help transform some of the long-standing problems in social care,…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I am a former trustee of UNICEF UK and, before that, Christian Blind Mission, a global disability charity. I have seen first hand the two-tier system of access to global…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I will speak against Amendments 297F and 297G, spoken to just now by the noble Baroness, Lady Nicholson. One incident last week explains why they are dangerous and…09 Feb 2022