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HANSARDInfected Blood Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2025Let me be clear that my comment was not about the consultation, which is a written one, but the fact that nobody with lived experience was invited to attend the round table…11 Dec 2025HANSARDInfected Blood Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2025With one such person.11 Dec 2025HANSARDWheelchair and Community Equipment StrategyMy Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, on securing this important debate. I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Gerada, on her excellent maiden…11 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I have signed Amendment 289. This is the first opportunity I have had to speak in Committee because of family illness, and it is good to be back. In a previous group of…09 Dec 2025HANSARDArmed Services: Sexual ViolenceMy Lords, the Army website for the Victim Support Pathway for sexual offences is, helpfully, very clear and, most of all, encouraging, making it plain that it is not the victim’s…09 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill09 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, Amendment 293 in my name is very straightforward and necessary. Victims of child sexual abuse and other offences often do not come forward themselves at the time of the…09 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am very grateful to everyone who has spoken. I am probably the only non-lawyer in this debate, and as it is my amendment I feel something of a duffer. I am very grateful for the…09 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill09 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, Amendment 315 seeks to do something very simple but long overdue: automatically commence the Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Act 2023 when the Crime and…09 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am struggling to get what I have just heard right. Earlier this evening, we discussed a number of amendments in which we were not supported because we expect to see the strategy…09 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am very grateful to the Minister for his response, even if I am still somewhat bemused about the hierarchy of decisions going on in relation to this Bill when there is actually…09 Dec 2025HANSARDFacial Recognition Technology: SafeguardsMy Lords, I am very grateful for the Minister’s response in which he said that legislation and regulation are important. It is overdue by eight years, to be precise, during which…09 Dec 2025HANSARDAngiolini InquiryMy Lords, the three moving statements from the families of Sarah Everard, Zara Aleena and Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman must act as a reminder that too little has changed since…08 Dec 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Neuberger, and the noble Lord, Lord Harper, that, over the last four to five years, we have been round the Houses on this issue,…11 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe last Government produced an expert report in the run-up to our 23 debates on various amendments. Will the Government undertake to have an expert report from doctors and…11 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I have signed both Amendment 58 and Amendment 80, which is consequential to Amendment 58. We have just heard very eloquently from the noble Lord, Lord Alton, about why…05 Nov 2025HANSARDInfected Blood Compensation SchemeMy Lords, I thank all the infected and affected victims who have been in touch with me and other noble Lords in the last few weeks, not least since the consultation started and…04 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken during the debate on age assessment, and particularly to the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, for her amendment, which,…03 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I apologise to the House for not being able to take part on this Bill at an earlier stage. The second amendment in this group, Amendment 57, in the name of the noble…03 Nov 2025