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HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I have come specifically to the debate on this part of the Bill especially to support these amendments. I regret that I have not played a part in any other part of the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, for the reasons that have been given I also support the amendments of the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge. Just to add to what the noble Lord, Lord Meston, said, I…27 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, if I may, I shall start with the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Meston. I agree with almost everything that the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge, has said. I will…27 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I hope I may be forgiven for getting up again, because I completely forgot to refer to Amendment 76. It would come in under paragraph 3(2) in Part 1 of new Schedule A1,…27 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I appreciate that this is this Minister’s first time, but I would like to speak to his team in the department through him. I find it very difficult to understand why the…27 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]It is shared.27 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]In the absence of the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy, I will just say that I support all these amendments. I expressed concern about under-16s and those aged 16-18, but that does not…27 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I entirely agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Meston, just said. The two interjections were very interesting but they do not really affect the guidance. That is…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 61. I recognise that the purpose of the Bill is to give children and those under 16 greater rights and opportunities to be heard. I entirely…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I apologise for interrupting the noble Baroness again, but the fact is—I speak as a former lawyer and judge who applied Gillick—it does not actually give guidance. All it says, as…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, having just heard the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy, I shall be extremely cautious about what I look at on the internet. I want to say just two or three words. I have…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]The trouble with Gillick is that it does not provide, for those who have to make the decision, how to do it.22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, if the noble Earl is suggesting that the provisions in the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Meston, should go either to consultation or to further consideration, will…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I too want to add, equally with great care, to this very interesting discussion. I am concerned about the police. I have not quite understood from the Minister her thoughts on a…20 Jan 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMy Lords, I spent almost all my legal and judicial life on child sexual abuse and child physical abuse, and I chaired the Cleveland child abuse inquiry. I agree entirely with what…20 Jan 2025HANSARDRefugees (Family Reunion) Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare that I—along with Fiona Mactaggart, then an MP—wrote a report on children in northern France, Calais and Dunkirk some years ago. I find this whole group of…17 Jan 2025HANSARDRefugees (Family Reunion) Bill [HL]I ask the noble Lord, who I think has also put forward Amendment 14, whether children who have been formally adopted are contained within the Immigration Rules?17 Jan 2025HANSARDRegulated and Other Activities (Mandatory Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse) Bill [HL]My Lords, this Bill raises a crucial issue. The noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, is absolutely right to pursue it, despite the promises of the Government that at some point…17 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]The noble Baroness, Lady Barker, is absolutely right. Any amendment I might put forward in future would have to allow for that, as there must be some parents who would not be…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I should like to speak to Amendment 9, following on from the noble Lord, Lord Scriven, on Amendment 8. We are dealing with the responsible commissioner making…14 Jan 2025