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HANSARDInsolvency Act 1986 Part A1 Moratorium (Eligibility of Private Registered Providers) Regulations 2020My Lords, my interest in this statutory instrument is due to the fact that I served for nine years as a non-executive director of one of the largest housing associations in the…24 Jul 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy Lords, I start by explaining that I am married to someone who has gone through the EU settled status scheme after having lived here for more than 25 years. His experience as a…22 Jul 2020HANSARDBiodiversity: Aichi TargetsMy Lords, turning to the target on air pollution, will the Government reconsider their approach to fine particulate matter, whereby fuels used in wood-burning stoves are to be…20 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillMy Lords, I understand the need to follow the exhortation of the Chief Whip to be as brief as possible in today’s debate, and I will try to do my bit in that regard by speaking…20 Jul 2020HANSARDFinance BillMy Lords, I broadly welcome most of the measures the Government have taken since the onset of this fiscal emergency. I think Her Majesty’s Treasury needs to be congratulated on…17 Jul 2020HANSARDEnterprise Act 2002 (Specification of Additional Section 58 Consideration) Order 2020I welcome the inclusion of public health emergencies as a public interest consideration under these measures. I know that other countries have experience of why these measures are…15 Jul 2020HANSARDMedical Teaching and Learning: Ethnic DiversityPerhaps I might take the Minister upstream a little to the choices made by different communities about entering medical school. What work is being done at 15 and 16 year-old level…14 Jul 2020HANSARDEU Coronavirus Vaccine ProgrammeMy Lords, in this decision, the United Kingdom has made the right call, given that, like the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Italy have moved to make their own provision…13 Jul 2020HANSARDOneWebMy Lords, I welcome the Government’s stake in OneWeb. It will help deliver high-speed broadband in the UK and the rest of the world. On the issue of risk, does the Minister agree…08 Jul 2020HANSARDIndependent Residential CareMy Lords, I welcome the initiation of cross-party talks. The Minister will know now that more than two-thirds of the public want to fund health and social care through higher…07 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillMy Lords, I welcome most of the measures in this Bill, which I can see are a necessary step to get the economy moving again. However, I have two concerns. The first has to do with…06 Jul 2020HANSARDHigher Education (Fee Limits and Student Support) (England) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020My Lords, I welcome these regulations, because I well appreciate the difficulty that the higher education sector is in, as the noble Lord, Lord Desai, referred to a moment ago. I…02 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, what specific plans do the Government have to host people in Leicester who test positive for Covid-19 in hotels to isolate them from multigenerational households and to…01 Jul 2020HANSARDChinaMy Lords, first, I pay tribute to Sir Simon McDonald as he stands down from the FCO. He has been a remarkable leader and an exceptional head of our foreign service, and I wish him…29 Jun 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to have added my name to the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Alton of Liverpool, whose expertise on human rights is paralleled by no one else in…29 Jun 2020HANSARDChinaTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to reassess their relationship with the government of China.29 Jun 2020HANSARDCompetition and Markets AuthorityMy Lords, following on from the noble Lord, Lord Randall, does the Minister accept that on consumer welfare it is difficult for us to have confidence in his reassurances? When the…25 Jun 2020HANSARDRwandaMy Lords, I declare an interest as a former employee of the Commonwealth and as someone in receipt of a Commonwealth Secretariat pension. The Commonwealth has never been in…23 Jun 2020HANSARDPost Office: Horizon Accounting SystemMy Lords, I, too, pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Arbuthnot, but I think that the Minister is playing with semantics to the extent that he talks about how the review will be…18 Jun 2020HANSARDGlobal BritainMy Lords, we are entering a period of much harsher international relations. That is what Sir John Sawers told us on the “Today” programme this morning, and I agree. I can see the…18 Jun 2020