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HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 422E and, additionally, do so on behalf of the noble Lord, Lord Verdirame, KC, who has a prior appointment in The Hague this week. He was the…18 Mar 2026HANSARDUK Public Servants: International SecondmentsMy Lords, I do not believe the noble Baroness answered the last part of my question. Why are misconduct investigations undertaken by the international organisation, which may have…16 Mar 2026HANSARDAntisemitism on University CampusesMy Lords—16 Mar 2026HANSARDSocial Cohesion Action PlanMy Lords, I exhort the Whip, since he started by asking people to be extremely brief in their questions, to give some practical effort to controlling the Chamber in that regard. I…16 Mar 2026HANSARDArrangement of BusinessMy Lords, before the Chief Whip sits down, he has been sorely missed in this Chamber today because the conduct of business has been all over the place, including on the Private…16 Mar 2026HANSARDUK Public Servants: International SecondmentsTo ask His Majesty’s Government what standards of behaviour apply to UK public servants on secondment to international organisations where UK civil service standards may be higher…16 Mar 2026HANSARDUK Public Servants: International SecondmentsI thank the Minister. I should declare from the outset that my Question is not related to any individuals but, rather, is a question of policy. She will know about both the…16 Mar 2026HANSARDBallot Secrecy Act: BreachesMy Lords, is the Minister able to explain the status of Commonwealth citizens who are not dual nationals but merely resident in the United Kingdom for the purposes of voting? Do…04 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIn response to the question from the noble Lord, Lord Markham, does the noble Baroness agree that senior and significant public appointments always involve an independent…27 Feb 2026HANSARDEquality and Human Rights CommissionWe have had the shabby spectacle of the Government disingenuously arguing against their own regulator’s interpretation of the law in the High Court this past November. On 13…26 Feb 2026HANSARDStandards in Public LifeI am so sorry, but I have to apologise to the House. I needed to have declared an interest. I spoke last Wednesday on a Question on think tanks but did not declare that, the…10 Feb 2026HANSARDStandards in Public LifeMy Lords, the noble Baroness is right about the importance of the public having confidence in this House—indeed, in both Houses, but we are particularly concerned with this…10 Feb 2026HANSARDThink Tanks: FundingMy Lords, on transparency, is the Minister aware of the Fundraising Regulator’s concerns about the registration of very small community interest companies at Companies House? They…04 Feb 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, we are coming back to the terminally ill debate that we had on Friday. Women may well be—although not in this particular case—coerced by partners to take pills when they…02 Feb 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThe noble Baroness has invoked foreign jurisdictions a lot, but is she aware that a lot of them, as the noble Lord, Lord Weir, explained, have lower term limits whereby an…02 Feb 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillBefore the Government Whip sits down, could he please remind the Committee that interventions have to be brief and cannot go on into speeches? Can he also remind the Committee…02 Feb 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI wonder if what the noble Lord describes, with which I have a great deal of sympathy—I say this as a signatory to Amendment 456—would be ameliorated in terms of the distress of…02 Feb 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, as my noble friend Lord Verdirame has explained, my noble friend Lady Wolf cannot be here today, so I will pick up some of her points in this intervention as she is not…02 Feb 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI would like to proceed a little further and then I will give way to the noble Baroness. If we wish to change abortion law, we are perfectly entitled to do so as a society, but…02 Feb 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I think the noble Baroness was in danger of no longer wishing to be heard. That is where the Committee was moving. When the Whips tell us to conclude, we really should…02 Feb 2026