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HANSARDCrime and Policing BillIn the Worby case, the woman discovered what had happened to her, went to the police and was not investigated.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 BillI will say one more sentence before I sit down, and I will be happy for both noble Baronesses to intervene then. We have obligations to the rights of the unborn child, as that is…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 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 2026HANSARDSingle-Sex Spaces: EHRC GuidanceMy Lords, the Minister is a Minister in the Cabinet Office. I know that he would not have wished to have misled the House in his recent response to the noble Lord, Lord Harper. He…02 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I have a point related to the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Harper, about impact assessments. Noble Lords will be aware that I am a former chair of the Equality and…30 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I want to pick up on two points made in this debate. First, if I heard the noble Baroness, Lady Gerada, correctly, when she advocated online meetings, she said that…30 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, the noble Lord rightly emphasises that choice is an essential element of this. But in so emphasising, he appears to cast “choice” in a very black and white manner as if…30 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, the noble and right reverend Lord makes a really valid point about codes of practice. Codes of practice sometimes are not statutory, so it would need to be a statutory…30 Jan 2026HANSARDArrangement of BusinessMy Lords, I have a very brief question about the Chief Whip’s exhortation to us this morning that, as usual, we should remain brief. In the noble and learned Lord’s interview on…30 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillDoes the noble and learned Lord agree that, when courts in the United Kingdom rule that the public sector equality duty cannot be an afterthought—that it has to be complied with…30 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, perhaps reference to the Companion will help reduce the noble Baroness’s confusion about my speech. The Companion says that, once the Chair has put the Question, “a…30 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI was talking about the applicability of the public sector equality duty.30 Jan 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI think possibly a bit of both, but Amendment 447 is the one that I would disagree with her on more.27 Jan 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I have listened to the noble and learned Baroness’s very fair presentation of the two sides of that argument. However, we cannot know, because we have no evidence, what…27 Jan 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I want to come in on the remarks of the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Harries of Pentregarth, and his support of Amendment 445. I have a great deal of sympathy,…27 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe noble Lord has repeated on several occasions the fact of overwhelming public support for this. Does he agree that there are a lot of other areas in which opinion polling may…23 Jan 2026HANSARDArrangement of BusinessMy Lords, I would like a point of clarification from the noble Lord. Before I express that, I think I speak for the whole House when I say that we understand what a difficult…16 Jan 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI have listened carefully to this debate and the previous one without intervening. I have a lot of sympathy with the Minister, as he knows, on many of the measures in the Bill,…15 Jan 2026