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HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, very briefly, I support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Burns. I want to emphasise that, in a period of mass disillusion with mainstream parties,…10 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMaybe I should just clarify. I am not suggesting that the Cabinet Office is full of malign people out to behave badly, and I was not suggesting that they all need to be punished.…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, I welcome the spirit of this group of amendments. I am not clear that I understand entirely how the independent review process might work, but I do understand the…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillI think it is fair to say that UK Finance and the banks, in terms of all the evidence that I have read, are obviously happy to sit down with Ministers to try and negotiate their…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, I was going to make a very similar point. We have to consider the serious consequences of the Government, in effect, turning banks into de facto government inspectors,…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillIt is quite feasible that I have missed the multiple efforts in the reading of the Bill. Maybe it is there—it might be another bit that I have missed. But I do not think that is…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, I have a number of points. It was very interesting that the Minister concluded in relation to one of these amendments that “people’s lives can be messy”. It is precisely…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, in moving Amendment 27, I will speak also to Amendments 29, 62 and 75, which relate to debt recovery and concerns about the proportionality, even constitutionality, of…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, I feel rather inadequate after hearing the last few speeches, which were excellent in their expertise and in making me think about the issues, and after the earlier…04 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am proposing that we remove Clause 31 from the Bill. That would remove the power of the Secretary of State to require largely private sector employers with more than…03 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I will be very brief. It is very important that we do not suggest that giving a helping hand to those who have been politically deprived of equality equals equality. It…03 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords who spoke, some of whom were more sympathetic than others to what I was trying to raise. The noble Lord, Lord Palmer of Childs Hill, made an…03 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I put my name down on Amendments 101B and 141A, tackling employment discrimination on the basis of political opinions, because I wanted to probe whether the Government…21 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I rise with some trepidation to raise some problems with these amendments. I have to say that the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of Llanfaes, made an absolutely brilliant,…21 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI am all for enhancing in any way the free speech duties required by the law, and I am happy to talk to the noble Baroness in a moment about how we can do that. Earlier, the…19 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I, too, have my name on Amendment 97, which would introduce yet another impact assessment. I know that so many impact assessments have been proposed in relation to the…19 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI would like some clarity. There is some confusion over what the definition of harassment is in law. If you asked whether I was for the harassment of employees and workers, I…19 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, the whole of Clause 20 should not stand part and should be dropped from the Bill. The amendments that I have put my name to are mitigating, in case this very dangerous…19 May 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, despite the fact this is not being pushed to a vote—I respect that, and I concede that the Government have made some clarifications, and potentially concessions, along…19 May 2025