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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I think the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, is right to raise the important point about our constitutional obligations. I am tentative about what I am going to say because I…31 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillYour Lordships need to calm yourselves. On Saturday, I went to visit my home in Wood Green. It looks like a bomb site: there is no roof and there are huge amounts of scaffolding…29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillIt is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra. In relation to Amendment 115, the noble Lord discussed the 11-metre question. The emphasis is often on whether…29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillIt is just that it has been degrouped to be with my amendment on the review. I was just explaining.29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety Bill29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillI thought we were going to have a vote.29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendments 36 and 46. I was pleased to hear the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, be so kind about my previous comments, but then I remembered that it was not…29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillI am not ready.29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillI will withdraw but I will come back to the Minister. I think it is important to come back to the Minister and say if it is within five years, I would like it to be brought…29 Mar 2022HANSARDBuilding Safety BillThat amendment has been degrouped; we are coming to it later, where I have a similar amendment. The Minister might want to wait until then.29 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I used to be a full supporter of first past the post, very much in the spirit of the remarks made by the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, and those of the noble Baroness, Lady…23 Mar 2022HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I disagree with this amendment, but I agree with one part, at least, of what the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, just said: any woman will indeed have heard the vile abuse…22 Mar 2022HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I regret that we heard the Home Secretary and now the Minister accept the principle of the Opposition’s fast-track public space protection orders in relation to Motion H…22 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I support this proposal that the clause stand part but I have some caveats. A high-profile Guardian commentator alleged: “The Tories are introducing voter ID purely…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords—21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillIn my Second Reading speech, I said that I recognised the sense in which we have a problem of people withholding loser’s consent. I made the point that that was one of the…21 Mar 2022HANSARDCommission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesMy Lords, I welcome the Inclusive Britain action plan, but I thought the Sewell commission struck a good balance by acknowledging that racism is a real force in the UK while…21 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I was not intending to speak, but I wanted to counter the point made to the noble Lord, Lord Naseby, that he was simply rehearsing lines from FOREST, the pro-freedom to…16 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I apologise that I did not speak on this issue in Committee. As I had stayed late to speak on the prior amendments in defence of women’s reproductive rights, I decided…16 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillBefore the Minister sits down, in view of the recent media revelations, might there need to be a review of the review of the guidance? The review of the guidance is coming into…16 Mar 2022