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HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI follow the noble Lord’s argument, but he said that we should say, “We should do this again”. I think that if we reach that situation, the proper formulation is, “You should do…14 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI obviously did not express myself very clearly. I was not in any way suggesting that this was a government Bill to which the conventions applied or that there was any reason why…14 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI cannot accept that. I am talking about the Bill that we have before us. The noble Lord, Lord Harper, asked: should we have a novel approach to this? My answer is no; it is safer…14 Nov 2025HANSARDOffshore Oil and Gas: Venting and FlaringMy Lords, in begging leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper, I declare my interest as a director and past chair of Peers for the Planet.28 Oct 2025HANSARDOffshore Oil and Gas: Venting and FlaringTo ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to end routine non-emergency venting and flaring on offshore oil and gas infrastructure.28 Oct 2025HANSARDOffshore Oil and Gas: Venting and FlaringI am grateful to the noble Lord for that Answer and recognise that some limited progress has been made, but it really is too little, and 2030 is too far ahead, given that methane…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEducation in PrisonsI am grateful to the noble Lord. Does the Minister accept that the damage done in individual institutions by cuts in education and skills training is compounded by the effect of…21 Oct 2025HANSARDEducation in PrisonsMy Lords—21 Oct 2025HANSARDRoad PricingMy Lords, I urge the Minister to be not quite so adamant in his rejection of road pricing. My first job in government was as Minister for Roads. A year in, I was due to visit…18 Sept 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I can beat the noble Baroness, Lady Morris of Bolton, by two years: in 2004, I was appointed a member of the Select Committee of this House investigating the Bill…12 Sept 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillOn the noble Lord’s last quip about some Charter 88, irrational view of the size of the House, I think that if he read the Burns report, he would learn how much thought went into…09 Jul 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I rise to speak briefly in support of this amendment, to which I have added my name. The noble Lord, Lord Burns, has come up with an elegant formulation—as he did…09 Jul 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe noble Viscount, Lord Thurso, is absolutely right to make us think about whether time limits for service in your Lordships’ House are a way of looking at when retirement should…09 Jul 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI am rightly castigated by the Leader of the House. I did not mean what I said about being a part-time House; I meant a House that does not have Members who are expected to be…09 Jul 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I apologise for intervening, but I have to do so because this is a concept that, like the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, I have proposed in your Lordships’ House on many…09 Jul 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillPerhaps I was not clear enough. The proposition to which I have always given support is that there should be a complete separation of honours and titles from membership of your…09 Jul 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, the noble Baroness the Leader of the House was very specific about the issues she wants the Select Committee to focus on, but, as she knows, one of the major issues that…02 Jul 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI did not follow the noble Lord’s argument that the ability to change the composition of the House of Lords by legislation, which has been brought forward after a manifesto was…02 Jul 2025HANSARDUK Extreme HeatI declare my interest as a director of Peers for the Planet. Should we not be aware, in discussing this Question, that extreme heat affects us in certain ways, but extreme heat…26 Jun 2025HANSARDIsrael: Arab Israeli and Jewish Israeli CommunitiesMy Lords, like others who have spoken, I too have been supportive and admiring of the courage and commitment that many, whether Palestinians or Israelis, have put into their…16 Jun 2025