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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, this issue of trust in the police is an interesting one. Trust has been eroding for many years now. Two cataclysmic events in the past couple of years have really made a…01 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I was not going to speak on this, because there are much bigger issues coming up later, but I had seen this in a reverse way. It is not completely clear, if you do not…01 Nov 2021HANSARDClimate Change: Trade PolicyBeing endlessly flexible and trying to help out the Government, I was prepared to do either Question; I would just like to register that. But on the question of trade, it is clear…28 Oct 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I support Amendment 58 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe, but I think all of the amendments in this group are extremely worthwhile. The noble…27 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change: Global TemperaturesTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published on 9 August; and what policy areas they…27 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change: Global TemperaturesHow on earth does that and the Government’s net-zero plan fit with the fact that the Chancellor has just given us a Budget that is so carbon intensive that we should all just give…27 Oct 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, I will give way to the noble Baroness, Lady Young, who has tried about 20 times to stand up.26 Oct 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, I understand democracy. I have been elected. Indeed, I have been elected under two voting systems: proportional representation and first past the post. So I understand…26 Oct 2021HANSARDInsulate BritainMy Lords, as of March last year the cost of road congestion in the UK was £7 billion, estimated at £784 per driver. Clearly, the Government are irresponsible to let that…26 Oct 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, I will speak on my own behalf now. First, I am absolutely horrified at the abuse that the Minister has received. I do not know about the practices in this House, but the…26 Oct 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I have made no secret of the fact that I think that this is an appalling Bill. When I started looking at the amendments, I had to struggle not to sign up to all of them,…25 Oct 2021HANSARDClimate Change Risk: National Audit Office GuidanceThe Treasury is one of the two government departments that is excluded from climate change commitments. I wonder if that is part of the problem with it understanding the whole…25 Oct 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy noble friend Lady Bennett of Manor Castle is unable to attend your Lordships’ Committee today, so I am proposing Amendment 30 in her place. Along with the other amendments in…25 Oct 2021HANSARDTrade Policy: Environmental ConsiderationsThe Minister seems to be ignoring the fact that Australia has much lower food standards—incredibly low. It uses paraquat, which has been banned for years here in Britain, and…21 Oct 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I have signed most of the amendments in this group because I think they are extremely valuable. I want to congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, on his very thorough…20 Oct 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, it has been fascinating and very moving to listen to the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, but I am coming at this from a completely different direction. Although I am partly…20 Oct 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I have a confession to make: I love the traffic police. I have spent many happy hours in the front of a police van with an automatic number plate recognition machine,…20 Oct 2021HANSARDDrugs: Black ReviewIt is hard to legislate to prevent drug use when it is such big business for organised crime globally. Many equatorial countries destroy their rainforests so that they can grow…19 Oct 2021HANSARDBuilding Safety Defects: CostsCould the Minister answer my question in very simple language, because I just do not understand this? The leaseholders did not design the building, do not own it and did not apply…18 Oct 2021HANSARDRoyal Navy: Ships and FrigatesMy Lords, defence of the realm is obviously incredibly important, but so is defence of the planet. Yet the MoD is exempt from the duties that all the rest of us have to fulfil of…14 Oct 2021