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HANSARDMedical Training (Prioritisation) Bill23 Feb 2026HANSARDMedical Training (Prioritisation) BillMy Lords, Amendment 11 would add to the list of priority groups people who have been recognised as in need of international protection, who have arrived as a Hong Kong British…23 Feb 2026HANSARDMedical Training (Prioritisation) BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay of Llandaff, and the noble Lord, Lord Mohammed of Tinsley, for their support for Amendment 11. I am also grateful to the…23 Feb 2026HANSARDSocial Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2026My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for introducing the uprating order so clearly, and I welcome the opportunity to discuss the social security that it provides. It is…10 Feb 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I thank my fellow signatories to Amendment 221, those who supported a similar amendment in Committee, and the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, UNICEF UK and the…03 Feb 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak briefly in support of Amendment 208, to which I have added my name; I also express support for the aims of Amendment 206 as a fellow member of the Select…03 Feb 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak very briefly in support of Amendment 233, as I was not able to speak on it in Committee. I am supportive of the other amendments in this group too. The…03 Feb 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill03 Feb 2026HANSARDChild Poverty: Faith-based and Voluntary Sector OrganisationsMy Lords, faith-based and voluntary sector organisations place great emphasis on listening to the voices of lived experience. I commend the child poverty team for having done so…03 Feb 2026HANSARDTwo-child Benefit Cap: Foreign-born ChildrenThis somewhat xenophobic Question concerns increased spending as a result of abolishing the two-child limit, which even the noble Lord, Lord Freud, who introduced it, described as…03 Feb 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I thank those who spoke in support of the amendment. I am disappointed with my noble friend’s response, although I welcome what she said about upskilling officials. I…03 Feb 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I am pleased to speak in support of Amendment 107, to which I have added my name, moved by such a warrior against poverty, not least as it provides an opportunity to…28 Jan 2026HANSARDAsylum and Immigration: ChildrenMy Lords, may I take my noble friend back to the question of child poverty? I very much appreciate his answers. Migrant children are disproportionately at the risk of child…27 Jan 2026HANSARDAsylum and Immigration: ChildrenMy Lords, that is encouraging, but the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child expects child rights impact assessments to be integral to policy-making from the outset. Deep…27 Jan 2026HANSARDAsylum and Immigration: ChildrenTo ask His Majesty’s Government whether a child’s rights impact assessment was conducted on the proposals affecting children in (1) Restoring Order and Control (CP1418), published…27 Jan 2026HANSARDViolence Against Women and Girls StrategyMy Lords, I welcome the strategy’s introduction of a firewall between the police and immigration enforcement to protect migrant domestic abuse survivors, but the requirement that…21 Jan 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I am pleased to support Amendment 77, to which I have added my name. I take this opportunity to thank my noble friend the Minister for the helpful meeting that I and…19 Jan 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I support Amendment 97, to which I have added my name. In Committee, I likened the waiting for Wales argument to a legislative Waiting for Godot. Well, Godot has arrived…14 Jan 2026HANSARDNational Plan to End HomelessnessMy Lords, the welcome national plan identifies newly recognised refugees leaving asylum support accommodation as being particularly vulnerable to homelessness, yet says nothing…16 Dec 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit: Two-child LimitMy Lords, academic research has found that the two-child limit had no positive employment effect and that parents living in poverty are pushed further from the labour market…10 Dec 2025