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HANSARDUniversal Credit BillMy Lords, I pay tribute to the many disabled people and disability and anti-poverty organisations, as well as colleagues in the Commons who listened to them, for winning…22 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Penn, for building on the amendments that she and I tabled in Committee. I will speak to Amendment 100, to which I have added…16 Jul 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Thornhill, for taking over this amendment, to which I was pleased to add my name. I assure her that I am as committed as ever to opposing…15 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillSorry, I think that is the parental leave review. I am talking about the carer’s leave review, which my noble friend just said, at the end of his speech, would be more…14 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillBefore my noble friend sits down, I very much welcome what he said about the review now being more transparent. Did he say that clear terms of reference would be set out, and did…14 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 104, to which I have added my name. I do not intend to repeat the case I made in Committee for paid carer’s leave, and which was put very fully…14 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, in the absence of the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, who is not in her place, I will move Amendment 102A and will speak to the consequential amendments,…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I welcome Clause 37 very warmly. For some of us it is the best bit of the Bill. I am really pleased, for once, to be able to unequivocally support my Front Bench and my…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I will speak briefly in support. I, too, am supported by RAMP, and that is in the register—that is done for Committee now. I warmly welcome Clause 34 as well, but the…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI thank the noble Lord. It is not simply what I say or the Joint Committee on Human Rights says; it is the UN High Commission on Refugees, which is given the responsibility of…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI thank the noble Lords who spoke. As I said, we will come back to the issue of detention later, and it is helpful to have heard the arguments of the noble Lord, Lord Harper, and…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThat is what I was talking about: the pilots showed that there was a very effective way, alternative to detention, that still kept people where they were supposed to be. The noble…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords—10 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit: Two-child LimitMy Lords, it is generally accepted that the abolition of the two-child limit and, many would argue, the benefit cap must be, in the words of the Children’s Commissioner, “the…09 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit: Two-child LimitTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the cost of abolishing the two-child limit for Universal Credit.09 Jul 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillMy Lords, I am pleased to support my noble friend Lady Kennedy of Cradley, and I am grateful to her for taking over the amendment. She is much better placed than I am to speak to…07 Jul 2025HANSARDGiving Every Child the Best Start in LifeMy Lords, I warmly welcome this daughter of Sure Start. One of Sure Start’s great strengths was the way in which it involved parents so as to boost their agency, self-confidence…07 Jul 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillThis amendment does not preclude the use of guarantors; it just limits their use. I will leave it at that. As I said in Committee, if there is a better way of doing it, then…07 Jul 2025HANSARDWelfare ReformMy Lords, I welcome the fact that common sense finally prevailed, so that the review of PIP will be undertaken before any decisions about eligibility. I hope that that will help…02 Jul 2025