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HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I shall speak briefly to add my very strong support for Amendment 17, promoting the provision of specialist multiprofessional palliative care services. I also welcome,…01 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I support Amendments 9, 10, 14 and 32 and will speak to my Amendment 11, which follows on quite nicely from the contribution of the noble Lord, Lord Bradley. It refers…01 Mar 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I very strongly support this amendment, to which I have added my name. In Committee, the Minister referred to the integrity of the labour market as a route being one…28 Feb 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I welcome the noble Lord, Lord Moore, whose excellent maiden speech I thoroughly enjoyed. I share the considerable concerns expressed across the House about the…23 Feb 2022HANSARDLiving with Covid-19My Lords, I want to raise a very particular issue raised initially by the noble Lord, Lord Newby, and the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton. The Government are rightly retaining free…22 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, in his intention to oppose Clauses 57 and 58 standing part of the Bill. I have a speech but I am not going to deliver it, because…10 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I will speak extremely briefly in support of Amendment 116, which for more than 300 refugee organisations is apparently one of their two top priorities in terms of…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I rise with a heavy heart and no optimism to support most strongly Amendment 140 in the name of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of London. I also support Amendment…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I support Amendment 64, to which I have added my name. I also strongly support Amendment 65. The right to work—and the lack of it—for asylum seekers has concerned me for…03 Feb 2022HANSARDBenefit Sanctions on JobseekersMy Lords, the Minister referred to the inundation of employers, and I can imagine that, but has any work been done to assess the willingness of employers in different sectors to…03 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I added my name to Amendment 219, and I support all the amendment in this group. In view of the number of excellent speeches that have been made, I have given up on my…31 Jan 2022HANSARDCovid-19: Antiviral PillsMy Lords, I am not aware of any medication at all for the treatment of chronic fatigue as a result of Covid. What is the relevance of the recent research into the microscopic…31 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillIt might help the Committee if I make clear that, as I understand it, all our Fridays are taken up, because people are talking so long on all these Bills that we are having to use…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, in moving Amendment 203, I declare my interest as chair of Dignity in Dying, the sister organisation of Compassion in Dying. This amendment is supported by Marie Curie,…26 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, for tabling his amendment. I was asked by other noble Lords to make it absolutely clear, and I have no problem with this, that I…26 Jan 2022HANSARDVaccine Patents WaiverMy Lords, in part because we have failed to achieve a vaccine permit waiver, there will be further variants of Covid, which may well be resistant to our vaccines. The WHO is…24 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I will also speak to Amendment 177. Amendment 20 requires the Secretary of State to ensure that the better care fund, an important and successful initiative, is used to…18 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Carlisle. I give my very strong support to Amendment 47, to which I added my name, and…18 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill18 Jan 2022