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HANSARDChanging and Toilet Facilities in Public BuildingsI thank the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, for giving us the opportunity to discuss this very important topic. I follow the noble Baroness, Lady Greengross, in her view that this is one…24 Feb 2020HANSARDBahrain: Mohamed Ramadan and Hussain MoosaDoes the Minister agree that the British judicial system is one of the best in the globe, if not the best, and that many countries have benefited through training from our…12 Feb 2020HANSARDInternational Development: Freedom of Religion or BeliefMy Lords, is the noble Baroness aware of the acute suffering of the Yazidi people, particularly girls and women, simply because of their beliefs? Will she be willing to say—I am…06 Feb 2020HANSARDHymen SurgeryMy Lords, will the Minister consider the response given to me five years ago by Yazidi Nobel Prize winner Nadia Murad when I first met her in Baghdad? She said that the most…23 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI will give way. I will have difficulty, as I cannot hear, as noble Lords know. Somebody will have to tell me. In Bucharest there were 12 trafficking agencies, and when we pushed…15 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillLack of a jurisdiction is not quite the case. They have not lost their own jurisdiction, unless they have been signed out of it. You can therefore get them back home to their own…15 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy Lords, the compassion in the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, makes it extremely difficult to oppose him —but oppose him I do. Despite the wonderful statements by…15 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillIf noble Lords will forgive me, I will ask someone to interpret for me, because I was born deaf and will not pick it up.15 Jan 2020HANSARDBrexitMy Lords, I am most grateful for the opportunity to participate in this take-note debate where we are looking at the, I think, magnificent agreement on the withdrawal of the UK…19 Oct 2019HANSARDModern Slavery (Victim Support) BillI am sure the Minister will agree that modern slavery cannot be confined to these shores; it is a global horror story. I welcome her statement, but did she by chance catch sight…07 Oct 2019HANSARDFacial Recognition TechnologyWill the Minister consider the utter incompetence of the private and public companies which create facial recognition technology? You have these machines and you pay a vast sum of…02 Oct 2019HANSARDSharia-compliant Student FinanceWill the Minister assure your Lordships that this new Government will do everything possible to open the gates as widely as possible to students from all over the world? As noble…25 Jul 2019HANSARDSpace Science and TechnologyAs the noble Lord, Lord Mawson said, all of us recall with great intensity exactly what we were doing, feeling and thinking when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. As an early computer…15 Jul 2019HANSARDInternational Widows DayNoble Lords, I welcome—on behalf of us all, I am sure—the opening speech by the noble Lord, Lord Loomba, whose deep and enduring love and filial respect for his widowed mother has…19 Jun 2019HANSARDSexual Violence in ConflictWhile congratulating the British Government and the Minister on the tremendous work that the FCO has undertaken on sexual violence after and during conflict, might she be willing…12 Jun 2019HANSARDSchools: British Sign LanguageWhile welcoming the Minister’s answer, I wonder whether he would be willing to have a wider consultation, in which I personally could be involved. He may be aware that only 27,000…22 May 2019HANSARDSchools: British Sign LanguageMy Lords—22 May 2019HANSARDWar Criminals: International Mechanisms for ProsecutionDoes the Minister agree that the work of the British Council in Iraq is exceptional and it should be further supported in its determination to support the Bar associations under…21 Mar 2019HANSARDCommercial Air Routes: United Kingdom and East AfricaMy Lords, given the Middle East’s enormous appetite for access to the British market, would the Minister reconsider the prohibition on direct flights from Iraq to the United…13 Feb 2019HANSARDBrexit: Counterfeit MedicinesI congratulate my noble friend the Minister. Perhaps I might ask her to stress that the privatisation of our medicines agency, which is the most successful on the globe and which…07 Feb 2019