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HANSARDPreschool Children: Digital TechnologyMy Lords, I thank the Minister for taking time to meet me and the noble Baroness, Lady Cass, last month to discuss this issue. The evidence shows that digital device use among…18 Dec 2025HANSARDChildren: Social MediaMy Lords, the Minister talked about support for parents. Last week, the Centre for Social Justice released a new analysis showing that almost 1 million preschool children are…10 Dec 2025HANSARDAutumn Budget 2025My Lords, in my four minutes, I thought I would focus on the good, the bad and the ugly of this Budget. Starting with the good, there was the welcome emphasis from the Minister in…04 Dec 2025HANSARDOBR ForecastsMy Lords, can the Minister tell the House why the increase to forecast tax receipts as a result of higher forecast inflation and greater taxes on employment was the only…01 Dec 2025HANSARDBudget: Press BriefingsI will not ask the Minister to comment on bond markets or to speculate. I will simply ask him whether he agrees with himself when he told this Chamber last year that a freeze on…18 Nov 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill16 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, and the noble Lords, Lord Palmer and Lord Hampton, for their support, and all noble Lords who have spoken in this…16 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, given the hour, I shall be brief. The Minister said that the Government have delivered on a manifesto commitment to launch a review, but the manifesto commitment was to…16 Jul 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak to my Amendments 183CA and 183CB in this group. Before I do so, I will add my support to Amendment 177, from my noble friends Lord Nash and Lady Barran, and…23 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI will be brief. I really appreciate what the Minister said on early years. I think it goes a bit beyond safeguarding, but I will look really carefully at what she said. On the…23 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, while we are still on breakfast clubs, I hope I can jump in to speak to Amendment 184, which relates to the additional costs of breakfast clubs in primary schools,…19 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI appreciate the detail that the Minister has gone into and that further information about the national rollout will happen in due course, but we have just had the comprehensive…19 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI just have one more question for the Minister before we move on from breakfast clubs. I really appreciate what she said about the pathfinder schools being used to understand how,…19 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillTo be really specific, will the outcomes of that monitoring and evaluation be made available before the regulations are laid to implement breakfast clubs nationally? That is my…19 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillBefore the Minister sits down, could I confirm what I think I heard, that the amendments to the borders and immigration Bill will cover the use of substitute workers and…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillSo not, therefore, the use of substitute workers. That answers my question, but it leaves the issue unaddressed. The challenge before the Government is that they have acknowledged…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillOkay. Perhaps it might be good to sit down between now and Report and clarify the exact proposed powers in that Bill. If it does—although the powers are then for secondary…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, given the hour, I will be incredibly brief. My noble friend and I do not always find common cause—even though we are on the same Benches—but this is an extremely…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, Amendment 280 is designed to address the use of substitution clauses that allow for illegal working. There are different ways of measuring it, but on some estimates…18 Jun 2025