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HANSARDMilitary Bases: AccommodationMy Lords, I have not yet had the opportunity to read the Kerslake commission’s report, but I have seen the headlines from Inside Housing , which reviewed the report and commented…15 May 2024HANSARDNATO: French Nuclear WeaponsMy Lords, the Minister has just spoken about the importance of language, and that was clearly addressed to the President of Russia. When having conversations with the President of…09 May 2024HANSARDDefence Personnel Data BreachMy Lords, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, that His Majesty’s Government have many questions to answer. I thank the Minister for taking the hospital pass and repeating…08 May 2024HANSARDAsylum Seekers: Missing from Registered AddressMy Lords, as the noble Baroness asked, what is happening to the other 28,000? If we think there are 30,000 who came irregularly last year and His Majesty’s Government have found…02 May 2024HANSARDNuclear Test Veterans: SupportMy Lords, in responding to the Question, the noble Earl talked about the commitments to the veterans of the tests but said that the information, if it is kept at all, is now very…02 May 2024HANSARDUkraine: Small BoatsMy Lords, perhaps I could help the Minister, because the Times last Monday had the answer to some of the questions about how many boats the Home Office has impounded. There are…01 May 2024HANSARDUK Armed Forces in Middle EastMy Lords, can the noble Earl tell the House, first, whether the Government would give a parliamentary vote if there were to be boots on the ground? Secondly, what conversations…01 May 2024HANSARDUniversities: Sensitive ResearchMy Lords, last week the Statement did not seem to say very much about which actors might be under consideration. The noble Lord, Lord Young, has already mentioned China, but do…30 Apr 2024HANSARDDefence SpendingMy Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, and on behalf of these Benches, I fully support His Majesty’s Armed Forces. How proud we are of His Majesty’s…25 Apr 2024HANSARDDefence SpendingI thank the noble Baroness; I am told that this is indeed page 20. The percentage of GDP that is being looked at starts at 2.32% for 2024-25 and goes up, according to this, to…25 Apr 2024HANSARDUkraine: SupportMy Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, reminds us about the UK commitment to Ukraine, and it is absolutely right that we keep focused on that. However, events at the weekend,…16 Apr 2024HANSARDIran and IsraelMy Lords, the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Craig of Radley, has already talked about the brave pilots as part of Operation Shader and asked whether the United Kingdom is…15 Apr 2024HANSARDGenocide (Prevention and Response) Bill [HL]My Lords, it is pleasure to rise from these Benches to support the Private Member’s Bill in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy of The Shaws. It is also something of a…22 Mar 2024HANSARDFoetal Sentience Committee Bill [HL]My Lords, I believe I am the next speaker; thank you. There was an occasion in the last Session when a speech was made—it may well have been by the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy of…22 Mar 2024HANSARDFoetal Sentience Committee Bill [HL]How does my noble friend account for the disparity between the views of the BMA and of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists?22 Mar 2024HANSARDLGBT Veterans: Financial RedressMy Lords, there is something of a pattern here. When His Majesty’s Government pledged to make recompense to the war widows, there was an assumption that something would happen,…21 Mar 2024HANSARDSingle Source Contract (Amendment) Regulations 2024My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for introducing this statutory instrument and explaining very clearly the purposes of the regulations being proposed. Unlike so many of the…19 Mar 2024HANSARDRussia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2024My Lords, obviously, from these Benches—or this Bench; it is just me—we welcome any extension of sanctions. As the noble Lord pointed out, since the illegal invasion of Ukraine,…19 Mar 2024HANSARDRed Sea Telecommunication CablesMy Lords, one issue is clearly the cutting of cables. The other is cyberattacks on undersea cables. What is the MoD’s position on that, and do we have adequate resilience?14 Mar 2024HANSARDPresident of the European CommissionMy Lords, during the current Foreign Secretary’s sabbatical from politics, his immediate successor as Prime Minister, Mrs May, was negotiating an EU-UK security treaty. Does he…12 Mar 2024