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HANSARDThe Building Safety Regulator: Building a Better Regulator (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)My Lords, I am pleased to introduce this debate on the report The Building Safety Regulator : Building a Better Regulator , which was published by the Industry and Regulators…08 Jun 2026HANSARDThe Building Safety Regulator: Building a Better Regulator (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)That the Grand Committee takes note of the Report from the Industry and Regulators Committee The Building Safety Regulator: Building a Better Regulator (2nd Report, HL Paper 225,…08 Jun 2026HANSARDThe Building Safety Regulator: Building a Better Regulator (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)My Lords, I said at the beginning that there was a wealth of experience in this Room; the speeches that we have heard this afternoon prove that. Every individual person has added…08 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]I have thought of raising this with our noble friend Lord Hendy, who seems to be on top of all those issues. I will point out one other anomaly, despite the time. Literally the…03 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]My Lords, I am tempted to follow what the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, was saying, but not quite in the way he suggested; I am tempted to follow up what he said about referees,…03 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]My Lords, I know nothing of the detail of what was said, the circumstances or whatever, but, as someone who has attended football matches in many stadia over many years, I know…03 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]I think the noble Lord is barking up the wrong tree. On this occasion, there were no strikes involved in those disruptions.03 Jun 2026HANSARDRetirement and Participation CommitteeMy Lords, how to follow that? It is not often that a Member of this House is heard in such silence and with such reverence. It is a great privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord…18 May 2026HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, how to follow that? It is not often that a Member of this House is heard in such silence and with such reverence. It is a great privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord…18 May 2026HANSARDPower Struggle: Delivering Great Britain’s Electricity Grid Infrastructure (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)To move that the Grand Committee takes note of the Report from the Industry and Regulators Committee Power Struggle: Delivering Great Britain’s Electricity Grid Infrastructure…04 Nov 2025HANSARDPower Struggle: Delivering Great Britain’s Electricity Grid Infrastructure (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)I am very pleased to move that the committee takes note of our report and thank all those who have been involved in the writing of it, especially committee members—and especially…04 Nov 2025HANSARDPower Struggle: Delivering Great Britain’s Electricity Grid Infrastructure (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)My Lords, I start by thanking everyone for their contributions, and for the fact that the report has had a generally very good reception. The debate has been quite wide-ranging,…04 Nov 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I will say a few words in support of what the Minister said this evening. It is right that we talk a little about the new arrangements for mediation and the backstop.…15 Jul 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]Time is late, so I do not want to go through the whole history of Bolton Wanderers, but the noble Lord’s facts are not quite correct. What we are concentrating on here is that all…15 Jul 2025HANSARDIndependent Schools: Tax ChangesMy Lords, will my noble friend say a little more about what is happening to school rolls? Is it not a fact that, because of the declining birth rate, rolls are falling generally…25 Jun 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I start by reminding the House that the Bill will not abolish parachute payments or change the architecture in the way that has just been suggested. When the noble Lord,…17 Mar 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I want to say a few words, because the whole House acknowledges that the noble Lord, Lord Birt, is trying to be constructive here. He, with his colleagues, has produced…17 Mar 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I have tabled amendments asking that Parliament should fulfil its role of scrutinising regulators across the board. I am glad that, in this one respect, my noble friend…17 Mar 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, we have spent some seven days discussing the detail of the Bill, and I think this is probably the first time I can rise and say that I actually agree with the noble…11 Mar 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I just want to reassure the noble Baroness, who was unfortunately not able to attend the FA meeting yesterday, that the FA was very explicit—and it was asked very…11 Mar 2025