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HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI am not sure about powers of intervention. We have a very specific competence that points our combined authorities towards health issues. The Government have made it very clear…09 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill09 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, we have agreed noble Lords would benefit from a short lunch break. It is going to be some time before this group is finished, so this seems the most convenient point to…06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I beg to move that the House be now resumed.06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI shall refer the noble Lord’s comments to the usual channels.06 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill04 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI think it would be best if we look at the legal judgment and come back to the noble Baroness on that issue. I undertake to do that. Amendment 196E was tabled by the noble…04 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill04 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering —who never tests my patience, she has so much knowledge and experience—and the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, for…04 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, I echo the words of the noble Baroness, Lady Scott, that this has been a very thoughtful and interesting debate. I am grateful to all contributors and for the amendments…04 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillAs I am out of time, may I respond to the noble Lord in writing? I am happy to do that.04 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, I also welcome back the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock. It is very nice to see her back in her place, and I hope her leg is recovering speedily. I thank noble Lords for…04 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI understand what the noble Lord says. I do not have the statistics in front of me but I have visited a number of very good brownfield sites in London. The issue of building on…04 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, before I speak to the amendments before us, I thank my noble friend Lord Hendy and the opposition spokespeople for dealing with the transport groups. They are very…02 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Stedman-Scott, for her amendments on welfare and work. I also thank her for her service in this area; I am sorry that she is not in her…02 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI am very happy to meet with the noble Baroness, Lady Stedman-Scott, in between now and Report to take her through some of the work that has been happening in more detail than we…02 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill29 Jan 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill29 Jan 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI apologise; I meant to say to the noble Lord that I will write to him about the situation in which Parliament may not be sitting when that election takes place.29 Jan 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI apologise; I could have been clearer on that. The noble Baroness is quite right: it is the elected legislature. In view of my comments, I ask that noble Lords do not press their…29 Jan 2026