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HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I simply rise to say that I agree with all noble Lords who have spoken and look forward to the Minister’s reply.03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, on his efforts to keep the issue of prevention and early intervention before us: it is vital. I also thank the Minister for…03 Mar 2022HANSARDLithium Ion Batteries: Fire Safety StandardsMy Lords, going back to the right reverend Prelate’s question, how many facilities for recycling batteries are there in the UK, and what is being done to make sure that we have…03 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I will make just a few comments. I put my name to the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord McColl, which I will not say much about because he and the noble Baroness, Lady…01 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for explaining the government amendments. I particularly welcome Amendments 88 to 91, because the Bill will now reflect the agreement made with the…01 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for listening very carefully to what noble Lords from across the House have been saying about the need to recognise the parity of esteem between…01 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I thank noble Lords who have expressed their support for Amendment 31 and my role in it; it is very kind. I go back to how this arose. It is to some extent influenced by…01 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, without whom this amendment would not have been laid by the Government —although I pay tribute to the Government for…01 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I, too, am a member of Peers for the Planet and I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, and the noble Lord, Lord Stevens, on their engagement with the Government…01 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, from these Benches I thank the Minister and the whole Front-Bench team for the way they have engaged with the House on the issue of doing something really serious about…01 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Food StrategyMy Lords, will the Government’s response also include a land use strategy, which was recommended recently by your Lordships’ Science and Technology Committee, in its report on…24 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, from these Benches we welcome the fact that the HSSIB is to be put on a mandatory footing. The intention of the legislation is to create a safe space in which to shine a…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, the 2012 Act removed certain powers from the Secretary of State, and Jeremy Hunt, the former and longest-serving Secretary of State, says that he never felt the lack of…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I added my name to Amendments 229 and 230 from the noble Lord, Lord Patel, to limit the Secretary of State’s powers in Part 3 of the Bill to transfer or delegate…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillI thank the noble Baroness, Lady Merron, and the Minister for their responses to this proposition. I still think that somewhat more granular collection of data would be really…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I was going to speak for two minutes but now I am going to speak for only half a minute. I have one question for the Minister. I know that his department has a small…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I add the voice of these Benches to the protest by the Opposition Chief Whip in the strongest possible terms. I regret that the Government Chief Whip and the Leader of…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, there is considerable merit in an independent dispute resolution service. I will be very brief, because I believe that at the heart of this is the following: for over…09 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I hope the Government Chief Whip will send the memo round. Last Tuesday, my noble friend Lady Barker introduced a Question for Short Debate about ambulance response…09 Feb 2022