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HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillMy Lords, I also added my name to this amendment. I will be extremely brief: I support it.11 Jun 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillMy Lords, as a botanist, I assure your Lordships that the noble Baroness, Lady Fookes, is absolutely right about the extreme danger to the two rows of plane trees. I just have one…11 Jun 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillThere are four gates to the park. Thank you for that correction. One of them is very near the playground. We feel it necessary to put horse guards on horses in Whitehall outside…11 Jun 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillCan the Minister tell me whether the precedent he cited was also a situation where the proposer was in a position to remove a major barrier of protection to the site where they…11 Jun 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillI thank the Minister for his reassurances. I hope that the future planning process, whatever it is, decided on by the proposer, of course—yes—is a good deal more robust on this…11 Jun 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillMy Lords, I shall also speak to Amendment 12, which is grouped with this amendment. Noble Lords need not worry; I have crossed out most of my speech in the interest of the…11 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I am very sorry to hear the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Jackson of Peterborough. I believe he totally misunderstands the point of the amendment so ably introduced by…09 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I strongly support this amendment and thank the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, for tabling it. I would like to quote from a speech I made on 26 June 2014, soon…09 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI hope the noble Baroness, Lady Barran, will excuse me for picking up one point that she has just made. The law, as it stands, is extremely confusing and unhelpful to parents. For…09 Jun 2025HANSARDYoung Children: Convenience FoodsMy Lords, I echo the comment of the noble Lord, Lord Kirkhope, “Oh dear”, because this issue is not new. In 2019, Public Health England drew attention to the fact that these…04 Jun 2025HANSARDYoung Children: Convenience FoodsTo ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to address the nutritional content, labelling and promotion of convenience foods aimed at very young children, including…04 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 53 in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Tyler of Enfield. It is designed to ensure timely implementation of the single unique…22 May 2025HANSARDSocial Care ReformIt is recognised that any meaningful social care reform must deliver for unpaid carers. Will the Minister say what role carer organisations are playing in shaping these talks?22 May 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, as one of the many qualified teachers in your Lordships’ House, I will speak to Amendment 14 in the names of my noble friend Lady Tyler—who cannot be with us today—me…20 May 2025HANSARDNHS and Care Volunteer Responders ServiceWhere will the current funding for this programme go? Will it go into the new scheme the Minister has mentioned, or into community services or support for vulnerable groups, or…20 May 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I too congratulate my noble friend Lord Mohammed, and the noble Lord, Lord Biggar, on their maiden speeches. The noble Lord, Lord O’Donnell, is absolutely right about…01 May 2025HANSARDTransport Decarbonisation PlanMy Lords, does the Minister agree that not only do we need as much clean public transport as possible—for example, buses—but that they need to go to the right places at the right…24 Apr 2025HANSARDAncient Trees: ProtectionsMy Lords, as the Minister has just said, ancient trees not only lock up massive amounts of carbon for decades or even centuries but provide an amazing, biodiverse habitat for…24 Apr 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillMy Lords, this is a very important public health Bill, and for my own part I support it. Who among us would not, having heard the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Jopling? Your…23 Apr 2025HANSARDFood, Diet and Obesity Committee ReportThat this House takes note of the Report from the Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Recipe for health: a plan to fix our broken food system (HL Paper 19).28 Mar 2025