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HANSARDUnited Kingdom Declining Birth RateMy Lords—06 Nov 2024HANSARDUnited Kingdom Declining Birth RateMy Lords, in providing additional childcare places, will the Government ensure that the additional staff are well trained and highly skilled? Perhaps we should be replacing the…06 Nov 2024HANSARDRefugees (Family Reunion) Bill [HL]My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Hamwee on introducing this Bill, which I support, and assure the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, that I will carry on hammering the…18 Oct 2024HANSARDBread and Flour Regulations 1998My Lords, I am hearing that, unfortunately, the Government are not being very ambitious in the level of fortification that they will propose. They are considering a level that…11 Sept 2024HANSARDNHS: Breast Screening ProgrammeMy Lords, artificial intelligence has been very efficient in helping to interpret breast imaging, reducing false positives and false negatives, and significantly reducing the…03 Sept 2024HANSARDVaping Products: Usage by ChildrenMy Lords, a YouGov poll this year showed that almost 1 million young people under 18 have tried vaping, almost half of whom have only tried it once or twice. That leaves half a…02 Sept 2024HANSARDNHS Blood and Transplant Service: Blood StocksMy Lords, as the universities return in the autumn, many new students will be recruited to be blood donors, which is a very good thing, because they often remain blood donors for…30 Jul 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, I will focus my remarks on the Government’s intentions on health and care. Your Lordships will be aware of the focus of my party’s general election campaign on social…19 Jul 2024HANSARDSurplus Carbon EmissionsMy Lords, some, though not all, of our success has been to do with the fact that we have dealt with low-hanging fruit such as getting rid of coal—I hope that we have got rid of it…27 Mar 2024HANSARDFood SecurityMy Lords, I would be most grateful if the Minister wrote to my noble friend Lady Bakewell and answered her question. My question is about food waste. There is far too much of it,…26 Mar 2024HANSARDBiosecurity and Infectious DiseasesMy Lords, I congratulate the Minister on his appointment to the Front Bench and the noble Lord, Lord Trees, on his very comprehensive introduction to the debate. I also welcome to…18 Jan 2024HANSARDWine (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2024My Lords, noble Lords have many impressive attributes, but being in two places at once in person is not one of them. So, because my noble friend Lady Bakewell of Hardington…16 Jan 2024HANSARDFire Safety Regulations and GuidanceMy Lords, I will be brief. I will start by thanking my noble friend Lord Goddard for his excellent introduction to this debate, and I support his call for an integrated review of…14 Dec 2023HANSARDSchools: SafeguardingMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jenkin, for her “canter around the issues”, as she put it to me the other day. I have always believed that there are very many ways of…07 Dec 2023HANSARDPlant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023As to why it takes so long, is it because the UK is insisting on new field trials and new trials and tests, rather than accepting the ones that were deemed adequate when the…04 Dec 2023HANSARDPlant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing these regulations. They seem to me to be another last-minute sticking plaster to protect farmers and our food security from the…04 Dec 2023HANSARDEnglish Flood DefencesMy Lords, I will follow on the Minister’s answer to the question from the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering. Given that we already have houses built on flood plains and…30 Nov 2023HANSARDNational Health Service: 75th AnniversaryMy Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, on his excellent introductory speech. He hit all the nails very firmly on the head. As the NHS reaches its 75th…30 Nov 2023HANSARDNutrition for Growth Summit 2024My Lords, the Minister will be aware of the good work being done by Gavi on vaccination across the world. However, is he aware that Gavi is now aware of the link between…29 Nov 2023HANSARDFood and Biological Security: Agricultural FungicideMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, for introducing this important but niche subject. As a botanist, I have always felt that fungi are often…23 Nov 2023