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HANSARDBuilding Safety BillMy Lords, I welcome the Building Safety Bill, and its provisions to implement the recommendations of the Hackitt report following the Grenfell Tower tragedy. In particular, I was…02 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I too am pleased to speak in support of the amendment addressing pancreatic cancer tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, to which I have added my name. I am grateful to…31 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, both these amendments reflect a desire to give people a greater say over the final weeks of their lives. As a strong believer in patient choice, which is, after all, a…26 Jan 2022HANSARDConstruction Sector: Roadmap to Zero RetentionsMy Lords, the Minister mentioned the lack of consensus in this area. There is never going to be a complete consensus between one party which is withholding funds and the other…15 Dec 2021HANSARDConstruction Sector: Roadmap to Zero RetentionsMy Lords, the Build UK roadmap and its endorsement by the Construction Leadership Council demonstrate a welcome degree of consensus across the sector that action is urgently…15 Dec 2021HANSARDConstruction Sector: Roadmap to Zero RetentionsTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they plan to take to support the implementation of Build UK’s Roadmap to Zero Retentions , seeking to eliminate cash retentions in the…15 Dec 2021HANSARDBreast ScreeningMy Lords, further to the question asked by my noble and gallant friend, Lord Stirrup, the Minister’s answer related to what was happening in the recruitment of new staff. Can he…14 Dec 2021HANSARDSmall Business Commissioner: Late PaymentsMy Lords, the Small Business Commissioner’s role is limited in relation to construction companies. For example, she can deal with complaints from small construction firms about…07 Dec 2021HANSARDCreative SectorMy Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Featherstone, has done well to obtain this debate and to introduce it so powerfully at a very timely moment to address the challenge of reviving…04 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, briefly, it has been a great pleasure for me to participate from the Cross Benches in these debates, along with so many much more distinguished experts and a wisdom of…25 Oct 2021HANSARDAssisted Dying Bill [HL]My Lords, I support the Bill, above all as a matter of choice. I congratulate my noble friend Lady Meacher on introducing it. If I was in the situation covered by the Bill, with…22 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I have also added my name to Amendment 45A from the noble Lord, Lord Watson. During the first day of Report, the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, spoke about previous…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 62 from the noble Lord, Lord Storey, and I seem to have added my speech to his as well, because I very much echo what he said. I was…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I fully support what the noble Lord, Lord Layard, described as the first half of Amendment 50, but I am rather less comfortable about the approach taken in the second…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, before the Minister sits down, can I ask her for a point of clarification? She mentioned that the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Baker, required nine…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I will not speak at any length about these two similar amendments, because I agree wholeheartedly with what all three speakers so far have said. Both represent an…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I, too, have added my name to Amendment 11, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Watson, and to the amendment to it, Amendment 12. I shall speak also to my Amendments 14, 18…12 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, as a member of the Parliament Choir I am happy to join the chorus of welcome for the Minister in her new role, which is at least as important to the issues I care about…12 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 34 of the noble Lord, Lord Storey, because of the key role that apprenticeships have to play in meeting the UK’s skills challenges, as…12 Oct 2021HANSARDEuropean Union Touring VisasTo ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to their announcement on 4 August that United Kingdom musicians and performers will not need visas or work permits for short-term tours in…14 Sept 2021