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HANSARDLegal Services Act 2007 (Approved Regulator) Order 2023My Lords, it is indeed difficult to find many interesting things to say about this instrument, except perhaps that it has taken more than two years to get to this point after the…12 Dec 2023HANSARDSentencing Act 2020 (Amendment of Schedule 21) Regulations 2023I am very grateful to the Minister for his introduction and his helpful and illuminating response on the matters that I raised in my intervention. As he said, these regulations…12 Dec 2023HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, today is a personal anniversary for me because it is 50 years since I entered Parliament—I did 42 years in the Commons and have done eight in the Lords—after I won a…08 Nov 2023HANSARDRailway Stations: Ticket Office ClosuresMy Lords, under these proposals, it will not be possible to buy a senior or disabled persons railcard at the vast majority of stations, whether there are staff there or not. Is…20 Sept 2023HANSARDWest Coast Main LineMy Lords, does the contract place any requirement on Avanti to close station booking offices or will it be expected to take proper account of the vast opposition raised in the…19 Sept 2023HANSARDArrangement of BusinessThe Question is that the House do adjourn during pleasure.12 Jul 2023HANSARDArrangement of BusinessI will put that Question again. As many as are of that opinion will say “Content”; to the contrary “Not content”.12 Jul 2023HANSARDArrangement of BusinessI am not sure that the House wishes this matter to be decided by a Division, but I have no alternative if that is persisted.12 Jul 2023HANSARDArrangement of BusinessI am going to take it that the view of the House, so far as I can establish it, is that we do now adjourn. I see no more participants in the debate—sorry, the Chief Whip wishes to…12 Jul 2023HANSARDArrangement of BusinessThe occupant of the Woolsack has not been provided with the papers for the session to resume immediately if we do not adjourn. It is not in the interests of the House for that to…12 Jul 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe original Question was that Motion D be agreed to, since when Motion D1 has been moved as an amendment to Motion D. The Question therefore is that Motion D1 be agreed to. The…12 Jul 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIt is a matter for the House whether it is treated as a consequential amendment, and not one that I can rule on.12 Jul 2023HANSARDSentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023Will the Ministry of Justice be marking its own homework, or will we have some kind of independent basis for the evaluation?26 Jun 2023HANSARDSentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, for initiating this debate. I welcome his contribution and that of the noble Lord, Lord Jackson. I am not a…26 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIs the noble Baroness withdrawing her amendment?14 Jun 2023HANSARDCorrectionMy Lords, I must report a correction to the voting figures on the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, for the previous business. The corrected…13 Jun 2023HANSARDHousing: Modular ConstructionMy Lords, in the social housing sector, Legal & General stopped production on the basis that there was an insufficient pipeline of orders and it had had six years of losses. What…08 Jun 2023HANSARDRail ServicesMy Lords, on the Scottish borders we have the absurdity that new stations are being opened—at Reston, for example, and East Linton—where the principal provider of trains is…17 May 2023HANSARDCar IndustryMy Lords, is the Minister confident that batteries for electric cars will be produced at the site north of Blyth which was earlier identified for that purpose? If so, when?17 May 2023HANSARDCoronation: PolicingThe success of the police’s actions over the Coronation as a whole surely does not prevent us from considering the long-term dangers, which we started to learn about during the…11 May 2023