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HANSARDEquality of Opportunity for Young PeopleI welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate and am very glad that the noble Baroness, Lady Grender, managed to secure it. Two and a half hours is certainly not long enough…16 May 2019HANSARDClimate EmergencyI am very pleased to hear that we have nothing to worry about and that all we need to do is just more of the same. I worry because 80 years ago, when we were facing the arguments…07 May 2019HANSARDClimate EmergencyTo ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the climate emergency declarations by the First Minister of Scotland on 28 April, the Welsh Government Minister for the Environment,…07 May 2019HANSARDHomelessness: Local Authority SpendingMy Lords, the Minister will agree that one of the most important things with regard to homelessness is churn. If people fall homeless then they should be moved on. Has the…02 May 2019HANSARDRetailers: Business RatesCan we accept the fact that a bookshop on a high street has such an enormous social echo that it actually makes the high street a lot better? Can we start seeing our bookshops in…08 Apr 2019HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions HolidayIs it possible to include people who are banged up at the moment? If we can actually get them into work when they get out of prison, as a disadvantaged group, the knock-on effects…27 Mar 2019HANSARDPrisons: RehabilitationMy Lords, next week I am going to a wonderful literary festival in Erlestoke prison. It is a brilliant idea and, even though there are problems of money, it shows that, if you…12 Mar 2019HANSARDNHS Long Term PlanMy Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for this opportunity to talk about health. If you really want to cheese off anybody from the health industry, when they…31 Jan 2019HANSARDSocial HousingI welcome this opportunity to talk about social housing and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for tabling the question for debate. Harold Macmillan responded to Rachman, who…31 Jan 2019HANSARDLocal Authorities: Essential ServicesMy Lords, it is a great honour to speak to the Motion in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Scriven. I have no local authority credentials other than that I have been a road sweeper…24 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: Consumer RightsMy Lords, what will the Government do about Amazon, which pays its taxes outside the UK? Will we able to claim those taxes back to the UK after Brexit?17 Jan 2019