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HANSARDLondon UndergroundMy Lords, is it possible to also take into account that when you open up the Elizabeth line, you then open up the estate agents and get the spreading of gentrification and of…10 Oct 2024HANSARDSupport for Infants and Parents etc (Information) Bill [HL]I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, on this very simple—you could almost say dumb, in the best sense of the word—concatenation of a Bill, which brings together things that…06 Sept 2024HANSARDHousehold Support FundWhile we are talking about poverty and children, can I ask a very cheeky question? Why is it that the Government are punishing seven members of the Labour Party who have put the…24 Jul 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechI welcome the new Government. It is a great relief, I have to say. We all need a change, and we hope the change will lead to the kind of delivery that we need socially in this…19 Jul 2024HANSARDPresident of Iran: DeathI do not want to be a pain in the rear, but I feel like one because I want to talk about history. I wish the Americans, the British, the CIA and all that had not screwed up…22 May 2024HANSARDRural CrimeMy Lords, would the Government agree with me that there is a direct relationship between crime and poverty? What are we doing, really, about all the things that are happening in…09 May 2024HANSARDChild PovertyForgive me—I am now going to stop—but I wanted to move on to say that this is why I am campaigning to change the way we deal with poverty. We have a situation in which eight…29 Apr 2024HANSARDChild PovertyI welcome the chance to sort out the problems of poverty in an hour and a half. I welcome the idea that, in such a short amount of time, we can sort out the problem that a third…29 Apr 2024HANSARDChild PovertyI just want to say that I used Sure Start. In spite of appearances, I was a very young father, and it was the most wonderful thing. I lived on the largest housing estate in south…29 Apr 2024HANSARDChild PovertyTo ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to address the root causes of child poverty across the United Kingdom.29 Apr 2024HANSARDChild PovertyGod bless you, because I was running out of time.29 Apr 2024HANSARDChild PovertyI love democracy. I was born in the London Irish slums of Notting Hill, but we moved to Fulham. On my road, I fell into being a friend of a guy whose family, like mine, came from…29 Apr 2024HANSARDChild PovertyI am not against social housing—I am for social housing—but I want to break out of the situation whereby, if you get into social housing, you tend to fall behind everybody else.…29 Apr 2024HANSARDChild PovertyI agree with the noble Lord. Children do need a secure home, but the real problem is that all the conditions that lead you to need social housing mean that you never have a full…29 Apr 2024HANSARDEthnicity Pay GapWhile we are at it, can we congratulate PwC for taking people from prison? I think that is a great sign. We must remember that people from ethnic minorities are overrepresented in…25 Apr 2024HANSARDSocial Housing: Right-to-buy SalesSurely the point is that a Labour Government created the right to buy, and all the work was done under a Labour Government, and then it was implemented by the Tories, but they cut…18 Apr 2024HANSARDHousehold Support Fund: Children’s Bed PovertyWith eight different government departments dealing with poverty, is not it time that we actually co-ordinated our dismantling of poverty by bringing in a government department…21 Mar 2024HANSARDGaza: Hunger AlleviationI do not meet many people in the course of my life who are not influenced by what is happening in Gaza. I can honestly say that most of the people I meet and talk to, people from…18 Mar 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Act 2003 (Suitability for Fixed Term Recall) Order 2024I want to make a few comments. The renaissance should actually start somewhere else. It should start—I have certain experience with this—with all the naughty boys who later become…18 Mar 2024HANSARDSpring Budget 2024I want to talk about the 9 million people who the noble Lord, Lord Lamont, spoke of as being economically inactive—I think it was 9 million or just over, if I got that right. It…18 Mar 2024