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HANSARDRestoration and Renewal“As an amendment to the above motion, at the end insert: “(5) reaffirms its commitment that the client function for the Restoration and Renewal programme, in the form of the new…13 Jul 2022HANSARDRestoration and RenewalMy Lords, I am very grateful for the indications of support from around your Lordships’ House for my amendment. I am particularly grateful to the Leader of the House for her…13 Jul 2022HANSARDSchools: Citizenship EducationI wonder whether the Minister, who, with the Minister of State, has a sympathetic ear on this subject, can tell me why the department is supporting Ofsted in its belief that…29 Jun 2022HANSARDInsurance Industry: Travel PremiumsTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with representatives of the insurance industry regarding the use of age as a trigger for substantial increases in…28 Jun 2022HANSARDInsurance Industry: Travel PremiumsMy Lords, in March 2020 there was an outburst of gross discrimination against people on age grounds that nearly locked people in their own dwellings because they had reached the…28 Jun 2022HANSARDInsurance Industry: Travel PremiumsMy condolences too for a very great woman. I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper.28 Jun 2022HANSARDHouses of Parliament: Co-locationMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend, if I may call him that, because we have known each other since our days as undergraduates at the University of…16 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, may I just try this then with the Minister, who is doing her best in very difficult circumstances? Would she be prepared to talk with the Secretary of State, who is one…15 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I was not going to speak in this debate, but I am minded to say just a few words in agreement with the last phrases that have just been used. This is part of the…13 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I have a declared interest as the honorary president of the Association for Citizenship Teaching. I agree entirely with the comments of the noble and right reverend…23 May 2022HANSARDHeritage Steam Sector: CoalMy Lords—18 May 2022HANSARDHeritage Steam Sector: CoalMy Lords, I do not often make a mistake on these occasions, so forgive me. Can I make a suggestion to the Minister, which struck me when I went to the National Coal Mining Museum…18 May 2022HANSARDSchool Governing Bodies: DiversityMy Lords, I reassure the noble Baroness, Lady Wheatcroft, that when you reach a certain age you are still in touch with young people and the education service. Will the Minister…28 Apr 2022HANSARDElections BillI support the noble and learned Lord’s amendments. I will be as brief as humanly possible, first because of his brilliant and forensic analysis of where we are and the importance…27 Apr 2022HANSARDElections BillCan the Minister list which Select Committees have Ministers as members?25 Apr 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I support the noble and learned Lord in his amendments, to which I have added my name. We have a cross-party understanding, I believe, that, whatever their intentions,…25 Apr 2022HANSARDElections BillI was not, in any way, impugning the Speaker’s Committee. I was picking up the point that the Minister had just made about the corollary of a Select Committee.25 Apr 2022HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the Minister. She is renowned in this House for her courtesy and willingness to listen and on this occasion she has done so in an exemplary manner. I know other…07 Apr 2022HANSARDMarriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) BillBefore my noble friend sits down, I need to apologise to the House and in particular to the right honourable Simon Hughes. It has been pointed out to me that he is well and alive.…01 Apr 2022HANSARDMarriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) BillMy Lords, given how long I have been in this House, I ought to know the rules and conventions relating to the gap—but I do not, so I will be extremely brief. I congratulate the…01 Apr 2022