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HANSARDNet-zero Emissions: Behaviour ChangeMy Lords, I am also a member of the Environment and Climate Change Committee, and I congratulate the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Oxford on securing this extremely timely…20 Oct 2022HANSARDUnemployment FiguresMy Lords, the number of inactive people in this country of working age is increasing inexorably. In the last three months alone, it has increased by 80,000 people, and of the…20 Oct 2022HANSARDArmed Forces: LGBT VeteransMy Lords, my question is further to that asked by my noble friend Lord Cashman and the similar question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Lexden. Similar to the decision to pay…17 Oct 2022HANSARDRussia: Tactical Nuclear Weapon DeploymentMy Lords, I draw attention to my interest as a vice-chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the chair of the European Leadership Network. In September, Jake Sullivan told CBS’s…11 Oct 2022HANSARDDefence: Type 45 DestroyersMy Lords, in December, in a report entitled We’re G oing to N eed a B igger Navy , the Defence Select Committee expressed concern that the Type 45 PIP programme was “slipping”. In…10 Oct 2022HANSARDEthiopia: Humanitarian and Security SituationTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the humanitarian and security situation in northern Ethiopia.06 Sept 2022HANSARDEthiopia: Humanitarian and Security SituationMy Lords, this conflict is responsible for the deaths of half a million or more people already from either war or famine. On 2 August, following a meeting in Addis Ababa and a…06 Sept 2022HANSARDUkraine UpdateMy Lords, looking slightly beyond now and the immediate future, what assessment have the Government made of the fact that on 25 August, the day after Putin’s chief of defence…05 Sept 2022HANSARDEuropean Court of Human RightsMy Lords, on the day of the publication of the Bill of Rights Bill, the Minister, writing for ConservativeHome, described it as a “modern framework” for human rights. In Clause…05 Sept 2022HANSARDAfghanistan: British Special ForcesMy Lords, the SAS has an international reputation as the bravest and best. All I can say from my time as Secretary of State for Defence is that that is a well-earned reputation.…14 Jul 2022HANSARDSri LankaMy Lords, Sri Lanka has a dark history of human rights abuses, the vast majority being perpetrated with complete impunity. Today’s fear, with the announcement of a state of…13 Jul 2022HANSARDTRIPS Agreement: VaccinesTo ask Her Majesty’s Government how, and to what extent, the temporary waiver of provisions of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS),…11 Jul 2022HANSARDTRIPS Agreement: VaccinesMy Lords, regrettably, the Minister’s Answer—I do not blame him for this as he was probably following his brief—did not address the issue that, without the inclusion of a waiver…11 Jul 2022HANSARDDefence Spending Priorities: NATO SummitMy Lords, on Monday in the other place, while making a Statement, the Prime Minister was on more than one occasion asked a variant of the excellent question that the noble Lord,…06 Jul 2022HANSARDClearview AI IncMy Lords, the scale of Clearview’s ambition is global: to have 100 billion face images on its database by next year. That is 14 images for every person presently on this planet.…05 Jul 2022HANSARDTigrayMy Lords, this conflict is a humanitarian disaster of monumental proportions; 9 million people have been affected by it and about half a million people have died. Turning to the…04 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsMy Lords, I apologise too for being late for the beginning of the Statement. I had expected it to be later in the evening and my office is in Millbank House. Anyway, I can assure…04 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsMy Lords—04 Jul 2022HANSARDAiden Aslin and Shaun PinnerMy Lords, in the case of Aiden Aslin, on 18 April, Graham Phillips, a former British civil servant and pro-Russian propagandist, published a video interview with him—a prisoner of…28 Jun 2022HANSARDBritish Army: Troop SizeMy Lords, the noble Earl will be aware that our Armed Forces are essential to our national resilience as well as to national defence. Prior to the pandemic, requests to bring them…27 Jun 2022