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HANSARDElectricity Capacity (Amendment etc.) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020My Lords, this is a very complex issue. I have listened very carefully to the Minister’s comments. As I understand it, the capacity market is there as a sort of back-up. As the…02 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, last week I raised the issue of the report by the German IZA Institute of Labor Economics entitled Face M asks C onsiderably R educe C OVID -19 C ases in Germany: A S…01 Jul 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020My Lords, once again, I want to concentrate my remarks on the interaction between today’s regulations and the wider issue of public policy on masks. I have argued for four months…25 Jun 2020HANSARDIndependent Inquiry into Child Sexual AbuseAre we not now witnessing in the IICSA inquiry a macabre, quasi-criminal trial of the dead? As the Minister has said, it has already cost over £130 million at a time when the…22 Jun 2020HANSARDIndependent Inquiry into Child Sexual AbuseTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the total cost, including the associated costs, to date of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.22 Jun 2020HANSARDGlobal BritainAs part of the shadow ministerial team in the 1990s behind the policy of ODA/Foreign Office separation, and having heard the questions up to now, I say to the Minister, in…18 Jun 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020My Lords, I return once again to masks. Under these regulations, it is legal to leave the place where you live to visit “a residential property to undertake any activities…15 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: MasksTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to review their advice on the wearing of masks in public to address COVID-19.11 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: MasksMy Lords, 14 weeks ago, I raised in the House the issue of masks. The Government’s response was to reject my case. I have repeatedly raised the issue. Meanwhile, nearly 60…11 Jun 2020HANSARDInheritance TaxMy Lords, does not the current crisis and its impact on the wider tax take offer us the ideal opportunity to reform inheritance tax by abolishing it and treating inheritance as…20 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: ResponseI want to return to the issue of face masks, which I have been raising with the Minister since early March. Are Ministers following the intense debate going on among a worldwide…19 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: TransportMy Lords, my question is about masks, a subject I raised some 10 weeks ago in the Moses Room. Could not officials learn a lesson from the much-reported bus incident in Shenzhen in…14 May 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020My issue with these regulations is the policy on masks. Under the heading “Restrictions on movement”, Regulation 6 states that “no person may leave the place where they are living…12 May 2020HANSARDDomestic ViolenceMy Lords, my question has already been asked by my noble friend Lord Kennedy of Southwark—it is the subject of a piece I wrote in the Times a couple of weeks ago. May I dispute…05 May 2020HANSARDAgriculture: Dairy PricesPerhaps the noble Lord, Lord Gardiner, can give me a written answer to my question. I understand that Meadow Foods pays more to its farmers in Cheshire than those in Cumbria for…28 Apr 2020HANSARDMinisterial CodeMy Lords, I shall speak on the code of conduct for special advisers and the treatment of Sonia Khan. Paragraph 5 of the code says: “But special advisers must not … exercise any…12 Mar 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020My Lords, as I understand it, this is the first opportunity that we have had, outside of UQs and Statements, to fully debate this whole issue. I want to speak at a little greater…09 Mar 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020The great majority of the British population will not go into some of the technical areas that my noble friend would go into. That is why I am trying to find a single source of…09 Mar 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020Will the Minister reconsider something that he said to me? He said that he could not answer many of the questions that I asked. Almost all of them were to do with contamination,…09 Mar 2020HANSARDHistoric Sexual Offences: InvestigationsMy Lords, as the Carl Beech affair now draws to a close, is not the real scandal in its management the fact that decent, honourable people, who have and had given a lifetime of…04 Mar 2020