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HANSARDFinancial Markets: StabilityMy Lords, following the excellent speeches from the noble Lords, Lord Young of Cookham and Lord Best, I will concentrate my remarks on the narrow issue of housing and the…03 Nov 2022HANSARDUkraineMy Lords, do Ministers—indeed, colleagues—genuinely believe that, with 200,000 troops in training and large swathes of Ukrainian territory under tyrannical occupation, the Russian…01 Nov 2022HANSARDUkraine: NATOTo ask His Majesty’s Government when they next intend to meet NATO officials to discuss progress in the conflict in the Ukraine.18 Oct 2022HANSARDUkraine: NATOMy Lords, Ministers repeatedly blame the war for the economic crisis, and I agree. Can we have an assurance that with rampant inflation here at home, volatility in the…18 Oct 2022HANSARDHousing: Leasehold PropertiesMy Lords, with dramatically escalating service charges nationally aggravating the position, is not the answer greater transparency over leasehold, freehold and sub-lease title…17 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic SituationMy Lords, the Government assured us that co-ordinated international action would undermine Russia’s economy and protect ours. Why then is today’s rouble stronger than in any…13 Oct 2022HANSARDLeaseholders: Service ChargesMy Lords, is not the reluctance of some freeholders and their agents to provide information to leaseholders about their identity, along with their refusal to discuss leasehold and…20 Jul 2022HANSARDDomestic Premises (Electrical Safety Certificate) Bill [HL]My Lords, the Bill is greatly welcome, although I confess that it is not a subject that weighs heavily on my personal work agenda. It was with that in mind that I sought the view…15 Jul 2022HANSARDUkraineTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they are having with NATO member states on developments in the conflict in Ukraine.13 Jul 2022HANSARDUkraineWe have on the one hand the brutal and unrelenting savagery of Putin’s army and, on the other, the inflexible commitment of Ukraine to a conflict which is already seven years old,…13 Jul 2022HANSARDSewage Disposal in Rivers and Coastal WatersMy Lords, those last three questions from the noble Baroness are very relevant to this debate, and I hope the Minister is able to answer her in the normal way. I thank the noble…07 Jul 2022HANSARDAgricultural Fertiliser and Feed: Rising CostsMy Lords, the best way to combat “the rising cost of … fertiliser and feed” is to end a war which I have opposed since before it began. An early settlement, which I have argued in…29 Jun 2022HANSARDLeasehold Reform: Forfeiture ProvisionsMy Lords, with vulnerable, low-income elderly groups in this highly inflationary period facing unaffordable, escalating service charges and possible loss or even forfeiture of…20 Jun 2022HANSARDElections: Multiple VotingMy Lords, the Minister may in reply to my noble friend Lord Reid of Cardowan say, “No”, but how can he challenge the proposition that an ID card number, with its unique…14 Jun 2022HANSARDUkraine: Defence RelationshipsMy Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Liddle for his initiative. If the first casualty of war is the truth, Ukraine is a fine example. It is hard to know who and what to believe.…09 Jun 2022HANSARDRussia and Ukraine: SettlementTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the circumstances in which they would endorse the terms of a settlement between the government of Russia and the…26 May 2022HANSARDRussia and Ukraine: SettlementMy Lords, why, prior to a war now riddled with Russian atrocities, did we reject the December 2021 Russian-proposed talks on a draft treaty covering security guarantees, arms…26 May 2022HANSARDQueen’s SpeechMy Lords, in the 1990s, Edwina Currie and I were invited to Moscow to undertake a series of talks in the Duma on democracy. During that visit, and on a later visits under…18 May 2022HANSARDWater Companies: Duties and AccountabilityMy Lords, as to duties on flood relief, is the problem not the Environment Agency’s confused remit and influence over water companies’ flood relief expenditure? It conflicts with…04 Apr 2022HANSARDUkraineMy Lords, will we not look rather foolish if, having driven Abramovich out of Britain with threats of property confiscation, it turns out that he was genuinely trying to negotiate…30 Mar 2022