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HANSARDBosnia and HerzegovinaMy Lords, as the first chairman of the All-Party Group for Bosnia in the other place, and one who was much involved in all the debates urging our then Government to take more…10 Nov 2021HANSARDRating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) BillMy Lords, I endorse what the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, said—not for the first time, on a variety of subjects. When we debated in Grand Committee a couple of weeks ago,…10 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic Health England (Dissolution) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2021My Lords, it is a very great pleasure to follow my friend, the noble Lord, Lord Howarth of Newport. I very much look forward to the day when he will be able to rejoin us here on…09 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic Health England (Dissolution) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2021Does my noble friend accept that scrutiny by Parliament is essential?09 Nov 2021HANSARDAfghanistan: Food ShortagesMy Lords, no one who heard the interview yesterday with John Simpson could have failed to have been moved and angered. Will my noble friend assure me that Her Majesty’s Government…09 Nov 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillVery briefly, I was very keen that all the amendments in your Lordships’ House, when they went down to the other place a couple of weeks ago, should be accepted, but we are where…09 Nov 2021HANSARDSmoking Cessation: Prescription of E-cigarettesMy Lords, I understand from my noble friend Lord Patel that some of the devices and products to which he referred do not bear health warnings on their packaging. Why is that so?…02 Nov 2021HANSARDFishing: FranceMy Lords, having heard the right reverend Prelate’s supplementary question, I cannot wait for the sermon. Would it not be sensible, in an attempt to defuse this to a degree, for…01 Nov 2021HANSARDAfghan Citizens Resettlement SchemeMy Lords, none of us will forget the moving and memorable statement of the Secretary of State for Defence during that dreadful period in August when he said, “They will not all…28 Oct 2021HANSARDNazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeMy Lords, while I accept what my noble friend has just said, there is a debt and there is a hostage. Following on from the point made by the noble and learned Baroness, Lady…27 Oct 2021HANSARDPublic ServicesIf you believe that, you will believe anything.26 Oct 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, if the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, had any part at all in encouraging the deluging of some of our colleagues in verbal sewage, he should apologise.26 Oct 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaI congratulate my noble friend on an auspicious beginning to his ministerial career. But I also draw his attention to the wording of this Urgent Question, which mentioned an…26 Oct 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillMy Lords, I intervene at this stage with a degree of real diffidence. During the Third Reading debate, I urged the other place—there are those present who know that I did—to…26 Oct 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillI said that if the noble Lord has any part in it, he should apologise.26 Oct 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillIt is a disgrace.26 Oct 2021HANSARDProcedure and PrivilegesAt the end insert, “but that when all the COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted the arrangements for conducting divisions will return to the way they operated before the…25 Oct 2021HANSARDProcedure and PrivilegesMy Lords, I agree with a very great deal—almost all—of what both my noble friend Lord Taylor of Holbeach and the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, said. There is a real seething feeling…25 Oct 2021HANSARDProcedure and PrivilegesMy Lords, will the noble Lord just consider one thing, which I put forward as a constructive idea: having, at least once a quarter, a session for two or three hours in the Moses…25 Oct 2021HANSARDAssisted Dying Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a very great privilege to follow one of the most senior bishops in the Church of England and to be followed by a former archbishop. This illustrates the dilemma…22 Oct 2021