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HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillPerhaps I may offer the briefest of comments. At the risk of being struck by lightning: on the seventh day, the Lord rested. Let us hope we all get some rest soon. I mention two…15 May 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillMy Lords, a number of speakers have driven home in detail the problems of rural areas with old buildings. The choice is quite simple: we either continue with the existing…14 May 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillI thank the noble Lord, Lord Best, and the noble Baroness, Lady Scott, for their contributions. I do not want to detain the Committee too long, but I say to the noble Baroness,…14 May 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillMy Lords, I am entirely supportive of pretty well every amendment that has been put down on this—this blizzard of amendments about a database across four groups. I agree that…14 May 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights Bill14 May 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Manchester, the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy of Cradley, and the noble Lord, Lord Best, for adding their…14 May 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillMy Lords, I will very briefly intervene. I agree that people who like pets benefit from having them, and I guess that landlords who do not like pets are going to have to put up…06 May 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillMy Lords, I also support these amendments. I have one small niggle, which I will get to, but I live at the end of a very ropey copper wire system, so I yearn for the day when…06 May 2025HANSARDAgriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025My Lords, I declare an interest in this matter, as I have been involved in UK agriculture for my whole life. Normally, I try to be helpful and even occasionally to inject some…30 Apr 2025HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner BillI will make a very brief comment. We are the only army in Europe that recruits at 16, even though we do not put them in the front line; that is worth putting on the record. The…30 Apr 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillIs the Minister saying that a tribunal that sets a rent at a level which it considers to be right is setting a penal level of rent? She is saying that tenants would be penalised…28 Apr 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, has again spoken so much sense that it leaves me little to add. I should warn him that in our previous day’s debate I was…28 Apr 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillMy Lords, I have some sympathy with Amendment 99, concerning the rent rise challenges under Section 13 of the Bill. It is essential that tenants can properly challenge excessive…28 Apr 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillI just want to come back to the estimated five-year implementation period that the Minister responded to. That arose from conversations with people who have had a lifetime of…28 Apr 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillVery briefly, if I may, I rather like this idea—it is great. In the Government’s consideration, will they include where the grant covers only part of the cost and how that can be…28 Apr 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillIt is always helpful to remember that we judge a democracy on how it treats its minorities. The Minister referred to my appearing to be interested in rent. I was interested in…24 Apr 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillI do not wish to detain the Minister with yet another question, but I will perhaps ask a little cheeky one. She referred a number of times to useful meetings with tenant…24 Apr 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillMy Lords, I will speak very briefly because, as always, the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, has set out his case so coherently and in such detail that I need raise just a…24 Apr 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillCan I just add that I was disappointed that we did not have any phraseology in ancient Greek? We will have to put up with that for today, I suppose. I echo my noble friend Lord…24 Apr 2025HANSARD“For Women Scotland” Supreme Court RulingMy Lords, I have a very technical legal question. Some of the commentary I have heard on the ruling suggests that, if an organisation decides to use biological sex as a basis, it…24 Apr 2025