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HANSARDCreative Industries: Creating Jobs and Productivity GrowthMy Lords, this has been an inspiring debate, and we are all lucky to participate. I must, of course, pay tribute to our three excellent maiden speakers today: my noble friends…06 Feb 2025HANSARDPension Fund ReliefsI thank the noble Lord—my noble friend—the Minister for his replies. Will he agree that the best thing that pension funds, both defined benefit and defined contribution, could do…04 Feb 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillMy Lords, I congratulate my noble friends Lord Wilson of Sedgefield and Lady Brown of Silvertown on their excellent maiden speeches. I am sure that the House will benefit from…04 Feb 2025HANSARDStock Market: First-time InvestorsMy Lords, I very much thank the noble Lord, Lord Lee of Trafford, for introducing this short debate and I look forward to hearing other speakers. I have been reading the Financial…03 Feb 2025HANSARDMental Health Treatment: Waiting TimesI welcome my noble friend the Minister’s replies to the questions asked. I know she is personally committed to improving the services provided to people suffering from problems…03 Feb 2025HANSARDLow and No-Tax JurisdictionsI will speak briefly in the gap. I want to ask my noble friend the Minister about the measures that can be taken. The issue has been set out very clearly, but is the Treasury…30 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Amendment 121 seeks to add financial circumstances to the advance choice documents. I spoke in the last session of the Committee about the importance of the link between…27 Jan 2025HANSARDInheritance Tax, National Insurance and VATWe need to thank the noble Lord, Lord Morrow, for introducing this debate. I admire the passion and clarity of the arguments he presented; unfortunately, I just do not agree. I…27 Jan 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthMy thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, for initiating this debate, which has been interesting although not always enlightening. I was tempted to talk about pensions, as raised…23 Jan 2025HANSARDPrison Maintenance: InsourcingI thank my noble friend the Minister for his reply, but he must be aware, from reports in the press and his own extremely diligent visits to the prison estate, that something…23 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]I know the hour is late, but I want to note the irony that the issues covered by these amendments are central to the whole process of why we have arrived at this Bill. In a sense…22 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]My Lords, I remind the Committee of my entry in the register of interests that I am on the advisory board of the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. I mention this…22 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I do not want to try the patience of the House at this late hour. I am unhappy about Clause 77 as a whole. Had I had the opportunity, we could have debated it in Committee;…21 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, this is such a contrast to previous years’ versions of this debate, when there would be myself and the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, sat over there, and a handful on this…21 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]This is the first time I have spoken in Committee on the Bill, so I declare my interest as a member of the advisory panel of the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. I shall…20 Jan 2025HANSARDMental Health Bill [HL]With your Lordships’ permission, I want to respond to what the noble Lord has just said. On the front line in this are the paramedics; they are the ones who will have to deal with…20 Jan 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit (Standard Allowance Entitlement of Care Leavers) Bill [HL]My Lords, we owe a debt to the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Manchester for introducing this Bill and highlighting a significant problem. It has been said today that many…17 Jan 2025HANSARDCivil Servants: Compulsory Office AttendanceThis has been an interesting debate, and we are all grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, for introducing the subject and giving us an opportunity to discuss these issues. In…09 Jan 2025HANSARDWindrush Compensation SchemeWill my noble friend the Minister reconsider the decision to exclude loss of pension rights from Windrush compensation? The loss of employment and of employment opportunities…19 Dec 2024HANSARDPension Review: Phase 2I very much welcome my noble friend the Minister’s reply, but of course she will be aware of how this works. Last weekend there was a series of stories in the national press, from…18 Dec 2024