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HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]My Lords, I have a quick question for the Minister arising from Amendment 14. I need to declare an interest in the context of professional qualifications, and as a fellow of the…14 Dec 2023HANSARDEmployment Rights (Amendment, Revocation and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023My Lords, it is a pleasure to take part in this debate. It is a particular pleasure to be under the chairmanship of my noble friend Lord Stansgate. We are long-term colleagues; we…13 Dec 2023HANSARDRepresentation of the People (Overseas Electors etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023My Lords, I support the amendment tabled by my noble friend Lord Khan of Burnley, following his excellent speech. I have just one additional point to add to this discussion. The…12 Dec 2023HANSARDLove Matters (Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households Report)My Lords, thanks are due to the Archbishops and their commission for producing this report. Drawing on a wide range of knowledge and experience, it provides a good basis for…08 Dec 2023HANSARDRwanda TreatyMy Lords, for those who are a bit slow with their arithmetic, £8 million a day is £3 billion a year, added to the cost of the policy itself. Is it not clear that it would be…08 Dec 2023HANSARDLove Matters (Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households Report)Before the Minister sits down, can I ask him whether he used a word in his section on divorce advisedly? He referred to a proportion or percentage of men who had “strayed”. To me,…08 Dec 2023HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 34 is in my name. I first have to repeat what I discover is true of quite a few participants in today’s debate: I did not speak at Second Reading. I am afraid…07 Dec 2023HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]The Minister is quite correct. It is in a statement associated with the Act, but it applies only to the environment. Of course, the trade under this Bill goes somewhat wider, and…07 Dec 2023HANSARDLegal MigrationMy Lords, I thank the Minister for his answers to the earlier questions. I shall avoid the temptation to discuss the proposals in general—I just wanted to focus on the significant…05 Dec 2023HANSARDNational Health Service: 75th AnniversaryMy Lords, I join other speakers in thanking my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath for initiating this debate. I am going to focus on the issue of mental health and I declare as…30 Nov 2023HANSARDBenefit Claimants: Free PrescriptionsMy Lords, I thank the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of London for securing this debate on the end of free prescriptions for certain benefit claimants. She covered, in detail,…30 Nov 2023HANSARDAutumn Statement 2023My Lords, when I first put my name down for this debate, I did so in order to get extremely angry about the announcement in the Autumn Statement on the end of free prescriptions…29 Nov 2023HANSARDWindrush GenerationTo ask His Majesty’s Government what were the reasons for the Home Office’s decision to disband the dedicated team responsible for their Windrush policy; and what assessment they…28 Nov 2023HANSARDWindrush GenerationI thank the Minister for his reply, but I need to tell him that there is a serious lack of trust in the Government’s intentions. The people I speak to have no faith in the…28 Nov 2023HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, we have had presented in the gracious Speech a Potemkin village of a legislative programme: facades with no substance, performative legislation driven solely by the…13 Nov 2023HANSARDAlternative Investment Fund Managers Regulations 2013My Lords, one recognises the important issue being raised, but the context has to be understood of a financial services industry that does not have an unblemished record, in terms…13 Nov 2023HANSARDSuicide Prevention StrategyMy Lords, on the suicide prevention strategy more generally, does the Minister share my concern at the figures published today by the ONS showing that the suicide rate among…26 Oct 2023HANSARDDormant Assets (Distribution of Money) (England) Order 2023My Lords, I have been following the issue of dormant assets principally in relation to the 2022 Act. My concern has always been to emphasise that this is not free money; it is…24 Oct 2023HANSARDRestoration and Renewal: Annual Progress ReportMy Lords, I have come today mainly to listen and learn, but I think one particular issue that was referred to needs to be given more consideration. There is a physical timetable…18 Oct 2023HANSARDAdult Social Care (Adult Social Care Committee Report)My Lords, it is a pleasure to take part in this debate and I very much appreciate the work of my noble friend Lady Andrews and the committee in producing such an excellent and…16 Oct 2023