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HANSARDCompassionate Use Medicine Schemes: VATCan I bring the noble Baroness back to the last part of my noble friend’s question? It looks as though the VAT department in HMRC is behaving most peculiarly. First, it lost the…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDSocial Housing Bill [HL]I support the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, in particular on the ESG framework. The reason is, frankly, that we need better figures about what is…15 Jun 2026 · 5d agoHANSARDFurther Education Colleges: Recovery of VATDoes the Minister accept that there are some areas where the law has already told the HMRC that it ought not to be demanding VAT—for example, agricultural shows—and that it…09 Jun 2026HANSARDWater CompaniesMy Lords, does the Minister accept that it has to be faced that in the east of England we spend a lot of money pumping fresh water out to sea during the winter and then do not…09 Jun 2026HANSARDSouth East Water: Disruption of SupplyMy Lords, working as the chairman of a small water company means that one does know a bit about it. I just want to ask the Minister: when are we going to stop pouring fresh water…08 Jun 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy concern is merely to say that, whatever your views are, I do not know of a previous occasion when such concerted concerns have been, frankly, not faced up to. The second thing…24 Apr 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords—24 Apr 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords—24 Apr 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, as a fellow Catholic, I make a confession. I have learned an enormous amount from listening to almost every moment of the Bill. The argument that most distresses me is…24 Apr 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillDoes the noble Baroness not find it peculiar that people who are very keen on employment rights in every other circumstance are not keen on employment rights in these…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am genuinely trying to help the noble and learned Lord for this reason: I am concerned about the person who wishes to avail themselves of this Bill. I do not understand how you…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThere is one last thing I would like clarification on. When the noble and learned Lord spoke about hospices, he said in a slightly confusing way that that did not necessarily…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI knew I would do that. I am sorry. I will not refer to the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy.20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, as a Welsh-speaking Welshman, who has, in this House, consistently supported Plaid’s perfectly right demand that there should be fairer funding for Wales—I am not a…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillFirst, it is said on both sides that they want more money for palliative care, but we now know that palliative care includes assisted dying. I therefore do not accept that the…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI am pleased that I gave time for the noble Baroness to talk, given that she thinks all of this is nitpicking. I remind the House that is what she said about the work we are…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWhat I am saying is very simple: the proposers of this Bill have not properly taken into account the particularities that the Welsh have put forward so nobly and well by the noble…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWe are not going to change the devolution settlement in this Bill—of course we are not. That is not the issue and that is not what is before us. Instead, this comes back to the…20 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I was not going to speak on this, but the last speaker has led me to do so. To describe the care with which this proposal has been put forward as “nitpicking” is frankly…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThat may well be the view of the noble Baroness, but it is not the view of the Royal Colleges, and it is not the view of the Select Committees of this House that have looked at…13 Mar 2026