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HANSARDEmployment Rights BillCan the noble Lord, Lord Monks, mention any occasion on which the Official Opposition of the time demanded it?24 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I remind the Committee of my interests in both consultancy and the hospitality industry. I have really come to help the Government on this bit of the Bill, because the…24 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI am very pleased with all the research that was done before the Bill and all the research that has been done with it. The only question is: when the Bill goes through, why do not…24 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I hope the Minister listened with great care to what my noble friend said. I declare an interest as a partner in a small farm. I was walking the fields only yesterday,…03 Jun 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitMy Lords—21 May 2025HANSARDUK-EU SummitWill the noble Baroness accept that this has been widely supported throughout the country, and right across parties, because it shows that this Government have at least lived in…21 May 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillThere is a point here which I hope the Minister will listen to carefully: the speed with which legislation is put into operation. I make this point only because it has been true…15 May 2025HANSARDSanctions Implementation and EnforcementI wonder whether I could refer to yesterday’s implementation of the additional sanction arrangements on letting agents and the like. This is very welcome, because there is no…15 May 2025HANSARDWater: Supply and InfrastructureEssex & Suffolk Water has announced that it cannot provide any extra water to any new business or extension of any business until 2036 and that the offices that are on site for…14 May 2025HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Codes of Practice, Review of Notices and Technical Advisory Board) Regulations 2025I wonder whether the Minister would be kind enough in his reply to give us some idea of the ongoing arrangements for the updating of this kind of material. He has shown that the…12 May 2025HANSARDForensic Science Regulator Draft Code of Practice 2025Just in case anybody misses me out, I am Welsh also, but I am not actually speaking in this debate.12 May 2025HANSARDFair Dealing Obligations (Pigs) Regulations 2025Should we not be extremely pleased at the immediate steps taken by supermarkets and others when they heard about this allegation? And it is an allegation at this stage. It shows…12 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I wonder whether we are having a discussion for 2025, or one that is deeply mired in history. I find myself in some difficulty listening to either side of this…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillIf that is so, it is very simple: we can all agree to this amendment, with such alterations as are necessary, to make sure that they are independent. Then we can all feel that we…08 May 2025HANSARDPrime Minister and First Minister of Wales MeetingsWill the noble Baroness accept that I joined with many of her colleagues in fighting against the Barnett formula, and that the Labour Party strongly attacked the Conservative…07 May 2025HANSARDInfrastructure Planning (Onshore Wind and Solar Generation) Order 2025I am quite sure that nobody takes electricity more distantly than they need to if it is going to be used locally. In my constituency—which was indeed one of the seats lost at the…06 May 2025HANSARDInfrastructure Planning (Onshore Wind and Solar Generation) Order 2025I apologise to the Minister for missing the first moments of his speech, but as somebody who was taken to a tribunal by those who do not believe in climate change for daring to…06 May 2025HANSARDInfrastructure Planning (Onshore Wind and Solar Generation) Order 2025Would my noble friend give way so I can ask him about the phrase “arbitrary targets”? The targets are actually the result of the detailed propositions of the Climate Change…06 May 2025HANSARDCommercial Vehicles: SafetyThe targets having been set up by the previous Government, the present Government should stick to them and give British motor manufacturers certainty about what is going to…19 Mar 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I very much support the comments that have just been made. My concern is that we should live in the world that actually exists, rather than some mythical world that we…26 Feb 2025