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HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I shall make a very short point about Amendment 80. The noble Lord should look carefully at whether many of these indicators are male-oriented. Women do not have their…21 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational Women’s Day and Protecting the Equality of Women in the UK and InternationallyThis is not the first time one of my proposals has bitten the dust. The fact that I taught the noble Baroness at LSE makes me proud that she has finally sorted me out. That being…17 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational Women’s Day and Protecting the Equality of Women in the UK and InternationallyMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Sikka. At least I will not feel lonely talking about the economics of gender inequality. First, the title of the…17 Mar 2022HANSARDElectoral System (Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 Committee Report)My Lords, it is an honour to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton. I want to say something that I have said before, at Second Reading of the Elections Bill. I think that noble…11 Mar 2022HANSARDPeerages: RecommendationsMy Lords, I welcome the invitation to wash our dirty ermine in public that the noble Lord, Lord Balfe, has presented to us. We had a Bill a while ago on the status of the…03 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I have a very different view of what the Government are proposing and the whole election business. I find the election process in this country severely out of date. It…23 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I rise to say that Amendment 297A is obviously very desirable. But, as an economist, I have to say: if we implement this, who will be deprived? GPs’ time is limited and…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSue Gray ReportI very much want the Prime Minister of the country to be properly housed.31 Jan 2022HANSARDSue Gray ReportMy Lords, does the noble Baroness agree that 10 Downing Street and the structure of the Prime Minister’s office is the poorest accommodation of any Prime Minister of the G7, the…31 Jan 2022HANSARDDissolution and Calling of Parliament BillMy Lords, if I may intervene in this debate, I think it is still important that what used to be the custom and convention be clarified on paper. This is for a very simple reason.…25 Jan 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, as an NHS patient but not an expert, I will say one small thing about inequalities. Given the way in which the NHS is structured, with no money paid up front and with…13 Jan 2022HANSARDRefugees: Mass DisplacementMy Lords, once again, I thank the noble Lord for introducing this topic and, once again, I am sorry to say that I am not going to join in his idealistic, very sincere and moral…06 Jan 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, who has done so much in this cause. There is nothing good that one can say about this Bill: let me say that to begin with. I…05 Jan 2022HANSARDInternational Development StrategyMy Lords, I must declare that for much of my academic life, I studied development and have written a lot about it. I did a lot of work on human development. Coming from India, I…16 Dec 2021HANSARDHouse of Lords: GovernanceMy Lords, it has been a long day in this debate. I put my name down—08 Dec 2021HANSARDHouse of Lords: GovernanceMy Lords, I put my name down for this debate because I did not understand what the governance of this House was. I did not know that we were governed by anybody; I thought that we…08 Dec 2021HANSARDHouse of Lords: GovernanceMy Lords, I am very pleased that I shall go down in the record as a noble Lord who had to make a seven-minute speech and managed to stretch it out to 25 minutes, not through his…08 Dec 2021HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I add my congratulations to everybody else’s on the brilliant maiden speech made by the noble Lord, Lord Stevens. The noble Lord, Lord Patel, described many of his…07 Dec 2021HANSARDBeyond Brexit: Institutional Framework (EUC Report)My Lords, I am deservedly the last Back-Bench speaker in this debate. I am not on any of the committees, but I have engaged with Europe for practically all the 31 years I have…06 Dec 2021HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL]My Lords, we are prisoners not only of the past 110 years but of what reform was promised during proceedings on the 1999 House of Lords Bill. I have a little information which…03 Dec 2021