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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I just say to noble Lords that it is very hard to hear the speeches from the Front Bench if there is a lot of chattering on my right.05 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I cannot call Amendment 47A, as it is an amendment to Amendment 47. Clause 48: Refugee Convention: particularly serious crime Amendment 4805 Nov 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am almost lost for words. As the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson, said, this campaign has been running for almost 15 years. The first stage was when I took a Private…28 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, there being an equality of votes, in accordance with Standing Order 55, which provides that no proposal to amend a Bill in the form in which it is before the House shall…21 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, for making an excellent speech which I could very easily have made myself—there was nothing in it…21 Jul 2025HANSARDDiplomatic Missions: Unpaid ChargesMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for that Answer and for the letters she wrote to me and to the noble Lord, Lord Bellingham, who I am pleased to see in his place, after…16 Jul 2025HANSARDDiplomatic Missions: Unpaid ChargesTo ask His Majesty’s Government what responses they have received to the letters sent by the Protocol Directorate of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in April and…16 Jul 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I have two football interests I should declare: one is historical and the other current. The historical one is that I served as vice-chair of the Football Task Force 25…15 Jul 2025HANSARDRenters’ Rights BillMy Lords, I understand that it has been agreed that a number of amendments are regarded as consequential on Amendment 8. Amendment 901 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI advise the Committee that if this amendment were agreed to, it would not be possible for me to call Amendment 264A for reason of pre-emption.16 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, when the Minister has his meeting with the Members of this House who are interested in this issue, I think he will need to hold it in quite a large room. I am very…05 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, Amendment 201 is in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay. I thank him for agreeing to put his name to it—I am delighted, and I look forward…05 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill05 Jun 2025HANSARDMalvern Hills Bill [HL]My Lords, may I say how delighted I am by the tone and content of every speech made in this debate, particularly that of my noble friend the Minister? She answered a number of the…04 Jun 2025HANSARDMalvern Hills Bill [HL]My Lords, I should express my gratitude to the Malvern Hills Trust for inviting me to present the Bill on its behalf. I am sure that none of your Lordships needs me to describe…04 Jun 2025HANSARDMalvern Hills Bill [HL]That the Bill be now read a second time.04 Jun 2025HANSARDMalvern Hills Bill [HL]I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her clarification, but she is presumably aware that 15,000 leaflets were distributed to households in the area. Posters were put up,…04 Jun 2025HANSARDChannel Tunnel: International Rail StrategyTo ask His Majesty’s Government whether they are supporting the Campaign for Better Transport’s proposals to create an international rail strategy to increase the usage of the…02 Jun 2025HANSARDChannel Tunnel: International Rail StrategyMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for that encouraging Answer, but he will know that in 2010 Deutsche Bahn brought one of its ICE trains through the Channel Tunnel to St…02 Jun 2025HANSARDUncollected Financial PenaltiesMy Lords, when my noble friend writes to the noble Lord opposite about unpaid parking fines by embassies in London, would he also write to me and include in my letter the details…13 May 2025