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HANSARDWomen: Cost of LivingWill my noble friend look again at the report of the Economic Affairs Committee on universal credit and in particular reconsider the decision to take away £20 a week from the…10 Mar 2022HANSARDNational Insurance ContributionsMy Lords, I declare an interest as I am of pensionable age and therefore will not have to pay national insurance until next year. Given the extra money the Government will receive…07 Mar 2022HANSARDRussian Oil and Gas ImportsMy Lords, although we all want a cleaner, greener future, surely we have a duty to put the maximum pressure on President Putin when the situation in Ukraine is beyond grim. Should…07 Mar 2022HANSARDRussian Oil and Gas ImportsTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have (1) to impose sanctions on the import of gas and oil from Russia, and (2) to encourage (a) coal-fired power generation, and…07 Mar 2022HANSARDCryptocurrenciesDoes my noble friend not think that the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Haskel, is very important in the current context of sanctions? Is it a practical proposition to ask the…02 Mar 2022HANSARDLobbying of MinistersMy Lords, will my noble friend take this opportunity to pay tribute to the trade union movement and the fantastic job that it has done in lobbying Labour and Conservative…01 Mar 2022HANSARDClimate ChangeMy Lords, does my noble friend not recognise that, since the climate change conference, one of the risks that we need to be concerned about is security of supply for the energy…01 Mar 2022HANSARDProcedure and Privileges CommitteeI apologise to my noble friend, but I think he is rather trivialising this issue. It is not about whether we wear a pass or not but whether having a pass enables us to vote or…22 Feb 2022HANSARDHunting TrophiesMy Lords, does my noble friend agree that, if people do not like the process by which foie gras is made, the option is not to buy and not to eat it and we do not need the…22 Feb 2022HANSARDWindfall Tax: Oil, Gas and Energy CompaniesMy Lords, if we were really concerned about the cost of energy to poor people in our country, would it not be a good idea to remove the green levies that are adding to their…22 Feb 2022HANSARDLiving with Covid-19My Lords, does my noble friend agree that St Augustine is alive and well on the Opposition Benches? We should remember that these measures were brought in to stop the NHS being…22 Feb 2022HANSARDProcedure and Privileges CommitteeMy Lords, I have a great deal of sympathy with my noble friend Lord Gardiner. He listened to the debate, and he and his committee have come back with a perfectly reasonable…22 Feb 2022HANSARDProcedure and Privileges CommitteeIndeed, as my noble friend says, as in the Capitol. So, I am just a bit concerned that, in order to cast my vote, I need a document issued by the House bureaucracy. Noble Lords…22 Feb 2022HANSARDProcedure and Privileges CommitteeOf course you can get in without a pass; surely the noble Lord knows that perfectly well. You say to the policeman, “I am a Member of the House”, and you show him your driving…22 Feb 2022HANSARDProcedure and Privileges CommitteeDoes the noble Lord not realise, in saying, “You can’t come into this House unless you have a security pass”, that that is the very reason why some of us are concerned about this…22 Feb 2022HANSARDState Pension Underpayments and Arrears for WomenMy Lords, should my noble friend not be taking the point back to the Treasury? Is this not an example of the Government hiding behind the skirts of local government? The…21 Feb 2022HANSARDParliamentary Estate: Electric Vehicle Charging PointsTo ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what progress has been made with enabling electric vehicles to be charged on the Parliamentary Estate; and how many electric vehicle charging…09 Feb 2022HANSARDParliamentary Estate: Electric Vehicle Charging PointsMy Lords, I sympathise with the noble Lord, Lord Touhig, who has the unfortunate task of answering for a bureaucracy straight out of “Yes Minister”. I may have the answer: many of…09 Feb 2022HANSARDCriminal Justice: Royal CommissionMy Lords, might it not have been sensible to write the terms of reference for the royal commission in 2019, when it was announced? I do not see how Covid would have prevented the…07 Feb 2022HANSARDPersonal Protective Equipment: AccountingMy Lords, does my noble friend not recognise that some people have very short memories? If we look back, there was huge demand globally for PPE. The press and the public were…02 Feb 2022