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HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationMy Lords, ideally, as your Lordships agreed recently, proposals for an opt-out from a mechanism for text and data mining exceptions should be dropped, but if the Government…10 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Lottery: Contribution to Good CausesMy Lords, further to that point, the Government will be well aware that almost half of National Lottery income now comes from instant win games, including scratchcards, which,…10 Feb 2025HANSARDCreative Industries: Rights Reservation ModelMy Lords, I begin by thanking the Minister for meeting me earlier in the week. I accept that he wants genuine consultation, although, as I will come to in a moment, the Government…30 Jan 2025HANSARDCreative Industries: Rights Reservation ModelTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact on creators and the creative industries of the rights reservation model proposed in their consultation…30 Jan 2025HANSARDFuture Homes StandardMy Lords, high energy efficiency in new homes is clearly vital, but so is improving the home energy efficiency of existing homes, particularly the 2.6 million substandard homes in…29 Jan 2025HANSARDFuture Homes StandardMy Lords—29 Jan 2025HANSARDECO4 and Insulation SchemesMy Lords, I do not for a minute doubt the Government’s commitment to improving the energy efficiency of existing properties, and I know that they are well aware of the huge task…29 Jan 2025HANSARDLive Events Ticketing: Resale and Pricing PracticesMy Lords, unlike the Conservatives, with their somewhat lukewarm response, we on these Benches very strongly welcome the Statement, not least because it is a clear promise of…16 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]This is not a case of me positing anything—I hope the noble Baroness accepts that. The figures I quoted are from the Gambling Commission and the Government.16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I begin by apologising that my involvement in the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill has prevented me from attending earlier sessions of your Committee’s…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, it has been a short but interesting debate that has raised many issues. I do not think now is the time for me to go through them all. Suffice it for me to say that the…16 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I am extremely conscious that I will not excite your Lordships as much as our earlier debate on pints did. Nevertheless, I rise to move Amendment 106 on my noble friend…11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I am not sure which it was: the letter or the Christmas card.11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I am grateful for that, and hope that, too, will therefore be included in the letter. With those remarks, particularly to say thank you to the Minister for his very thoughtful…11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I am enormously grateful that the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, rather surprised me in seeming more excited by these amendments, in view of my earlier comments about beer,…11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]Time is not on our side—but it would be very helpful if, in his response, he could look at the issue of the definition of, for example, emergency services, and pick up my point…11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I rise briefly to support the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness. I also draw the Minister’s attention to the fact that when I moved Amendments 2 and 27 in an earlier…27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, these amendments deal with a range of issues concerning enforcement. As the noble Baroness, Lady Crawley, said, I have signed and fully support the numerous amendments…27 Nov 2024