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HANSARDEmployment Rights BillAs an amendment to Motion A, at end insert “, and do propose Amendment 1B in lieu28 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I think I am right in welcoming the Minister, noble Lord, Lord Collins, to the Bill. I too missed all of Report and so I thank my noble friends Lord Goddard, Lord Palmer…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, pick the bones out of that, if you wish. There is quite a lot to respond to there, to which I will not completely respond, but I think it characterises that this is an…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, very briefly, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Hogan-Howe, on making progress, along with the cosignatories of that amendment. I also congratulate the noble Lords,…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillLess—or more—prosaically, the noble Baroness, Lady Barran, has set out the issues here doggedly and in detail. I still feel that we are in a “he said, she said” situation, and it…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillAt end insert “, and do propose Amendment 47B in lieu—28 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for his words and for committing to this review—or this section of a larger review—from the Dispatch Box. We are very satisfied with that…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I welcome the Minister’s response from the Dispatch Box, but I will speak to this Motion a little, to set it in context and perhaps put down some markers for the…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am going to advance a different argument from that which we have just heard from the noble Lord, Lord Leigh. It is rather more philosophical and was touched on by the…28 Oct 2025HANSARDSteel Industry (Special Measures) Act 2025My Lords—23 Oct 2025HANSARDSteel Industry (Special Measures) Act 2025My Lords, there may be far fewer of us here today than there were in April, but the concentration of steel expertise was raised accordingly. That caused me to have to reach back…23 Oct 2025HANSARDChinese EmbassyMy Lords, the noble Baroness is doing well to stick in the groove of her stuck record and play this as a straight planning issue, but we all know that it is much more than that.…23 Oct 2025HANSARDAlleged Spying Case: Home Office InvolvementMy Lords, yesterday my noble friend Lady Tyler of Enfield asked about the personal safety of parliamentarians and campaigners, and their families, whose detailed information has…21 Oct 2025HANSARDOfficial Secret Act Case: Witness StatementsMy Lords, this case seems to boil down to the binary political question: conspiracy or cock-up? The Government vehemently deny conspiracy, so they must believe it is a cock-up.…20 Oct 2025HANSARDGDP Per CapitaMy Lords, one of the problems facing the Treasury and the Bank of England is the quality, or lack of it, of workforce data. Can the Minister tell us what progress is being made…20 Oct 2025HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: OwnershipMy Lords, I associate myself with all the comments about the Lord Speaker—or, at least, with all those that we have heard so far. As we know, a fund with Abu Dhabi money, and…16 Oct 2025HANSARDCompanies (Directors’ Report) (Payment Reporting) Regulations 2025The Minister has sat down.15 Oct 2025HANSARDCompanies (Directors’ Report) (Payment Reporting) Regulations 2025My Lords, I was surprised to hear the noble Lord, Lord Sikka, describe this SI as looking persuasive, as nothing he said prior to that indicated that that was how he felt. I will…15 Oct 2025HANSARDJaguar Land Rover CyberattackMy Lords, with the indulgence of the House, let me say that this weekend I came back from the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, where there were heartfelt tributes to the work of my…14 Oct 2025HANSARDSecurity Update: Official Secrets Act CaseMy Lords, I do not think that I have followed the noble Baroness, Lady Finn, in the past and it is a great pleasure to do so. I am happy to say that there are still one or two…14 Oct 2025