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HANSARDOfficial Controls (Plant Health) and Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2025That this House regrets that the Official Controls (Plant Health) and Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2025, laid before the House on 8 January (SI 2025/13),…09 Jun 2025HANSARDOfficial Controls (Plant Health) and Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2025My Lords, I too thank the Minister, the Front-Benchers, noble Lords who stayed late and, indeed, the staff who have kept the Chamber running this evening. This has been an…09 Jun 2025HANSARDOfficial Controls (Plant Health) and Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2025My Lords, the regret Motion standing in my name tonight is on a very technical piece of legislation, but one that raises huge matters of principle for this country. That is why I…09 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure and an honour to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Cass, who has done so much, of course, for the rights and well-being of children in her work. It will…01 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I support Amendment 1, although possibly not for quite the same reasons as those already expressed in this Chamber, and I regret I was not able to speak at Second…29 Apr 2025HANSARDPalestine Statehood (Recognition) Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, who is always so courteous and so clear in what he says. I am afraid I disagree with him and with the noble…14 Mar 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 56 stands in my name. As it is, I guess, the last time that I will speak on this Bill, perhaps I may use the opportunity to join others in saying thank you to…05 Mar 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I will also speak to the several other amendments in my name in this group. I thank my noble friends Lord Sharpe, Lord Jackson of Peterborough and Lady Lawlor, and the…26 Feb 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I have listened with care and interest to the eloquent words of the Minister, but I am sorry to say that I have not found them particularly reassuring. I suspect that…26 Feb 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]26 Feb 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I support the amendment from my noble friend Lord Sharpe. We discussed what the point of the Bill is on many occasions in Committee, but I am afraid we are none the…26 Feb 2025HANSARDUK-EU RelationsMy Lords, the Government have set out two of their objectives for this supposed reset: an agreement on SPS—agri-food—and some sort of agreement on the emissions trading scheme,…13 Feb 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 39 in my name. I thank the noble Viscount, Lord Trenchard, for putting his name to it, and thank the noble Earl, Lord Russell, for his warm…11 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillDoes the Minister accept that the major expansion of bureaucracy in the Bill comes from the regulatory requirement of so many small premises in the first place? That is the…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillThere is a big difference between organisations set up in the framework of the European Union and us deciding how we work our own bureaucracy. There is a lot of value in an…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillMy Lords, I speak to Amendment 44 in my name, and I can probably be quite brief, as it covers similar ground to Amendments 33, 34 and 36, which have been spoken to by my noble…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillMy Lords, without making this a Second Reading debate, as we have discussed, I want to repeat the degree of scepticism that I expressed at Second Reading about the value of this…03 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill03 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI thank everyone who contributed to this section of Committee. I thank the Minister for his thoughtful comments. I appreciate that there is a degree of arbitrariness in this…03 Feb 2025HANSARDEurope: Youth MobilityMy Lords, it is a pleasure, as always, to follow the noble Lord, Lord Watson, and it is a particular pleasure to have been able to listen to the rather endearing maiden speech…30 Jan 2025