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HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillMy Lords, I echo what has just been said. I have no problem with the British taxpayer paying up its share to realise this noble objective; I just wish there were a figure that…04 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Support (Prescribed Period) Bill [HL]My Lords, it is with a readiness to admit that the substantive points that I might have wanted to make have been made that I begin to share my thoughts today. I began the week in…13 Dec 2024HANSARDSocial Cohesion and Community during Periods of ChangeMy Lords, I do not know what the odds would be for someone being asked to speak immediately after an Archbishop on two successive days, but here am I, with a mood change from…06 Dec 2024HANSARDHousing Supply and HomelessnessMy Lords, it is a real privilege to have the opportunity to follow the most reverend Primate. We first met in Durham cathedral. It was a great civic occasion, where I was the…05 Dec 2024HANSARDHousing Supply and HomelessnessAnd so to the business of the day. I start with the most reverend Primate again. He says somewhere that his beginning—the opening chapter of his life—was messy, and I can say that…05 Dec 2024HANSARDCivil Service: PoliticisationMy Lords, I claim even less authority on and direct experience of the matters before us. I have been most impressed by the range of opinions, and the wealth of experience that has…28 Nov 2024HANSARDLarge Language Models and Generative AI (Communications and Digital Committee Report)My Lords, it is with even greater apprehension that I stand after hearing that learned disquisition, which I shall re-read in Hansard to make sure that a person whose intellectual…21 Nov 2024HANSARDUniversitiesMy Lords, I would like to add my words to my noble friend for giving us this opportunity to look over a sector of national life that is so vital. I begin by mentioning just two…14 Nov 2024HANSARDCommunity and Voluntary SectorMy Lords, it is a great privilege to speak in a debate of this kind and to thank my noble friend for giving us the opportunity to share experience in this way. I have spent my…31 Oct 2024HANSARDHospices: FundingMy Lords, there has truly been a depositum of wisdom in this short debate, illustrating an area of concern that we all share in and indicating a degree of urgency by which we…24 Oct 2024HANSARDRelations with EuropeMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow that speech, because in my remarks I also want to communicate my affection for and commitment to the Council of Europe—but not before I…10 Oct 2024HANSARDHousing: Modern Methods of ConstructionMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Horam, has just made precisely the points that I wanted to make. The time has come for these discordant experiences, this diffuse energy, to be…05 Sept 2024HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT ExemptionMy heart has been warmed by the illustration just offered by the noble Lord, Lord Maude, and others like it could be multiplied and accumulated. However, on the other side we can…05 Sept 2024HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillMy Lords, I welcome my noble friend Lord Khan to his present position—not that I envy him in any way, having his first parliamentary exercise as a Minister to be to take this Bill…04 Sept 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, I add my voice of congratulation to my noble friend the Minister not only on her appointment but on the fact that she has made her maiden speech. I look forward to the…19 Jul 2024HANSARDModern Slavery National Referral Mechanism: Waiting TimesCan the Minister answer the question about the discrepancy between women and men in the cases cited?13 May 2024HANSARDSkills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of LifeMy Lords, I give the noble Baroness the Minister the assurance that I will not repeat that party trick in a moment. I stepped down from the Communications and Digital Select…09 May 2024HANSARDAffordable Housing: SupplyMy Lords, I pay tribute to my noble friend for giving us the opportunity to address this very important issue, which affects all of us directly or indirectly. I add my thanks to…25 Apr 2024HANSARDLGBT Veterans: Financial RedressMy Lords, I am happy to pay tribute to the Minister for the commitments he has made openly, both to the Question we are discussing and to the modes by which he will deliver…21 Mar 2024HANSARDHaitiTo ask His Majesty’s Government what support they are providing to CARICOM and the people of Haiti following the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry and the reported…12 Mar 2024