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HANSARDArbitration Bill [HL]My Lords, I intend to withdraw this amendment but perhaps I could say a short word before I do that. Of course, I have to do it because I have no support from anybody; I am doing…11 Sept 2024HANSARDArbitration Bill [HL]11 Sept 2024HANSARDArbitration Bill [HL]11 Sept 2024HANSARDArbitration Bill [HL]My Lords, before I address my amendment, I would like to express to your Lordships complete support for this Bill. I had the honour to be a member of the Special Public Bill…11 Sept 2024HANSARDArbitration Bill [HL]My Lords, it is my intention to withdraw my amendment, but perhaps I could say just a few words after a fairly long debate on it. First, I thank those noble Lords—there were…11 Sept 2024HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT ExemptionThese are therefore imaginary words being used in the House of Lords. My noble friend was kind enough to mention the first protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights, but…05 Sept 2024HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT ExemptionMy Lords, I stand here as a supporter of the Government, but no support can be blind. I cannot support the proposed VAT on independent school fees, whether or not it was in the…05 Sept 2024HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT ExemptionBefore my noble friend sits down—05 Sept 2024HANSARDArbitration Bill [HL]My noble friend would have heard my worry that the opportunity for arbitration reform is an opportunity that does not arise until a number of years have passed. Can he give any…30 Jul 2024HANSARDArbitration Bill [HL]My Lords, I hope that I am standing up at the right moment. I have been advised by the Table, as the only Back-Bencher available to speak in this debate, that this is the moment…30 Jul 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechHear, hear!23 Jul 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechThank you for a further, “Hear, hear!” I made this noisy intervention because our new Lord Privy Seal had said: “Ministers in our Government will not accept all changes but, when…23 Jul 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, I much welcome our new Attorney-General, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hermer. He walks in the steps not only of Lord Williams of Mostyn, whom we all remember with…23 Jul 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, perhaps I might get up for just a moment to express extreme disquiet about this Bill and the whole wash-up procedure. I have listened with great care to the speeches…24 May 2024HANSARDRecognition and Enforcement of Judgments (2019 Hague Convention etc.) Regulations 2024My Lords, I do not know whether my noble friend Lord Ponsonby is going to intervene, but I would just like to endorse entirely what the noble and learned Lords, Lord Thomas and…24 May 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillYes, we are listening.24 May 2024HANSARDRenters (Reform) BillMy Lords, I should begin with a short disclosure that my wife and I have in the next-door house under our ownership five one-bedroom flats, which are occupied by tenants whom we…15 May 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I do not want to jump in front of my Front Bench, but this is not a Bill that I have followed in detail. I did not take part in the Second Reading, and I have not taken…01 May 2024HANSARDNHS: Long-term SustainabilityMy Lords, I normally do not put my name down for specialist debates such as this one, because I do not possess the necessary expertise. That is certainly true for this debate,…18 Apr 2024HANSARDSuccession to Peerages and Baronetcies Bill [HL]May I remind the Minister of the comment made by the Cabinet Office Minister in the House of Commons at the end of a debate on a parallel Bill that was being introduced by a…09 Feb 2024