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HANSARDSuccession to Peerages and Baronetcies Bill [HL]My Lords, I start by declaring an interest, not only as the holder of the title that entitles me to be in the House as a hereditary Peer but as the holder of a parallel baronetcy.…09 Feb 2024HANSARDSuccession to Peerages and Baronetcies Bill [HL]Before the noble Baroness sits down, could she tell us how this matter could be remedied except through Parliament?09 Feb 2024HANSARDSuccession to Peerages and Baronetcies Bill [HL]It is clear that the noble Lord thinks there should be a number of revisions to this Bill, in particular the deletion of Clause 1(4). When he comes to speak at the end of this…09 Feb 2024HANSARDNHS Dentistry: Recovery and ReformMy Lords, I have been very reassured by the Minister’s Statement and by my noble friend speaking on behalf of my party. It is very good to hear that dentistry is at last being…07 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, there are not many advantages to speaking so late in the debate, but one is that you can experience the feeling of the House. I have listened to all 55 speakers who have…29 Jan 2024HANSARDHigh Street Banks and Banking HubsMy Lords, if I may I would like to say a few words in the gap. It might be thought that the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler of Enfield, and I have been twinning together, because both…25 Jan 2024HANSARDHigh Street Banks and Banking HubsThat is because they are all closed.25 Jan 2024HANSARDNatWest: Account Terminations and Branch ClosuresI thank the Minister for her reply, but I think the matter should be a little further explored. Will she acknowledge that Which? , the trade magazine, has monitored all bank…10 Jan 2024HANSARDNatWest: Account Terminations and Branch ClosuresTo ask His Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with NatWest, as a major shareholder, regarding the numbers of (1) payment account terminations, and (2) local…10 Jan 2024HANSARDArbitration Bill [HL]My Lords, I have never spoken in the Moses Room in the two years since my return to the House of Lords and I am not familiar with the procedure, so if I go wrong, I hope that our…19 Dec 2023HANSARDArbitration Bill [HL]Yes, I am very aware that behind me, and in other parts of this Committee Room, there may well be those who are anxious about getting away for their Christmas. I will therefore be…19 Dec 2023HANSARDArbitration Bill [HL]Could I draw the Minister’s attention to Section 61 of the 1996 Act, which the Law Commission has not pronounced upon? This is the section on the power of the arbitrators to award…19 Dec 2023HANSARDArbitration Bill [HL]I appreciate that, and I am not yet at 15 minutes, but there is nothing on the speakers’ list that stipulates a time of 15 minutes.19 Dec 2023HANSARDLove Matters (Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households Report)My Lords, I hope the noble Lord will allow me to break in just before he sits down. I did not avoid national service: I did my two years and there is much that he said that is…08 Dec 2023HANSARDRwanda TreatyMy Lords, if I can just come back again on the issue of money, I have a figure in front of me of £240 million and then £60 million, and that is the Rwanda policy. The Minister…08 Dec 2023HANSARDArbitration Bill [HL]My Lords, long ago, I brought the Bill that became the Arbitration Act 1979 to the House and I then played a very active part in the 1996 Act. It is an area in which I have…04 Dec 2023HANSARDArbitration Bill [HL]I am very grateful to the Minister.04 Dec 2023HANSARDDeath of a Member: Lord JudgeMy Lords, I found myself as a fellow pupil barrister with Lord Judge. There were just two of us in chambers in 2 Crown Office Row in October 1963, almost exactly 60 years ago. I…09 Nov 2023HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, I find the news of Lord Judge’s death most painful. I started my career as a barrister with Lord Judge—we were fellow pupil barristers in the same chambers—and I have…08 Nov 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Revocation and Sunset Disapplication) Regulations 2023My Lords, are your Lordships not being given a quite impossible task today? I have made a rough count, and in Part 2 of Schedule 2 there are 56 Council decisions or regulations…17 Oct 2023