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HANSARDCorporate Insolvency and Governance BillMy Lords, with half a million businesses at risk of going under this year because of the Covid-19 crisis, the need for this Bill to try to provide new options for company rescue…09 Jun 2020HANSARDAbortion Regulations: Northern IrelandMy Lords, will the Minister agree that, because abortion is now legal in Northern Ireland, women there are entitled to the same rights and, above all, services as women in all…08 Jun 2020HANSARDVictims of the Troubles: Payment SchemeMy Lords, since some Sinn Féin politicians either do not understand or are deliberately misrepresenting the victims payments scheme, will the Minister agree that the only category…08 Jun 2020HANSARDYemen: Humanitarian Aid FundingMy Lords, surely the toxic mixture in Yemen of bloody warfare, extreme poverty, malnutrition, cholera, climate change and religious fundamentalism, and now Covid-19, is also a…04 Jun 2020HANSARDNorthern Ireland: Victims Payment SchemeMy Lords, what is needed is for the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland urgently to break the deadlock with Northern Ireland’s First and Deputy First Ministers over their…03 Jun 2020HANSARDPrivate International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 20 to Schedule 6 in the name of my noble and learned friend Lord Falconer on the matter of proper consultation, which it would require. As a…03 Jun 2020HANSARDNorthern Ireland Banknote (Designation of Authorised Bank) Regulations 2020My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Penn, and welcome this instrument, which brings a practical reform necessary for Ulster Bank Ltd to continue to be an authorised bank…02 Jun 2020HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolMy Lords, I appeal to Ministers to be more frank about this. In promising unfettered access, the Command Paper states that there will be “no change to how Northern Ireland goods…21 May 2020HANSARDAutomatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 2020My Lords, in 2007-08, as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions I introduced the original auto-enrolment legislation that made employee pensions membership virtually compulsory.…19 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: International ResponseMy Lords, this invisible universal virus can affect everyone in every part of the world. So much for the bellicose trumpeting of “Britain going it alone”, torn free from Europe,…18 May 2020HANSARDNorthern Ireland: CustomsMy Lords, what IT and other preparations have the Government and the Northern Ireland Executive made for the checks and potential tariffs, including tariff refunds for goods from…18 May 2020HANSARDBritish Citizens Stranded OverseasMy Lords, I know that Foreign Office staff and Ministers have been working hard, but does the Minister agree that the savage cuts in the Foreign Office’s budget these last 10…14 May 2020HANSARDCare Homes: Covid-19 TestingFollowing the question asked by the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, why in an English care home where a close relative of mine lives do staff and patients—including, astonishingly,…14 May 2020HANSARDBudget: Economic and Fiscal OutlookMy Lords, I hope that government talk of getting the economy back to normal will cease, because that was not a good place to be—with business investment abysmal, retail sales the…05 May 2020HANSARDGarden CentresMy Lords, I echo strongly everything that the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, said. The situation is really confusing and clarity and logicality are needed. We have a local business…29 Apr 2020HANSARDScientific Advisory Group for EmergenciesIs the Minister aware of the criticism of SAGE’s composition from Professor Anthony Costello, a former director of WHO? As he points out, it does not include front-line experts on…28 Apr 2020HANSARDEconomy: UpdateMy Lords, I ask that, after the lockdown is lifted, the Chancellor not impose again the savage cuts in the public sector that we have seen over the last 10 years. These left…28 Apr 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Social Care ServicesMy Lords, I should declare that my wife is a board member of two care providers. Even before this pandemic hit, social care in this country, with a bigger workforce than the NHS,…23 Apr 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Extent of InfectionMy Lords, I declare that my wife is a board member of care providers. How on earth will the Government lift restrictions without universal testing, especially in care homes, where…22 Apr 2020HANSARDCoronavirus BillMy Lords, I strongly support Amendment 1, which was moved by my noble friend Lady Thornton, and I hope that the Government will accept it. It is essential to have such a…25 Mar 2020