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HANSARDUK Car Production Since 2016I give a warm welcome to the Minister.14 Mar 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolMy Lords—28 Feb 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolMy Lords—28 Feb 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolMy Lords, I congratulate the Prime Minister on achieving an agreement which frankly has far surpassed all expectations. Can the Minister comment on those rather intemperate…28 Feb 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Executive Formation and Organ and Tissue Donation) BillMy Lords, briefly, I support the Bill and thank the Minister for moving it. I also associate myself with the condemnation of the barbarous attack on a police officer who…27 Feb 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillI am not quite sure how to follow that, my Lords, but I do so by welcoming the noble Baroness, Lady O’Neill, to this Chamber and our debates and thank her for a crash course in…21 Feb 2023HANSARDCapital Projects: Spending DecisionsMy Lords, is not the levelling-up money—whatever pots the noble Baroness mentions that there might be—pitiful compared with the £180 billion of austerity cuts taken mostly out of…20 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Staff: Food BanksTo ask His Majesty’s Government how many NHS trusts are (1) providing, or (2) planning to provide, food banks for nurses and other NHS staff.07 Feb 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Budget BillAs an amendment to the motion that the bill be now read a second time, at end insert “but this House regrets the continued failure of the political parties in Northern Ireland to…07 Feb 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Budget BillMy Lords, I particularly welcome that the noble Lord, Lord Empey, is in his seat. I wish him and his family all the best. I thank the Minister for moving Second Reading. I fully…07 Feb 2023HANSARDNHS Staff: Food BanksMy Lords, I thank the Minister for that Answer, but it was not really an answer. An NHS Providers survey last autumn found that 27% of trusts had food banks for staff and 19% were…07 Feb 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Budget BillMy Lords, my speech was written days ago. I did not rewrite it; it said exactly what I intended to say, although some critics seem to have imagined that I was trying to say…07 Feb 2023HANSARDTransport: South WalesMy Lords, why was electrification of the London to Cardiff line not extended to Swansea, as promised by the David Cameron Government?02 Feb 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI thank the Minister. However—this is no criticism of him—I think that he is doing his very best to defend the indefensible and that if he were the architect of the Bill, it would…31 Jan 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillMy Lords, I too pay tribute to the Minister for his open door and willingness to engage. I hope to knock on that door in the next few days to persuade him to support the Operation…31 Jan 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillActually, those letters, which started before my time as Secretary of State, were not pardons at all; the so-called “on the runs” letters were statements that there was no…31 Jan 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI do not disagree with anything the noble Lord has said. The problem is that the House’s role is not normally—if ever—to reject a Bill, especially one that, at least in part, has…31 Jan 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI of course acknowledge that letter, since I helped get it together, and I have said in debate that criminal prosecutions will be extremely rare. In fact, I think I quoted the HET…31 Jan 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillI too support Amendments 94 and 96 tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Suttie, but I shall speak briefly to the amendment that I have tabled, Amendment 166. I am grateful for the…31 Jan 2023HANSARDNorthern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) BillMy Lords, in supporting the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady O’Loan, I will not repeat the cogent and compelling case she put. While Secretary of State for Northern Ireland…24 Jan 2023