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HANSARDTerrorist Incident at Liverpool Women’s HospitalMy noble friend has said that asylum seekers look for additional reasons as to why they should not be removed from this country. Do those reasons include conversion to…17 Nov 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]I support my noble friend Lord Howard of Rising’s amendment, to which I have put my name. It strikes me that the Government have not really thought this through very carefully,…20 Jul 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]I want to follow up on the comments from the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, about ritual slaughter. We have been reading in the newspapers that, if this Bill becomes an Act of…20 Jul 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 38, in the name of my noble friend Lord Caithness, to which I have added my name. I was not here—because I was at a previous engagement—when…20 Jul 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]My Lords, I have added my name to my noble friend Lord Moylan’s amendment. It brings us back to the concern expressed on previous amendments about the committee’s composition—that…20 Jul 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]My noble friend Lord Caithness mentioned the predation of badgers, which of course do not come under pest control; they are protected. He did not mention that badgers very much…20 Jul 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]I join my noble friend Lady McIntosh in opposing this clause standing part, because any Conservative—and, I think, any sensible parliamentarian and the Minister—should be…06 Jul 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]06 Jul 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am moving this amendment because my noble friend Lord Forsyth is putting the report on quantitative easing to bed at his Economic Affairs Committee, just across the…06 Jul 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]I am very grateful to my noble friend the Minister for responding to my remarks on Amendment 1, which I am about to withdraw. He has honoured the pledge he made on Second Reading…06 Jul 2021HANSARDHouse of Lords Commissioners for StandardsMy Lords, I also welcome the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mance, being in the House today. I have two questions for him to do with Valuing Everyone. I apologise, because I know…26 May 2021HANSARDBBC: Dyson ReportThe BBC operates under a royal charter; does it not therefore have an obligation not to broadcast interviews with Diana, Princess of Wales, that can only undermine our monarchy?…25 May 2021HANSARDConduct Committee: 11th ReportIndeed, people on this course called people “girls”. We cannot say to a woman, “Gosh, that’s a nice new hairdo you’ve got”, or, “I really like the dress you are wearing”, because…29 Apr 2021HANSARDConduct Committee: 11th ReportI congratulate my noble friend Lord Cormack because he was not asleep at the switch, as I was when this order was put in front of the House. Of course, we were not given an awful…29 Apr 2021HANSARDPost Brexit: Economic and Political OpportunitiesCan my noble friend enlighten the House on the progress he is making with the export of shellfish from the UK to the EU? Does he accept that the EU has acted in bad faith in its…25 Mar 2021HANSARDIntegrated ReviewMy Lords, I congratulate the Government on an integrated review that brings together all the assets that this country has and uses them to give us a direction of where we should…17 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Vaccination ProgrammeMy right honourable friend the Prime Minister said in his Statement that decisions would be led by data, not dates. In the same Statement, he said that step 2 would be no earlier…24 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19 Vaccines DeploymentMy Lords, I congratulate the Government on the vaccine programme. After a pretty disastrous war against Covid, it looks as though the Government may be winning the last battle,…11 Feb 2021HANSARDEuropean Union (Future Relationship) BillMy Lords, I join many noble friends in paying tribute to my good and noble friend Lord Cavendish of Furness for his moving and powerful valedictory speech. He will be sadly missed…30 Dec 2020HANSARDProcedure and Privileges CommitteeMy Lords, I address the House from the Cross Benches, not because I have suddenly decided to join them but because there is so much enthusiasm from my Conservative colleagues to…14 Dec 2020