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HANSARDGovernment Resilience Action PlanMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for the answers she has given. I join in the general welcome that has been given by the Benches opposite for this action plan. As chair…10 Jul 2025HANSARDData Centres: Energy and Water ConsumptionMy Lords, I refer to my interest as chair of the National Preparedness Commission. I am grateful to the noble Baroness for referring to a report that we issued. My question is a…08 Jul 2025HANSARDPeers’ Entrance Security DoorMy Lords, the Senior Deputy Speaker has faced several questions on this, but quite a number of them come back to the question of who makes decisions in this place. What are the…02 Jul 2025HANSARDG7 and NATO SummitsMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend the Leader of the House for bringing forward this Statement. It strikes me that some of the carping that we have heard from the Leader…01 Jul 2025HANSARDPalace of Westminster: Restoration and RenewalMy Lords, I am grateful to the Senior Deputy Speaker for those answers. I suspect that there is a consensus in this Chamber that we should be getting on with this, rather than…25 Jun 2025HANSARDBusiness Rates ReformMy Lords, I, too, pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Pitkeathley for the work he does in support of business improvement districts, but I also pay tribute to business improvement…23 Jun 2025HANSARDEnglish Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling and DredgingMy Lords—19 Jun 2025HANSARDEnglish Marine Protected Areas: Bottom Trawling and DredgingMy Lords, I do not think there has been a Labour questioner so far on this. I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for his responses on this, but can I ask—I refer to my…19 Jun 2025HANSARDReservoirs: Protection from ContaminationMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for that reply. As she knows, yesterday’s strategic defence review talked a lot about hostile actors sabotaging critical…03 Jun 2025HANSARDReservoirs: Protection from ContaminationTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the protections in place to prevent reservoirs being contaminated by malicious state actors or others with…03 Jun 2025HANSARDReservoirs: Protection from ContaminationI refer to my interest in the register as chair of the National Preparedness Commission and beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper.03 Jun 2025HANSARDImproving Cyber ResilienceMy Lords, I refer to my interest in the register as chair of the National Preparedness Commission. Like the noble Baroness, Lady Foster, I congratulate my noble friend on her…21 May 2025HANSARDPensioners: ShopliftingMy Lords, there was a lot of public concern about the policy, which it seems that the previous Government were complicit in, that there would be an arbitrary threshold in terms of…15 May 2025HANSARDEnergy Grid ResilienceMy Lords, I refer to my interest in the register as chair of the National Preparedness Commission. My noble friend the Minister is quite right to highlight the fact that our grid…06 May 2025HANSARDPolice: Stop and SearchMy Lords—06 May 2025HANSARDPolice: Stop and SearchMy Lords, my noble friend the Minister gave us a series of statistics about the successes of stop and search in terms of items seized, charges made and so on. But, of course, the…06 May 2025HANSARDChagos IslandsMy Lords, given the synthetic anger from the Benches opposite, can my noble friend the Minister remind us how many rounds of negotiation to resolve this issue were done by the…02 Apr 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillWe voted for it.01 Apr 2025HANSARDApple: Advanced Data Protection ServiceMy Lords, I understand that my noble friend cannot comment, obviously, on any notice issued to Apple in this regard, but what he could, I am sure, comment on is the nature of the…31 Mar 2025HANSARDHeathrow Airport Closure: Resilience and SecurityTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the implications of the closure of Heathrow airport following an electricity substation fire for the resilience…26 Mar 2025