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HANSARDElections Bill25 Apr 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I shall also speak to Amendments 54 and 56. Amendments 49 and 54 are paving amendments, and the bulk of what I want to say relates to Amendment 56. The role of a…25 Apr 2022HANSARDElections Bill25 Apr 2022HANSARDDasgupta ReviewMy noble friend the Minister has talked about food security—as has Defra. Do she and the department recognise that we grow only 50% of the food that we eat? In those…07 Apr 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Green, has Covid. He emailed me this afternoon and asked if I could do this. I think he is fairly groggy, and I am sure noble Lords would wish to…06 Apr 2022HANSARDElections Bill06 Apr 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, before I thank my noble friend, I say to the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, that to characterise the work of Members of my party on these Benches as seeking only to…06 Apr 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I did not participate in Committee but I intervened a couple of times, most notably when the noble Lord, Lord Collins, tried to pray me in aid to something I did not…06 Apr 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I rise briefly to speak to Motions J and J1, to support the Government in respect of Motion J and to suggest that the House reject Motion J1, the revised amendment…04 Apr 2022HANSARDSchools: Creative Subjects and the English BaccalaureateMy Lords, would my noble friend care to reflect on the importance of citizenship education in levelling up and creating a country at ease with itself? Will she join me in…29 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I wish to send my good wishes to my noble friend Lord True. I hope that if he has got Covid at all, he has it very mildly—he might think that preferable to another day…28 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI am not asking my noble friend to reply this evening, because this is a complicated question, but I think I heard the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, say that the digital…28 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I put my name to Amendment 200 of the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, and I have Amendment 210 of my own. The noble Lord, Lord Wallace, has done most of the heavy lifting on…28 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillCould the noble Lord answer the second question, which was: what type of PR was wanted? That is the problem. It is not just about saying “We like PR.” There is a huge gamut of…23 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I am afraid that I am going to strike a discordant note because I invite my noble friend to reject these amendments, and certainly Amendments 137 and 138. I follow what…23 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI am not saying anything about that. I am just saying that I do not think the case has been made for the change. Where we go from there is another matter.23 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillI thank the noble Lord for giving way. Yes, the report of the committee that I chaired said that we needed a statutory ability to learn about citizenship throughout primary and…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillDoes the noble Baroness not understand that voting systems in the US are a state matter? The problem is not what she says it is; it is that every state has a different…21 Mar 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I did not intervene in the last serious and lengthy debate. I understood how seriously many Members of your Lordships’ House took the issue. I had some peripheral…17 Mar 2022HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMy Lords, before my noble friend replies, may I ask her to reflect on the fact that this is a self-regulating House, and a self-regulating House requires a degree of…17 Mar 2022