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HANSARD2030 Emissions Reduction Target: HeatingMy Lords, what are the Government’s proposals for increasing the number of transmission lines? Electricity once generated must reach the people who are going to use it and at the…05 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I offer my support to the amendment. I spent some time arguing in the retained EU law Bill for increased parliamentary scrutiny. My various amendments did not succeed…19 Jul 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, I have the misfortune to disagree with the noble Lord, Lord Wolfson. I support entirely what the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, said. The key words in this…12 Jul 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I offer my support for these amendments from a Scottish perspective and for very much the same reasons as the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, has just…11 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I speak to Amendments 286 and 294, which are the last two amendments in this group, and I will explain what they are about. They are in the name of the noble Baroness,…10 Jul 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, I have two amendments in this group, which very much follow the points raised by the right reverend Prelate. As the noble Viscount, Lord Hailsham, has been pointing out,…05 Jul 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill05 Jul 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI want to be absolutely clear: is the Minister accepting my amendment? I have drafted it as carefully as I can to bring it within the scope of that kind of challenge.05 Jul 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord German, said, my amendment is really part of a package, and it is very important that the formula which I have set out in it should be put on the…05 Jul 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI will speak first to Amendment 131, which would survive even if the amendment to which my noble and learned friend Lord Etherton has spoken were carried and Clause 38 rewritten.…03 Jul 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 4, in my name. I appreciate the need to move as fast as possible and I shall be as short as I can. This amendment, which appeared in Committee…28 Jun 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, I think it is appropriate that I speak to Motion B1 in my name, on the issue of parliamentary scrutiny. That issue remains as important this afternoon as it has been…26 Jun 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillAt end insert “, and do propose Amendment 42D in lieu—20 Jun 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, Motion B1, in my name, raises an issue that has been of great concern to many in this House from the outset in our examination of the Bill: parliamentary sovereignty.…20 Jun 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who spoke to my Motion B1. I have only one comment to make, which is that the noble Lord attributed to me a state of knowledge that I…20 Jun 2023HANSARDPublic Order Act 1986 (Serious Disruption to the Life of the Community) Regulations 2023My Lords, I feel some sense of responsibility for the situation in which your Lordships find yourselves this evening because I devised the formula quoted in the regulations before…13 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, I have three amendments in this group: Amendments 101, 110 and 113. Two of these amendments, to which the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, has added his name, are about the…12 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am grateful to the noble Lord. It strikes me, in reading this clause, that it proceeds on the basis that the UK is bound by the decision. I greatly respect the analysis that the…12 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI think we really have to hear from the Minister, frankly. The clause does set out the various objections and by our jurisprudence the procedures are very defective and I can well…12 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendments 123 and 140, following on the points made by the right reverend Prelate and the noble Baroness, Lady Lister of Burtersett. Amendment 123 in…12 Jun 2023