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HANSARDEconomy: The Growth Plan 2022My Lords, I welcome my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe back to the Front Bench and I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Gohir, on her maiden speech. I am sorry that the right…10 Oct 2022HANSARDSocial Security Payments: UpratingMy Lords, who actually knows what the inflation rate will be in the immediate future, over the next 12 months? Many people believe that the price of oil and gas, and energy…10 Oct 2022HANSARDHer Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth IIMy Lords, so many good things have been said this afternoon about our late and wonderful Queen. There have been some really uplifting speeches, one of which we heard just now. I…09 Sept 2022HANSARDCare Homes: Energy CostsMy Lords, is my noble friend aware that many care homes and, indeed, even more retirement homes and retirement communities are serviced by what are called heat networks. These are…08 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very pleased that the mover and seconder of this amendment have mentioned direct air capture, because sometimes there is confusion between carbon capture and…07 Sept 2022HANSARDPakistan: Flood ReliefMy Lords, these floods are of course unprecedented, as my noble friend has rightly pointed out. Eight feet of water over hundreds of miles of land means mass drownings and the…07 Sept 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 1, 2, 3 and 4, as well as Amendment 5, on which my noble friend Lord Moylan made an extremely interesting speech, as were the speeches just…05 Sept 2022HANSARDNet Zero Strategy: High Court RulingMy Lords, when I saw this headline judgment, I thought for a moment that the court might be making the obvious point—which I think most people agree with—that while our national…21 Jul 2022HANSARDSri LankaMy Lords, is my noble friend aware that the Commonwealth Secretariat is in close touch with the situation and seeking ways in which it can assist in this very difficult position.…21 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare my interests as a former Secretary of State for Energy, former Minister of State for International Energy Security, ex-president of the Energy Industries…19 Jul 2022HANSARDMr Mike VealeMy Lords, to be fair, some of us have had meetings with the Home Secretary, who is obviously concerned about this. One obviously understands that the Government cannot intervene…18 Jul 2022HANSARDEnergy: Prices and SupplyMy Lords, there is a good deal more we can do internationally with our like-minded friends to curb the appalling increase in energy prices which is about to hit households in this…14 Jul 2022HANSARDChinaMy Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord West, on bringing us this short debate on an enormous subject. He really is one of the few experts in this field who understands the…14 Jul 2022HANSARDFinancial InclusionMy Lords, does tangible improvement include wider social ownership of assets—wider ownership of popular capitalism? At the moment, capitalism is not very popular at all. So maybe…11 Jul 2022HANSARDFunctioning of GovernmentMy Lords, we are entering an incredibly dangerous period internationally —in fact, we are in it already. In the next two or three months, the threats to our national security and…07 Jul 2022HANSARDWinter Heating InitiativesFirst, as well as the improvements that the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington, wisely suggested, has my noble friend noticed that international oil and gas prices are falling quite…07 Jul 2022HANSARDProcedure and Privileges CommitteeMy Lords, I want to bring before your Lordships a matter that has not yet been mentioned very much, although briefly by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, just now. That…05 Jul 2022HANSARDCHOGM, G7 and NATO SummitsMy Lords, my apologies for arriving a minute late to my noble friend’s Statement; it came up a fraction sooner than I expected and quicker than I could run to get here. I wish, if…04 Jul 2022HANSARDCommonwealthMy Lords, I give the Minister more credit for his excellent summing up and for all the work he does to promote and develop Commonwealth links of every kind. I thank everyone who…30 Jun 2022HANSARDCommonwealthMy Lords, I declare a general interest and involvement in this subject over many years, although nothing specific in the register. My purpose in seeking this debate is not merely…30 Jun 2022