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HANSARDPharmacy (Responsible Pharmacists, Superintendent Pharmacists etc.) Order 2022My Lords, I certainly have no objection to this statutory instrument, which, as the Minister said, requires a strengthening of the governance that relates to superintendent and…28 Jun 2022HANSARDPharmacy (Responsible Pharmacists, Superintendent Pharmacists etc.) Order 2022At end insert “but that this House regrets that the Order does not make provision about the wider workforce challenges facing the community pharmacy sector”.28 Jun 2022HANSARDPharmacy (Responsible Pharmacists, Superintendent Pharmacists etc.) Order 2022My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have taken part in the debate and to the Minister. The noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, was right to raise the concerns of the Secondary…28 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I have two amendments in this group and support my noble friends Lady Chapman and Lady Morris in their Amendments 171H and 171U. I have seen at first hand the huge value…27 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]20 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I very much welcome this debate. First, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, for his intervention and the work of his Select Committee, which is invaluable to the…20 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, this has been an interesting and useful debate. For me, the report by the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, was very telling. As he said, taking his report and the amendments…20 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I have two amendments in this group, Amendments 97 and 99. I also have Amendment 129, which is in a later group, for which I apologise that I will be unable to be…20 Jun 2022HANSARDVaccinationsI am grateful to the Minister. One of lessons of the pandemic was that flu vaccines were given free to people aged between 50 and 64. The Government have said that from next…15 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, my Amendment 79 is part of a wider group dealing with funding of schools and provisions in the Bill for the nationally determined funding for schools in England. My…15 Jun 2022HANSARDVaccinationsTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what lessons they have learned from the high uptake of Covid-19 vaccinations in the United Kingdom; and what plans they have, if any, to apply…15 Jun 2022HANSARDVaccinationsMy Lords, on behalf of the noble Baroness, Lady Greengross, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper.15 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, this has been a fascinating debate which has ranged very far and wide. I put in only an innocent little amendment to talk about the reserves of schools going into an…15 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I will take the opportunity of the Minister’s slight pause to ask her a question about my reading of her Amendment 68, which says: “Before a maintained school in England…15 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]I am grateful to my noble friend. The point is that, if we look at school funding going back to 2010, my goodness me, what a squeeze there has been between then and 2022.15 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]15 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend. I have added my name to her Amendments 60, 61 and 75. I have my own Amendment 62, and my Amendments 69 and 70 seek to…15 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]There we have it. Is it not good to have noble friends to fully apprise me of the facts? I sympathise with what the noble Baroness, Lady Garden, said on transport costs for 16 to…15 Jun 2022HANSARDCarers: Unpaid LeaveMy Lords, there is also a Northern Ireland Bill which the Government might reconsider, but I want to ask a serious question. It is well known and researched that carers, in…14 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, following on from the comments of my friend the noble Lord, Lord Baker, the difficulty seems to be that we are discussing these matters in a vacuum. It will be very…13 Jun 2022