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HANSARDBirmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 3 and respond to the noble Lord, Lord Foster. He is right about the need for transparency in the underwriting agreement between the…25 Feb 2020HANSARDBirmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [HL]My Lords, I understand how we have got to this position, and I sympathise with the organisers, but since the media will obviously combine them together immediately, is it possible…25 Feb 2020HANSARDBirmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [HL]My Lords, I echo my noble friend’s point that we often debate the use of school facilities and bemoan the fact that they are in use for a disappointing percentage of time in the…25 Feb 2020HANSARDBirmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [HL]Indeed. I would not bet much on his chances, I have to say, but there is a growing movement for some kind of tourism levy. I am pretty sure that at some point it will be agreed…25 Feb 2020HANSARDBirmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [HL]My Lords, I do not want to delay my noble friend’s tour de force but I want to support the noble Lord in what he said about accessibility. My amendment concerns a small bit of…25 Feb 2020HANSARDImmigration: Points-based SystemMy Lords—25 Feb 2020HANSARDBirmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [HL]We already know from what the Minister said at Second Reading that she will say that the decision on a new tax rests with Her Majesty’s Treasury and it thinks that local…25 Feb 2020HANSARDImmigration: Points-based SystemMy Lords, the noble Lord is right to suggest that the Government’s policy will not hold. It will certainly not hold in the health and social care sector; it is only a question of…25 Feb 2020HANSARDImmigration: Refugee DoctorsMy Lords, the Minister makes great play of the fact that doctors are highly skilled; of course they are. But what about care workers? Why is the classification used by the Home…24 Feb 2020HANSARDTransport InfrastructureMy Lords, this is a hugely welcome announcement as far as the economy of the West Midlands is concerned. While I understand that the Statement needs to make a lot of references to…11 Feb 2020HANSARDAccess to Palliative Care and Treatment of Children Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Ribeiro, and to lend my support to the Bill. I declare an interest as a supporter of St Mary’s Hospice in…07 Feb 2020HANSARDNHS: TargetsMy Lords, I welcome this opportunity to debate the current performance of the National Health Service. I declare my membership of the GMC board, my trusteeship of the Royal…06 Feb 2020HANSARDNHS: TargetsMy Lords, I first thank the Minister for her comprehensive response, and I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in what has been a wide-ranging and excellent debate. I…06 Feb 2020HANSARDNHS: TargetsThat this House takes note of the National Health Service’s performance in relation to its priority area targets; and the impact of adult social care pressures on patients of the…06 Feb 2020HANSARDPaterson InquiryMy Lords, I declare an interest as a board member of the GMC. I also chaired the Heart of England Foundation Trust from 2011 to 2014. Mr Paterson worked for the trust as well as…04 Feb 2020HANSARDBirmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [HL]My Lords, I too welcome the Bill; it is a great day for Birmingham to have been selected to organise the Commonwealth Games, which will be the biggest sporting event we have ever…03 Feb 2020HANSARDHorizon 2020My Lords, one reason for our strong science base is our life sciences. The Minister will know that part of that depends on the interrelationship with the pharmaceutical industry…27 Jan 2020HANSARDHigh Speed 2 (Economic Affairs Committee Report)It depends where you look at it from. We have heard from the noble Lord, Lord Framlingham, who has certainly been consistent over the years. He talked about despair, but I want to…23 Jan 2020HANSARDHigh Speed 2 (Economic Affairs Committee Report)My Lords, I am not a railway expert but I do know a little about railway maps. The point I was going to make is that this is part of an appalling railway system in the West…23 Jan 2020HANSARDHigh Speed 2 (Economic Affairs Committee Report)But there are quite a lot. There is a lot of housing, the NEC, the airport—a host of difficulties for four-tracking. But if you do not four-track, you will not solve our major…23 Jan 2020