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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI take that in good heart, as the noble Baroness and I are members of a committee of the House in which we share rumbustious debate. I am sorry that noble Lords have stumbled into…26 Jun 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I support the amendment of my noble friend Lord Davies of Gower. It is a pleasure to participate in your Lordships’ Committee on this very important Bill. Noble Lords…26 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I support my noble friend’s excellent amendment, as we reach the end of Committee. Before I get into the substance of that, I will offer some praise. Noble Lords know…24 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I wish to speak on the issue of the labour market enforcement strategy in support of Amendment 274 to which I have appended my name and to build on the excellent remarks…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI hear what the Minister says, but surely she would agree that, if one looks at Amendment 273F, which moves from having “a balance of probabilities” to “beyond reasonable doubt”,…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank the Minister for that comprehensive canter through my amendments. I defer to the poetic licence of my noble friend Lord Hunt of Wirral and accept that it is not a…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I was happy to sign the clause stand part notice with my noble friend Lady Coffey. I am thinking of the words of Zhou Enlai, I think, who, considering the French…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI am listening very carefully to the Minister, and she did not address either of my specific points. Given that she is saying that this rather strange clause is to defend the…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I commend my noble friends’ excellent speeches on this clause. I press the Minister on what the Explanatory Notes say about subsection (4), because we have talked about…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI must press the Minister. I have looked at the Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay document and it does not make reference to de facto legal aid. It says: “We will also consider…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I will speak very briefly on this amendment. It is quite an ingenious and intelligent amendment that is quite superficially attractive. I know the Minister will give it…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillJust to come back to the noble Baroness, would she therefore extend the provisions of her amendment to all protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010?18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I will be very brief. I feel like the support act, really, because the substance, the meat, of this issue and this clause has been debated, although I am delighted that…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI will speak to the significant number of amendments in this group in my name. This is quite an interesting cornucopia of amendments, a number of which are, in essence, probing…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI am grateful to the Minister for giving me the opportunity to clarify where I am: it is Amendment 273D. My apologies if I have not been clear enough. This amendment would make a…18 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I support the amendment so eloquently moved by my noble friend Lord Hunt of Wirral. There is not much more to add, but I will try. I also put my name to the amendment. I…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak briefly to the excellent and compelling amendments in this group. In particular, I support Amendments 96 and 107A, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady…12 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I shall primarily speak to the amendments in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Cash in respect of political funds, but I will say in passing that I found the…10 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I have tabled a number of probing amendments to Clause 61. As I alluded to earlier, I take the view that the amendments are not unhelpful but should be seen through the…10 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill10 Jun 2025