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HANSARDNHS Long-term Workforce PlanI welcome this ambitious and comprehensive workforce plan and I concur with other noble Lords on the issue of social care. On the specific issue of medical school places, while I…04 Jul 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords—28 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 37. I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, for a very clear exposition. Broadly speaking, I support the amendment, although I…28 Jun 2023HANSARDSentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023Will my noble and learned friend the Minister put on record the continuing support and importance of chaplaincy—both potentially in these schemes and in the wider prison…26 Jun 2023HANSARDSentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2023My Lords, I shall speak briefly on this statutory instrument. I have always taken an interest in the criminal justice system and have taken the view that, if you are to impose…26 Jun 2023HANSARDMetastatic and Secondary Breast CancerMy Lords, recent industrial action has caused great worry and distress for many cancer patients and their families. I press my noble friend the Minister specifically on what…19 Jun 2023HANSARDPublic Order Act 1986 (Serious Disruption to the Life of the Community) Regulations 2023I beg her pardon —the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb. I have in fact read her round robin email and the accompanying legal opinion, and we have discussed these…13 Jun 2023HANSARDPublic Order Act 1986 (Serious Disruption to the Life of the Community) Regulations 2023On consultation, I think it is unreasonable to expect the Government to undertake a comprehensive consultation process when the imperative is to correct quickly a legal loophole.…13 Jun 2023HANSARDPublic Order Act 1986 (Serious Disruption to the Life of the Community) Regulations 2023My Lords, I fear I may be ploughing a lonely furrow tonight in supporting the draft regulations, speaking to the regret amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, and…13 Jun 2023HANSARDPublic Order Act 1986 (Serious Disruption to the Life of the Community) Regulations 2023—as I wind up.13 Jun 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, I oppose the Motion in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Anderson of Ipswich. For what it is worth, I support the new iteration of Amendment 16, to which I put my name on…06 Jun 2023HANSARDNet Migration FiguresMy Lords, I do not blame my noble friend or the Home Secretary: since the 2004 free movement directive, no Government have been honest about immigration with the British people,…25 May 2023HANSARDPharmacies: Medicines at HomeMy Lords, on the subject of support services, is my noble friend the Minister aware of, and does he deprecate, the widespread practice of catheterising very elderly people who are…17 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Noakes on this issue, and I am delighted to have had the opportunity to support her by adding my name to the amendment.…17 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI will have my say; plenty of people have had a say on the other side. The disillusionment of people who supported Brexit in good faith is bad for democracy. People are beginning…15 May 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, I will speak—briefly, I hope—to the Government’s Amendment 1. I direct your Lordships back to the comments of the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, who is absolutely right: this…15 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillYour Lordships’ House will have an opportunity to scrutinise this very large and complex Bill and its details, so I will focus on general principles. Perversely, although I think…10 May 2023HANSARDCode of Practice on the Recording and Retention of Personal Data in relation to Non-Crime Hate IncidentsMy Lords, at the outset, I declare my interests as in the register. I am a member of the British Transport Police Authority but, for the avoidance of doubt, none of my comments is…26 Apr 2023HANSARDParliamentary Democracy in the United KingdomMy Lords, I welcome this timely debate, notwithstanding the hyperbole of the noble Baroness, Lady Jones. It gives us the opportunity to put forward some practical alternatives. We…25 Apr 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I will speak to all the amendments in this group. I support them all, with the exception of the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Bradley, on which I am agnostic…18 Apr 2023