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HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI would be very happy to write to the noble Baroness to clarify our understanding of the way that the discrimination order would operate in that scenario. Perhaps the way that I…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank my noble friend for that. I certainly will not try to better his knowledge of employment law and, indeed, compensation for penalties in employment law. What I will say is…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank my noble friend Lady O’Grady for that; I would of course be very happy to write to her and my noble friend Lord Watson on this. The point that we are making is that there…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillOrder. It is clear that the noble Lord, Lord Fox, is not going to give way, and that is his prerogative.08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI am afraid the noble Lord will not; he will hear from me. I thank my noble friend Lord Watson of Invergowrie in absentia for tabling Amendment 66 and my noble friend Lady O’Grady…08 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI remind noble Lords that we are in Committee, not at Second Reading. We have heard a few speeches now that have strayed a little from the precise content of the amendments that…29 Apr 2025HANSARDChagos IslandsMy Lords, my noble friend the Minister is right: the Diego Garcia base is of vital strategic importance to us in the UK and to the Americans. For the avoidance of any doubt, can…02 Apr 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Rafferty and to hear the outstanding maiden speeches of my noble and very good friend Lady Berger, and indeed my noble…27 Mar 2025HANSARDSpring StatementMy Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for the Statement. In the run-up to the Spring Statement there was a lot of guff, frankly, about a so-called return to austerity.…27 Mar 2025HANSARDHeathrow Airport Closure: Resilience and SecurityMy Lords, on the subject of resilience, businesses and local councils, such as Ealing and Hounslow in west London, have long raised concerns about a lack of capacity and…26 Mar 2025HANSARDHigh-rise Buildings: Safety RemediationMy Lords, we will not complete the remediation work that we are discussing under this Question, nor achieve the Government’s ambitious but very welcome target of 1.5 million new…24 Mar 2025HANSARDG7My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for the Statement and particularly the strong words, on which I think we are united in this House, about standing by Ukraine. On…20 Mar 2025HANSARDGreat British Railways: Industrial ActionMy Lords, I draw your Lordships’ attention to my register of interests. Does my noble friend not agree that the lamentable record of the previous Government when it comes to…18 Mar 2025HANSARDPalestine Statehood (Recognition) Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare my interest as a director of Yachad Ltd, a British Jewish organisation supporting a political resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As a proud…14 Mar 2025HANSARDIntegration and Community CohesionMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, and to hear such excellent maiden speeches from my noble friends Lord Raval and Lord Rook. I…13 Mar 2025HANSARDCampus Antisemitism in Britain: Community Security Trust ReportMy Lords, as the CST report lays bare, university campuses are indeed the front line of anti-Semitism, with some at risk of becoming all but no-go zones for Jewish students. Has…12 Mar 2025HANSARDUK Poverty 2025My Lords, as my noble friend has just said, the JRF report makes clear not only the lamentable performance of the previous Government over 13 years in reducing child poverty, but…10 Mar 2025HANSARDGaza: BBC CoverageMy Lords, I am a long-term supporter of the BBC and the impartiality of its news output. While it pains me to agree with the BBC chair, Samir Shah, who just this morning in a…04 Mar 2025HANSARDGaza: BBC CoverageMy Lords—04 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial DayMy Lords, it is an honour to speak in the debate, opened by my noble friend Lord Khan, and to hear from so many noble Lords on this subject, not least, in a few minutes’ time, my…13 Feb 2025