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HANSARDGreater Cambridge Development Corporation (Establishment) Order 2026My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for introducing the order and setting out so clearly what the Government are seeking to achieve. I have tabled a regret amendment, not…22 Jul 2026HANSARDGreater Cambridge Development Corporation (Establishment) Order 2026At end to insert “but that this House regrets that the geographic scope of the Development Corporation proposed in the Order is not extended to correspond to the functional…22 Jul 2026HANSARDGreater Cambridge Development Corporation (Establishment) Order 2026My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who took part in this really interesting, albeit short, debate. We have to understand that this is the first of what will…22 Jul 2026HANSARDCommercial Payments Bill [HL]The Minister is changing the Procurement Act with this Bill. The power to reduce the payment term to below 30 days was in the Procurement Act. It is being renewed here and…21 Jul 2026HANSARDLocal Government ReorganisationMy Lords, I draw attention to my registered interest as chair of the Cambridgeshire Development Forum. The Minister said that no decision had been made on unitaries in…21 Jul 2026HANSARDCommercial Payments Bill [HL]Before the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, responds, can I just ask the Minister something? It seems to me that he is accepting the proposition, with which I…21 Jul 2026HANSARDCommercial Payments Bill [HL]21 Jul 2026HANSARDCommercial Payments Bill [HL]My Lords, with Clause 11 and this group we move to the question of retention payments. We should not elide the question of late payments and retention payments, as if they were…21 Jul 2026HANSARDCommercial Payments Bill [HL]I am most grateful to noble Lords for this short but really rather—forgive the pun—constructive debate. I think we were trying to probe quite how the Government are thinking about…21 Jul 2026HANSARDThe Space Economy (UK Engagement with Space Committee Report)Before the Minister sits down, at several points in the Government’s response to the Select Committee’s report, they say that more detail will come forward in the “spring space…09 Jul 2026HANSARDThe Space Economy (UK Engagement with Space Committee Report)My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness and to participate in this debate, as indeed it was a pleasure to be part of the committee under the superb…09 Jul 2026HANSARDHistorical Forced AdoptionIn 1997 and 1998, I served on the Health Select Committee, along with Ann Keen, under the chairmanship of David Hinchliffe, on the inquiry into child migration. That report led…07 Jul 2026HANSARDRailways BillMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Blencathra. I can remember British Rail, but I do not think any of us want to go back to British Rail, we want to…07 Jul 2026HANSARDLobbying Transparency (In-house Lobbyists) Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate. I was much entertained by his speech. He, along with the Bill’s proposer, rightly said that this is…03 Jul 2026HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026My Lords, I wonder if I might intervene at this stage. The Committee will recall—pretty much everybody in the Committee was present during the Planning and Infrastructure Bill’s…23 Jun 2026HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026I completely understand that the terminology of the Act says that the spatial development strategy may set out the amount and distribution of housing and affordable housing. My…23 Jun 2026HANSARDSocial Housing Bill [HL]My Lords, I support my noble friend in her amendment. I should declare this first time in Committee my interests, as recorded in the register, as chair of the Cambridgeshire…15 Jun 2026HANSARDSocial Housing Bill [HL]I was not planning to speak in this group, but, after listening to my noble friend and other noble Lords, and after reading Clause 9, it is clear that the Government are intending…15 Jun 2026HANSARDSocial Housing Bill [HL]My Lords, the Minister has referred a number of times to the publication of the impact assessment. I am not aware that the Minister wrote to Members of this House who spoke at…15 Jun 2026HANSARDSocial Housing Bill [HL]15 Jun 2026