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HANSARDSpring StatementMy Lords—27 Mar 2025HANSARDSpring StatementWhen the Government came into office, the disability employment gap was 28.6%. With the £1 billion return-to-work funding that the Minister has referred to repeatedly, what is the…27 Mar 2025HANSARDGreat British RailwaysMy Lords, I am glad to have this opportunity, which my noble friend Lord Young of Cookham has afforded us, to further consider the role of open access operators. Many of us were…13 Mar 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I also thank the Minister and his officials for their considerable time, patience and responsiveness as we have raised issues during the Bill. I will briefly note three…12 Mar 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, if I may briefly intervene in this group, we had a substantive debate on Monday, in which I participated, where we looked at the recommendations from the Delegated…05 Mar 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I am not sure that the noble Lord has explained why the regulations that allow UK product requirements to be set by reference to European Union law are uncontentious and highly…05 Mar 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I want to speak briefly to Amendment 20 in this group, which is in my name. It is an opportunity to restate an argument, which I will not dwell on at length but which…26 Feb 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I will not argue but there is probably a good basis for thinking about whether—rather than including them in the Bill, I say with great respect to the proposers of Amendment 26—it…26 Feb 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I shall speak to my Amendment 4 in this group, which, we are advised, would be pre-empted if Amendment 2 were to be passed, by reason of the deletion of the relevant provision in…26 Feb 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I did not intend to support my noble friend on the Front Bench, but I am moved to do so by the speech from my other noble friend. I say to my noble friend Lord Deben…26 Feb 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, having supported Amendment 2—unsuccessfully—I now have the opportunity to move Amendment 3. The noble Lord, Lord Fox, and I both slightly anticipated some of the…26 Feb 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I know that we are all most grateful to the Minister for what I thought was an extremely helpful response to these important and interesting issues that we have debated…26 Feb 2025HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]26 Feb 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Local GovernmentMy Lords, I remind noble Lords of my registered interest in relation to Cambridgeshire and Oxfordshire. Those are two counties that will have county elections this May, yet they…12 Feb 2025HANSARDAvian InfluenzaMy Lords, while I entirely agree with the Minister that the risk to humans is very low, none the less, more than once in the past we have used H5N1 as a basis for potential…04 Feb 2025HANSARDGrowing the UK EconomyMy Lords, I remind noble Lords of my registered interests relating to Cambridge and Oxford. I welcome what the Government are saying in their focus on the Oxford to Cambridge…03 Feb 2025HANSARDCommunity Pharmacy ClosuresFurther to that important point, will the Government guide ICBs to commission additional services from pharmacies? They have often not been commissioned with a sustainable funding…28 Jan 2025HANSARDCompetition and Markets Authority ChairmanMy Lords, the newspapers all seemed to think it was relevant to cite the decision of the CMA in relation to Microsoft and Activision in the Government encouraging the chairman to…27 Jan 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence Opportunities Action PlanMy Lords—16 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth and Adult Social Care ReformMy Lords, may I tell the Minister that the Statement is not an accurate representation of what happened in 2009-10? More importantly, it is now over 13 years since Andrew Dilnot…07 Jan 2025