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HANSARDSocial 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]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 2026HANSARDNew Towns: Laying the Foundations (Built Environment Committee Report)My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Cameron of Dillington, and my noble friend Lord Gascoigne. I pay credit to my noble friend and the noble Lord, Lord…10 Jun 2026HANSARDCommercial Payments Bill [HL]My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Alexander of Cleveden, who made some important points about enforceability and escaping avoidance of the provisions. I…09 Jun 2026HANSARDSocial Housing Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the Cambridgeshire Development Forum, as an adviser to development forums in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cheshire and the Thames Valley, and as a…01 Jun 2026HANSARDEU-UK SPS Agreement: Food-related StandardsI declare an interest, as my wife’s company in Brussels works on the new genomic techniques that have been filed with the European Commission. The Minister might like, in the…18 May 2026HANSARDLord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response UpdateMy Lords, in addition to the redactions the Minister referred to in her Statement for reasons of national security, international relations, names of junior officials, email…28 Apr 2026HANSARDUK Biobank DataMy Lords, I declare an interest as a participant in UK Biobank. It is not the first time I have said that: when I was Secretary of State, I said it in the context of encouraging…28 Apr 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWith the greatest respect to a number of noble Lords, I think what we are hearing is, in a sense, what we would have heard had we taken the Bill to Third Reading. We are hearing…24 Apr 2026HANSARDBritish Industrial Competitiveness SchemeMy Lords, the alleviation of the high policy costs imposed on energy-intensive and internationally competitive manufacturing in this country is to be welcomed. I will ask a…22 Apr 2026HANSARDLocal Authorities (Changes to Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) (Revocation) Order 2026My Lords, I want to intervene briefly by referring to the example of Suffolk. I entirely agree with my noble friend on the Front Bench about these issues. I draw attention to the…21 Apr 2026HANSARDLocal Authorities (Changes to Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) (Revocation) Order 2026The Minister has not told us at all, and nor indeed does the Explanatory Memorandum tell us, the nature of the legal vulnerability that was implicit in the decision to reconsider.…21 Apr 2026HANSARDLocal Authorities (Changes to Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) (Revocation) Order 2026Did I? Sorry—2021, serving all the way through to 2027, maybe even to 2028 in practice, and overlapping with unitary councils that are to be established with elections taking…21 Apr 2026HANSARDHealth and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Regulations 2026I shall speak briefly to this statutory instrument and ask a number of questions, if I may, to which I hope the Minister will be able to respond. I think that I understand the…15 Apr 2026HANSARDHealth and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Regulations 2026I am grateful for the offer of further discussions and a round table, but there are several numbers relating to the number of providers that might be anticipated to require…15 Apr 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI entirely agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Stevens of Birmingham, just said. We just heard from the Minister that one of the possible implications of the Bill is that,…27 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIn Amendment 189, the lead amendment in this group, my noble friend is looking for who one goes to in order to provide the necessary assistance to a person if the original…27 Mar 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, as this is the first time I have spoken on Report, I remind the House that I am chair of the Cambridgeshire Development Forum. I provide advice to the Norfolk and…24 Mar 2026HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillI say a big thank you to the Minister for listening; as she rightly said, she has listened and taken on board the comments made in Committee. Amendment 78, which I tabled in…03 Mar 2026HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillMy Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Lord and to speak to my Amendment 206. I might say to him that, to me, it seems clear that what my noble friend Lord Young of Cookham and…03 Mar 2026