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HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy noble friend makes a good point. If the Secretary of State were to ask Great British Railways to enter into that agreement with Transport for London, I do not know who would be…02 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI am grateful to my noble friend. What I am describing and think is now legal is not the arrangement that he describes as applying to TfL as it stands. TfL cannot be made the…02 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill27 Jan 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI am most grateful to the Minister for that response and to all noble Lords who spoke on this group. In particular, I give warm thanks to those who supported Amendment 46. As the…27 Jan 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI apologise for interrupting; I promise that this will be the last time. On the question of tourism revenue, if there is a tourism tax or whatever, what do we know about the…27 Jan 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillBefore my noble friend responds to the debate, I want just to be sure that I am clear. On the criteria that are applied by the Secretary of State to the question of whether a…27 Jan 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, I have two amendments in this group, Amendments 48 and 50. It is another of those occasions when there are two amendments to achieve one purpose. Amendment 48 relates to…27 Jan 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillClause 6 provides, right at the end, that Schedule 2 makes further provision, including in relation to the spatial development strategy that strategic authorities are required to…27 Jan 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend and speak to these amendments to Clause 6. The clause relates to decision-making in combined county authorities and combined…27 Jan 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, I have two amendments in this group: Amendments 21 and 24. My noble friends on the Front Bench have pretty much all the other amendments, with the exception of Amendment…20 Jan 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, I will speak on Amendment 8 in my name, which would have the effect of adding to the list of areas of competence in Clause 2 an additional paragraph (h), “community…20 Jan 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, while the Bill clearly allows for additional functions and powers to be given to mayoral strategic authorities, the specific question was whether the Bill has a power to…20 Jan 2026HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillMy Lords, I want to say a big thank you to the Minister for her engagement following Report and for tabling this amendment by way of, as she says, what I hope is very much an…12 Jan 2026HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillI am grateful for that response, and in order not to delay the House, if I may, I will leave it at that point. I beg leave to withdraw Amendment 34 and to return to this, if…05 Jan 2026HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillMy Lords, there are four amendments in this group, and they are all my amendments, so I hope I will not need to detain the House for a very long time. However, it is rather…05 Jan 2026HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill05 Jan 2026HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, as the mover of the original Amendment 33, I am grateful to the Government for accepting the substance of that amendment. I therefore agree with Motion A to agree to the…10 Dec 2025HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, as noble Lords can see, this is a doorstop of a Bill. I draw attention to my registered interests as chair of the Cambridgeshire and Oxfordshire development forums, and…08 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI think the noble and learned Lord knows that the definition of “ordinarily resident” that is used in the National Health Service is defined in common law. It is about living here…05 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords—05 Dec 2025