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HANSARDFarming and Food ProductionMy Lords—10 Jun 2026HANSARDUK Electricity PricesMy Lords, it is a great privilege to open this debate, especially with the high calibre of people proposing to participate in it. The basic science of global warming is rock…04 Jun 2026HANSARDUK Electricity PricesTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of why UK electricity prices are among the highest in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.04 Jun 2026HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, it is always a great and nostalgic pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, whose enthusiasm for rejoining the European Union reminds me of the remarks of Samuel…14 May 2026HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, does the noble Baroness speak to the NFU, which does not want to rejoin Europe because it believes that the divergences from EU rules since Brexit have benefited it…14 May 2026HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillMy Lords, in response to a question from the Liberal Democrat spokesman Al Pinkerton in the other House about what the collapse of the treaty means in practice for the…14 Apr 2026HANSARDNorthern Ireland After Brexit (Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee Report)My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Lords, Lord Murphy and Lord Carlile. I do so with some temerity; I cannot understand why I have been put so high up the list,…25 Mar 2026HANSARDNorthern Ireland After Brexit (Northern Ireland Scrutiny Committee Report)They were, of course, signed by the past Government, but they were described by the EU as temporary. That was the sole justification the EU gave for including trade with Northern…25 Mar 2026HANSARDTreaty Scrutiny in Westminster (International Agreements Committee Report)My Lords, I congratulate the committee and its chairman on the report. I hesitate to participate in this debate since I have limited expertise in foreign affairs, and still less…16 Mar 2026HANSARDSecondary International Competitiveness and Growth Objective (FSR Committee Report)My Lords, it has been a great pleasure and privilege to serve on this committee, not just because I have served under the distinguished and stimulating chairmanship first of my…11 Mar 2026HANSARDCarbon Budget 6My Lords—03 Mar 2026HANSARDCarbon Budget 6My Lords, given that the pursuit of carbon budgets has so far given us the highest electricity prices in the OECD, can the Minister confirm that the pursuit of decarbonisation has…03 Mar 2026HANSARDResetting the UK-EU Relationship (European Affairs Committee Report)My Lords, I congratulate the committee on trying to establish the Government’s reset negotiating objectives, which the Government have failed to publish. But the Government have…26 Feb 2026HANSARDDiego Garcia and British Indian Ocean TerritoryMy Lords—26 Feb 2026HANSARDUS Department of Justice Release of FilesMy Lords, can the Minister tell us what role Peter Mandelson played as ambassador in convincing the American Government of the merits of the Chagos deal? Did he discuss it…05 Feb 2026HANSARDUK-EU Customs UnionMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Docherty of Milngavie, to congratulate him on his excellent and witty speech and to welcome him to your Lordships’…29 Jan 2026HANSARDUK-EU Customs UnionIn fact, it was jointly negotiated by member states and the European Commission. I was there for all nine days of the negotiations in the Heysel stadium, so the noble Lord is…29 Jan 2026HANSARDDiego Garcia: Comments by the President of the United StatesMy Lords, the Government claim that, although neither the International Court of Justice nor the tribunal of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea can reach a judgment binding…22 Jan 2026HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillMy Lords, apart from thanking the Minister and her noble colleague for the courteous way in which they have responded the points I made—which she found exuberant and my noble…12 Jan 2026HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillI am sorry that the Minister has chosen to end this debate adopting a totally different tone from that which she pursued during Committee and Report. I asked a clear question:…12 Jan 2026