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HANSARDUK Asylum and Refugee PolicyMy Lords, I congratulate the most reverend Primate the Archbishop on introducing this debate and the powerful way he did so. It is good to hear from the Bishops’ Benches a…09 Dec 2022HANSARDUK Asylum and Refugee PolicyI am coming to an end. If it is morally and legally right for the French to try to prevent people leaving their shores, and for us to pay and support the French in so doing, it…09 Dec 2022HANSARDCalled-in Planning Decision: West CumbriaDoes my noble friend agree that the sensible path to net zero, the path we have always adopted, is to steadily reduce and phase out demand for fossil fuels, not supply of fossil…08 Dec 2022HANSARDX-Rays: Child RefugeesMy Lords, the British Dental Association has written to all of us saying that X-rays carry a small risk of possible long-term physical harm and that the risk is cumulative and…06 Dec 2022HANSARDNet MigrationMy Lords, will my noble friend bear in mind that, over the last decade, total immigration —which ran at half the level of the last 12 months—was equal to the combined populations…29 Nov 2022HANSARDBattery Strategy (Science and Technology Committee Report)My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Patel, and his committee on producing a powerful report, which I hope will send an electric shock through the Government and the…23 Nov 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle. Since my wife is always accusing me of verbal pedantry, I suppose I should feel some…21 Nov 2022HANSARDStock MarketsMy Lords, having lived and worshipped for nearly 40 years in the diocese of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Albans, I have benefited greatly over the years from the…17 Nov 2022HANSARDHousing MarketMy Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Warwick, on securing this debate and on her introduction to it. It is strange how rarely we discuss the housing crisis in this…17 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, this has been unusual in the debates that we have had so far in that far more has been said that I can agree with than that I disagree with. I even found myself agreeing…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI am grateful to the noble Lord for sidestepping the question by saying that he does not need to answer it because there is an article in the protocol that means you do not have…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI will put the two in touch discreetly and thereby not betray confidences.07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI certainly do not say absolutely that Article 16 is not the way to proceed, but I have spoken to lawyers much respected by people in this House—unfortunately I do not have their…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI am saying that there may well be problems. Indeed, I asked the noble Lord the other day, down the corridor, whether he was of the opinion that Article 16 could be used to solve…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillWould the noble Lord deal with the Article 50 point? If it is intrinsically temporary and transitional, can it last for ever?07 Nov 2022HANSARDClimate Change: Behaviour ChangeMy Lords, may I reassure my noble friend the Minister that the Climate Change Committee does not say that 62% of emissions savings needed for net zero must come from changing…03 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI am grateful to the noble Lord for effectively giving way. He rightly said, both in his letter to the Times and his remarks today, that, as long as there was good faith, fair…02 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, I rise to support the noble Lord, Lord Leigh, but, before doing so, I repeat what I said the other day: I feel extreme discomfort about the extensive reliance on Henry…02 Nov 2022HANSARDNHS: NursesMy Lords, can my noble friend explain why we none the less turn away every year more than 20,000 applicants for nursing courses? Why does there appear to be a de facto limit on…01 Nov 2022HANSARDNHS: NursesMy Lords—01 Nov 2022