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HANSARDTrade Policy: Environmental ConsiderationsWill my noble friend reaffirm that the Government’s trade policy is based on the facilitation of trade by the reciprocal removal of barriers, not on seeking excuses to retain…21 Oct 2021HANSARDImports from EU to UK: Grace PeriodI welcome my noble friend’s decision to prolong the grace periods, for the reasons that my noble friend Lord Moylan spelled out earlier, but will he confirm that experience of…16 Sept 2021HANSARDBrexit OpportunitiesMy Lords, I welcome my noble friend’s Statement and, like him, I welcome the call from the Labour Front Bench for even more ambitious deregulation. It is healthy that there should…16 Sept 2021HANSARDSocial Care: Family CarersMy Lords, would my noble friend confirm that he just said there would be only £1.5 billion a year going to social care from the large increase in national insurance? Can he…13 Sept 2021HANSARDEducation (Assemblies) Bill [HL]My Lords, humans are essentially religious animals, in the sense that we are the only creatures who face the essentially religious questions. Who or what created us, and why? Is…10 Sept 2021HANSARDNHS: Nursing WorkforceDoes my noble friend agree that, as well as retaining nurses, we need to train enough to end the scandalous reliance on poaching nurses from poor countries? The move from…08 Sept 2021HANSARDSub-Saharan Africa (Report from the International Relations and Defence Committee)My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hannay, not least because it gives me a rare opportunity to agree with two things that he said: first, that the…08 Sept 2021HANSARDAfghanistanMy Lords, after hubris comes nemesis. Let us not dwell on the nemesis—the humiliation visited on America and her allies—but identify the hubris that led to it. It was right and…18 Aug 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolMy Lords, I welcome my noble friend’s practical and forward-looking proposals and deplore the backward-looking point-scoring of both Opposition Front Benches. Can my noble friend…21 Jul 2021HANSARDElderly Social Care (Insurance) Bill [HL]That the Bill be now read a second time.16 Jul 2021HANSARDElderly Social Care (Insurance) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate—those who disagree with the Bill, those who agree with it, and those who feel that it merits further…16 Jul 2021HANSARDElderly Social Care (Insurance) Bill [HL]My Lords, after 37 years in Parliament, I am grateful to have secured a place in the ballot entitling me to bring in a Private Member’s Bill. This Bill is about social care for…16 Jul 2021HANSARDDeprived AreasWas my noble friend rather surprised that she had to get to page 94 of the summary before there was any mention of obesity as a cause of inequalities in health, given that it is…01 Jul 2021HANSARDSocial Care ReformDoes my noble friend agree that it would be better for the state to enable homeowners to insure against the potentially catastrophic risk of social care, rather than diverting…29 Jun 2021HANSARDWellbeing of Future Generations Bill [HL]My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Bird, on securing this debate, even though I am not keen on Bills that attempt to bind future Parliaments to adopt currently…25 Jun 2021HANSARDSocial Care and the Role of CarersMy Lords, the first duty of the state in social care is financing its provision to those who cannot pay for themselves. Yet local authority budgets have been cut to the bone,…24 Jun 2021HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Steps and Other Provisions) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021My Lords, as the Prime Minister and the Health Secretary have said repeatedly, we ultimately will have to learn to live with Covid. This means accepting that a tiny proportion of…16 Jun 2021HANSARDCarbon Budget Order 2021My Lords, it is an extraordinary indication of the priorities of this place that we are considering, briefly, for one hour, with just half a dozen of us taking part, one of the…10 Jun 2021HANSARDCriminal Trials: Intercept EvidenceMy Lords, when I was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, something that I proposed had the unexpected effect, unknown to me, of affecting the way in which the security…09 Jun 2021HANSARDClean Energy Transition GuidanceMy Lords, if, as we are told, power from renewables is cheaper than power from fossil fuels, would this measure not be unnecessary, since no developing country would want to build…08 Jun 2021