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HANSARDImmigration SystemMy Lords, the White Paper is about controlling immigration. Will the Government have the ability to control the number of visas in each category, and will they exercise that…15 May 2025HANSARDTrade NegotiationsMy Lords, I welcome this agreement —another Brexit dividend. Knowing the Government’s dedication to international law, I am sure they regret that this deal rewards the flagrant…14 May 2025HANSARDTrade NegotiationsI am grateful for the frank and open reply that the Minister gave to my question, which I actually found rather worrying. I had not realised that there were existing restrictions…13 May 2025HANSARDTrade NegotiationsI strongly support the free trade elements in this deal, and not just because it is a Brexit benefit, which I am sure the Minister welcomes. Given that the Indians strongly wanted…13 May 2025HANSARDTrade NegotiationsMy Lords—13 May 2025HANSARDTax: ChangesMy Lords, are the Government trying to prove the truth of the law first articulated by the late lamented Lord Harris of High Cross that punitive taxes on the rich do not…29 Apr 2025HANSARDBasel 3.1In the pre-Easter spirit, I offer the Minister a point where he is likely to agree with me for once. He could have reminded the Liberal Democrats that, had we followed their…03 Apr 2025HANSARDGrangemouth Oil RefineryMy Lords, the closure of Grangemouth will make us more dependent on imports, as will the Government’s policy of not giving licences to extract shale gas or new licences for oil in…27 Mar 2025HANSARDEuropean Convention on Human Rights: 75th AnniversaryI am grateful to the noble Baroness for replying to that point. The point is that they do not rely on an international agreement to provide very good human rights to their…20 Mar 2025HANSARDEuropean Convention on Human Rights: 75th AnniversaryMy Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for whom I have an enormously high regard, on securing this debate and his introduction to it. It is a paradox that defenders…20 Mar 2025HANSARDPrime Minister: Meeting with Prime Minister of CanadaWill the Minister express solidarity with the Prime Minister of Canada in his determination that Canada should remain an independent country, making its own laws and trading with…12 Mar 2025HANSARDMigrants: Indefinite Leave to RemainDuring Mrs Thatcher’s 12 years in office, net immigration was precisely net zero, but we moved from being the slowest-growing economy in Europe to the fastest-growing major…06 Mar 2025HANSARDMigrants: Indefinite Leave to RemainMy Lords, will the Government’s White Paper abandon the doctrine proclaimed by Tony Blair, and to which subsequent Conservative Ministers, sadly, succumbed, that mass immigration…06 Mar 2025HANSARDMigrants: Indefinite Leave to RemainMy Lords—06 Mar 2025HANSARDConduct CommitteeMy Lords, I, too, welcome the report, both for its brevity and for its rejection of the idea of introducing an offence of bringing the House into disrepute. But I want to raise…05 Mar 2025HANSARDHumanist WeddingsCan the Minister explain to those of us who do not know what either of them are like the difference between a registry office wedding and humanist wedding?03 Feb 2025HANSARDInternet Activity: Energy UseMy Lords, will the Minister explain why electricity in this country is more expensive than in any other OECD country?27 Jan 2025HANSARDInternet Activity: Energy UseMy Lords—27 Jan 2025HANSARDElectricity Capacity Mechanism (Amendment) Regulations 2024My Lords, I want to use this as an opportunity simply to ask a question of the Minister. Why do we not take the advice of Professor Dieter Helm, in his review of energy policy,…20 Jan 2025HANSARDClean Heat Market Mechanism Regulations 2024My Lords, here we have it: 32 pages of regulation to introduce something that some would consider a mere mouse in terms of its impact on this market. After all, it introduces a…20 Jan 2025