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HANSARDEV Strategy: (ECC Committee Report)My Lords, it was a great privilege to serve on the committee under the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter. Like her, I am no longer in it. Her departure is greatly missed; I suspect…16 Oct 2024HANSARDSocial Care StrategyMy Lords, it is a privilege to follow such a witty, wise and moving speech from the noble Baroness, Lady Donaghy. I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler, and agree with her…10 Oct 2024HANSARDCoronavirus: UK DeathsMy Lords—29 Jul 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, I welcome the new Ministers to their posts. I wish them well and sincerely hope that they will succeed in their mission to promote economic growth. The great advantage…18 Jul 2024HANSARDSkills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of LifeMy Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Aberdare, on securing this debate and opening it so brilliantly, and the noble Lord, Lord Marks of Hale, for a gently brilliant but…09 May 2024HANSARDOffshore Petroleum Licensing BillMay I just add a few brief comments? I endorse what my noble friend Lord Moynihan and the noble Lord, Lord Bruce, have said. I speak from a position of considerable ignorance. I…23 Apr 2024HANSARDSurplus Carbon EmissionsThe advice from the CCC on this issue seems quite rational, but will my noble friend ask it to review the advice it has offered on the total cost of meeting net zero? It refused…27 Mar 2024HANSARDOffshore Petroleum Licensing BillThe Minister did. The noble Baroness has acknowledged that the figure is about 30,000, rather than 27,600; I do not really see the difference, frankly. The point is not which…26 Mar 2024HANSARDOffshore Petroleum Licensing BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness for that clarification. Somebody used the 200,000 figure—it must have been the noble Lord, Lord Lennie. Anyway, it does not matter.26 Mar 2024HANSARDOffshore Petroleum Licensing BillThat was very kind of the noble Baroness, Lady Jones. She is an apologist for the noble Baroness, Lady Young. Now I have almost forgotten what I was going to ask. Is the noble…26 Mar 2024HANSARDOffshore Petroleum Licensing BillAfter the noble Baroness’s gratuitous insult at the beginning, I am grateful to her for giving way at this point.26 Mar 2024HANSARDOffshore Petroleum Licensing BillThe proposal is to sacrifice them if we phase out that industry more rapidly than would otherwise occur. I give way to the noble Baroness if she has some alternative.26 Mar 2024HANSARDOffshore Petroleum Licensing BillI mentioned the possibility that people were claiming they could move across, and some of them will, but it will mean disruption. We should not unnecessarily require people to…26 Mar 2024HANSARDOffshore Petroleum Licensing BillMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, and the noble Lord, Lord Lennie, both of whom seem to be against the Bill because the positives are…26 Mar 2024HANSARDOffshore Petroleum Licensing BillI was saying that stopping supply, rather than phasing out demand, is a luxury belief.26 Mar 2024HANSARDAsylum ClaimsCan my noble friend the Minister explain why British courts and tribunals grant asylum to 75% of those who make applications here on first application, whereas French courts grant…25 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy noble friend is absolutely right, as he always is.20 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I am puzzled by this amendment. For 18 years, between 2004 and 2022, we had on the statute book an Act of Parliament which said there was an irrebuttable presumption…20 Mar 2024HANSARDHousing: Young PeopleThey also count them when they go out. So, if they come in and go out, they account for zero in total.14 Mar 2024HANSARDHousing: Young PeopleI am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. Will this body dealing with a long-term strategy also consider the demand for housing? Will it have any control over the massive…14 Mar 2024