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HANSARDSocial CareMy Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper and declare my interest as the unpaid president of SOLLA, the Society of Later Life Advisers. I…28 Oct 2021HANSARDAssisted Dying Bill [HL]My Lords, I am a complete unbeliever in religion. I raise the fact that in this long and very distinguished debate, religion has been the Banquo at the feast. We have hardly heard…22 Oct 2021HANSARDAssisted Dying Bill [HL]The noble Lord says no. I am not saying it is all of them; I said many of them. Why he wants to do it, I do not know. To many of us, choice in dying—dying in dignity—is an…22 Oct 2021HANSARDSocial Care in EnglandMy Lords, I declare an interest as unpaid president of the Society of Later Life Advisers. Today I will concentrate on the cap. It was first proposed in my minority report to the…14 Oct 2021HANSARDUK Journalism (Communications and Digital Committee Report)My Lords, it is 20 years since I was a journalist, so perhaps you would spare me the rotten oranges this afternoon. I am very glad I am out of it, frankly, because there has been…13 Oct 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care Levy BillMy Lords, if we did not have a national insurance contribution system, no one would even think of inventing it. This debate has been a succession of hammer blows to the structure…11 Oct 2021HANSARDGovernment: Leadership TrainingMy Lords, I think that, like the noble Lord, Lord Norton, every Member of this House would be in favour of better training for Ministers, though I must say it would be a bit of a…16 Sept 2021HANSARDSocial Care Funding: Intergenerational ImpactMy Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Greengross, rightly highlights one of the central features of the Government’s proposals—namely, the generational redistribution between poorer…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareMy Lords, as I think I was the first person to propose a cap on care costs in the minority report to the royal commission in 1999, it would be churlish of me not to welcome the…09 Sept 2021HANSARDIntegrated Review: Development AidMy Lords, I cannot claim a fraction of the expertise on aid that noble Lords have displayed this afternoon. My knowledge, such as it is, was gleaned during the Economic Affairs…28 Apr 2021HANSARDSocial Care Funding (EAC Report)My Lords, this is a fine report. I hope the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, will forgive me if I concentrate my remarks on the recommendation with which I profoundly disagree, which is…28 Jan 2021HANSARDEU-UK Trade and Cooperation AgreementClassical music has been doing its bit for the unity of Europe for many centuries before the EU was even thought of. Think of the immigrant composer, Handel; the great itinerant…08 Jan 2021HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillI intend to withdraw it after the Minister’s reply.08 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, I think that the friends of Brecon and Radnorshire should have a good party when coronavirus has departed and we are no longer bound by the rule of six. For all his…08 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, I am not going to go back over all the arguments about 7.5%, 5%, 10% and so on; they have been wonderfully rehearsed by noble Lords who are much more knowledgeable than…08 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillI have stopped. No word issues from my mouth.08 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, I support the amendment and I want to focus on one particular point. The Minister, in replying to the debate in Committee, put great weight on the support that he…08 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill08 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, we have had a long, hard afternoon and tummies are rumbling, so I genuinely will not detain the House for long. An absolutely overwhelming case was made in Committee for…08 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillNo words are issuing from my mouth. I have finished; I have stopped; I am ended.08 Oct 2020