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HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]06 Jul 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]My Lords, my noble friend Lord Forsyth’s Amendment 2 addresses the likely conflict between the proposed animal sentience committee and the existing Animal Welfare Committee by…06 Jul 2021HANSARDHeather and Grass etc. Burning (England) Regulations 2021My Lords, the Uplands Partnership, which comprises leading countryside organisations, has produced Peatland Protection the Science : four key reports that collate the latest…18 Mar 2021HANSARDMinisterial and other Maternity Allowances BillMy Lords, we are all lobbied nowadays and I am sure that from time to time your Lordships have been bombarded with vast numbers of strikingly similar emails which are collectively…25 Feb 2021HANSARDOnline Gambling: Stake LimitsMy Lords, I wish to draw attention to my interests in the register. Gambling companies make 60% of their profits from just 5% of players and they create VIP schemes especially for…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCovid-19: VaccinesMy Lords, I join my noble friend Lady Sugg in congratulating the Government on their outstanding work in rolling out this vaccine programme. As I am a bear of very little brain,…01 Feb 2021HANSARDCannabis OilMy Lords, I draw your Lordships’ attention to my interests as set out in the register. If we can vaccinate 1.5 million people in a few weeks with a drug that did not even exist a…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEuropean Union (Future Relationship) BillMy Lords, I start by adding my congratulations to my noble friend Lord Cavendish of Furness on his splendid valedictory speech. Despite what we were repeatedly told by those…30 Dec 2020HANSARDProcedure and Privileges CommitteeMy Lords, when I moved my amendment to the Motion, in what I hoped was a very measured way, I did not intend to set off a firecracker in your Lordships’ House—but I apologise,…14 Dec 2020HANSARDProcedure and Privileges CommitteeAt end insert “, but that this House regrets the further suspension of hereditary peers’ by-elections, and calls for such by-elections to resume as soon as possible.”14 Dec 2020HANSARDProcedure and Privileges CommitteeMy Lords, the clerks tell me that it is most unusual to table an amendment to regret the Motion in respect of business other than statutory instruments. However, as noble Lords…14 Dec 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) Regulations 2020My Lords, while in February and March there was a paucity of data on which anyone could base an opinion or construct a strategy, there is now almost a tsunami of facts and…04 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, will my noble friend comment on the data released today by King’s College, which shows new cases plateauing and a slight fall in cases in England, Wales and Scotland,…03 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy Lords, I would not dream of questioning the judgment of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, in matters of the law—of course I would not—but I would say that the rule of…19 Oct 2020HANSARDMedicines and Medical Devices BillMy Lords, the purpose of the Bill before us today is set out very clearly in the Long Title and few could disagree with the Government’s objectives. Indeed, the Bill had a…02 Sept 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, I welcome this Bill to address the inconsistencies in the composition of constituencies. I shall keep my remarks as brief as I can in view of the inordinate length of…27 Jul 2020HANSARDHouse of Lords and Machinery of Government: Consultation on ChangesMy Lords, does my noble friend agree with me that it is important that your Lordships’ deliberations should take place as close as possible to the people? Would he also agree with…15 Jul 2020HANSARDCovid-19: UK-wide DiscussionsMy Lords, in recognising the need to co-ordinate between the Government and the devolved Administrations, does my noble friend recognise that the requirement for two-metre social…09 Jun 2020HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL]I am most grateful to the noble Lord for clarifying that, but it goes beyond that. There is no getting away from the fact that his party has been rejected by the electorate. I am…13 Mar 2020HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) (Abolition of By-Elections) Bill [HL]My Lords, when I came in here, I had a bet with one of my noble friends about which dinosaur would first emerge from the primordial ooze. I am delighted to say that the noble…13 Mar 2020