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HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, in response to the gracious Speech, I want to focus on health. This Government’s policy to move more services out of hospitals and into local communities is the right…20 May 2026HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillMy Lords, I support the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Young. Supporting a smoke-free society is the right direction of travel, in my view, but I also worry about contact…03 Mar 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, size really does matter. Big is not necessarily beautiful. I am a practitioner, as many know, looking up the telescope from place-making projects we are working on…11 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, I support Amendment 133 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Best. I was involved in the London Olympics for 19 years, from day one. Our first meeting was at the Bromley…04 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, I, too, support the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, as well as what the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, has just shared with us. Earlier,…04 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, I absolutely feel the pain of the noble Baroness, because we also feel the pain from the other end of the telescope. It is really difficult, and a lot of these systems…04 Feb 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, I support this amendment because it opens up some interesting thoughts. Some years ago, I worked in east London on what had been for many years a dysfunctional housing…29 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI love your Lordships’ House because it is the place where all this detail comes on to the Floor of the House. Debates like this, even though they are complicated and difficult,…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI was just going to do that. I address the amendment because I worry that, while the amendment and the idea of a navigator seem very straightforward intellectually, I am trying to…23 Jan 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I said to the noble and learned Lord earlier that in some ways, this feels—from where I have spent a lot of my life, in the East End of London—like quite a white,…23 Jan 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, in this discussion, there is a lot of confusion between what I call the two Ds: democracy and delivery. I have spent over 40 years working in East End housing estates.…20 Jan 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillI know that the Minister cares a lot about these issues around community engagement, which is always encouraging to people such as me. As a social entrepreneur, I have spent my…20 Jan 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThe Minister talked about taking action. Those are very fine words, but every day, many of us watch e-bikes and ordinary bikes going past the outside of this building, driving…17 Dec 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, as the noble and learned Lord knows, I have spent a lot of my life working with people in housing estates in the East End of London. Research we did some years ago…21 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillWill we have enough people from these different cultures with the skills and knowledge to enter into that kind of understanding, whether they are doctors or on the panels? It is…21 Nov 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, before I speak to my Amendment 185SG, can I thank colleagues from all parties across the Committee who have supported me, including the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings…11 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI am just about to finish. The noble Lord, Lord Crisp, told us on Tuesday that there is a rising tide in this space. My suggestion is that we all need to grasp the moment or we…11 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I have commented on the door and had conversations with various people around the House, which was very fascinating as a parable of this problem. Christine Gilbert was a…11 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am sympathetic to these amendments, but I am also very sympathetic to what the Government are trying to achieve in getting things built. My colleagues and I have been…17 Jul 2025HANSARDPost Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1My Lords, this is a very sad story about the failures of a very large business, the Post Office—which many years ago I used to work for—and its culture, and about the failure of…17 Jul 2025