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HANSARDThe Future of News (Communications and Digital Committee Report)My Lords. I feel as if I am also making a maiden speech, in that it is some four months since I have been in this House while doctors have been testing me for various ailments.…25 Apr 2025HANSARDOlympic and Paralympic Games: Team GBMy Lords, the Minister should be very grateful to her father: being thrown in at the deep end is very good training for ministerial life. Has she thought that this might also be a…04 Nov 2024HANSARDInternational EngagementsMy Lords, during many years, on all sides of the House, there was a campaign for 0.7% of GNI on overseas aid, not just as a number but as a direction of travel. No one doubts the…31 Oct 2024HANSARDPrison CapacitiesMy Lords, by this time, the Minister must be thinking that this is going to be an easy job. I am afraid he has to learn, if he has not learned already, that the House of Lords is…12 Sept 2024HANSARDHouse of Lords: CompositionMy Lords, one of the benefits of this House is that some of us have been around a long time. I was much involved in the decision 25 years ago. The truth was that Viscount…05 Sept 2024 Bills sponsored (10)