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HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy noble friend makes a very interesting point, and there is much to ponder in it—too much to ponder for me to respond to it immediately. Since I am confident that the issue is…27 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill27 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, while my noble friend is talking about the possibility of excessive and disproportionate burden on businesses, can I just ask him about the possibility of excessive and…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I have to start with a slightly unprofessional confession. I accepted the Bill team’s suggestion on how my amendments might be grouped after I had grouped them rather…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillEverything the noble Baroness has said is absolutely right, and I completely agree with her. The point I simply want to make is that no form of risk-based assessment will achieve…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords I am grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed to this slightly disjointed debate. I fully accept that there will be further opportunities to discuss age…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI beg the noble Baroness’s pardon; I took that for granted. There are certain things—access to pornography, material encouraging self-harm and things of that sort—where one has to…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I am now going to attempt for the third time to beg the House’s leave to withdraw my amendment. I hope for the sake of us all, our dinner and the dinner break business,…25 Apr 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, before I speak to my Amendment 9, which I will be able to do fairly briefly because a great deal of the material on which my case rests has already been given to the…25 Apr 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I declare my interest as a member of the board of the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation. Designation as an NSIP, a nationally significant infrastructure project, has a…24 Apr 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill24 Apr 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillIf my noble friend will allow me to say so, I did not suggest that they were offering to second somebody but to fund a planning officer who would be recruited from the pool of…24 Apr 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillI am grateful for that but, thanks to a judgment—I cannot remember the name—in the courts a year or two ago on the Holocaust memorial, local planning authorities have been…24 Apr 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I will speak briefly in giving general support to the thrust of the amendments, not only on the grounds advanced by other noble Lords but because they would mitigate…24 Apr 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have taken part in this short debate. I shall start briefly with the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy of Southwark, being keen to fly. He said…24 Apr 2023HANSARDPublic Transport in Towns and CitiesMy Lords, in rising to move this Motion, I start by paying tribute to my predecessor as chairman of the committee, my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe, who in fact chaired it…17 Apr 2023HANSARDPublic Transport in Towns and CitiesMy Lords, I see that, as rumours of the exciting quality of this debate have spread through the Palace of Westminster, the Moses Room has filled up with an audience keen to…17 Apr 2023HANSARDPublic Transport in Towns and CitiesThat the Grand Committee takes note of the Report from the Built Environment Committee Public Transport in Towns and Cities (1st Report, HL Paper 89).17 Apr 2023HANSARDBus ServicesMy Lords, will my noble friend be issuing guidance to plumbers and electricians on how to carry their tools and equipment on a bus, especially in outer London, since the Mayor of…30 Mar 2023