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HANSARDWindsor FrameworkMy Lords, does the Minister agree that the Windsor Framework is not merely about Northern Ireland? It has potentially profound implications for the rest of the United Kingdom as…07 Mar 2023HANSARDOfficial Controls (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023I want to ask something just for the sake of clarification. My understanding is that the checks that have been carried out for many years relate to livestock and that most people…01 Mar 2023HANSARDOfficial Controls (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023My Lords, I express great sympathy with the Motion standing in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Dodds of Duncairn. I hope to do so briefly, and I will be assisted in that by the…01 Mar 2023HANSARDPrisoners: Imprisonment for Public ProtectionMy Lords, the recall of prisoners on licence is crucial to this. Last year was the first year in which the number of prisoners in jail increased since the sentence was abolished…01 Mar 2023HANSARDPrisoners: Imprisonment for Public ProtectionTo ask His Majesty’s Government what progress they have made in developing a new action plan for prisoners serving an indeterminate Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP)…01 Mar 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I will also speak to Amendment 241, also in my name. I hope this will be the least controversial mini-debate on the Bill, because I do not think anybody in the Committee…06 Feb 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill06 Feb 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in the debate and for the support that has been given generally for the amendments tabled. It is true that one or two…06 Feb 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, it is hard to think of something new to say at the end of such a long debate, but I am going to try. I am helped by the fact that I find myself, very unusually, somewhat…01 Feb 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, on her maiden speech, but it falls particularly to me to give a welcome to my noble friend Lord…17 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 224 and 230 standing in my name. Before I do so, I shall make a supportive remark about Amendment 226 in the name of my noble friend Lord…16 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I am grateful for those points, which I will try to answer briefly since they were put to me directly. First, I hope that nothing in what I said suggested, implied or stated that…16 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]The name of the regulations that I am suggesting we review is the Gas Safety (Management) Regulations, so I fully acknowledge that this is a question of safety, but it is not…16 Jan 2023HANSARDEnergy Bill [HL]I am grateful for that clarification. If the noble Lord is saying that the time has gone, that, it seems to me, is essentially a commercial and practical judgment. It may be…16 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Revision of Code A) Order 2022My Lords, since the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, spent much of last year calling the Prime Minister of the day a liar on the Floor of your Lordships’ House, I am…10 Jan 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I was worried that my noble friend Lord Carrington of Fulham would take away the very last thing I might have said that has not already been said, but happily he has…10 Jan 2023HANSARDElectricity: DecarbonisationMy Lords, to have a strategy for decarbonising electricity, the Government have to be able to say what will make up the supply when the wind is not blowing or the sun is not…21 Dec 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI am happy to take the historical dispute offline, as they say, and discuss it with the noble Lord afterwards. Our concept of freedom of speech in traditional English law is…07 Dec 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy Lords, it is a great privilege to speak after the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope of Craighead. I have the impression—perhaps I am making it more explicit than he was willing…07 Dec 2022HANSARDHigher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMy Lords, I do not think I have said this before in your Lordships’ House, but I stand in almost constant awe of the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, because many years ago…07 Dec 2022