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HANSARDCivil Aviation (Consumer Protection and Regulatory Reform) Bill [HL]16 Jun 2026HANSARDAirports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements) Regulations 2026My Lords, I have cast my remarks mainly in the form of a series of questions. Before I come to the first question, let me just say that my noble friend Lady McIntosh of Pickering…10 Jun 2026HANSARDAnimals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (Amendment) Regulations 2026I hope that the Committee will indulge me if I ask a further question on this point. After 23 June, it will not be possible for the Home Office or whichever other department it…10 Jun 2026HANSARDClean Air Zones Central Services (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026At end insert “but that this House regrets that the draft Regulations will increase the fee payable in respect of clean air zone payments processed through the central services…09 Jun 2026HANSARDClean Air Zones Central Services (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026My Lords, I start by saying that if the purpose of the recent changes in procedure for dealing with statutory instrument regret amendments and fatal amendments was to limit the…09 Jun 2026HANSARDE-scooters and E-bikesMy Lords, I want to throw my tuppence into this. Building on the question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, what strikes me is just how shoddy and tawdry our great city streets…09 Jun 2026HANSARDClean Air Zones Central Services (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2026My Lords, it is not a revenue-raising measure, the Minister says—unless you are the Department for Transport, which will raise the revenue to cover its costs, as that is the prime…09 Jun 2026HANSARDCivil Aviation (Consumer Protection and Regulatory Reform) Bill [HL]My Lords, it has been an excellent debate. Most of my points have been made; in the course of the afternoon, I have been tearing up and disposing of parts of the speech that was…02 Jun 2026HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, it has been a truly interesting and wide-ranging debate. I hope that noble Lords will forgive me if I confine my remarks to the transport aspects of the debate. There…20 May 2026HANSARDRMT Strikes: Impact on BusinessesMy Lords, my noble friend Lord Sharpe referred to the threat made yesterday by the RMT to bring about a total stoppage of the railways nationwide if they did not receive an…28 Apr 2026HANSARDRail Safety Recommendations: BacklogMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Pack, uses the word “backlog” to describe the situation with the implementation of these recommendations. Does the Minister agree that there is a…28 Apr 2026HANSARDMerchant Shipping (Port State Control) Regulations 2026My Lords, I am very sorry to hear the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, say that making laws for our own country, through our own processes, is somehow a distraction from what we…27 Apr 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords—24 Apr 2026HANSARDTrains: PunctualityMy Lords, we will not get improvements in performance on the railways unless we also get improvements in productivity and efficiency of staff. In January this year, the RMT put…20 Apr 2026HANSARDAviation Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2026My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Pidgeon, I am grateful to the Minister and his officials for arranging a short briefing for me yesterday on this measure, which I found…15 Apr 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, an emergency power of suspension to be exercised in the middle of the night is perfectly appropriate when dealing with a drunk driver. It is perfectly appropriate when…13 Apr 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill13 Apr 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Borwick for his amendment. In preparation for this Bill, the amendment has taken up a lot of time and involved a lot of meetings…13 Apr 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillIt is very kind of the noble Lord to give way. I appreciate it is late, but there are not many speakers in this debate so perhaps I can take a little time. The noble Lord said…13 Apr 2026HANSARDEnglish Devolution and Community Empowerment BillMy Lords, in general, we welcome most of these amendments. To deal first with those repetitive amendments that say “leave out ‘minimum’” all the way through, as I say, in general…13 Apr 2026