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HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I rise to move Amendment 2. I apologise to noble Lords if anything in my moving of this amendment is maladroit or otherwise at fault: it is the first time I have moved…29 Apr 2025HANSARDNational Debt: It’s Time for Tough Decisions (Economic Affairs Committee Report)My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Bridges, and his committee on this valuable report and its hard-hitting title, and my fellow Peers in this debate on their many…25 Apr 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I declare my interests as a businessman and investor. I welcome the excellent maiden speeches of my hereditarily noble friend Lord Young of Acton; by the poised and…27 Mar 2025HANSARDRoyal Albert Hall Bill [HL]I regret any upset that I may have caused the noble and learned Baroness. Recollections may vary. I have not completed my speech. As we have heard from my noble friend Lady…29 Jan 2025HANSARDRoyal Albert Hall Bill [HL]My Lords, I support the Bill but oppose the amendment, which would undermine the Royal Albert Hall, its finances and, indeed, its future. I declare my conflict of interest as a…29 Jan 2025HANSARDRoyal Albert Hall Bill [HL]I express my regret to the noble Baroness for any inadvertent inappropriate language, but I repeat that an individual who it was agreed had no locus standi was allowed to speak…29 Jan 2025HANSARDRoyal Albert Hall Bill [HL]If noble Lords will hear the end of my sentence, they might understand why I caught that impression. The Bill Committee allowed someone with no locus standi to address the…29 Jan 2025HANSARDRoyal Albert Hall Bill [HL]I will do my best; I have just a little bit left. As president of the Royal Albert Hall, I think the House deserves to hear from me, as against the many who did not know. I and so…29 Jan 2025HANSARDFree Schools and AcademiesMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Berridge. I thank my noble friend Lady Evans for securing this debate. I refer to my interests in the register—in…23 Jan 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthMy Lords, I declare my interests as on the register, and I also declare a particularly awkward conflict, which is that, as the noble Lord, Lord Hannan, referred to, recently I…23 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]The noble Lord, Lord Watson, reminded us of solidarity. Does my noble friend agree that there is a great difference between legislative—which is to say coerced—solidarity, which…15 Jan 2025HANSARDLong-duration Energy Storage (Science and Technology Committee Report)My Lords, I declare my interests as listed in the register. In the spirit of the example of the noble Baroness, Lady Brown, I additionally disclose that, in common with most…09 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Monckton of Dallington Forest. The pleasure is allayed slightly by the fact that I cannot hope to rise to the…06 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI will finish. I entreat the Government to set out on a search for an economic growth plan that relies on the facts about growth, not on the unsupported feelings that currently…06 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI thank the noble Baroness. It is an indicative time. I will finish.06 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI just informed the noble Baroness that I was about to finish, and I would have finished by now had she not interrupted a second time. I remind her that it is an indicative time,…06 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI am almost finished. I earnestly entreat the Government to set out on a search for an economic growth plan—06 Jan 2025HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I have a very strong recollection of this because I wrote an article the day after the proposal came, which was published, like many articles at the time, and I remember…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I hope the Minister will bear in mind that the repeated statements “For every winner there is a loser”, “The Premier League is in terrible danger” or “Football is in…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, the hour is late and I found my brain somewhat pounded into stupefaction by the thoughts of the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay. I found myself, perhaps…16 Dec 2024