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HANSARDSchools: Exam-year PupilsMy Lords, seven vice-chancellors this morning signed a letter to the Government highlighting unprecedented pressures on our students. Can my noble friend the Minister confirm that…02 Feb 2021HANSARDInternational Year of Health and Care WorkersMy Lords, does my noble friend the Minister recognise that nurses remain at the heart of the world’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic? As key to the restoration of health systems…01 Feb 2021HANSARDTelevision Licence EvasionMy Lords, as so often, the noble Baroness, Lady Hoey, is right. I am glad that the Minister agrees that a criminal sanction, including cases of imprisonment for TV licence…26 Jan 2021HANSARDTackling Intergenerational Unfairness (Select Committee Report)My Lords, I congratulate the Select Committee on an informative and constructive report on tackling intergenerational unfairness. I appreciate that there is overlap with other…25 Jan 2021HANSARDBritish Armed Forces: Global BritainMy Lords, we must strive to be the foremost player in European defence by bolstering NATO and playing a constructive and key role in European security. Further afield, with China…21 Jan 2021HANSARDNon-Domestic Rating (Lists) (No. 2) BillMy Lords, I intend to make only a short intervention today. Covid-19 has had a massive impact on the sport and recreation sectors. While the arts lobby successfully negotiated a…18 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateMy Lords, I welcome the £4.6 billion in grants announced for the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors, as well as the sports winter survival loan package of last November,…12 Jan 2021HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation and Linked Households) (England) Regulations 2020My Lords, as we enter the epic phase of vaccine versus virus, the exemptions in these regulations for elite sportsmen and sportswomen are welcome. The related debate over the…07 Jan 2021HANSARDGreen Homes Grant SchemeMy Lords, a nationally-focused, directly-funded scheme for installing energy efficiency measures and efficient heating for fuel-poor homeowners and private renters exists in Wales…06 Jan 2021HANSARDEuropean Union (Future Relationship) BillMy Lords, having spent many years in your Lordships’ House on the Opposition Front Bench with responsibility for foreign affairs following my time in the Foreign Office long ago…30 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: VaccinationsMy Lords, last month, my noble friend the Minister was hoping to receive advice from the World Anti-Doping Agency for our Olympic and Paralympic sports stars preparing for the…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCustoms Safety and Security Procedures (EU Exit) Regulations 2020My Lords, the central requirement for government in the context of customs safety and security procedures is, as the Minister said, to establish the continuity of procedures so…10 Dec 2020HANSARDEcodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register, drawing particular attention to my chairmanship of Buckthorn Partners, which is active in the energy transition space.…01 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I congratulate my noble friend the Minister on the importance that he attaches to the safe return of fans to designated sports events, the reopening of many gyms and…30 Nov 2020HANSARDAudiovisual Media Services (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register, particularly as an adviser to Station12, with its interests in content production. These debates on EU exit…27 Nov 2020HANSARDSport Sector: Financial SupportMy Lords, I very much welcome this Statement as an important rescue package, for that is exactly what it is. I note that £250 million of the £300 million is in the form of loans.…25 Nov 2020HANSARDTravel AgentsMy Lords, I declare an interest as someone whose holiday was understandably cancelled due to Covid. Does my noble friend the Minister agree that it is unacceptable that some…23 Nov 2020HANSARDTowns FundMy Lords, in all the government guidance on the towns fund, there is the prospect of there being a major missed opportunity for prioritising co-investment with the private sector…19 Nov 2020HANSARDConsumer Protection (Enforcement) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020My Lords, the regulations being updated address systemic infringements of consumer law. Currently, they allow the Government to investigate and, if requested by another member…16 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, there is growing concern that the unique Pfizer vaccine, with an mRNA genetic molecule that cellular machinery reads in order to build proteins, could be incompatible…12 Nov 2020