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HANSARDLeasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [HL]My Lords, the noble Baroness has done us a great service. We have all read about these situations. I am not aware of the details of any of them, but there has been enough coverage…09 Jun 2021HANSARDLeasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [HL]We have dealt with that one, have we?09 Jun 2021HANSARDLeasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill [HL]I apologise. I very much support what the noble Baroness said. I need do no more than ask my noble friend on the Front Bench to take it really seriously.09 Jun 2021HANSARDQueen’s SpeechMy Lords, I welcome the gracious Speech. My comments will be on global Britain, specifically the Indo-Pacific tilt. My own background is that I have lived and worked in India,…19 May 2021HANSARDIntegrated Review: Development AidMy Lords, I pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Alton: over many years, he has shown consistent creative thinking and action on aid, so I thank him. He highlighted Yemen and was…28 Apr 2021HANSARDWhiplash Injury Regulations 2021My Lords, I support these regulations. The objectives are good and clear, although on reflection, perhaps it is a pity it has taken so long—four years—for action. It is good to…26 Apr 2021HANSARDAnimal Welfare (Sentencing) BillMy Lords, I support this Bill. Before I go any further, I should declare an interest in that I have two Jack Russells. Biggleswade is where we live and our senior Jack Russell is…16 Apr 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillI thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles, for raising these issues. All three of the amendments that she has tabled are important. They are to do with the FCA and PRA regulators,…14 Apr 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillThis is an important Bill and I record my formal thanks to my noble friends on the Front Bench for the way that they listened to the earlier debates. Here, we have evidence in…14 Apr 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, Amendment 37C is an issue of fundamental importance to young people who are disabled and have taken up child trust funds. The amendment before us is key. We had a…14 Apr 2021HANSARDCovid-19: One Year ReportI would like to mention the wearing of face coverings. I have one general question, to which I do not know the answer, and I suspect that the Minister does not, but we need to…25 Mar 2021HANSARDExtradition Act 2003 (Codes of Practice and Transit Code of Practice) Order 2021My Lords, I am conscious that this is a complicated issue and that we in Parliament have to debate under the draft affirmative procedure and give our consent. I am not experienced…23 Mar 2021HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 2021My Lords, I thank my noble friend on the Front Bench—my goodness, he has broad shoulders—and I warmly support the action he is taking and this SI. I have a couple of questions and…22 Mar 2021HANSARDRepresentation of the People (Proxy Vote Applications) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021My Lords, I am pleased that the title contains “draft”, because I have some thoughts that I hope my noble friend the Minister might take on board. I am not clear why we need an…18 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Hodgson for tabling the amendment because what is behind it is absolutely right, as a number of my noble friends have said in the…16 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I shall be very brief. I am full of admiration for my dear noble friend Lady Noakes for the thoroughness with which she has trawled through the Bill and these particular…16 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I very much welcome the amendments from my noble friends Lady Noakes and Lord Hodgson. Any of us who has worked in financial services, either before we came into…16 Mar 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, I thank my dear friend the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, who has been a wonderful campaigner on this issue. I went back in history a little way because I have the privilege…15 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillMy Lords, I spoke at Second Reading, where I said that our Foreign Office should release “dispatches from our observers who watch war anywhere around the world.”—[ Official Report…09 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe, for putting down Amendment 79; I will address that first and then move on to Amendment 93. I spoke earlier about…08 Mar 2021