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HANSARDPrimary and Community CareMy Lords, does the Minister agree that even deeper and wider embedding of diagnostics across the NHS, including more in community pharmacists and GP surgeries, would help in the…05 Jun 2025HANSARDAutumn Budget 2024My Lords, no pressure there then. Let me first say, in contrast to the noble Lord, Lord Lamont, how pleased I am to see the Government shifting their rules to deliberately allow…11 Nov 2024HANSARDKing’s Speech (4th Day)My Lords, I add my welcome to the new Ministers and wish them very well and the best of luck in their important roles. I also congratulate the noble Lords, Lord Petitgas and Lord…22 Jul 2024HANSARDAutumn Statement 2023My Lords, it also my pleasure to speak in this important debate and, as always, to hear such a vast array of different and generally extremely eloquent opinions, which somewhat…29 Nov 2023HANSARDBudget StatementMy Lords, it is quite a remarkable pleasure and an honour to welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Moyo, to this House, and to speak immediately after her excellent maiden speech. I am…16 Mar 2023HANSARDEconomy: The Growth Plan 2022I too add my congratulations and best wishes to my noble friend Lady Gohir, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Birmingham and the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe—perhaps…10 Oct 2022HANSARDFootball: European Super LeagueMy Lords, I too express my disgust at this development. It is the culmination of many years of the style of ownership that has been so permissible under the way football has…20 Apr 2021HANSARDBudget StatementMy Lords, I give my own congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Khan of Burnley. I particularly welcome his passion and plea for more for the northern powerhouse. In view of the…12 Mar 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateMy Lords, I would like to, once more—I have done so before—compliment the Chancellor and the Treasury on their general agility in their policy response to this unpredictable,…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomyMy Lords, I broadly compliment the proactive role played by the Treasury in response to this crisis, which has, sadly, been in marked contrast to the overall policy of the…28 Sept 2020HANSARDEconomyWhat is happening to this and the spending review as well as the much-talked-about Green Book review as well as the promised paper on devolution? Surely the ongoing consequences…28 Sept 2020HANSARDEconomy: UpdateMy Lords, I would like to thank and congratulate the Chancellor and his advisers in the Treasury for speed and agility of their economic policy response. I recall that in his…28 Apr 2020HANSARDBudget StatementMy Lords, I welcomed the broad spirit and nature of the Chancellor’s Budget, much of which was, of course, designed before the realities of Covid-19. It was focused on a policy to…18 Mar 2020HANSARDBudget StatementMy Lords, my frank answer is that I do not know, but the longer that we delay an imaginative and forceful response, the risk of what the noble Lord has just described will rise.…18 Mar 2020HANSARDBudget StatementI apologise—I am not sure of the appropriate convention. We do not have weeks to have this debate; we need to act now.18 Mar 2020HANSARDG20 SummitMy Lords, it is a pleasure as well as an honour briefly to speak in this debate. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Howell, on securing it and join others in commending the…08 Jul 2019HANSARDG20 SummitTo echo the words and spirit of the noble Lords, Lord Howell and Lord Grocott, it is exceptionally important that the UK be on the front foot at the G20, with thought and serious…08 Jul 2019HANSARDBrexit: Withdrawal Agreement and Political DeclarationMy Lords, I want to start by flattering the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, for his very wise words early in this debate, which have given me a little more belief in my own…09 Jan 2019