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HANSARDFood, Diet and Obesity Committee ReportMy Lords, our debate has created much passion and many personal emotions for me, including in thinking about the noble Lord, Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe, and his experience of…28 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, would the Minister consider raising with the Prime Minister the suggestion that I made of a statement along the lines I indicated in my speech, which would enable a…25 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I, too, support Amendment 67 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Laing of Elderslie, which I have signed. As a stalwart participant in debates about the future of…25 Mar 2025HANSARDLocal Authorities (Changes to Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) Order 2025My Lords, there are times when it is entirely appropriate to postpone elections. Such times include during a wartime emergency; we postponed general elections throughout the…24 Mar 2025HANSARDNHS DentistryMy Lords, the promised extra 700,000 appointments will mean just two extra appointments a month for each NHS dentist in England. The Health and Social Care Select Committee…19 Mar 2025HANSARDNHS DentistryMy Lords—19 Mar 2025HANSARDSoft Drinks Industry LevyMy Lords, the levy has reduced considerably the number of children who would otherwise have been admitted to hospital for dental extractions. Two-thirds of the public support an…18 Mar 2025HANSARDSoft Drinks Industry LevyTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the success of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy in comparison to voluntary sugar, salt and calorie reduction and…18 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Peerage Nominations) Bill [HL]My Lords, I begin by congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Norton of Louth, on his tenacity in working with other Members of this House to advance issues that improve our reputation…14 Mar 2025HANSARDLocal Government: Electoral QuotasMy Lords, is it not a bigger problem that many local councils are unrepresentative of their electorates? They can even become one-party states, because of the first past the post…11 Feb 2025HANSARDPolitical Parties: Donations from AbroadMy Lords, for the last 25 years, political parties in this country have been legally obliged to declare the source and scale of all their donations above a very modest level. Why…22 Jan 2025HANSARDPolitical Parties: FundingMy Lords, does the Minister accept that there can be problems with very large donations to political parties, whether they may originate from abroad or be clearly from within the…15 Jan 2025HANSARDHealth: ObesityMy Lords, does the Minister agree that one of the major problems with tackling obesity in the UK is that we are second only to the United States in our consumption of…07 Jan 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, this Bill is a very modest measure from a Government that so far, in terms of constitutional reform, have much to be modest about. The Bill is a long way away from…11 Dec 2024HANSARDPolitical Donations: CapTo ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to cap donations to political parties.05 Dec 2024HANSARDPolitical Donations: CapMy Lords, people are absolutely astonished when they discover that there is absolutely no limit whatsoever to how much money can be given by one individual to a political party.…05 Dec 2024HANSARDFracture Liaison ServicesMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to take part in a debate in which there is such strong consensus. The noble Lord, Lord Black of Brentwood, is again to be congratulated on raising…04 Dec 2024HANSARDVoter Identification (Amendment of List of Specified Documents) Regulations 2024My Lords, accepting the use of the veteran card as ID for voting is a welcome improvement, but to a very poor, expensive and quite unnecessary scheme. When the previous Government…28 Nov 2024HANSARDType 2 Diabetes: Continuous Glucose MonitorsTo ask His Majesty’s Government how they intend to monitor access to continuous glucose monitors for people with type 2 diabetes; and how such monitoring will take account of any…19 Nov 2024HANSARDType 2 Diabetes: Continuous Glucose MonitorsMany more people with type 2 diabetes could benefit from this technology. People living in deprivation and people of black and south Asian ethnicity are more likely to develop…19 Nov 2024