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HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy Lords, I again partly apologise to noble Lords because I intended to speak on later amendments and to support the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas, on Amendment 69. I will…25 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid 19: Winter PlanI thank the Leader of the House for repeating the Statement. I assume that an estimate has been made of the extra people who will be killed in January as a result of this crazy…24 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy Lords, I reflect from the debate so far that the leadership of the main political parties at Westminster would do themselves a favour if they studied the speech of my noble…18 Nov 2020HANSARDDepartment of Health and Social Care: Unpaid AdvisersMy Lords, given the disclosures in the Sunday Times about the Minister’s three telephone calls with suppliers and lobbyists at the same time, I am surprised that he has not…17 Nov 2020HANSARDSupporting Disadvantaged FamiliesMy Lords, what is happening about the decline in the number of health visitors in respect of the youngest children in disadvantaged families? If the Government, as was said in the…12 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateIn the fourth paragraph of the Statement, the Secretary of State boasts that over 10 million people were tested at least once through NHS Test and Trace. The figure for the latest…12 Nov 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, I welcome the three maiden speeches. In particular, as a fellow member of the club of those who made their maiden speech at the Dispatch Box, I can imagine what the…11 Nov 2020HANSARDUK Terrorism Threat LevelMy thoughts too are with those who have suffered in France and Austria. I have two brief questions. The Minister did not answer the question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Paddick,…10 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Vaccine TaskforceMy Lords, the Minister has mentioned the task force several times. Who is on the task force? Why do we not know their names? Who appointed the task force? I have seen a reference…10 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Transparency and Accuracy of StatisticsMy Lords, given the leak, there must have been an element of rush for the Saturday press conference: 4 pm became 7 pm; I suspect a degree of panic. The leaker—and Gove, Hancock…09 Nov 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) Regulations 2020My Lords, at Prime Minister’s Questions today, the Prime Minister refused on more than one occasion to say what the Government are going to do with the time the next four weeks…04 Nov 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Christmas Breaches of RestrictionsMy Lords, David Jamieson is a star among the police and crime commissioners. The Government make the rules; the job of the police is to enforce them. Is the Minister aware that…03 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy Lords, at this stage of the Bill, Amendment 8, like Amendment 7, is a probing amendment, but I should just like to comment as an aside on the reference in the amendment to the…28 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateMy Lords, first, I thank the Minister, who, unlike some of his colleagues, has shown massive respect to the House in responding to the questions that he has been asked. That being…27 Oct 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillI was attracted to speak to this group of amendments by Amendments 5, 11 and 53, in the name of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope of Craighead, and, as I have listened to the…26 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: South YorkshireShould not Greater Manchester receive a backlog payment for tier 2 funding for the past two months, now that London has received one after two weeks? Given that the Government…22 Oct 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020My Lords, the message was “clarity”; that is a joke. There are no fewer than five ways to calculate the period of time for self-isolation in the regulations: at Regulation…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19I will change the subject. Early in the Statement yesterday, the Secretary of State referred to the shortening of the wait for cancer treatment since the long waits in July. I…20 Oct 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy Lords, I welcome my noble friend’s maiden speech and look forward to hearing others. In its summary of the Bill, the Constitution Committee mentioned, among others, the…19 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I shall be brief in moving this amendment. It is partly probing and partly serious, and in due course I shall probably reserve the right to come back to it on Report. I…15 Oct 2020