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HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI welcome an awful lot of what the Minister said and what His Majesty’s Government are trying to do. My heart sank slightly when I heard the piece about relying on statutory…09 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendments 69B to 72, and I declare my interests as a governor of Coram and as a trustee of the Foundling Museum, both of which organisations do a huge…09 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, before we move to the next group, I must inform the Committee that if Amendment 151 is agreed I will not be able to call Amendments 152 to 158 for reason of pre-emption.…05 Jun 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I will very briefly make two points. The first is to perhaps allay some fears that noble colleagues may have about the constitutional propriety of where we find…04 Jun 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, very briefly, there were two Members of your Lordships’ House who were sitting in the House of Commons a couple of weeks ago listening to the debate: the noble Baroness,…02 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI am grateful to the Minister for laying out the plethora of different types of Act and instrument that are meant to be woven together into a seamless whole to stop abuse in the…21 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I am very happy to add my name to the two amendments tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, having worked for many years before she came to the House on domestic…21 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I have put my name to Amendment 76 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, and Amendments 127 and 128 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Penn. I rise as one…13 May 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, before the Minister sits down, can I, first, just make an observation? Having listened to him reading from his brief, I wondered how many members of the team who…13 May 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I declare my interests as a governor of Coram and a trustee of the Foundling Museum, both of which institutions work across adoption, fostering and, particularly, the…01 May 2025HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner BillI will speak briefly to support the amendment of the noble Baroness, Lady Goldie. The German armed forces commissioner and her activities—on whose role, to a large degree, this…24 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial Bill20 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillMy Lords, I shall speak to this group of amendments, in particular the four that have my name attached to them: Amendments 9, 18, 19 and 20. I hope that this group may prove…20 Mar 2025HANSARDHolocaust Memorial BillI was about to say that I was slightly alarmed that this group of amendments is in danger of setting a precedent, in the sense that there seems to be a high degree of agreement…20 Mar 2025HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner BillMy Lords, I will briefly speak to the two amendments tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Beamish, to which I have added my name. We spent quite a lot of time during Second Reading…19 Mar 2025HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner BillWhen I saw Amendment 6 from the noble Lord, Lord Beamish, I put my name down in addition to his because of what I am holding in my hand: a fact sheet that was given to us at the…19 Mar 2025HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner BillI point out to the Minister that the two processes that I was talking about were run under precisely the rules that he has just laid out.19 Mar 2025HANSARDArmed Forces Commissioner BillThe Minister will recall that, in the last few years, there has been a degree of disquiet, particularly on his Benches, about the view that certain appointments that should have…19 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Peerage Nominations) Bill [HL]My Lords, I praise the noble Lord, Lord Norton, for his perseverance on this subject. I spoke at Second Reading on 18 November 2022, and am privileged to do so again. Once again,…14 Mar 2025HANSARDSchools: Mobile PhonesMy Lords, to follow up on the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Young, about school classes being interrupted by telephones, I merely observe that all of us are aware that…06 Mar 2025