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HANSARDIndependent Review of Children’s Social CareMy Lords, I want to ask a practical but important nuts-and-bolts question. Can my noble friend the Minister assure the House that it will be a cross-government and multiagency…24 May 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I welcome this Bill and its direction of travel. I will raise four matters today. I turn first to the adverse effect on the mental health of children and young people of…23 May 2022HANSARDLive Facial Recognition: Police GuidanceMy Lords, I am sorry to press the Minister, but in the light of the forthcoming regulations that are going to be made in respect of non-crime hate speech, is not facial…04 Apr 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillMy Lords, I oppose these amendments. The power to make a prospective quashing order brings clear benefits. Such an order has more teeth than a mere declaration that a Secretary of…31 Mar 2022HANSARDInternational Women’s Day and Protecting the Equality of Women in the UK and InternationallyMy Lords, I speak today from the perspective of a retired male lawyer—pale and perhaps a little stale. I shall look at where we have come from and where we have got to today…17 Mar 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I am pleased to follow my noble friend Lady Shackleton’s speech. We had the Windrush disaster because people got nothing in writing. That was a shameful episode; many…08 Mar 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 297G. This will give much-needed statutory force to what has been long-stated NHS policy, but which has not always been properly…09 Feb 2022HANSARDE-scootersMy Lords, this matter is now urgent. What deadline has the Minister set her department for producing a report? We cannot go on with uninsured riders, very often moving around…08 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillMy Lords, it was a pleasure to hear the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Hacking, and his tour d’horizon of the giants and giantesses of old. I shall speak only in respect of the…07 Feb 2022HANSARDSocial Welfare Law Cases: Legal AidMy Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister very much for his first Answer. I remind him that the Conservative Lord Rushcliffe’s 1945 report urged that: “Legal aid should be…01 Feb 2022HANSARDCoronavirus Grants: FraudMy Lords, yesterday, my noble friend Lord Agnew of Oulton told the House that he was at odds with what he said was the Treasury relying on after-the-event audits, saying that this…25 Jan 2022HANSARDConduct CommitteeMy Lords, very simply, this is a question of jurisdiction. If the current practice of the House is that we have—certainly before I was a Member—given jurisdiction, whether…19 Jan 2022HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I begin by saying how grateful I am to my noble friend Lady Williams of Trafford for the time that she has given me, and others, since the debate in Committee on 1…17 Jan 2022HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I support the amendment. I am conscious that the Bill is on Report. This is a probing amendment, but it raises an important and pressing point. I hope I shall be short.…15 Dec 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 78B, on the maximum sentence for disclosing the identity of sexual offences complainants. I understand the motivation for this amendment and…15 Dec 2021HANSARDFreedom of SpeechMy Lords, my focus today will be on universities, from which come our future leaders. In December 2019, the Policy Institute at King’s College London published an important report…10 Dec 2021HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Stevens of Birmingham, on his very uplifting maiden speech. I shall direct my remarks to Clause 4. This inserts a new…07 Dec 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendments 320 and 328, which would repeal the Vagrancy Act. This 197 year-old Act does nothing to tackle and resolve homelessness, and nor does it…24 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I shall speak shortly. I have always had a long interest in legal aid and its proper provision. My concern is that this amendment is aimed at the right target but goes…22 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, perhaps I may begin by saying that I support Amendment 220. I endorse it completely and have nothing further to say on it. Noble Lords have spoken with great eloquence…17 Nov 2021