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HANSARDCare Homes: Energy CostsMy Lords, heating costs are just the tip of the iceberg for care homes. What does the Minister have to say to people such as June, a care home worker in Sheffield of 24 years, who…08 Sept 2022HANSARDUrgent and Emergency CareMy Lords, I declare my interest as a non-executive director of Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. It is…06 Sept 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 105 in the names of my noble friends Lord Wallace of Saltaire and Lord Fox. I will come on to some of the points the noble Baroness, Lady…18 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I have listened very carefully to the description the noble Lord has given. Exactly the same kind of provisions exist in states which do torture, where there are no laws or…18 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, this has been a fascinating discussion on a number of amendments that are grouped around what I would call value-based procurement. The values should allow £300 billion…18 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I want to come back to the Minister’s explanation about the word “appropriate” and it being wide. I understand that there may be reasons why a fully open procurement would not be…18 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]Well, the healthiest on the Procurement Bill and constitutional affairs Front-Bench team. I thank the Minister, I think, for passing on his cold of last week to me. My noble…18 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 528C, which my noble friend Lady Brinton has already spoken to. Like her, I am a little perplexed about the Government’s view,…13 Jul 2022HANSARDAmbulance Services and National Heatwave EmergencyMy Lords, delayed discharges account for more than 2.5 million lost bed days in NHS hospitals. With the greatest respect, organisational reorganisation will not deal with the…13 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, this has become a fascinating discussion, particularly when linked to the previous group on Clause 11, as my noble friend Lord Wallace of Saltaire said. I rise to…13 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I particularly did not use the prism of public sector procurement professions, because I thought that the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, had already made the case for the NHS, and others…13 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I have listened very carefully and have just reread every amendment in this group. Can the Minister point to one amendment that prescribes how the principles in each amendment…13 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, this has been a fascinating as well as nearly unanimous debate about the importance of small to medium-sized enterprises and the role they can play in innovating,…11 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]Does the Minister accept the feeling around the Committee that, while we accept that things are moving forward, they are not strong enough? On the framework issue, one of the…11 Jul 2022HANSARDCoronavirus: New CasesMy Lords, I declare my interest as in the register as a non-executive director of Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Following on from the last two questions, last…11 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]Would the Minister give way? That is one definition of local growth: that it has to be a local company that gets the business. Local growth is completely different: it could be…11 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I have listened with great interest to this debate and seen the tension between those who want what they call a flexible and open framework and those who want a more…11 Jul 2022HANSARDProcedure and Privileges CommitteeNo—05 Jul 2022HANSARDProcedure and Privileges CommitteeI will not make myself popular with my Chief Whip, but if that is the case, surely, until such time as it has been sorted, we should not be voting for the change.05 Jul 2022HANSARDProcedure and Privileges CommitteeThe report, therefore, is factually incorrect. The submission by the education and engagement centre, which I have a copy of and have read, says that 8,000 young people would not…05 Jul 2022