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HANSARDThe Space Economy (UK Engagement with Space Committee Report)My Lords, by the time you get to your feet and nine people have already spoken, an awful lot of things that you would want to say have already been covered. I repeat again that it…09 Jul 2026HANSARDForeign Interference in UK PoliticsMy Lords, I have just returned from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly, where I spent the last five days on behalf of the House. One…09 Jul 2026HANSARDPolitical Party Finance and the Electoral CommissionMy Lords, thank you for allowing me to speak in the gap. I declare an interest, having been the election lawyer to the Labour Party for many decades. I will talk about one small,…02 Jul 2026HANSARDHS2 Ltd: ConsultantsMy Lords, may I invite my noble friend the Minister and everyone else in the House to join me in 2037—I repeat: 2037—at the opening of HS2 to save 30 minutes getting to…22 Jun 2026HANSARDDefence Investment PlanMy Lords, I have £50 billion in my back pocket. In 11 years’ time, my noble friend the Minister and every Member of this House will be able to get to Birmingham 20 minutes faster.…16 Jun 2026HANSARDE-scooters and E-bikesMy Lords, I ought to declare an interest, in that I do not like electric bikes or electric scooters, so at least noble Lords know where I am coming from. Being stationary at a red…09 Jun 2026HANSARDUK Domestic Visitor LevyMy Lords, I ask a question by way of clarification. Will I have to pay this levy when I go up to watch my beloved Manchester United every week?16 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIs the Committee prepared to hear me?06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI apologise. Yes, the word is “suffocated”—he was suffocating as his lungs began to fade.06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, can I address the Committee on a personal note? My late brother-in-law suffered from muscular dystrophy, a horrendous progressive disease that many noble Lords may have…06 Feb 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThank you. I apologise to the Front Bench about that. The problem was, in the later part of his life, his lungs began to give way. I remember him saying to me, in the last two or…06 Feb 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, in my experience, the fastest and most dangerous group of cyclists are Deliveroo and Uber Eats riders. That would be the case because they have to get as many deliveries…20 Jan 2026HANSARDElection LawMy Lords, I remember attending the Law Commission, some 10 years ago if not more, when it promised to bring forward a new electoral registration Act, together with a review of the…18 Nov 2025HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I listened very carefully to what the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, said. She has put an enormous amount of work into the background of this Bill. One thing she did not…14 Nov 2025HANSARDOnline Safety Act 2023: Online Hate and RacismTomorrow evening, Aston Villa will be playing Maccabi Tel Aviv. What steps are the Government taking to monitor the possible antisemitic statements that may appear in the press…05 Nov 2025HANSARDUnauthorised Entry to Football Matches BillMy Lords, thank you very much for allowing me to speak in the gap. I fully support this Bill and congratulate my noble friend Lord Brennan on it. The comments from the noble Lord,…24 Oct 2025HANSARDProperty (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL]My Lords, I also thank Matthew Burton and the clerks who have been involved in this behind the scenes. I am not in favour of this amendment. The way the Bill is drafted is very…03 Feb 2025HANSARDProperty (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL]I support what the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and my noble friends Lord Bassam and Lord Stansgate have said. But my noble friend Lord Bassam’s question is crucial: how far…03 Feb 2025HANSARDProperty (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL]My Lords, I support what the noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst, said. When I was looking at the amendments last night, I wrote in the margin, on this amendment “restricts future…03 Feb 2025HANSARDProperty (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL]The noble Lord, Lord Holmes, has a massive smile on his face at the moment, and it just strikes me immediately that, with proposed new subsection (2), he is using the Bill as a…03 Feb 2025