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HANSARDPolice: Stop and SearchMy Lords, how wise is it to put off the introduction of biometric ID cards?06 May 2025HANSARDFarming: 25-year Road MapSelf-evidently there will be no food security without food, and there will be no food without farmers. What are the Government going to do about the ageing population of farmers…28 Apr 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I very largely agree with the amendment tabled by my noble friend Lord Hamilton of Epsom. My Amendment 101A is slightly more ambitious—perhaps too ambitious for the…01 Apr 2025HANSARDPalestine Statehood (Recognition) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am most grateful to have been given the privilege of being able to say a few words during the gap, and I will try not to abuse that indulgence. I add my…14 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI am not saying that the Front Bench has accused anyone of filibustering, but we have been accused of filibustering when we have probed the reasoning behind some of these rather…12 Mar 2025HANSARDUS Steel and Aluminium TariffsMy Lords, while I very much welcome the action and words that the Prime Minister is using to defend the United Kingdom in this respect, does the Minister share my concern that, if…12 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, I am now genuinely confused by this Bill. It seems to me that the purpose of this place, if it has any purpose, is to look at bad legislation—bad proposals—and seek to…12 Mar 2025HANSARDConduct CommitteeMy Lords, with your Lordships’ indulgence, I shall raise a narrow point in the gap, one that I have already raised privately with the noble Baroness, Lady Manningham-Buller, on…05 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy Lords, first, retaining the connection between these two Great Officers of State and this place would reassure those who are concerned about the weakening link between this…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillWith that in mind, I invite the noble Lord to have a word with those who drafted the Labour manifesto, which says, as a standalone sentence: “Hereditary peers remain indefensible”.03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillDoes the noble Lord, who should be a little more cheerful having achieved what he set out to do, not accept that there were many of us who were not in this House and therefore…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillFor clarification, the Government pray in aid their manifesto and talk about the grammar of where the full stop falls, but it is worth looking at their latest manifesto. In the…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillHear, hear to that—I could not agree more with the Leader of the House. We should not be debating this at this time at all, and we are in risk of rendering ourselves irrelevant…03 Mar 2025HANSARDIsrael and the Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesMy Lords, does the Minister agree that one way of instilling greater confidence in this three-stage process is to allow the international press into Gaza? What discussions has he…10 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillI draw attention to my entry in the register of interests. I want to speak briefly in support of this series of amendments in the name of my noble friend Lady Noakes and others.…04 Feb 2025HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) BillMy Lords, I too support my noble friend Lady Monckton of Dallington Forest and thank her for her very moving and informed speech. It triggered a memory for me. I was approached by…04 Feb 2025HANSARDGaza: Humanitarian SituationMy Lords, is it not time to remind ourselves of the obligation that this country made through the Balfour Declaration? It stated clearly that “nothing shall be done which may…30 Jan 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthMy Lords, on that note, I do not want to do anything this afternoon to dent the happiness index. I start by referring to my entry in the register of interests and by joining in…23 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Trust ActsMy Lords, criticising some of the trends in the governance of the National Trust is not bashing the institution. I am a proud member of the National Trust; I think that it does…21 Jan 2025HANSARDNational Trust ActsMy Lords—21 Jan 2025