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HANSARDRestoration and Renewal: Location of House of Lords ChamberMy Lords, my noble friend the Leader of the House is alongside me here as a courtesy, listening to your Lordships’ points of view, and I am sure that she will have heard what the…16 May 2022HANSARDRestoration and Renewal: Location of House of Lords ChamberMy Lords, restoration and renewal is a parliamentary programme and decisions on how to proceed are for Parliament. Both Houses are reviewing the programme’s shape and the…16 May 2022HANSARDRestoration and Renewal: Location of House of Lords ChamberMy Lords, again, I am not going to speak for my right honourable friend, but the noble Lord makes a cogent point which would need to be considered by all of us within Parliament…16 May 2022HANSARDRestoration and Renewal: Location of House of Lords ChamberMy Lords, as I have said, the QEII conference centre is a commercially run trading fund, and it is an executive agency of DLUHC. The noble and learned Baroness asks a hypothetical…16 May 2022HANSARDRestoration and Renewal: Location of House of Lords ChamberAs a Member of your Lordships’ House, my noble friend obviously makes an important point. As I have said more than once at this Dispatch Box, the questions of the future of the…16 May 2022HANSARDRestoration and Renewal: Location of House of Lords ChamberMy Lords, in a sense, that is a House of Lords point, but I understand what the noble Lord said. I have lived some of my life outside London and some of it in it. Of course those…16 May 2022HANSARDRestoration and Renewal: Location of House of Lords ChamberMy Lords, again, I am being invited to stray into questions of parliamentary management, which is not appropriate for a government Minister. However, as always, my noble friend…16 May 2022HANSARDRestoration and Renewal: Location of House of Lords ChamberMy Lords, I could not possibly comment on that. The Secretary of State obviously has a standing in DLUHC in the sense that the QEII Centre is an executive agency for which DLUHC…16 May 2022HANSARDRestoration and Renewal: Location of House of Lords ChamberNo—I take it as the highest duty that I have to come before your Lordships and answer questions and explain things. I repeat: decisions on how to proceed in this are a matter for…16 May 2022HANSARDRestoration and Renewal: Location of House of Lords ChamberMy Lords, I cannot answer that specific point. No doubt the Secretary of State could explain. The noble Lord takes the very point that I made in my previous answer—that it makes…16 May 2022HANSARDRestoration and Renewal: Location of House of Lords ChamberMy Lords, again, the noble Baroness strays slightly from the Question. On the last point, I only say that in a Session following the Session in which there was a record number of…16 May 2022HANSARDRestoration and Renewal: Location of House of Lords ChamberMy Lords, the noble Lord is inventive in slipping the Labour windfall tax into a Question about the location of the House of Lords. For the avoidance of doubt, I do not favour…16 May 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, I have already spoken to Motion B, so I beg to move. Motion B1 (as an amendment to Motion B)27 Apr 2022HANSARDElections BillThat this House do not insist on its Amendment 86, to which the Commons have disagreed for their Reason 86A.27 Apr 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, for the convenience of the House—I know it is late and I have made my arguments and placed them before your Lordships—but I was asked a couple of specific questions. In…27 Apr 2022HANSARDElections BillMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I will also speak to Motion B. On Motion A, the Government have listened with respect to your Lordships’ concerns but they consider the…27 Apr 2022HANSARDElections BillThat this House do not insist on its Amendments 22 and 23 and do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 22A to 22I to the words restored to the Bill by the Commons…27 Apr 2022HANSARDGlobal Positioning SystemMy Lords, I have referred to space weather and the solar cycle, and I agree with the noble Viscount that it is important because at the height of the solar cycle it can disrupt or…26 Apr 2022HANSARDGlobal Positioning SystemMy Lords, I think I would back the noble Lord to get me home safely using dead reckoning. But he is absolutely right to raise the issues of precision and resilience in relation to…26 Apr 2022HANSARDGlobal Positioning SystemMy Lords, I think the whole House recognises the expertise of the first questioner and the last speaker. Yes, hostile threats are potential and potentially real, and the…26 Apr 2022