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HANSARDMinisterial and other Maternity Allowances BillMy Lords, first and foremost, I am sure all Members of your Lordships’ House will want to join me in offering our best wishes to the Members of Parliament for Fareham, Enfield…22 Feb 2021HANSARDPolitical Parties: Expenditure LimitsMy Lords, given that the friend and family recipients of Covid crony contracts have already poured more than £8 million into Conservative Party coffers, does the Minister…22 Feb 2021HANSARDConstitution, Democracy and Human Rights CommissionMy Lords, does the Cabinet Office recognise that more piecemeal changes to the constitution and to electoral law, such as No. 10 taking back control of the Prorogation and…14 Jan 2021HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 6 in the name of my noble friend Lord Purvis of Tweed. I will also refer briefly to Amendment 12 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord…07 Dec 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, before I concentrate on the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Woolley, I will make some general comments about the Bill. The Government’s response to the…26 Nov 2020HANSARDMinisterial CodeMy Lords, on 2 November the Minister assured me and the House that the inquiry into bullying by the Home Secretary was wholly independent and free of all political and personal…24 Nov 2020HANSARDMinisterial CodeTo ask Her Majesty’s Government whether their Ministers are expected to abide by the standards of conduct in the discharge of their duties as set out in the Ministerial Code.24 Nov 2020HANSARDHome Secretary: Allegations of BullyingMy Lords, justice delayed is justice denied. Surely for civil servants in the Home Office, past and present, this long delay of eight months is intolerable. In accord with natural…02 Nov 2020HANSARDHome Secretary: Allegations of BullyingTo ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect to publish the report of their investigation into allegations of bullying of officials by the Home Secretary.02 Nov 2020HANSARDCivil Servants: Public ProcurementMy Lords, in the light of the report from the Good Law Project on procurement referred to by my noble friend Lord Scriven and the noble Baroness just now, can the Minister confirm…29 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, the Bill will return to the Commons substantially improved. I, too, pay tribute to all who have helped to make it so, including the Minister, the noble Lord, Lord True,…15 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, I wish to speak to Amendment 15 in my name. Again, I am delighted to have the support of the noble Lord, Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth, who has consistently endorsed my…08 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, our own amendment in this group is Amendment 14 in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Rennard, but I will refer also to others in this group which offer slightly…08 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, has brought some very important, practical questions to your Lordships’ House this afternoon. I hope the Minister will be able to reply to…08 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, I agree very much with what the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, has just said about the emphasis on people’s interests rather than those of politicians, and I shall come back…08 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to all Members who contributed to this short debate, particularly the Minister—and I will come back to him in a moment. In the meantime, I hope that…08 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies Bill08 Oct 2020HANSARDAgriculture BillMy Lords, I have listened with great interest to the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of Richmond, whose expertise in oenology is certainly far more tasteful than mine. I am devoted to the…22 Sept 2020HANSARDHouse of Lords: Number of MembersMy Lords, does the Minister accept that, following the huge majority for the 2012 House of Lords Reform Bill which Sir George Young, as he then was, secured at Second Reading,…16 Sept 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillI am very grateful. It was in fact a complete mystery to me that the House was voting, because in preparation for my speech I had, correctly, turned off my iPhone, so there was…15 Sept 2020