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HANSARDOnline SafetyMy Lords, will my noble friend the Minister kindly tell the House how the Government can ensure that the people who are putting their dates of birth online are actually the people…16 Jan 2025HANSARDPuberty-suppressing HormonesMy Lords, perhaps I might return to the conventional asking of a question to the Minister—a very quick question. There are a number of practitioners who are considering, if not…16 Dec 2024HANSARDBread and Flour Regulations 1998I am sorry.11 Dec 2024HANSARDBread and Flour Regulations 1998Given the Government’s excellent initiative to reduce the serious risk of neural tube defects, which cause such despair to so many people, will they tell us where we have got to…11 Dec 2024HANSARDNorth-west SyriaMy Lords, the drug Captagon was mentioned in the opening of this very short debate. As I am sure the Minister knows, this is a rather complex drug which has a number of different…03 Dec 2024HANSARDScience and Technology: EconomyMy Lords, in 2023, Sir Paul Nurse reported on how best we might keep Britain’s scientific research world-leading. One excellent example he chose to identify in his report was the…31 Oct 2024HANSARDSpecialised Research Units: ClosuresTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the Medical Research Council’s plans to close certain specialised research units; and of the implications of…28 Oct 2024HANSARDSpecialised Research Units: ClosuresI am very grateful to the Minister for answering my Question and I am pleased to hear that he supports the notion of these specialised units. Does he agree, too, that these units…28 Oct 2024HANSARDHuman Fertilisation and Embryology (Amendment) Regulations 2024My Lords, I am rather embarrassed after the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, has spoken so volubly and over-kindly about the work we did together. I have to say that when he was Dafydd…22 Oct 2024HANSARDNHS Hospitals: ApheresisMy Lords, I have scanned the literature because I looked at this Question on the Order Paper, and I noticed that there seem to be very few completed trials showing clear efficacy…09 Oct 2024HANSARDAnniversary of 7 October Attacks: Middle EastMy Lords, I wonder if I might help the noble Baroness by suggesting some kind of solution that we have not discussed enough. I must thank her very much indeed for the wonderful…08 Oct 2024HANSARDLithium-ion Battery Safety Bill [HL]My Lords, in principle I completely support the Bill. We must, however, look at the detail more closely. For example, we have to recognise that there are large numbers of…06 Sept 2024HANSARDLithium-ion Battery Safety Bill [HL]I am grateful to the noble Lord. That would make a fantastic bonfire, would it not? You would not want to pour water on it. Some batteries do not have that kind of technology.…06 Sept 2024HANSARDLithium-ion Battery Safety Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend for that helpful point. Does that mean that there is a possibility that the chemistry might be labelled? If we could actually teach people a bit more about…06 Sept 2024HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT ExemptionMy Lords, I work at Imperial College where I am a champion of the outreach group, which has grown considerably over the years. It started 50 years ago; we called it the Pimlico…05 Sept 2024HANSARDCovid-19 InquiryMy Lords, in 1917, at the height of the terrors of the First World War, Hilaire Belloc wrote to GK Chesterton and said, “Sometimes it’s necessary to lie damnably in the interests…03 Sept 2024HANSARDCovid-19 InquiryI am grateful to my noble friend for giving way. This is a time-limited debate, so I shall make just one point. There was a public service laboratory that was closed down. It was…03 Sept 2024HANSARDVaping Products: Usage by ChildrenMy Lords, the House should be really grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Storey, for introducing this debate. There are a few matters that I would perhaps want to wrestle with him…02 Sept 2024HANSARDHouse of Lords: Nominations for AppointmentMy Lords, the Government are to be congratulated on the experience, knowledge and expertise of some recent appointments to the House of Lords. This House prides itself as an…30 Jul 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, as a budding geneticist when I first came into the House of Lords in 1995, I looked around the Chamber and I could tell the hereditary Peers. They were taller, more…23 Jul 2024