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HANSARDCouncillors: Publication of AddressesIn the absence of my noble friend Lady Eaton and with her permission, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in her name on the Order Paper.08 May 2024HANSARDCouncillors: Publication of AddressesI am grateful to my noble friend. Does she agree that those who stand for elected office should be protected from those who wish them or their families harm? That is why MPs and…08 May 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, who has been at the forefront of the campaign to extend protection to leaseholders since the Building Safety Act…01 May 2024HANSARDHealth and Disability ReformMy Lords, I agree with what my noble friend has just said and the point made by my noble friend Lady Bottomley that, whoever is in power, the present regime is financially…01 May 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I will add a very brief footnote to the excellent speeches made by the noble Lord, Lord Best, and the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter. The point I want to make is that the…01 May 2024HANSARDUniversities: Sensitive ResearchI am grateful to my noble friend, but are our universities not compromising their independence by becoming overreliant on China? Some 25% of the students, or 10,000, at UCL are…30 Apr 2024HANSARDUniversities: Sensitive ResearchTo ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to protect sensitive research at universities from national security threats.30 Apr 2024HANSARDRoad PricingTo ask His Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to replacing excise duty on fuel with road pricing.29 Apr 2024HANSARDRoad PricingMy Lords, road pricing clearly touches a raw nerve in the body politic. The OBR has recently said of the Government’s policy on electric vehicles that it is “rapidly eroding the…29 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this short debate. I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Mann, for reminding us that it is often a rather…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Borwick for allowing what I hope will be a short debate on the deferment rate. I am conscious that I am a very inadequate…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, this amendment deals with the obscure but important issue of escheat, which I suspect will empty the Chamber. When I was a Minister and put the 1993 leasehold Bill on…24 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform Bill24 Apr 2024HANSARDExpansion of Free ChildcareMy Lords, I very much welcome the increase in free childcare hours, but is my noble friend the Minister aware that some parents of children with special educational needs are…23 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillI am enormously grateful for the assurances that my noble friend has given. Will the Government respond to the Select Committee report on shared ownership before Report? It raises…22 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 7 in my name, which deals with shared ownership—one of the issues touched on by the noble Lord, Lord Khan. Shared ownership was developed in…22 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillI am most grateful to my noble friend for that undertaking, but I remind her that the Government said: “We will provide an exemption”, for these types of scheme.22 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillI want to raise a slightly different point from the one raised by the noble Baroness, who is worried that there are loopholes in the schedule. My concern is slightly different, in…22 Apr 2024HANSARDLeasehold and Freehold Reform BillMy Lords, I will make a brief intervention to support the thinking behind Amendment 14, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Fox. We all understand the disappointment that it…22 Apr 2024HANSARDSocial Housing: Right-to-buy SalesMy Lords, as one of the Housing Ministers in the 1979 Parliament, I say to the noble Lord, Lord Bird, that I do not recall the right-to-buy legislation being in my briefing pack…18 Apr 2024