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HANSARDNational Health Service: PensionsWe join the noble Baroness’s husband in wishing her a very long life. So far as the issue she raises is concerned, the BMA asked us to introduce this flexibility earlier this…10 Jun 2019HANSARDNational Health Service: PensionsMy Lords, I am aware of concerns raised by NHS doctors about the impact of annual allowance tax charges. Although there are no plans to have a public consultation on the tax…10 Jun 2019HANSARDNational Health Service: PensionsMy Lords, the Armed Forces Pension Scheme continues to be one of the best available defined-benefit occupational schemes. Service personnel on the AFPS are not required to…10 Jun 2019HANSARDNational Health Service: PensionsThere are a number of contenders for the leadership of our great party at the moment. If my noble friend feels this is a cause which will gain currency in my party, no doubt he…10 Jun 2019HANSARDNational Health Service: PensionsIt is important that noble Lords understand the background to the changes. One of the most expensive tax reliefs is pension tax relief. It costs £50 billion per year—roughly half…10 Jun 2019HANSARDNational Health Service: PensionsMy Lords, in the interval between my noble friend tabling his Question and today, the Government made a significant announcement on 3 June aimed at addressing the very problem…10 Jun 2019HANSARDHouse of Lords: Gender EqualityMy Lords, yesterday I read the recently published UK Gender-Sensitive Parliament Audit 2018 , which made the point that the noble Baroness has just made. The number of…06 Jun 2019HANSARDHouse of Lords: Gender EqualityMy Lords, my noble friend the Chief Whip will have heard both those bids and they will be discussed through the usual channels.06 Jun 2019HANSARDHouse of Lords: Gender EqualityMy Lords, I understand the noble Baroness’s wish to remove the barrier to women entering your Lordships’ House via the hereditary by-election principle by allowing the title to…06 Jun 2019HANSARDHouse of Lords: Gender EqualityI understand that my noble friend has been round this course before. He submitted a Bill in 2015-16, 2016-17 and again in the current Session. The main purpose appeared to be to…06 Jun 2019HANSARDHouse of Lords: Gender EqualityMy Lords, in the past 20 years, the percentage of women in your Lordships’ House has increased from 17% to 26.5%. In this Parliament, seven of the 17 party political appointees…06 Jun 2019HANSARDSentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL]My Lords, on behalf of my noble and learned friend Lord Keen of Elie, I beg to move.06 Jun 2019HANSARDHouse of Lords: Gender EqualityI believe that one of the recommendations in the report I referred to was that there should be more monitoring. That would also be relevant to the House of Lords Appointments…06 Jun 2019HANSARDHouse of Lords: Gender EqualityI may be in some trouble with my noble friend but that was actually in my brief.06 Jun 2019HANSARDHouse of Lords: Gender EqualityThe Bill introduced by the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, has had more time than any other Private Member’s Bill this Session, and many of us have spent enjoyable Fridays making…06 Jun 2019HANSARDEuropean Parliament Elections: Non-UK EU CitizensI am grateful to the noble Lord for his response. I am sorry if anybody who had done the right thing was thereafter denied the right to vote. As he knows, the Electoral Commission…05 Jun 2019HANSARDEuropean Parliament Elections: Non-UK EU CitizensMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall repeat an Answer to an Urgent Question asked in the other place yesterday by my honourable friend Kevin Foster, Minister for the…05 Jun 2019HANSARDEuropean Parliament Elections: Non-UK EU CitizensAt the beginning of his questions, my noble friend generously suggested that I might write to him. It is an offer which I accept with alacrity.05 Jun 2019HANSARDEuropean Parliament Elections: Non-UK EU CitizensI believe that was part of the agreement reached by the Prime Minister, which she put to the other place. I hope that however this matter is resolved, what my noble friend has…05 Jun 2019HANSARDEuropean Parliament Elections: Non-UK EU CitizensIs the noble Lord suggesting that there is a scenario where we have another round of European elections?05 Jun 2019