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HANSARD Infected Blood Compensation SchemeI just want to say that the hon. Member should read nothing into that facial expression. When I close this debate, I shall talk in detail about the consultation that has taken…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Infected Blood Compensation Schemerose—23 Oct 2024HANSARD Infected Blood Compensation SchemeAs the right hon. Member for Salisbury (John Glen) and I have indicated, Sir Robert Francis engaged extensively around the country during the general election. The point the hon.…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Infected Blood Compensation SchemeMy hon. Friend makes a powerful point about trust in the process. The scheme is designed to have a core route, and a supplemental route for particular issues around care claims or…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Infected Blood Compensation SchemeYes, the awards are exempt from inheritance tax and capital gains tax. That is precisely how the scheme has been designed. I hope that gives reassurance to the hon. Gentleman. Let…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Infected Blood Compensation SchemeYes. First of all, and I am sure I speak for everyone in the House, I express my sympathies to the right hon. Gentleman’s constituent and his family. The right hon. Gentleman is…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Infected Blood Compensation SchemeIf I understand the hon. Gentleman’s intervention correctly, he is talking about the different organisations that already exist. We will consider all the recommendations in the…23 Oct 2024HANSARD Infected Blood Compensation SchemeI am sure the whole House will join me in expressing our sympathies with the situation that my hon. Friend’s constituent and her family have been through. The Infected Blood…23 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI have already given way to the right hon. Gentleman once.15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillTo be clear, the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Earl Marshal will not continue to sit and vote in the House of Lords under this Bill, but they will continue with their important…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe right hon. Gentleman would not want to break convention, would he?15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy hon. Friend is entirely right. The second Chamber plays a vital role in our constitution, but people should not have a role in voting on and scrutinising our laws in Parliament…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillI keep being persuaded to give way.15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillEven with the removal of hereditary peers, the Conservative party will remain the largest party in the House of Lords. As for reform of the House of Lords Appointments Commission…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillIn my generosity, as the right hon. Member has asked so many times, I will, for the last time, give way to him.15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillIf the hon. Gentleman had been here at the start at the debate, he would have heard exactly the same point made to me in the first intervention. I will repeat the two points I…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillHow can Members of the Conservative party talk about stuffing the upper House with people after the events of the last 14 years? I thought irony had died. As for the right hon.…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillTogether, the right hon. Gentleman and I could form the new radicals. When we move on to the next stage of reform, I look forward to a similar amount of independent, enthusiastic…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThere is no bar on that happening. When the new Leader of the Opposition eventually emerges from their parallel universe leadership contest, I am sure that they will have a quota,…15 Oct 2024HANSARD House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillMy hon. Friend is right to highlight the situation for young people in her constituency. The Bill has a clear mandate, and I hope that hon. Members will back it in big numbers…15 Oct 2024