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HANSARDMusic and Dance Schools: Affordable AccessMy Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Blackwell and all noble Lords for their valuable contributions, which are clearly united in their support. Access to high-level music and…16 Oct 2025HANSARDFracture Liaison ServicesMy Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Black and other noble Lords for their valuable contributions, which appear unanimous. This is clearly an important issue, which speaks to…16 Oct 2025HANSARDAlzheimer’s DiseaseMy Lords, the evidence is clear across the board: eating healthily and staying active helps brain health and the prevention of Alzheimer’s. Is it not a huge concern to the…13 Oct 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords for raising the critically important issue of sport and physical education in schools, which I personally feel particularly strongly about. If…18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Blower, and other noble Lords who proposed the amendments in this group. This is a very technical area, and we have heard much expert…18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, His Majesty’s loyal Opposition believe that we do, of course, need to pay careful attention to the barriers that prevent children from low-income backgrounds, young…16 Sept 2025HANSARDUK and EU Trade: Arts and Creative IndustriesMy Lords, it is clear that barriers for touring artists are bad news for the UK’s £7 billion music industry and for an already squeezed economy. Over 20 EU member states have…11 Sept 2025HANSARDMerck Research SiteTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact on jobs and growth of Merck’s decision to cancel plans for a £1 billion research site in London.11 Sept 2025HANSARDMerck Research SiteMy Lords, I thank the Minister for his response, but the cancellation of the Merck research site is not only a major blow for our life sciences economy; it cuts across many other…11 Sept 2025HANSARDGaza Protests: Anti-terrorism LegislationMy Lords, peaceful protest about the unspeakable suffering in Gaza is entirely legal and allowed, but supporting an organisation which has been proscribed by Parliament, and which…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak only briefly to these amendments tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Knight of Weymouth. The misconduct regime covered in these clauses is clearly very important…10 Sept 2025HANSARDWarm Home Discount (Amendment) Regulations 2025I have a point of clarification. The Minister responded to me most kindly about how the Government are going to invest in SMRs. I know that, if the noble Lord, Lord Howell of…03 Sept 2025HANSARDWarm Home Discount (Amendment) Regulations 2025My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to this statutory instrument, which proposes a further expansion of the warm home discount scheme. I start by confirming that…03 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I shall speak to this group of amendments on the children not in school register, which seek to probe issues surrounding privacy. The children not in school consultation…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, my noble friend Lord Lucas has raised concerns about parental and child involvement at both a national and local level. It is of course important that local authorities…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, the noble Lords, Lord Lucas and Lord Wei, are seeking further clarification on His Majesty’s Government’s intentions about the use of data from the children not in…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, as we have heard, Amendments 274, 276 and 425 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Wei, seek to introduce different iterations of sunset clauses for the use of children…02 Sept 2025HANSARDFinancial Services ReformMy Lords, the Minister mentioned how interest rates have been cut, and other noble Lords on the Government Benches have mentioned the same thing. Does he agree that the Bank of…23 Jul 2025HANSARDResident Doctors: Industrial ActionMy Lords, the Secretary of State said that resident doctors “should start to experience an improvement in their working conditions on everything from the availability of…16 Jul 2025HANSARDNuclear Installations (Compensation for Nuclear Damage) (Amendment) Regulations 2025My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing this instrument. As we have heard, it is intended to facilitate the UK’s accession to the Convention on Supplementary Compensation…14 Jul 2025