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1: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) British Council, founded during a period of European instability, is a deliberate instrument of foreign - Speech Link
2: Baroness Alexander of Cleveden (Lab - Life peer) So far, we have landed nothing, so a significant resizing of the British Council is coming. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke (Lab - Life peer) Thousands of young Australians came here because of projects that had been developed by the British Council - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) successes of the UK Soft Power Council to date? - Speech Link
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1: None the House of Commons.(10) References in this section to the Transport Committee of the House of Commons - Speech Link
2: None consult—(a) Great British Railways,(b) the Passenger Council,(c) the Office of Rail and Road, and(d) - Speech Link
3: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) that of the Secretary of State? - Speech Link
4: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) the future is one of the key drivers of economic success and of driving down costs. - Speech Link
5: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) Some of us have done a lot of other things. - Speech Link
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1: Lloyd Hatton (Lab - South Dorset) Only a third of UK rivers are in good health, making our rivers some of the most polluted in Europe. - Speech Link
2: Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire) of the council and the local citizen scientists, who have done everything they can to address it. - Speech Link
3: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) Friend, we have some of the unhealthiest rivers in Europe, thanks to the inheritance left us by the Conservatives - Speech Link
4: Rachel Gilmour (LD - Tiverton and Minehead) Freshwater ecosystems are collapsing and this country now has some of the unhealthiest rivers in Europe - Speech Link
5: Ashley Fox (Con - Bridgwater) of the joys of life. - Speech Link
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1: Lord Newby (LD - Life peer) The Ukraine war has posed increasingly urgent questions for the whole of Europe, including the UK, about - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) He was also a trustee of Arts Council England. - Speech Link
3: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) on the question of Europe. - Speech Link
4: Lord Stephen (LD - Life peer) 100 gigawatts of new projects based around a shared, Europe-wide grid system. - Speech Link
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1: Lord Tarassenko (XB - Life peer) There is a wide variety of views among AI experts about the imminence of ASI, with the CEOs of Anthropic - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Hereford (Bshp - Bishops) Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, writes optimistically of “machines of love and grace”, for example. - Speech Link
3: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (Lab - Life peer) Its role seems to be more of a kind of think tank. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lloyd of Effra (Lab - Life peer) the risks of AI seriously, but of our conviction that it will be a driver of national renewal, and of - Speech Link
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1: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) nor of the last one, and not even of the Government before that, but of the methodology. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Boycott (XB - Life peer) Do the Government believe that the approach of our close neighbours, such as France and most of Europe - Speech Link
3: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) case of Sara Sharif—because of a lack of visibility. - Speech Link
4: None of proprietors of academies, and(b) the impact of the proposed inspections of academy providers on the - Speech Link
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1: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) of startup companies in the United Kingdom. - Speech Link
2: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) What is a true success rate of these start-ups? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lloyd of Effra (Lab - Life peer) For example, we announced in October 2025 that we would exempt tens of thousands of companies from producing - Speech Link
4: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) My Lords, I am a member of the expert advisory council of the Government’s Help to Grow: Management scheme - Speech Link
5: Baroness Lloyd of Effra (Lab - Life peer) The noble Lord is right that businesses of all sizes make up the huge vibrancy of our economy and we - Speech Link
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1: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) That is true, but historically it is not as true in this country as it is in the rest of Europe. - Speech Link
2: Joy Morrissey (Con - Beaconsfield) Nearly 16% of young people—that is 729,000—are out of work. - Speech Link
3: Roger Gale (Con - Herne Bay and Sandwich) A couple of weeks ago, I heard of another. - Speech Link
4: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) of the colour of their skin. - Speech Link
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1: Luke Charters (Lab - York Outer) I heard that a significant proportion of US GDP growth comes from the DARPA investments of the 1980s—of - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The defence sector employs tens of thousands of people across the United Kingdom of Great Britain and - Speech Link
3: David Reed (Con - Exmouth and Exeter East) Some of his earliest memories are of being under the stairs listening to the drone of Luftwaffe bombs - Speech Link
4: Louise Sandher-Jones (Lab - North East Derbyshire) Many of us have spoken about the importance of the pipeline of skilled and talented innovators, so we - Speech Link
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1: Mark Pritchard (Con - The Wrekin) Of course, poverty of aspiration contributes to inequalities. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) I also offer the condolences of the House to the family of Lord Flight, one of my predecessors in Arundel - Speech Link
3: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Of course, all of us want to see our pubs in good health and to support hospitality. - Speech Link
4: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) We on this side of the House believe in council housing. - Speech Link
5: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) It has been said of him that, when he left, he enhanced the IQ of the Labour party and the IQ of the - Speech Link