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Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Report stage - Tue 28 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) We publish annual minutes of UK-EU specialised committees that monitor and review our trade agreements - Speech Link
2: None in this field—or indeed to become a client, because you cannot find anyone to act for you on legal aid - Speech Link
3: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) which states:“An internet service provider does not commit an offence … if the provider does not … select - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) the offence will make, its impact and how we deal with people to ensure that it is put in place overseas - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Mon 27 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) Let us remember that people who want to make sure that they can play the game will sit on committees - Speech Link
2: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) for the Planet, and flag to the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, that I chair the Built Environment Select - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con - Life peer) This should only aid that process. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) husband comes from Derbyshire—that millions of visitors come to the national parks; many of them are overseas - Speech Link
5: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) prolonged and often unnecessary debate over standards.This amendment would allow planning officers and committees - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 19 Sep 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) After so many years considering assisted dying, whether in Select Committees or Private Members’ Bills - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finn (Con - Life peer) Others are driven overseas. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) The Select Committee should report by Friday 7 November. - Speech Link
4: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) We are looking at a Bill that has had a very large number of Select Committees look at it. - Speech Link
5: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) I am a little doubtful about how a Select Committee—which is not really a Select Committee because it - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Defence Industrial Strategy - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) This increase will be paid for by cuts in overseas aid, which the Minister knows we deplore. - Speech Link
2: Lord Beamish (Lab - Life peer) say to my noble friend that my heart sank a little bit when he started reeling off the list of committees - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) Even though I listed some committees, they will be the result of an amalgamation of certain bodies, so - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage - Mon 08 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) This amendment pertains to legal aid for those detained persons. - Speech Link
2: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) The country can decide how much money to put into legal aid. - Speech Link
3: None No, this is about asylum and immigration legal aid. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) Many, but not all, delivery riders are from overseas. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Strategic Defence Review 2025 - Fri 18 Jul 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield (XB - Life peer) The second is a long line of defence and overseas policy reviews—again, about a dozen of them—each one - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) aid budget.It surely makes no sense to load the cost of the BBC World Service—a unique contribution - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) I refer colleagues to the House of Lords Select Committee report, Sexual Violence in Conflict: A War - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Taxes - Tue 15 Jul 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Phil Brickell (Lab - Bolton West) We need every British overseas territory to adopt full public beneficial ownership registers, so that - Speech Link
2: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) not doing something as suicidal, crazy and damaging as it appears to be.I wish I could drink the Kool-Aid - Speech Link
3: John Slinger (Lab - Rugby) I am certainly not drinking Kool-Aid. I do believe what I say, and I believe it firmly. - Speech Link
4: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) We should be sweating in Select Committees, in all-party groups, on the Floor of this House and in Westminster - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Report stage part one - Wed 09 Jul 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) Our Select Committees, if they go and do their work outside the House, can claim only half a day’s attendance - Speech Link
2: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) Of course, I think this issue will now be considered by the new Select Committee, and I look forward - Speech Link
3: Viscount Thurso (LD - Excepted Hereditary) I rather suspect that the Select Committee will do its work and discussions will continue, but that at - Speech Link
4: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) We think this can best be achieved by establishing a Select Committee, and we will work with the usual - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Constitution: Oversight and Responsibility (Report from the Constitution Committee) - Fri 04 Jul 2025
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Beith (LD - Life peer) single document and large parts of which are not enforceable in the courts provides, particularly for overseas - Speech Link
2: Viscount Stansgate (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) or, if not, then perhaps a more modern equivalent: my noble friend Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield.The Select - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) The Select Committee is trying valiantly to shore up something that is not working. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) Nestling among such matters as powers of attorney and the affairs of the Legal Aid Agency, I saw the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago - Mon 30 Jun 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) consultation of the Chagossian people, and recognising the right of Chagossians to be registered as British Overseas - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) Indeed, my noble friend Lord Cameron told the Foreign Affairs Select Committee at the time:“We face a - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) aid to Mauritius—we thank him for his work. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) That surely demonstrates a contempt for the two committees, which is deplorable. - Speech Link
5: Lord Houghton of Richmond (XB - Life peer) It was part of my overseas command responsibilities when I was Chief of Joint Operations. - Speech Link