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Lords Chamber
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 03 Mar 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Newby (LD - Life peer) Having spent nine days on the football regulator Bill, the prospect of a repeat of that sort of pettifogging - Speech Link
2: None The House of Lords is perfectly entitled to take a view on a Bill that is sent from the House of Commons - Speech Link
3: Earl of Erroll (XB - Excepted Hereditary) In fact I and a bunch of Cross-Benchers produced a report on it at the time. - Speech Link
4: Lord True (Con - Life peer) a group of amendments on commencement, but the amendments are very different: one proposes a referendum - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
2nd reading: Part 2 - Wed 11 Dec 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) The Secretary of State has told us to get a move on and last week at Business Questions, the Leader of - Speech Link
2: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) I slightly feel that, as described by the Leader of the House, we are on a bit of a mystery tour. - Speech Link
3: Viscount Thurso (LD - Excepted Hereditary) on the other major events but would have a strong effect on the future of the House.That is my observation - Speech Link
4: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) here as to how many angels can dance on the head of a pin; but it seems that the Lords temporal on the - Speech Link
5: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) There should be a cap on the size of the House. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
2nd reading: Part 1 - Wed 11 Dec 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Earl of Kinnoull (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Many of those who were a part of that endorsement are on the Front Benches of the major groupings here - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Tankerness (LD - Life peer) for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of - Speech Link
3: Lord Wakeham (Con - Life peer) I was for some years the chairman of a royal commission on the future of the House of Lords, invited - Speech Link
4: Lord Brady of Altrincham (Con - Life peer) Other noble Lords free of the constraints of a maiden speech will expand on the deficiencies of this - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
House of Lords Reform - Tue 12 Nov 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Newby (LD - Life peer) the abolition of the hereditaries and a retirement age will, by themselves, get the House down to a - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Sheffield (Bshp - Bishops) The Lords spiritual have a long history of constructive engagement on the question of reform. - Speech Link
3: Lord Burns (XB - Life peer) addresses these features.The first feature is the absence of a limit on the size of the House, which - Speech Link
4: Lord Wakeham (Con - Life peer) I hope that was not a reflection on me, but I think it is a reflection of the view of the Civil Service - Speech Link
5: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) Frankly, we need a separate debate about the future of the House of Lords, maybe on the basis of a White - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 12 Nov 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) a letter under subsection (3) ceases to be a member of the House of Lords on the day after the day on - Speech Link
2: Alex Burghart (Con - Brentwood and Ongar) What we all agree on—or what I hope we all agree on—is that the role of the Lords is that of a chamber - Speech Link
3: Gavin Williamson (Con - Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge) It would also have a significant impact on reducing the cost of the House of Lords. - Speech Link
4: Ellie Reeves (Lab - Lewisham West and East Dulwich) a joint committee on wider reforms of the composition of the House of Lords has been approved by a resolution - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 15 Oct 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) Why does the Church of England have a monopoly on places in the House of Lords? - Speech Link
2: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) There is a fertile debate on this side of the House, and the Government should reflect on the fact that - Speech Link
3: Henry Tufnell (Lab - Mid and South Pembrokeshire) a period of 12 years of the protectorate reigning supreme.Since my election on 4 July, some of the more - Speech Link
4: Richard Tice (RUK - Boston and Skegness) The Labour party stood on a platform of removing cronyism.” - Speech Link
5: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) , understanding the views of people on the doorstep and giving us a more representative view of the people - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 23 Jul 2024
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Prashar (XB - Life peer) about the reform of the appointments process and a cap on the size of the House of Lords. - Speech Link
2: Lord Kirkham (Con - Life peer) on a highly restricted franchise.Most of us sympathise with the aim of reducing the overall size of - Speech Link
3: Lord Bichard (XB - Life peer) on by a large number of Peers: the loss of trust in government and the state. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) On the one hand, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Keen, made a robust defence of the status quo; on the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Thu 18 Jul 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Etherton (XB - Life peer) market a significant number of PRS landlords on the other hand. - Speech Link
2: Lord Curry of Kirkharle (XB - Life peer) I am a member of the NFU and CLA.I will first comment on the land use framework. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sheehan (LD - Life peer) He was a dark horse in that I knew little of the force of his convictions on the crucial issue of climate - Speech Link
4: Lord Mawson (XB - Life peer) Let us strengthen the hand of practitioners with a track record of delivery on the ground. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
United Kingdom: Union - Thu 14 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord McInnes of Kilwinning (Con - Life peer) As a former Member of the Scottish Parliament, he will bring great wisdom on the issues of devolved politics - Speech Link
2: Lord Bew (XB - Life peer) There was a clear, serious response to that on the part of the Irish Republic. - Speech Link
3: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) It was not a union of monarchies. The union of the monarchy had happened 100 years earlier. - Speech Link
4: Lord Godson (Con - Life peer) present security arrangements on the island of Ireland, on both sides of the border, now pose a wider - Speech Link
5: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) ask the Minister to consult the Leader of the House and consider whether, on a cross-party basis, the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (Lab - Life peer) I do not want to open up the debate right now on the level of aid or the Government’s lack of a firm - Speech Link
2: Baroness Foster of Oxton (Con - Life peer) A sleeper in Frankfurt airport placed a bomb in the hold of a 707. - Speech Link
3: Lord Wilson of Dinton (XB - Life peer) On a domestic matter, I hope he has a copy of the speech which the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth of Drumlean - Speech Link
4: Lord Winston (Lab - Life peer) He truly was one of the boat people: many of that family died on the boats and he was a child for a good - Speech Link
5: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) on the King’s Speech and mark the opening of Parliament as a whole. - Speech Link