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Lords Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Black of Brentwood (Con - Life peer) The repeal of this abominable legislation is long overdue and all credit is due to the Government. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bethell (Con - Excepted Hereditary) As many noble Lords may know, 40 years ago Parliament passed an incredibly specific piece of legislation - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) I am not putting forward a specific view here. - Speech Link
4: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) been raised about, for example, its ability to cope in relation to its regulatory approach to the new breed - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) The Government consulted on repeal in 2016. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Legislation on Dangerous Dogs - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (Ind - Neath) Urgent action is clearly needed, but breed-specific legislation is not the answer. - Speech Link
2: Christina Rees (Ind - Neath) His work with dogs includes advising on the reform of the Dangerous Dogs Act—particularly the flawed breed-specific - Speech Link
3: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) they have a certificate of exemption.We recognise the strength of feeling on breed-specific legislation - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Through this Bill we are fulfilling our manifesto pledge to repeal Section 40 of the Crime and Courts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) We are increasingly seeing a new breed of owners with little interest in the long-term interest of their - Speech Link
3: Lord McNally (LD - Life peer) It is interesting that the politicians and the newspapers that have reported on the repeal of Section - Speech Link
4: Viscount Chandos (Lab - Life peer) I will raise two specific points. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I too congratulate the Government on the proposed repeal of Section 40 in the Media Bill. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) continued push for more criminalisation to replace the Vagrancy Act 1824, which your Lordships voted to repeal - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) the damage caused by flooding, wildfires, food shortages and other climate catastrophes.We need to repeal - Speech Link
3: Lord Borwick (Con - Excepted Hereditary) certain similarities with what is happening in London.A few years ago, San Francisco’s mayor, Mrs London Breed - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) people a roof over their head and support to tackle their complex needs—yet we are still waiting for the repeal - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) such as the specific offence of assaulting a retail worker. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 07 Jun 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) In his letter, he said:“However, policy officials in the department could not point to any specific evidence - Speech Link
2: Lord Balfe (CON - Life peer) It is not a good thing to do, because it does not breed respect for legislation. - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) language barrier will be enormous, or at least significant, in many of those instances.I have some specific - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) can the Minister clarify whether they intend to use the provision within the Immigration Act 2016 to repeal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Mon 15 May 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) retain a limited preservation power in the Bill to enable Ministers and devolved authorities to preserve specific - Speech Link
2: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (CON - Life peer) implications of what he is saying, I stand ready to be corrected when he comes to reply.There are two specific - Speech Link
3: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (CON - Life peer) The Prime Minister did say that in his first 100 days as PM we would review or repeal post-Brexit EU - Speech Link
4: None by the Government, to remove the sunset clause, in the way that has been discussed previously, will breed - Speech Link
5: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (CON - Life peer) servants and that we were the best country at implementing everything; now it is suddenly beyond them to repeal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 20 Mar 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) police and crime commissioners now have broad powers to dispose of land as they see fit, there is no specific - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) fairly affordably—something that anyone who has tried to organise one of those will know is a very rare breed - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) However, in specific circumstances the local authority has tax relief powers as well.Notwithstanding - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) I have two specific amendments in this group, but the debate has focused mainly on business rates. - Speech Link
5: Lord Stunell (LDEM - Life peer) Schedule 5; I do not suppose too many noble Lords have ploughed through Schedule 5, but what it does is repeal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
2nd reading: Part 1 - Mon 06 Feb 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) further provision is necessary, the Bill provides powers in Clause 8 and Clauses 12 to 14 to codify specific - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) , will make it easier for Ministers to amend or repeal retained EU law without the need for primary legislation - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) Sectoral-specific legislation simply cannot be passed in a timely enough manner to ensure that these - Speech Link
4: Lord Frost (CON - Life peer) They are targeted at a specific set of laws, and they exclude any powers to deal with the fundamentals - Speech Link
5: Baroness Parminter (LDEM - Life peer) species decline—I applaud them for doing so—if we do not protect the habitats where those species live, breed - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill - Mon 05 Dec 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: George Howarth (LAB - Knowsley) that he, like me and many other Members, will have had representations from his constituents on the specific - Speech Link
2: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) However, most respondents received no or very little compensation.The Bill would repeal the Dogs (Protection - Speech Link
3: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) and sale of primates, so that only those holding a relevant licence would be permitted to keep and breed - Speech Link
4: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) in a non-commercial motor vehicle to three.While this is not the place to debate the merits of the specific - Speech Link
5: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) will play a small but significant part in delivering higher standards of animal welfare to address specific - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Housing (Regulation) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Tue 06 Sep 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LDEM - Life peer) Amendment 21, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, is much more detailed in nature and provides specific - Speech Link
2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) of social housing supply, but also that it is not just about any houses; it is now very much about specific - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Cookham (CON - Life peer) The social housing White Paper expects the Regulator of Social Housing to“undertake specific, reactive - Speech Link
4: Lord Best (CB - Life peer) seriously neglected.Even though most housing associations are charities, and all except the strange new breed - Speech Link