Information between 7th November 2023 - 31st March 2025
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17 Apr 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context Lord Adonis voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 123 Labour Aye votes vs 1 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 245 Noes - 208 |
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17 Apr 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context Lord Adonis voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 123 Labour Aye votes vs 1 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 247 Noes - 195 |
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4 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context Lord Adonis voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 122 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 260 Noes - 169 |
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6 Dec 2023 - Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: Border Security) Regulations 2023 - View Vote Context Lord Adonis voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 88 Labour Aye votes vs 1 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 151 Noes - 167 |
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6 Dec 2023 - Code of Practice on Reasonable Steps to be taken by a Trade Union (Minimum Service Levels) - View Vote Context Lord Adonis voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 112 Labour Aye votes vs 1 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 196 Noes - 192 |
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6 Dec 2023 - Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: NHS Ambulance Services and the NHS Patient Transport Service) Regulations 2023 - View Vote Context Lord Adonis voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 101 Labour Aye votes vs 1 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 170 Noes - 187 |
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20 Nov 2024 - Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill - View Vote Context Lord Adonis voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 120 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 210 Noes - 213 |
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Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
127 speeches (39,136 words) Tuesday 18th March 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Education Mentions: 1: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston) schools.”That agenda became known as local management of schools and of it the former Labour Minister Lord Adonis - Link to Speech 2: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) There was also the noble Lord Blunkett, Lord Adonis and others, but they were always swimming against - Link to Speech |
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Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)
150 speeches (26,936 words) Committee stage: 14th Sitting Tuesday 11th February 2025 - Public Bill Committees Department for Education Mentions: 1: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston) not perfect, it is definitely better because of parental choice and the reforms under Lord Baker, Lord Adonis - Link to Speech |
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Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Eleventh sitting)
91 speeches (11,961 words) Committee stage: 11th Sitting Thursday 6th February 2025 - Public Bill Committees Department for Education Mentions: 1: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough, Oadby and Wigston) Well, the former Education Minister, Lord Adonis, who wrote about the creation of the school freedom, - Link to Speech |
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UK Engagement with Space Committee
3 speeches (224 words) Thursday 30th January 2025 - Lords Chamber Mentions: 1: None Whitty and Baroness Winterton of Doncaster be appointed members of the Select Committee, in place of Lord Adonis - Link to Speech |
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Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill
29 speeches (19,259 words) 2nd reading Wednesday 29th January 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Lord Waldegrave of North Hill (Con - Life peer) I name the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, Mr Nick Gibb, my noble friend Lord Baker and Mr Michael Gove. - Link to Speech |
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Free Schools and Academies
51 speeches (19,484 words) Thursday 23rd January 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Education Mentions: 1: Lord Harris of Peckham (Con - Life peer) Then Tony Blair created academies and, with the help of the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, and Michael Gove - Link to Speech 2: Lord Agnew of Oulton (Con - Life peer) the interventions that had been devised by noble Lords opposite—the noble Lords, Lord Blunkett, Lord Adonis - Link to Speech 3: Lord Moynihan of Chelsea (Con - Life peer) It started under Labour with the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, recognising that one size does not fit all. - Link to Speech 4: Lord Bates (Con - Life peer) That adviser was Andrew Adonis, now the noble Lord, Lord Adonis. - Link to Speech |
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Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
333 speeches (56,273 words) Wednesday 8th January 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for International Development Mentions: 1: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) Tony Blair, Lord Adonis and others created the academy system that was built on under the last Conservative - Link to Speech 2: Richard Tice (RUK - Boston and Skegness) I think that Sir Tony Blair and Lord Adonis will be horrified by these changes, which will restrict the - Link to Speech 3: Laura Trott (Con - Sevenoaks) Look at the Labour history under Education Secretaries such Lord Adonis. - Link to Speech 4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) If this Bill passes in anything close to its current form, it will be as if Lord Adonis was never the - Link to Speech |
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Qualifications Reform Review
14 speeches (3,840 words) Wednesday 18th December 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Education Mentions: 1: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) would like to say that it was good to work with the noble Lords, Lord Blunkett, Lord Baker and Lord Adonis - Link to Speech |
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Employment Rights Bill (Fourteenth sitting)
91 speeches (17,925 words) Committee stage: 14th Sitting Tuesday 17th December 2024 - Public Bill Committees Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Nick Timothy (Con - West Suffolk) want to move away from academy freedoms look first at what Labour figures such as Tony Blair and Lord Adonis - Link to Speech |
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Oaths and Affirmations
1 speech (1 words) Wednesday 20th November 2024 - Lords Chamber Mentions: 1: None Lord Adonis took the oath, and signed an undertaking to abide by the Code of Conduct. - Link to Speech |
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Remembrance and Veterans
127 speeches (28,982 words) Monday 28th October 2024 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Defence Mentions: 1: Tom Rutland (Lab - East Worthing and Shoreham) Many years ago I had the pleasure of working for, and more importantly learning from, two giants—Lord Adonis - Link to Speech |
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
358 speeches (44,527 words) 2nd reading Tuesday 15th October 2024 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) described the plan as a“multi-layered cake…barely been put in the oven yet, let alone fully baked.”Lord Adonis - Link to Speech 2: John Glen (Con - Salisbury) As Lord Adonis has reminded us,“there is no consensus on reform.”The Government did have, as they kept - Link to Speech |
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Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill
59 speeches (36,907 words) 2nd reading Monday 7th October 2024 - Lords Chamber Mentions: 1: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) I know that my noble friend Lord Adonis, when he was Transport Minister in 2009, was advised by the department - Link to Speech |
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Transport
31 speeches (9,483 words) Monday 9th September 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Transport Mentions: 1: Steve Race (Lab - Exeter) politicians, including former Devon county councillor Saxon Spence and the then Schools Minister Lord Adonis - Link to Speech |
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Renters (Reform) Bill
66 speeches (36,628 words) 2nd reading Wednesday 15th May 2024 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) housebuilding rates never achieved without council housebuilding—a point made by the noble Lord, Lord Adonis—is - Link to Speech 2: Lord Thurlow (XB - Excepted Hereditary) properties to rent, as we have heard particularly eloquently from the noble Lords, Lord Frost and Lord Adonis - Link to Speech 3: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Adonis, talked about pressure on the courts, as did the noble Lord, Lord Carrington - Link to Speech 4: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) this.Unfortunately, the dire situation in the courts, as very well amplified by the noble Lord, Lord Adonis - Link to Speech 5: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) and introducing a new planning use class for short-term lets.On the suggestion by the noble Lord, Lord Adonis - Link to Speech |
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Transport System: Failings
39 speeches (19,541 words) Thursday 25th April 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Transport Mentions: 1: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Adonis, picked up the baton. - Link to Speech 2: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) My noble friend Lord Adonis told them to get lost, and their franchises were taken into public ownership - Link to Speech |
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Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
64 speeches (36,605 words) 2nd reading Wednesday 27th March 2024 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Lord Truscott (Non-affiliated - Life peer) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Adonis. - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) noble Lords right across the House, including my noble friend Lord Moylan and the noble Lords, Lord Adonis - Link to Speech |
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Scrutiny of Secretaries of State in the House of Lords
23 speeches (7,310 words) Wednesday 20th March 2024 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) We started with our predecessor Committee’s views on the appointments of Lord Mandelson and Lord Adonis - Link to Speech |
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Conversion Therapy Prohibition (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) Bill [HL]
109 speeches (38,917 words) Friday 9th February 2024 - Lords Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Baroness Buscombe (Con - Life peer) writer who was brave enough to write openly about his experience.I am sorry that the noble Lord, Lord Adonis - Link to Speech |
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High Speed 2 Compensation
44 speeches (12,210 words) Thursday 18th January 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Transport Mentions: 1: Michael Fabricant (Con - Lichfield) Gentleman know that before Lord Adonis got his grubby hands on it, a design for HS2 was made by Arup? - Link to Speech 2: Michael Fabricant (Con - Lichfield) Would he generously accept that, if it had not been for Lord Adonis changing the original plan, HS2 would - Link to Speech |
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Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]
58 speeches (37,857 words) 2nd reading Tuesday 21st November 2023 - Lords Chamber Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) Cabinet—Peter Carington, Alec Douglas-Home and, more recently, the noble Lords, Lord Mandelson, Lord Adonis - Link to Speech |
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King’s Speech
125 speeches (55,925 words) Wednesday 15th November 2023 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Defence Mentions: 1: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (XB - Life peer) of course, is that more evident than in Ukraine, and I agree strongly with what the noble Lord, Lord Adonis - Link to Speech 2: Lord Frost (Con - Life peer) It perhaps had the same effect on me as the biography of Lord Salisbury did on the noble Lord, Lord Adonis - Link to Speech 3: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) We must continue to stand with Ukraine in every aspect that it needs, as my noble friend Lord Adonis - Link to Speech 4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) I assure the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, that UK military, humanitarian and economic support committed to - Link to Speech |
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King’s Speech
131 speeches (52,690 words) Monday 13th November 2023 - Lords Chamber HM Treasury Mentions: 1: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Adonis, duly picked up the baton and launched HS2. - Link to Speech |
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Tuesday 4th March 2025
Written Evidence - Cheshire East Council RIP0017 - Rail investment pipelines: ending boom and bust Rail investment pipelines: ending boom and bust - Transport Committee Found: For example, the Better Rail Stations report commissioned by the then Transport Secretary, Lord Adonis |
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Tuesday 22nd October 2024
Minutes and decisions - 15 October 2024 - Minutes European Affairs Committee Found: Apologies were received from Lord Adonis, Baroness Blackstone , Baroness Scott of Needham Market and |
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Tuesday 3rd September 2024
Declarations of interest - Declarations of interest - September 2024 European Affairs Committee Found: European Affairs Committee Declarations of interest Lord Adonis No relevant interests declared |
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Wednesday 17th April 2024
Special Report - First Special Report - Commons scrutiny of Secretaries of State in the House of Lords: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report Procedure Committee Found: Lord Frost, Baroness Morgan of Cotes, Lord Mandelson, Lord Adonis and Lord Carrington are examples of |
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Wednesday 31st January 2024
Report - 1st Report - The Ukraine Effect: The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the UK–EU relationship European Affairs Committee Found: Membership The Members of the European Affairs Committee are: Lord Adonis Lord Lamont of Lerwick |
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Wednesday 24th January 2024
Declarations of interest - Declarations of interest - January 2024 European Affairs Committee Found: European Affairs Committee Declarations of interest Lord Adonis No relevant interests declared |
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Tuesday 19th December 2023
Oral Evidence - Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, Prime Minister Liaison Committee (Commons) Found: Indeed, that was the situation in 2008 and 2009 with Lord Mandelson and Lord Adonis serving as senior |
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Monday 18th December 2023
Oral Evidence - House of Commons, and Cabinet Office Commons scrutiny of Secretaries of State in the House of Lords - Procedure Committee Found: predecessor Committee looked at it in the 2005-2010 Parliament, when Lord Mandelson and Andrew Adonis, Lord Adonis |
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Monday 18th December 2023
Oral Evidence - House of Commons Commons scrutiny of Secretaries of State in the House of Lords - Procedure Committee Found: predecessor Committee looked at it in the 2005-2010 Parliament, when Lord Mandelson and Andrew Adonis, Lord Adonis |
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Friday 20th September 2024
Department for Education Source Page: Trinity Academy Halifax, Calderdale Document: (PDF) Found: The bid was formally approved, and funding awarded by Lord Adonis in April 2008. |
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Tuesday 25th February 2025
Source Page: FOI release 23316: Greengauge21 Document: Doc 1 (PDF) Found: options to extend HSR northwards beyond the London – West Midlands proposition, and this is where Lord Adonis |
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Thursday 18th June 2020
Source Page: Draft active travel guidance Document: Draft active travel guidance (PDF) Found: high-speed rail system” Green C & Hall P, Better Rail Stations: An Independent Review Presented to Lord Adonis |
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High Speed Two (HS2) the debate - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014 High Speed Two (HS2): the debate RESEARCH PAPER 11/75 17 November 2011 HS2 is a £32 billion project to build a high speed rail line from London to Manchester and Leeds, via Birmingham to begin operation in 2026 and be completed in 2032. It was su... Found: Lord Adonis was asked to report by early 2009 on two main issues; one roads-focused and the other “longer |
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Wales and the reform of the House of Lords - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014 National Assembly for Wales Research paper Wales and the reform of the House of Lords May 2012 Research Service The National Assembly for Wales is the democratically elected body that represents the interests of Wales and its people, makes laws f... Found: reformed was also put forward by the previous Labour Secretary of State for Transport and life peer, Lord Adonis |