Information between 24th November 2025 - 24th December 2025
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24 Nov 2025 - Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill - View Vote Context Lord Foster of Bath voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 59 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 200 Noes - 244 |
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24 Nov 2025 - Planning and Infrastructure Bill - View Vote Context Lord Foster of Bath voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 53 Liberal Democrat Aye votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat No votes Tally: Ayes - 81 Noes - 132 |
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10 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Foster of Bath voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 52 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 244 Noes - 220 |
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10 Dec 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Foster of Bath voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House One of 50 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 219 Noes - 223 |
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Lord Foster of Bath speeches from: Sentencing Bill
Lord Foster of Bath contributed 5 speeches (1,319 words) Committee stage part one Wednesday 3rd December 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice |
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Lord Foster of Bath speeches from: Sentencing Bill
Lord Foster of Bath contributed 2 speeches (456 words) Committee stage part two Wednesday 3rd December 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice |
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Lord Foster of Bath speeches from: Sentencing Bill
Lord Foster of Bath contributed 5 speeches (2,303 words) Committee stage: Part 1 Monday 1st December 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice |
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Lord Foster of Bath speeches from: Sentencing Bill
Lord Foster of Bath contributed 5 speeches (822 words) Committee stage: Part 1 Wednesday 26th November 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice |
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Nature Reserves
Asked by: Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Thursday 27th November 2025 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of local nature reserves (1) in each county, and (2) in each local authority area, in England are in a favourable condition. Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) Local authorities are responsible for declaring Local Nature Reserves (LNRs) and ensuring they are managed appropriately. There is no statutory requirement for LNRs to meet a specific “favourable condition” standard. As a result, Defra does not hold data on the condition of LNRs by county or local authority. |
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Special Areas of Conservation
Asked by: Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Monday 1st December 2025 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of special areas of conservation in each county in England are in a favourable condition. Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) The table below sets out the percentage of terrestrial special areas of consideration (SAC) feature area in each county assessed as being in favourable condition as of October 2025.
Four counties have no SAC features recorded within their boundaries and are therefore not listed in the table: Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, and the City of London.
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Plants
Asked by: Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Tuesday 2nd December 2025 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask His Majesty's Government whether they hold data about the condition of flora in each county in England, and if so, whether they will publish that data. Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) Natural England (NE) does not hold county-level data on plants. When it requires such information, NE works with partners to access excellent quality datasets such as the ‘distribution database’ of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, which may be filtered by county. Such datasets may be processed and published by partners e.g. as County Floras or Rare Plant Registers. NE’s own holding of botanical data focuses on protected sites rather than county scale information. NE recently worked with the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland to produce a new GB level red list for vascular plants. |
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Gambling: Advertising
Asked by: Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Thursday 18th December 2025 Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to monitor and regulate the use of personalised algorithms and targeted advertising by online gambling platforms. Answered by Baroness Twycross - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) All gambling operators in the UK must comply with robust advertising codes, which are enforced by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) independently of Government. These codes apply across all advertising platforms, including online and social media. The codes are regularly reviewed and updated and DCMS regularly engages with the ASA to discuss these changes and the impact of the regulations.
All operators in the UK are also required to comply with the Gambling Commission’s Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice, which includes new provisions relating to direct marketing and socially responsible promotions. The impact of these measures will be assessed in due course.
We engage with a range of stakeholders and other regulators, such as the ICO, to understand whether more can be done to further raise standards in this area, particularly on online platforms.
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Gambling: Advertising
Asked by: Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Thursday 18th December 2025 Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Twycross on 21 May (HL7312), when the Betting and Gaming Council will publish its report on advertising. Answered by Baroness Twycross - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has provided the Government with their report on gambling advertising. It is for the BGC to decide whether to publish it. We have reviewed the report and are considering this alongside a range of other evidence to determine next steps in this area.
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Gambling: Advertising
Asked by: Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Thursday 18th December 2025 Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport: To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to introduce mandatory transparency requirements on gambling advertising spend and targeting strategies by licensed operators. Answered by Baroness Twycross - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) We currently have no plans to introduce mandatory transparency requirements on gambling advertising spend and targeting strategies by licensed operators. |
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Energy: Housing
Asked by: Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Monday 22nd December 2025 Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero: To ask His Majesty's Government how many residential properties have had energy efficiency measures installed under the Government policies then in place for each year from 2015 to 2024; and how many are projected to have such measures installed under current policies for each year from 2025 to 2030. Answered by Lord Whitehead - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) The Government publishes monthly delivery data on Gov.UK. The information sought regarding delivery of the ECO4 scheme can be found in the attached pdf and at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/household-energy-efficiency-national-statistics.
To the end of September 2025 there were around 101,500 meaures installed in 49,400 households under the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund. A summary of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund statistic can be found in the below table:
Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund:
More information is available at: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/social-housing-decarbonisation-fund-statistics-november-2025/summary-of-the-social-housing-decarbonisation-fund-statistics-november-2025.
Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery (LAD) and Home Upgrade Grant (HUG) was released in November 2025 and can be found in the second attached file. Delivery under the current Warm Homes: Local Grant and Social Housing Fund is currently ongoing and in progress.
Over this parliament the government plans to upgrade up to 5 million homes and cut energy bills for good. |
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Immigration: Biometrics
Asked by: Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Tuesday 23rd December 2025 Question to the Home Office: To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to publish an assessment of the trial use of live facial recognition in immigration enforcement in November; and whether it will be used or trialled again for immigration enforcement purposes before the close of the consultation on a new legal framework for law enforcement use of biometrics, facial recognition and similar technologies. Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office) Immigration Enforcement carried out two live facial recognition deployments in collaboration with South Wales Police and Greater Manchester Police. The Department are reviewing these operations and considering the next steps. The results of these deployments are available on gov.uk. |
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Immigration: Biometrics
Asked by: Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat - Life peer) Tuesday 23rd December 2025 Question to the Home Office: To ask His Majesty's Government why staff are "strongly advised" in the Immigration Enforcement Live Facial Recognition Policy Document published in November to refer to that document rather than being required to do so. Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office) The Immigration Enforcement live facial recognition policy document was based on standard police guidance. However, we can confirm that during operational deployments it was made clear to relevant Home Office members of staff that adherence to the agreed-upon policies and processes was mandatory. |
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26 Nov 2025, 5:07 p.m. - House of Lords "of what the noble Lord Lord Foster of Bath said say that I think that the bill already deals with the " Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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26 Nov 2025, 5:17 p.m. - House of Lords "this, and I thank the noble Lord Lord Foster of Bath for reminding noble Lords of the evidence that underpins this measure through " Lord Timpson, The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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26 Nov 2025, 6:26 p.m. - House of Lords "And I have a great deal of respect for the noble Lord Foster of Bath, particularly the work he's done on " Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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26 Nov 2025, 6:30 p.m. - House of Lords "legislation, but as the noble Lord Foster of Bath has said, this is this is a wide area for debate. I think this is beginning in this " Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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26 Nov 2025, 6:40 p.m. - House of Lords "suspended. The noble Lord Lord Foster of Bath has helpfully supported the thrust of this " Lord Timpson, The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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1 Dec 2025, 7:09 p.m. - House of Lords "have it after clause 15, amendment 70 Lord Foster of Bath. " Deputy Chair of Committees. Lord Faulkner of Worcester (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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1 Dec 2025, 7:33 p.m. - House of Lords "substances. The principle behind the noble Lord Lord Foster of Bath amendments one three, 1132 and 133 " Lord Sandhurst (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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1 Dec 2025, 7:29 p.m. - House of Lords "noble friends and noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath, in the amendments they've spoken to in this group. " Lord Bach (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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1 Dec 2025, 7:31 p.m. - House of Lords "Lord Foster of Bath for moving this group of amendments, providing care " Lord Sandhurst (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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1 Dec 2025, 8:46 p.m. - House of Lords "by leave withdrawn. Amendment 78 Lord Foster of Bath not moved. Not " Deputy Lotd Speaker - View Video - View Transcript |
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3 Dec 2025, 3:53 p.m. - House of Lords "The contents have it. After clause 19. Amendment 88 Lord Foster of Bath. " Legislation: Sentencing Bill - committee stage (day 3) - View Video - View Transcript |
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3 Dec 2025, 6:34 p.m. - House of Lords "is by leave withdrawn. Amendment 93 d Lord Foster of Bath not moved, " - View Video - View Transcript |
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3 Dec 2025, 4:35 p.m. - House of Lords "Lord Lord Foster of Bath. I can reassure noble Lords that this government is committed to greater " Lord Timpson, The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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3 Dec 2025, 4:44 p.m. - House of Lords "Report stage. Finally, I must give my thanks to the noble Lord Lord Foster of Bath, who has spotted a " Lord Timpson, The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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3 Dec 2025, 10:25 p.m. - House of Lords "name. And by the way, I also support 147 in the names of Lord Foster of Bath and Lord Marks of Henley on Thames has been on my " Amendment:140 Baroness Chakrabarti (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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Sentencing Bill
94 speeches (25,864 words) Committee stage part one Wednesday 3rd December 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) we have a sustainable justice system.I turn first to Amendment 88, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath - Link to Speech |
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Sentencing Bill
82 speeches (16,231 words) Committee stage part two Wednesday 3rd December 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) Amendment 140 in my name—by the way, I also support Amendment 147 in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Foster of Bath - Link to Speech |
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Sentencing Bill
96 speeches (27,831 words) Committee stage: Part 1 Monday 1st December 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) works with the support for the offender, which is implicit in the activities.My noble friend Lord Foster of Bath - Link to Speech 2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, I support my noble friends and the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath, in the amendments they - Link to Speech 3: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath, for moving his amendment. - Link to Speech 4: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) year to better understand the impacts of gambling harm and what more we can do.The noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath - Link to Speech |
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Sentencing Bill
86 speeches (19,279 words) Committee stage: Part 1 Wednesday 26th November 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, I agree with much of what the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath, said, save that I think that - Link to Speech 2: None I thank the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath, for reminding noble Lords of the evidence that underpins - Link to Speech 3: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) training—with an alternative way out of recidivism.I have a great deal of respect for the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath - Link to Speech 4: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) in primary legislation, for each individual prisoner in the prison estate.As the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath - Link to Speech 5: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath, helpfully has supported the thrust of this amendment, while also - Link to Speech |
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Tuesday 20th January 2026 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Settlement, Citizenship and Integration View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 6th January 2026 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 13th January 2026 10:30 a.m. Justice and Home Affairs Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Settlement, Citizenship and Integration At 10:30am: Oral evidence Professor Thom Brooks - Principal, Chair in Law, Ethics and Government at Collingwood College View calendar - Add to calendar |