Middle East: Economic Response

Debate between Lord Gardiner of Kimble and Lord Campbell-Savours

Monday 1st June 2026 Lords Chamber

[The Deputy Speaker (Lord Gardiner of Kimble) (Con)]

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, is taking part remotely. I invite him to speak.

[Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab) [V]]

My Lords, with AI causing reductions in apprenticeship training and with minimum-wage resistance from employers, why do the Government not look, in addition to the laudable initiatives that they are introducing, at the 1980s community programme? It emphasised environmental improvement, the arts and charities. It took young people off benefits and put them into work in local communities, at a time when dangers from anti-social activities were developing from long-term inactivity and unemployment. Ministers might read the speech of former MP Graham Allen of 29 July 1988 on the Nottingham operation of the programme in his constituency. It is a lesson to be learned from the past.

Infected Blood Inquiry: Government Response

Debate between Lord Gardiner of Kimble and Lord Campbell-Savours

Wednesday 21st May 2025 Lords Chamber

[The Senior Deputy Speaker (Lord Gardiner of Kimble)]

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, is taking part remotely. I invite him to ask his question.

[Lord Campbell-Savours (Lab) [V]]

My Lords, with an infected blood compensation bill of £11 billion-plus and a further annual bill of £3 billion for misdiagnosis and incorrect medication, and then recognising the limitations on Commons inquiries due to Member availability, limited expertise and agenda pressures, does not this whole affair now demand an ad hoc inquiry into compensation arrangements administration in the Lords, drawing on our huge expertise in accountancy, healthcare and wider issues of compensation law? I am sure our people could find ways of speeding up the process and the scheme, saving a lot of public money that is currently unnecessarily feeding some areas of the legal and other professions. I suspect this will all end up in a VFM report before the Public Accounts Committee in years to come.

Ukraine: UK-USA Discussions

Debate between Lord Gardiner of Kimble and Lord Campbell-Savours

Wednesday 26th March 2025 Lords Chamber

[Lord Campbell-Savours]

To ask His Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the government of the United States of America on recent developments in Ukraine.

[The Senior Deputy Speaker (Lord Gardiner of Kimble)]

My Lords, the first Oral Question is from the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, who is participating virtually.