Information between 16th January 2025 - 7th March 2025
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29 Jan 2025 - Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Lord Meston voted Aye and in line with the House One of 39 Crossbench Aye votes vs 2 Crossbench No votes Tally: Ayes - 206 Noes - 45 |
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5 Feb 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Lord Meston voted Aye and in line with the House One of 49 Crossbench Aye votes vs 2 Crossbench No votes Tally: Ayes - 302 Noes - 132 |
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5 Feb 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Lord Meston voted Aye and in line with the House One of 55 Crossbench Aye votes vs 6 Crossbench No votes Tally: Ayes - 318 Noes - 130 |
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5 Mar 2025 - Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Lord Meston voted No and in line with the House One of 35 Crossbench No votes vs 4 Crossbench Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 167 Noes - 228 |
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5 Mar 2025 - Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Lord Meston voted Aye and against the House One of 31 Crossbench Aye votes vs 8 Crossbench No votes Tally: Ayes - 86 Noes - 159 |
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Lord Meston speeches from: Prenuptial Agreements
Lord Meston contributed 1 speech (1,438 words) Thursday 27th February 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice |
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Lord Meston speeches from: Humanist Weddings
Lord Meston contributed 1 speech (94 words) Monday 3rd February 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice |
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Lord Meston speeches from: Mental Health Bill [HL]
Lord Meston contributed 4 speeches (658 words) Committee stage part one Monday 27th January 2025 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care |
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Lord Meston speeches from: Mental Health Bill [HL]
Lord Meston contributed 4 speeches (868 words) Committee stage part one Wednesday 22nd January 2025 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care |
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Lord Meston speeches from: Mental Health Bill [HL]
Lord Meston contributed 1 speech (167 words) Committee stage part one Monday 20th January 2025 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care |
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27 Feb 2025, 5:40 p.m. - House of Lords "would also like to thank Lord Meston for raising important questions about the formation of prenup's, in " Lord Timpson, The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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27 Feb 2025, 5:09 p.m. - House of Lords "door to me Lord Meston and the noble and learned Baroness butler source I " Lord St John of Bletso (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript |
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27 Feb 2025, 5:44 p.m. - House of Lords "Lord Meston disagree. The government will take all of these views in the round before setting out its position. In closing, the debate " Lord Timpson, The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
150 speeches (29,999 words) Committee stage part one Monday 3rd March 2025 - Lords Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) Leicester, the Earl of Lindsay, Lord Londesborough, Lord Lucas, the Earl of Lytton, Lord Mancroft, Lord Meston - Link to Speech |
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Prenuptial Agreements
27 speeches (17,493 words) Thursday 27th February 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) I am sure the noble Lord, Lord Meston, from his role at the International Academy of Family Lawyers, - Link to Speech 2: Lord St John of Bletso (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Unlike my distinguished friends next to me, my noble friend Lord Meston and my noble and learned friend - Link to Speech 3: Lord Keen of Elie (Con - Life peer) I do not agree with the reference made by the noble Lord, Lord Meston, to some expectation upon divorce - Link to Speech 4: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) Lords that my noble friend Lord Ponsonby will think very carefully about.I thank the noble Lord, Lord Meston - Link to Speech |
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Mental Health Bill [HL]
89 speeches (21,220 words) Committee stage part one Monday 27th January 2025 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) I note that the next amendment in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Meston, and the noble and learned - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Meston, for mentioning my amendments in advance. - Link to Speech 3: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) My Lords, if I may, I shall start with the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Meston. - Link to Speech 4: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) I think I need to clarify a point of law—I am looking to the noble Lord, Lord Meston. - Link to Speech |
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Mental Health Bill [HL]
72 speeches (19,050 words) Committee stage part one Wednesday 22nd January 2025 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) My Lords, I entirely agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Meston, just said. - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) What it does not do—but the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Meston, would—is set out the guidance that - Link to Speech 3: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) As I said, I was very sympathetic to the test and the way that the noble Lord, Lord Meston, set it out - Link to Speech |
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Mental Health Bill [HL]
75 speeches (16,928 words) Committee stage part one Monday 20th January 2025 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) what I might call her notes of caution in respect of extending provisions, and the noble Lord, Lord Meston - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) understood from the Minister her thoughts on a point that has been made twice now by the noble Lord, Lord Meston - Link to Speech |
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Friday 28th February 2025
Written Evidence - Mind MHB0025 - Mental Health Bill Mental Health Bill - Human Rights (Joint Committee) Found: An amendment to include a decision-making test for under 16s has been tabled by Lord Meston at Committee |
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Friday 28th February 2025
Report - Fifteenth Report - 1 Statutory Instrument Reported Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) Found: of Lords Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative; Life peer) Lord Kakkar (Crossbench; Life peer) Lord Meston |
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Friday 14th February 2025
Report - Fourteenth Report - No Statutory Instruments Reported Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) Found: sitting.Current membership House of Lords Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative) Lord Kakkar (Crossbench) Lord Meston |
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Friday 7th February 2025
Report - Thirteenth Report - 8 Statutory Instruments Reported Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) Found: sitting.Current membership House of Lords Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative) Lord Kakkar (Crossbench) Lord Meston |
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Thursday 6th February 2025
Written Evidence - Just Equality MHB0019 - Mental Health Bill Mental Health Bill - Human Rights (Joint Committee) Found: Committee debate on the Bill on 22nd January 2025 and in response to the proposed amendment (tabled by Lord Meston |
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Wednesday 29th January 2025
Oral Evidence - Doughty Street Chambers, Bristol University, Mind, and Centre for Mental Health Mental Health Bill - Human Rights (Joint Committee) Found: an amendment tabled by Baroness Butler-Sloss, the former President of the Family Division, and Lord Meston |
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Friday 24th January 2025
Report - Twelfth Report - 2 Statutory Instruments Reported Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) Found: sitting.Current membership House of Lords Lord Beith (Liberal Democrat) Lord Chartres (Crossbench) Lord Meston |
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Friday 17th January 2025
Report - Eleventh Report - 2 Statutory Instruments Reported Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) Found: sitting.Current membership House of Lords Lord Beith (Liberal Democrat) Lord Chartres (Crossbench) Lord Meston |
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Peers
Asked by: Lord Strathclyde (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary) Friday 17th January 2025 Question to the Cabinet Office: To ask His Majesty's Government which current members of the House of Lords will be affected by the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill as currently drafted. Answered by Baroness Smith of Basildon - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill delivers the manifesto commitment to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords. As a result of the Bill, the 92 seats currently reserved for hereditary peers will be removed. The Bill will remove the remaining hereditary peers at the end of the Parliamentary session in which it receives Royal Assent. A list of the current hereditary peers can be found below
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Feb. 20 2025
HL Bill 47-V Fifth marshalled list for Committee Mental Health Bill [HL] 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: Mental Health Bill [HL] 16 LORD MESTON BARONESS BERRIDGE BARONESS BENNETT OF MANOR CASTLE 147_ After |
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Jan. 23 2025
HL Bill 47-IV(Corrected) Fourth marshalled list for Committee Mental Health Bill [HL] 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: LORD MESTON BARONESS BUTLER-SLOSS 69_ Schedule 2, page 71, line 24, leave out “county court” and insert |
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Jan. 23 2025
HL Bill 47-IV Fourth marshalled list for Committee Mental Health Bill [HL] 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: LORD MESTON BARONESS BUTLER-SLOSS 69_ Schedule 2, page 71, line 24, leave out “county court” and insert |
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Jan. 21 2025
HL Bill 47-III Third marshalled list for Committee Mental Health Bill [HL] 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: Mental Health Bill [HL] 10 LORD MESTON BARONESS BUTLER-SLOSS 69_ Schedule 2, page 71, line 24, leave |
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Jan. 16 2025
HL Bill 47-II Second marshalled list for Committee Mental Health Bill [HL] 2024-26 Amendment Paper Found: First-Tier Tribunal the power to overrule decisions of a nominated person. 23 Mental Health Bill [HL] LORD MESTON |
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Wednesday 12th February 2025 3:40 p.m. Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 26th February 2025 3:40 p.m. Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 5th March 2025 3:40 p.m. Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 12th March 2025 3:40 p.m. Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 19th March 2025 3:40 p.m. Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 2nd April 2025 3:40 p.m. Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 26th March 2025 3:40 p.m. Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |