Information between 5th September 2025 - 15th October 2025
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14 Oct 2025 - Business of the House - View Vote Context Lord Mott voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 183 Conservative Aye votes vs 0 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 211 Noes - 261 |
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14 Oct 2025 - Renters’ Rights Bill - View Vote Context Lord Mott voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 161 Conservative Aye votes vs 2 Conservative No votes Tally: Ayes - 192 Noes - 239 |
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Lord Mott speeches from: Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination Programme
Lord Mott contributed 1 speech (526 words) Tuesday 9th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care |
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Lord Mott speeches from: Interpreting Services in the Courts (Public Services Committee Report)
Lord Mott contributed 1 speech (1,043 words) Tuesday 9th September 2025 - Grand Committee Ministry of Justice |
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Lord Mott speeches from: Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill
Lord Mott contributed 1 speech (333 words) 2nd reading Friday 5th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
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Property: Taxation
Asked by: Lord Mott (Conservative - Life peer) Monday 15th September 2025 Question to the HM Treasury: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the introduction of a new property tax. Answered by Lord Livermore - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury) The Government does not comment on speculation about tax changes. The Government keeps all tax policy under review and tax decisions will be made at the Budget, in the usual way.
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Reservoirs: Cambridgeshire
Asked by: Lord Mott (Conservative - Life peer) Thursday 11th September 2025 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to improve drought resilience by speeding up the development of a new reservoir in Cambridgeshire. Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) This Government has already taken urgent steps to improve water security, including changing the law to slash red tape and speed up the planning process for the building of new reservoirs. To support this, £104 billion of private sector investment has been secured. This will fund essential infrastructure, including the Fens Reservoir, to help secure our future water supply. |
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Small Businesses: VAT
Asked by: Lord Mott (Conservative - Life peer) Monday 15th September 2025 Question to the HM Treasury: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the current VAT threshold on small business growth. Answered by Lord Livermore - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury) With a VAT registration threshold of £90,000, the UK’s threshold is higher than any EU country and the joint highest in the OECD. This means the majority of UK businesses are kept out of the VAT system.
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Mental Health Services: Staff
Asked by: Lord Mott (Conservative - Life peer) Monday 15th September 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase the number of mental health practitioners employed in primary care through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) Through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS), Primary Care Networks (PCNs) recruit additional staff including mental health practitioners (MHPs), pharmacists, physiotherapists, and social prescribing link workers. There are a wide range of clinicians that are well suited to providing care in general practice as part of a multi-disciplinary team, and these roles are in place to assist doctors in general practice in reducing their workload, assisting patients directly with their needs, allowing doctors to focus on more complex patients and other priorities, including continuity of care. As of 30 June 2025, there were 1,158 full time equivalent (FTE) MHPs working across practices and PCNs in England, an increase of 314 FTE compared with June 2023, when the time series in the collated data began. While there are no specific plans to increase the number of MHPs employed through the ARRS, under changes to the GP contract announced earlier in the year the scheme will become more flexible to allow PCNs to respond better to local workforce needs. The two ARRS pots will be combined to create a single pot for reimbursement of patient facing staff costs. There will be no restrictions on the number or type of staff covered, including mental health practitioners. |
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Agriculture and Countryside: Finance
Asked by: Lord Mott (Conservative - Life peer) Friday 19th September 2025 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of reduction in funding for farming and countryside programmes as set out in the Spending Review 2025 (CP 1336). Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) We have allocated a record £11.8 billion to sustainable farming and food production over this parliament. Farmers will directly benefit from an average of £2.3 billion per year - continuing the average annual farming spend over the last Parliament - supporting farm profitability through investment in research and technology and sustainable food production, at the same time as improving the quality of the water in our rivers, the air we breathe and our spaces for wildlife.
We are determined to deliver value for taxpayers’ money. We have identified efficiencies in the farming budget and opportunities to better target incentives for farmers to deliver environmental benefits. For example, rapidly winding down subsidy payments that do not provide returns on investment, and increasing investment in environmental land management schemes from £1.8 billion in 25/26 to more than £2 billion a year by 28/29.
Public funding will also help leverage more private investment into nature restoration, including through the Landscape Recovery scheme where projects will be co-funded by a blend of public and private investment. This will provide farmers with new income streams and opportunities to be rewarded for nature restoration as well as food production. |
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Parental Leave: Terminal Illnesses
Asked by: Lord Mott (Conservative - Life peer) Friday 19th September 2025 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to introduce legislation to enact the proposed ‘Hugh’s Law’ to extend entitlement to paid leave to the parents of seriously or terminally ill children. Answered by Lord Leong - Lord in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) The government has committed to a consultation on support for parents of seriously ill children in 2026, and will continue to work closely with relevant stakeholders as it is developed. There are currently no plans to introduce legislation prior to this consultation as this would pre-empt the outcome. |
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Small Businesses: VAT
Asked by: Lord Mott (Conservative - Life peer) Monday 22nd September 2025 Question to the HM Treasury: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the current value added tax threshold on small business growth. Answered by Lord Livermore - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury) At £90,000, the UK has a higher VAT registration threshold than any EU country and the joint highest in the OECD. This means the majority of UK businesses are kept out of the VAT system. |
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Resolution Foundation
Asked by: Lord Mott (Conservative - Life peer) Thursday 25th September 2025 Question to the Cabinet Office: To ask His Majesty's Government how many meetings have taken place between ministers, special advisors and officials and representatives of the Resolution Foundation since 4 July 2024. Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip) Details of ministers’ and certain senior officials’ meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK.
Special Advisers are required to publish meetings with senior media figures. Meetings with other external individuals and organisations are not collected as part of routine Special Adviser Transparency publications.
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Forests: Commodities
Asked by: Lord Mott (Conservative - Life peer) Friday 26th September 2025 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Hayman of Ullock on 4 November 2024 (HL2037), what further progress they have made towards implementing the UK's Forest Risk Commodity regime. Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) We are working across Government to agree the most effective way to reduce the impact of the UK’s consumption of forest risk commodities on deforestation.
The Government will set out its approach to addressing UK consumption of forest risk commodities in due course. |
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Health Services: Weather
Asked by: Lord Mott (Conservative - Life peer) Wednesday 1st October 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will publish the results of the "war game" exercise carried out as part of the NHS's winter preparations. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) There are no plans to publish individual National Health Service system's plans or the outcomes of stress-testing centrally. System winter plans are locally owned and created in order to meet specific local needs and circumstances and are best communicated by NHS organisations locally. Nationally, the actions being taken to prepare for this coming winter are set out in the Urgent and Emergency Care Plan for 2025/26. A copy of this plan is attached. |
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NHS Staff Council
Asked by: Lord Mott (Conservative - Life peer) Wednesday 15th October 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government how many times the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has met the NHS Staff Council since 1 January. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Minister of State for Health meet regularly with individual Agenda for Change (AfC) trade union leaders and with representatives of NHS organisations to discuss matters affecting the NHS workforce. It is not usual practice for Ministers to attend NHS Staff Council meetings, which are used to discuss policy issues affecting the AfC workforce and to maintain the NHS terms and conditions of service. Accordingly, there have been no meetings between the Secretary of State and the NHS Staff Council as a whole since 1 January. Both ministers have written to the NHS Staff Council on issues relating to AfC pay, terms, and conditions since 1 January, and Department officials continue to attend meetings of the NHS Staff Council. |
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9 Sep 2025, 8:51 p.m. - House of Lords "data as Lord Mott said, Lord Renard " Lord Kamall (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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9 Sep 2025, 9 p.m. - House of Lords "winter and I know Lord Mott rightly so is very concerned, as I am, about winter pressures. I am delighted to " Baroness Merron, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
| Parliamentary Debates |
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Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination Programme
11 speeches (5,623 words) Tuesday 9th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) disparities in how effective these measures have been in the population data, as my noble friend Lord Mott - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) I know that the noble Lord, Lord Mott, is very concerned, as am I, about winter pressures, and rightly - Link to Speech |
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Interpreting Services in the Courts (Public Services Committee Report)
29 speeches (17,684 words) Tuesday 9th September 2025 - Grand Committee Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) respond to the points made by the noble and learned Lord, the noble Lords, Lord Carter of Coles and Lord Mott - Link to Speech 2: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) and indeed the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, and the thoughtful observations of my noble friend Lord Mott - Link to Speech 3: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) assessment that only a judge can make on a case-by-case basis.Many noble Lords—the noble Lords, Lord Mott - Link to Speech |
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Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill
23 speeches (5,946 words) 2nd reading Friday 5th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Mentions: 1: Lord Rennard (LD - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Mott, quoted the Law Commission, and I refer to what it said in 2020:“Electoral - Link to Speech 2: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) In particular, the noble Lords, Lord Rennard, Lord Hayward and Lord Mott raised consolidation of electoral - Link to Speech |
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Wednesday 17th September 2025
Oral Evidence - Metropolitan Police, Metropolitan Police, and Greater Manchester Police Police transcription - Public Services Committee Found: Yardley (The Chair); Lord Blencathra; Lord Bradley; Lord Carter of Coles; Baroness Cass; Lord Laming; Lord Mott |
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Wednesday 17th September 2025
Oral Evidence - The Bar Council, Justice, and Criminal Bar Association Police transcription - Public Services Committee Found: Yardley (The Chair); Lord Blencathra; Lord Bradley; Lord Carter of Coles; Baroness Cass; Lord Laming; Lord Mott |
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Wednesday 3rd September 2025
Oral Evidence - Dr Kate Haworth, Dr James Tompkinson, and Professor Helen Fraser Police transcription - Public Services Committee Found: Lord Blencathra; Lord Bradley; Baroness Cass; Lord Carter of Coles; Baroness Coffey; Lord Laming; Lord Mott |
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Wednesday 15th October 2025 11 a.m. Public Services Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Medicines security At 11:00am: Oral evidence Dr Keith Ridge Dr Paul-Enguerrand Fady - Bio Security Manager at The Centre for Long Term Resilience (CLTR) Dr Emilia Vann Yaroson View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 22nd October 2025 11 a.m. Public Services Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Medicines security View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 29th October 2025 11 a.m. Public Services Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 5th November 2025 11 a.m. Public Services Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Medicines security View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 19th November 2025 11 a.m. Public Services Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Medicines security View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 12th November 2025 11 a.m. Public Services Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Medicines security View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Monday 6th October 2025
Constitution Directorate Source Page: EQIA for the Absent Voting At Scottish Parliament And Local Government Elections Document: Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) for the Absent Voting At Scottish Parliament And Local Government Elections (Signature Refresh) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Order 2025 and the Representation of the People (Absent Voting at Local Government Elections) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (PDF) Found: Recommendation 9a: Association of Electoral Administrators Blueprint 2025 3 See the comments by Lord Mott |