Information between 21st April 2025 - 31st May 2025
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Wednesday 14th May 2025 Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer) Oral questions - Main Chamber Subject: Ensuring sufficient supply of water and assessment of the adequacy of water infrastructure View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Tuesday 17th June 2025 Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer) Oral questions - Main Chamber Subject: Removal of cladding from high-rise buildings View calendar - Add to calendar |
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30 Apr 2025 - Armed Forces Commissioner Bill - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 147 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 245 Noes - 157 |
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12 May 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 145 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 200 Noes - 183 |
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12 May 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 137 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 164 Noes - 152 |
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12 May 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted Aye - against a party majority and in line with the House One of 8 Labour Aye votes vs 120 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 272 Noes - 125 |
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19 May 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context Lord Rooker voted Aye - against a party majority and in line with the House One of 18 Labour Aye votes vs 114 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 289 Noes - 118 |
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Lord Rooker speeches from: Water: Supply and Infrastructure
Lord Rooker contributed 2 speeches (123 words) Wednesday 14th May 2025 - Lords Chamber |
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Lord Rooker speeches from: Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
Lord Rooker contributed 1 speech (326 words) Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons Monday 12th May 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Business and Trade |
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Lord Rooker speeches from: Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations 2025
Lord Rooker contributed 1 speech (630 words) Tuesday 6th May 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
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Lord Rooker speeches from: Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025
Lord Rooker contributed 1 speech (469 words) Wednesday 30th April 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
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Lord Rooker speeches from: Tax: Changes
Lord Rooker contributed 1 speech (58 words) Tuesday 29th April 2025 - Lords Chamber HM Treasury |
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Lord Rooker speeches from: Government Supply Chains: Cotton
Lord Rooker contributed 2 speeches (185 words) Thursday 24th April 2025 - Lords Chamber |
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NHS: Protective Clothing
Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer) Thursday 15th May 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to prevent companies who failed to provide useable stock during the COVID-19 pandemic from tendering for the contract to supply NHS face shield stock. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) The Department is currently tendering for its pandemic preparedness portfolio and the procurement is being run against an existing NHS Supply Chain framework agreement. The framework agreement only has suppliers on it which have been through a competitive tender and due diligence in line with both the legislation, at that time the Public Contract Regulations 2015, and which have been assessed against NHS Supply Chain’s minimum expectations, including sustainability, social value, and modern slavery. NHS Supply Chain cannot discriminate against countries, except for Russia and Belarus, and this is in line with the Government’s National Procurement Policy Statement which specifically states that nothing in this statement should conflict with the Government’s international trade obligations. In this tender, bidders were only permitted to tender products that were already awarded to the framework agreement. Furthermore, as part of the tender evaluation, for all products tendered, the technical product/conformity documentation was then reviewed again to ensure its validity, and a ‘hands on product assurance’ assessment requiring samples was undertaken. Two suppliers on the existing NHS Supply Chain framework provided products under personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts to the Department in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, which the Department was dissatisfied with. However, these contract issues have now been resolved. The products supplied under the NHS Supply Chain framework are not the same as for the Department’s PPE contracts, and any issues with future performance will be managed through the contract management process and practice already in place with NHS Supply Chain. |
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NHS: Protective Clothing
Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer) Thursday 15th May 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to take steps to prevent tenders from China for the NHS face shield stock currently out for tender. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) The Department is currently tendering for its pandemic preparedness portfolio and the procurement is being run against an existing NHS Supply Chain framework agreement. The framework agreement only has suppliers on it which have been through a competitive tender and due diligence in line with both the legislation, at that time the Public Contract Regulations 2015, and which have been assessed against NHS Supply Chain’s minimum expectations, including sustainability, social value, and modern slavery. NHS Supply Chain cannot discriminate against countries, except for Russia and Belarus, and this is in line with the Government’s National Procurement Policy Statement which specifically states that nothing in this statement should conflict with the Government’s international trade obligations. In this tender, bidders were only permitted to tender products that were already awarded to the framework agreement. Furthermore, as part of the tender evaluation, for all products tendered, the technical product/conformity documentation was then reviewed again to ensure its validity, and a ‘hands on product assurance’ assessment requiring samples was undertaken. Two suppliers on the existing NHS Supply Chain framework provided products under personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts to the Department in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, which the Department was dissatisfied with. However, these contract issues have now been resolved. The products supplied under the NHS Supply Chain framework are not the same as for the Department’s PPE contracts, and any issues with future performance will be managed through the contract management process and practice already in place with NHS Supply Chain. |
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NHS: Protective Clothing
Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer) Thursday 15th May 2025 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to prioritise UK suppliers for the supply of NHS face shield stock currently out for tender. Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care) The Department is currently tendering for its pandemic preparedness portfolio and the procurement is being run against an existing NHS Supply Chain framework agreement. The framework agreement only has suppliers on it which have been through a competitive tender and due diligence in line with both the legislation, at that time the Public Contract Regulations 2015, and which have been assessed against NHS Supply Chain’s minimum expectations, including sustainability, social value, and modern slavery. NHS Supply Chain cannot discriminate against countries, except for Russia and Belarus, and this is in line with the Government’s National Procurement Policy Statement which specifically states that nothing in this statement should conflict with the Government’s international trade obligations. In this tender, bidders were only permitted to tender products that were already awarded to the framework agreement. Furthermore, as part of the tender evaluation, for all products tendered, the technical product/conformity documentation was then reviewed again to ensure its validity, and a ‘hands on product assurance’ assessment requiring samples was undertaken. Two suppliers on the existing NHS Supply Chain framework provided products under personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts to the Department in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, which the Department was dissatisfied with. However, these contract issues have now been resolved. The products supplied under the NHS Supply Chain framework are not the same as for the Department’s PPE contracts, and any issues with future performance will be managed through the contract management process and practice already in place with NHS Supply Chain. |
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30 Apr 2025, 9:08 p.m. - House of Lords "people who live in the sticks. I listened carefully to Lord Rooker and he said he hadn't gotten interest but we all have an interest " Lord Fuller (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Apr 2025, 9:12 p.m. - House of Lords "sympathy with what Lord Rooker said, this is the Treasury holding the economy down not letting it " Lord Fuller (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Apr 2025, 9:20 p.m. - House of Lords ">> Before I preface my remarks, I thank my noble friend, Lord Rooker " Earl Russell (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Apr 2025, 9:20 p.m. - House of Lords "thank my noble friend, Lord Rooker for his comments and they resonate so much with me, in terms of how this government has approached the " Lord Grantchester (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Apr 2025, 4:51 p.m. - House of Lords "a point made by Lord Rooker who is " Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Apr 2025, 9:57 p.m. - House of Lords "I agree with Lord Rooker, on this " Baroness Grender (Liberal Democrat) - View Video - View Transcript |
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30 Apr 2025, 10:10 p.m. - House of Lords "with so few words of support of this SI and I think most of us would also agree with Lord Rooker that perhaps has more to do with the Treasury and " Lord Roborough (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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6 May 2025, 8:30 p.m. - House of Lords "my noble friend Baroness Coffey, and indeed, with Lord Rooker, about the points they were making. I will not " Lord Lansley (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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6 May 2025, 8:09 p.m. - House of Lords "doing the right thing. Lord Rooker took me back to the early days of " Lord Wigley (Plaid Cymru) - View Video - View Transcript |
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6 May 2025, 8:58 p.m. - House of Lords "right, we expect and Lord Rooker was " Lord Blencathra (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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6 May 2025, 8:59 p.m. - House of Lords "Lord Rooker in usual style. Those who are calling for labelling want " Lord Blencathra (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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12 May 2025, 6:28 p.m. - House of Lords "are worthy of being paid more than the people who actually create the wonderful content that Lord Rooker was speaking about earlier on. How " Lord Brennan of Canton (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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19 May 2025, 4:40 p.m. - House of Lords "across this House. And having just listened to Labour peers, dare I say I follow Lord Rooker in fact and like him I have no artistic or creative ability whatever. But I " Baroness Butler-Sloss (Crossbench) - View Video - View Transcript |
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Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
43 speeches (11,820 words) Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons Monday 19th May 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) Having listened to Labour Peers, I must say that I follow the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, in having, like - Link to Speech |
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Water: Supply and Infrastructure
17 speeches (1,527 words) Wednesday 14th May 2025 - Lords Chamber Mentions: 1: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) The noble Lord is right to say—as my noble friend Lord Rooker also suggested—that we desperately need - Link to Speech |
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Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
100 speeches (25,584 words) Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons Monday 12th May 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Lord Brennan of Canton (Lab - Life peer) being paid more than the people who actually create the wonderful content that the noble Lord, Lord Rooker - Link to Speech |
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Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations 2025
29 speeches (12,086 words) Tuesday 6th May 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Mentions: 1: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) steps forward only when we are absolutely certain we are doing the right thing.The noble Lord, Lord Rooker - Link to Speech 2: Lord Krebs (XB - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Rooker, made the point that it would be very difficult to enforce mandatory labelling - Link to Speech 3: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) My Lords, I shall speak very briefly on this issue, mainly because I followed the noble Lord, Lord Rooker - Link to Speech 4: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Krebs, is right, as is the noble Lord, Lord Rooker: Parliament rejected calls for - Link to Speech |
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Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025
28 speeches (11,346 words) Wednesday 30th April 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Mentions: 1: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) Government are doing to those people who live in the sticks.I listened carefully to the noble Lord, Lord Rooker - Link to Speech 2: Lord Grantchester (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) I preface my remarks by thanking my noble friend Lord Rooker for his comments. - Link to Speech 3: Lord Roborough (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I think most of us also agree with the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, that perhaps it is more to do with the - Link to Speech |
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Great British Energy Bill
11 speeches (2,681 words) Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons Wednesday 30th April 2025 - Lords Chamber Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Mentions: 1: None slavery in our supply chains and using technology—a point made only last week by the noble Lord, Lord Rooker - Link to Speech |
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Government Supply Chains: Cotton
22 speeches (1,729 words) Thursday 24th April 2025 - Lords Chamber Mentions: 1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) law prohibiting the import of slave-made goods, using the kind of technology that the noble Lord, Lord Rooker - Link to Speech |
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Wednesday 30th April 2025 6 p.m. Environment and Climate Change Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 7th May 2025 10 a.m. Environment and Climate Change Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Nitrogen At 10:00am: Oral evidence Helen Wakeham - Director for Water at Environment Agency Jennie Donovan - Director for Nature and Place at Environment Agency Chris Walters - Senior Director for the Price Review at Ofwat Paul Hickey - Managing Director of RAPID at Ofwat View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 7th May 2025 10 a.m. Environment and Climate Change Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Nitrogen At 10:00am: Oral evidence Helen Wakeham - Director for Water at Environment Agency Chris Walters - Senior Director for the Price Review at Ofwat Paul Hickey - Managing Director of RAPID at Ofwat Nicola Riley - Deputy Director for Agriculture & Land at Environment Agency View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Thursday 22nd May 2025 10 a.m. Environment and Climate Change Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Nitrogen At 10:00am: Oral evidence Emma Hardy MP - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Water and Flooding) at Defra Daniel Zeichner MP - Minister of State at Defra View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Thursday 22nd May 2025 10 a.m. Environment and Climate Change Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Nitrogen At 10:00am: Oral evidence Emma Hardy MP - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Water and Flooding) at Defra Daniel Zeichner MP - Minister of State at Defra Emma Donnelly - Deputy Director for International Nature, Climate and Development at Defra Dr Bill Parish - Deputy Director for Air Quality and Industrial Emissions at Defra View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Thursday 22nd May 2025 10 a.m. Environment and Climate Change Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Nitrogen At 10:00am: Oral evidence Emma Hardy MP - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Water and Flooding) at Defra Daniel Zeichner MP - Minister of State at Defra Emma Donnelly - Deputy Director for Clean Waters at Defra Dr Bill Parish - Deputy Director for Air Quality and Industrial Emissions at Defra View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Thursday 22nd May 2025 10 a.m. Environment and Climate Change Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Nitrogen At 10:00am: Oral evidence Emma Hardy MP - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Water and Flooding) at Defra Daniel Zeichner MP - Minister of State at Defra Emma Donnelly - Deputy Director for Clean Waters at Defra Dr Bill Parish - Deputy Director for Air Quality and Industrial Emissions at Defra Claire Northridge - Deputy Director for Services and Regulation Policy at Defra View calendar - Add to calendar |
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Wednesday 4th June 2025 10 a.m. Environment and Climate Change Committee - Private Meeting View calendar - Add to calendar |