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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 25 Apr 2025
Public Inquiries: Enchancing Public Trust (Statutory Inquiries Committee Report)

"My Lords, I agree with all those who have warmly commended the noble Lord, Lord Norton of Louth, and of Hull University, for his characteristically rigorous, accessible, practical report, and the other members of the committee.

The noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, said that in this place we are allowed to …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 19 Mar 2025
NHS England Update

"My Lords, the point is well made about duplication, bureaucracy and excessive cost. Can the Minister give us an assurance, though, that we will not move from excessive bureaucratic centralisation to political centralisation? There are few politicians who are clinicians, sophisticated managers or financiers. This is the largest employer in …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 13 Mar 2025
Integration and Community Cohesion

"My Lords, many congratulations to my noble friend for introducing this debate—I think not for the first time, but it matters all the more. How good it is that those of us in this place continue to revisit a subject of such great importance. I also congratulate and give an …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 06 Mar 2025
International Women’s Day

"My Lords, I am delighted to speak today. There are two debates I always enjoy. One is the Archbishop of Canterbury’s debate. Well, there are no bishops here today, so we cannot go any further with that. But there has been a lot of progress on female bishops since my …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 17 Jan 2025
Regulated and Other Activities (Mandatory Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse) Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I warmly commend the noble Baroness for her tenacity in bringing forward this Bill. There is enormous respect and support for what she is doing.

I want to touch on the context. It was 50 years ago that we had the first public inquiry into child physical abuse, …..."

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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 16 Jan 2025
Restoration and Renewal: Annual Progress Report

"That has made my day.

People do notice. Various vice-chancellors kept writing and saying, “We’ve got a new project or development, and we wouldn’t have had that without the decision”. This is not supposed to be a vain speech in any way; I am just trying to gird us up …..."

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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 16 Jan 2025
Restoration and Renewal: Annual Progress Report

"My Lords, it is a delight to follow the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, with whom I have had many encounters over the years. I thank the Senior Deputy Speaker for a characteristically thorough, rigorous, courteous and careful report, but decisions have to be made. It is now just on 10 …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 06 Dec 2024
Social Cohesion and Community during Periods of Change

"My Lords, I am delighted to speak in this debate, which always has a particularly important place in the calendar. I look back fondly at our debate this time last year on families and the really wonderful work that the outgoing most reverend Primate the Archbishop of Canterbury did on ..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 14 Nov 2024
Budget: Arts, Heritage and Cultural Organisations

"Does my noble friend agree that, in these difficult times, waste is to be avoided at all costs? We have the wonderful Imperial War Museum with the Holocaust galleries. The last thing that anybody wants is to waste over £30 million on a memorial museum in the beautiful Victoria Tower …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 14 Nov 2024
Budget: Arts, Heritage and Cultural Organisations

"I tried very hard, but the traffic was very bad...."
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