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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Female Genital Mutilation

"My Lords, first I will pay tribute to our noble friend Baroness Rendell, who championed this and ensured it was put on the statute book; she is much missed by all of us. Does my noble and learned friend agree that one of the most important things the Government must …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Female Genital Mutilation

"My Lords—..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 09 Jul 2025
NHS 10-Year Plan

"My Lords, I recently had a major operation by robotic surgery. It was very successful; I was out and at home within two and a half days. How will the rollout of this happen? For example, I happen to know that the Royal College of Surgeons at the moment offers …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life

"At the moment, family hubs can provide language support for parents from two years through the home learning scheme. Will the Government consider ensuring that that policy covers children from birth? A great deal of good can be done, as many noble Lords have said, for children’s language development from …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 02 Jul 2025
India: Minorities

"My Lords, what steps are the Government taking to urge the Government of India to ratify key international human rights treaties and withdraw reservations that dilute existing commitments to align their domestic laws with international norms, particularly on caste-based and religious discrimination?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 02 Jul 2025
Welfare Reform

"I would like my noble friend to expand on why it is so important that we tackle the issue of ill and disabled people being disproportionately out of work, looking not only at universal credit and the broken system of access to work but at ingrained prejudice and broken mental …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 30 Jun 2025
Humanist Weddings

"I thank my noble friend for that and I apologise to the House for the fact that I have persistently been asking this question for the last few years. I am channelling my noble friend Lord Rooker on folic acid, and I just hope it is not going to take …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 30 Jun 2025
Humanist Weddings

"To ask His Majesty’s Government what progress has been made to enable legal humanist weddings...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"My Lords, I have put my name to this amendment in the name of the noble Lords, Lord Russell of Liverpool and Lord Young of Cookham, though not because I believe my Government are not doing a great deal about early years—I am sure my noble friend the Minister will …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 19 Jun 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"I invite the noble Baroness to acknowledge that this Government, since they were elected, have committed £1 billion to school meals. It would be nice if she would mention that, as well as everything else, which I am sure we all agree about...."
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