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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 24 Jul 2025
“Hillsborough Law”

"My Lords, Andrew Devine was my constituent. He died in 2021, the 97th victim of Hillsborough, 32 years after his chest was crushed and he was deprived of oxygen. We owe it, as the noble Lord has said, to his memory and to many others in that disaster and others, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025

"My Lords, I hope to be able to persuade the noble Lord, Lord Robertson, who knows that I have enormous respect for him, that the safeguards are not good enough and that he should reconsider before we get to a vote on this amendment. The noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, at …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Great British Energy: Nuclear Development

"My Lords, given the announcement at the weekend that £200 million is going to be spent through Great British Energy to purchase solar panels from China, how can the Minister reconcile that with the amendment passed by your Lordships’ House that goods that may have been manufactured using slave labour …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Official Development Assistance

"My Lords, given that conflict is one of the reasons why development is always impeded, has the Minister had a chance to look at the correspondence last week between the Foreign Secretary and the Joint Committee on Human Rights, where the Foreign Secretary was asked whether these cuts will impact …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 17 Jul 2025
Syria: Druze Community

"My Lords, the Minister will have seen the recent reports of the murder of 25 believers who were assembled in a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus. She will know also about the shocking reports of the rape and violence perpetrated against Alawite women. Can she tell us anything further about …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

"My Lords, I will be brief, because I agree wholeheartedly with the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, particularly about the position of domestic migrant workers. This is something we will come back to at later stages of the Bill, but as the noble Baroness has raised it now, I just put …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

"My Lords, whether or not President Macron is tuned into our debate today and supportive of what noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, has just said, she will be glad to know, as I was, that the British Red Cross says:

“Extending the relevant clause to include refugee family reunion would ensure …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

"I agree with the general thrust of the argument the noble Lord, Lord Harper, is putting to the Committee. He talked about getting the balance right, and that is really what I was arguing. However, we must not lose sight of the fact that these are children or young people, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

"I am grateful to the Minister. He will recall the example I gave of a two year-old boy in Sudan wanting to be reunited with his grandmother. It took 11 months to do that, and it required the transportation of information half-way across Africa in order to achieve it.

Will …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 08 Jul 2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

"The noble Baroness is quite right. This issue was specifically raised by Mr Alex Sobel, Member of Parliament for Leeds, who encouraged us to include those words about hygiene. It was based on exactly what the noble Baroness has just said about our concern for human dignity. We talk a …..."
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