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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Jul 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"We were...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Jul 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"BALPA, the union of which I am president, does all those things without a political fund...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Jul 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"My Lords, it will probably not surprise noble Lords that I support the amendment. This situation has cursed the whole of the trade union movement’s relations with the Labour Party for far too long. As some of you will remember, I am the president of BALPA, the pilots’ union, a …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Weight Loss Medication

"My Lord, one of the problems we have is that a number of medicines that are available privately are not available on the NHS. I am thinking in particular of medicines for prostate cancer. I happen to know that the DHSC is currently looking at a regime for them. Perhaps …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"Maybe I could say what I think the noble Lord, Lord Hendy, was going to say. The workplace is not necessarily quite as put. Both my grandmothers were businesspeople in their own right, with small businesses. The one we always call my English grandmother—because she was not the Irish one—was …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 04 Jul 2025
Imprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Woodley, for giving us the opportunity to debate this injustice. We both serve on a committee with the justice unions, as they are called. I recently succeeded the noble Earl, Lord Attlee, as the Conservative vice-president of this APPG, because the noble …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 05 Jun 2025
Ukraine: UK Security Guarantee

"My Lords, it may be unpopular, but the Russians do actually believe they have a case. If we are going to get peace, we have to get a neutral arbiter in there to try to start negotiations. The word that is missing is “Europe”. What are the Government doing to …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 Jun 2025
UK Nuclear Deterrent

"My Lords, can the Minister confirm that it is an independent nuclear deterrent, or is it tied in? Would it work if we did not have support from the United States? One of the problems that we have had in the past is that it has not been an independent …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 02 Jun 2025
Allowances

"My Lords, I support this Motion. I have a very simple question for the Leader. Bearing in mind what happened during the period up to 2009, have the usual channels thought carefully about what the phrase

“where it is necessary to do so”

means? Will there be some sort of …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 20 May 2025
NHS and Care Volunteer Responders Service

"My Lords, I in no way denigrate volunteers, but can the Minister confirm that when a volunteer in a hospital comes across information about patients it has the same level of confidentiality as it would if it had been found by a member of staff, and that it is not …..."
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