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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"That is not the case, as I understand it, but perhaps we could speak about that afterwards.

Most importantly, the regime is effective because inspection is best conducted by experts who know the sector. The ISI is made up of people who understand how it works. That is particularly true …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 429 and 433 in the name of my noble friend Lord Lexden, to which I have added my own. It is a pleasure to see my noble friend back in his place. In Bills such as this, his authoritative and powerful voice on …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 05 Sep 2025
Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill

"My Lords, I strongly support this long-overdue Bill and congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Trees, on skilfully steering it through this House. My noble friend Lady Fookes has asked me to say how much she wishes she had been able to be here—she is at a long-standing event for the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 01 Sep 2025
Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023

"My Lords—..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 01 Sep 2025
Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023

"My Lords, I had the privilege of taking this legislation through this House, with the support of the Minister. I am profoundly disappointed that, two years after it reached the statute book, it has not been implemented, letting down the 150 charities which campaigned for it and the animals it …..."
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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, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness. She and I probably have not always agreed on everything, but I echo every word that she said today.

I have thought long and hard about whether to take part in this debate, but as it touches on two …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Artificial Intelligence: News Media

"My Lords, AI poses an existential threat to independent media because of the way it scrapes their high-quality content without either attribution or payment to those who created it, which is an act of theft directly threatening the provision of quality news and the jobs of thousands of reporters. Is …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Artificial Intelligence: News Media

"To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of artificial intelligence on the sustainability and reliability of the news media...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Artificial Intelligence: News Media

"My Lords, in begging leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper, I declare my interest as deputy chairman of the Telegraph Media Group...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Independent Schools: Tax Changes

"My Lords, documents released during legal action against the Government over the imposition of VAT midway through the academic year revealed that Ministers were warned by officials that theirs would be the most disruptive option for the implementation of this vindictive policy. Why did they callously ignore that advice? Ministers …..."
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