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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 17 Jul 2025
Tackling Unsustainable Debt

"My Lords, reinforcing the point that global co-operation and international institutions need to be not only defended but promoted in dealing with world debt and poverty, it is exactly 20 years since the Gleneagles agreement, which was reached in 2005 after the Make Poverty History campaign—one of the most successful …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Primary Stock Exchange Listings

"My noble friend raises an important issue, and I am grateful for his reply. The noble Baroness raised the large companies, but surely the real problem is the rebalancing over several years of the London Stock Exchange away from the funding of small start-ups which are proving their worth and …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 02 Jun 2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

"My Lords, I really enjoyed that speech. I was thinking more of the “1812 Overture” than the “Rite of Spring”, given how many borders and immigration Bills I have been through here and in the House of Commons. I congratulate my noble friend the Minister. I thank him for his …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 20 May 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"My Lords, we have heard some highly respected voices this afternoon, and I want to put two or three things on the record.

The noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, rightly draws attention to the fact that this kind of clause is now becoming commonplace at the beginning of Committees …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 14 May 2025
BBC Sounds: Access from Abroad

"Since laying this Question, and as a supporter of the BBC, I have been pleased to have a dialogue, but I am sure my noble friend would agree that if it is to be “our BBC” then there must be communications with listeners and timescales for implementation, linking in with …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 14 May 2025
BBC Sounds: Access from Abroad

"To ask His Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the BBC about its decision to deny access to BBC Sounds for people travelling or living abroad; and what the outcome of any such discussions was...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 07 May 2025
Pupil Absenteeism

"I mean that she is too young to remember the school bobby, who turned up at my parents’ house only to find that I had been sent away to a school for the blind. Is it not true that, in some circumstances, we really have to work with the parents, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 07 May 2025
Pupil Absenteeism

"My Lords, I am sure my noble friend will know that, in the last academic year, the number of those absent more than 50% of the time went up by a staggering two-thirds—so we have a genuine crisis. I know that my noble friend is too old—..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 01 May 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Baroness. I offer a very warm welcome to and look forward to the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Mohammed of Tinsley. I know that he will remind me of just how old I am by reflecting on his childhood …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 29 Apr 2025
Wales: Nuclear Power Generation

"My Lords, in the light of the outage in Spain and Portugal over the last 48 hours, are not devolved and diffuse sources of clean energy absolutely crucial to our security? What measures will the Government take on the back of what is happening in Spain and Portugal to ensure …..."
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