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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Youth Unemployment

"My Lords, I pay tribute to my noble friend’s energy, commitment and drive on this issue. Would she talk to her new Secretary of State, whose team might then talk to the Chancellor, about examining how we might learn from the New Deal for Young People, which was introduced in …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"I am very grateful for the final intervention by the noble Baroness opposite. Collective memory has always been a problem in government. It is nice to know that there is something on a shelf somewhere, although we have had rather an experience over the last 14 months of sometimes pulling …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"In moving Amendment 435, I am grateful for the support of my noble friends and of the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Cotes, who quite rightly drew attention in the last debate to anomalies that have arisen over the years that I hope we will be able to put right. …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 03 Sep 2025
Football Governance Act 2025: Implementation

"My Lords, I declare an interest as a Sheffield Wednesday supporter. I think that noble Lords will understand why I am returning to the issue of what is unfolding as a Greek tragedy. The solidarity payments paid wages for August, but a tragedy is unfolding in front of us. I …..."
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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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