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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 18 Sep 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 502G in this group. This amendment would ensure that Part 2 of the Bill complies with Article 2 in Protocol 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights, which the United Kingdom not only signed and ratified but incorporated into UK law by …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 18 Sep 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"I quickly respond to a point that the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, made. The wording in my amendment is not my wording; it is already in the convention. I am not trying to incorporate it into our law, because it is already incorporated. That ship has sailed, really. All I …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"My Lords, I strongly support the amendment in the name of the right reverend Prelate. We know for a fact that, as we just heard, children who have a parent in prison are at significantly greater risk of suffering mental health difficulties than children who do not, including low self-esteem, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 12 Sep 2025
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

"My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Merron, stated in this House on 4 September last year, that the Government’s commitment is

“to ensure that any debate on assisted dying … will take place in a broader context of access to high-quality palliative and end-of-life care”.—[Official Report, 4/9/24; …..."

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

"My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 443 in my name. I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Barran, for supporting it. The amendment would provide that an order or regulations made under or by virtue of any provision of the Bill that would amend primary legislation shall …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 09 Sep 2025
Interpreting Services in the Courts (Public Services Committee Report)

"My Lords, we have heard some powerful speeches from distinguished and knowledgeable speakers this evening. I am very conscious that, like the noble Baroness, Lady Warwick, I come to this debate relatively new. However, I have one ace in my pack. I have been briefed in detail by an expert …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Jul 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"Amendment 154 in my name seeks to remove Clause 113 from the Bill. Clause 113 was tabled at the 11th hour at Commons Report and gives the Secretary of State the power to bring legal proceedings in the employment tribunal, and to do so not because the Secretary of State …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Jul 2025
Employment Rights Bill

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

"My Lords, I am grateful for all the powerful interventions we have heard this evening from very eminent speakers indeed, including the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, the noble Lords, Lord Murray and Lord Pannick, and the noble Baronesses, Lady Fox, Lady Neville-Rolfe and Lady Falkner. Some really powerful …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 04 Jul 2025
Imprisonment for Public Protection (Re-sentencing) Bill [HL]

"My Lords, many of the points that I was going to make today have already been made far more eloquently than I could have made them, so I will not detain the Committee for very long. I have just two short points.

First, I have always been quite impressed with …..."

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