"My Lords, it has been a great privilege to sit here all day and listen to noble, and noble and learned, Members of this House. The problem is that when you are the penultimate speaker, most of the good ideas and suggestions have already been made. I pay tribute to …..." Lord Evans of Rainow - View Speech
"My Lords, a close family member works for a fast-food drive-through takeaway, and she was telling me over the weekend about the amount of abuse she receives from drug-drivers taking nitrous oxide openly in front of her, using balloons. I asked what the standard operating procedure was for reporting this …..." Lord Evans of Rainow - View Speech
"Some things have not changed. Then you had the mechanical engineers, the aircraft fitters, and so on and so forth: several different unions representing different members. I learned as a very young man that some unions are more militant than others and that a very small group of people could …..." Lord Evans of Rainow - View Speech
"My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 149, regarding broad workforce support. I was born and brought up in a working-class community that was specifically built to supply workers to build aircraft for a very large organisation employing thousands of people. As a teenager, I was lucky enough to …..." Lord Evans of Rainow - View Speech
"My Lords, I witnessed a close family member suffer with this dreadful disease, and the Minister is right to say that she cannot comment on the actual drug and NICE’s decision. However, before this drug is administered, you require blood-clotting platelets so that the drug can have the best effect. …..." Lord Evans of Rainow - View Speech
"My Lords, talking about business improvement districts, there is no better sector to help improve any town centre or business district than hospitality, which was hit very hard in the recent Budget by national insurance contributions, minimum wages and, indeed, business rates. How will this tourism tax help hospitality businesses …..." Lord Evans of Rainow - View Speech
"My Lords, I rise to support the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Hogan-Howe. This gives me an opportunity to pay tribute to him and his public service as police commissioner and in the Merseyside Police. It also gives me the opportunity to mention the service of my colleague, my …..." Lord Evans of Rainow - View Speech
"Perhaps I can help the noble Lord. I am on the Social Mobility Policy Committee. As part of the evidence gathering process, we went to Blackpool, where we met with the Department for Work and Pensions, which has a database on many children who are being home-schooled because they are …..." Lord Evans of Rainow - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government what standard of hotel accommodation they provide to migrants who have entered the United Kingdom in small boats from France...." Lord Evans of Rainow - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Krebs. I am quite unfamiliar with being treated sympathetically, but I do accept that in this case, the noble Lord has certainly done so. I thank my noble friends Lord Eccles, Lord Trenchard and Lord Effingham for their support. The noble Baroness, …..." Lord Evans of Rainow - View Speech