"My Lords, in addition to the redactions the Minister referred to in her Statement for reasons of national security, international relations, names of junior officials, email addresses and legal privilege, are there any other reasons for redaction? There was a report in the press about some redactions for reasons of …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"My Lords, I declare an interest as a participant in UK Biobank. It is not the first time I have said that: when I was Secretary of State, I said it in the context of encouraging people to support UK Biobank. Does the Minister agree that, notwithstanding this lamentable abuse …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"With the greatest respect to a number of noble Lords, I think what we are hearing is, in a sense, what we would have heard had we taken the Bill to Third Reading. We are hearing debates about the principle of the Bill, whereas this debate should be about where …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"My Lords, the alleviation of the high policy costs imposed on energy-intensive and internationally competitive manufacturing in this country is to be welcomed. I will ask a question about the manufacturing sectors that will benefit from the BICS. These are the industrial strategy’s eight sectors and the related foundational technologies, …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"The Minister has not told us at all, and nor indeed does the Explanatory Memorandum tell us, the nature of the legal vulnerability that was implicit in the decision to reconsider. The fact that the decision had to be taken by an independent Minister in her own department, not by …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"My Lords, I want to intervene briefly by referring to the example of Suffolk. I entirely agree with my noble friend on the Front Bench about these issues. I draw attention to the fact that I chair the Cambridgeshire Development Forum and support the Norfolk and Suffolk Development Forum, although …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"Did I? Sorry—2021, serving all the way through to 2027, maybe even to 2028 in practice, and overlapping with unitary councils that are to be established with elections taking place in May 2027.
As I think I have demonstrated through my difficulty in trying to follow all this, these are …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"I shall speak briefly to this statutory instrument and ask a number of questions, if I may, to which I hope the Minister will be able to respond. I think that I understand the structure of what is proposed and the exclusion of first aid so that it is not …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"I am grateful for the offer of further discussions and a round table, but there are several numbers relating to the number of providers that might be anticipated to require registration. We keep coming back to this figure of 36 in the impact assessment, but I do not understand exactly …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech
"I entirely agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Stevens of Birmingham, just said. We just heard from the Minister that one of the possible implications of the Bill is that, because of Clause 41(4), the NHS Act 2006 would need to be amended in order to bring this service …..." Lord Lansley - View Speech