"My Lords, would the Minister consider raising with the Prime Minister the suggestion that I made of a statement along the lines I indicated in my speech, which would enable a Prime Minister to make Ministers by way of creating a peerage, but for such Peers to continue in the …..." Lord Rennard - View Speech
"My Lords, there are times when it is entirely appropriate to postpone elections. Such times include during a wartime emergency; we postponed general elections throughout the Second World War. We also postponed local elections following the outbreak of the Covid pandemic in 2020. But there are at present no such …..." Lord Rennard - View Speech
"My Lords, the promised extra 700,000 appointments will mean just two extra appointments a month for each NHS dentist in England. The Health and Social Care Select Committee concluded in 2023 that the current dental contract is not fit for purpose, so will a new dental contract stop penalising dentists …..." Lord Rennard - View Speech
"My Lords, the levy has reduced considerably the number of children who would otherwise have been admitted to hospital for dental extractions. Two-thirds of the public support an expansion of the principle of this levy to other high-sugar foods, with revenue raised funding children’s health programmes. Will the Minister commit …..." Lord Rennard - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the success of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy in comparison to voluntary sugar, salt and calorie reduction and reformulation measures...." Lord Rennard - View Speech
"My Lords, I begin by congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Norton of Louth, on his tenacity in working with other Members of this House to advance issues that improve our reputation and effectiveness, and on his masterful introduction to his Bill this morning. I also congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady …..." Lord Rennard - View Speech
"My Lords, is it not a bigger problem that many local councils are unrepresentative of their electorates? They can even become one-party states, because of the first past the post system entrenching the same party in power for decades. Is it not time that England followed Scotland, Northern Ireland and …..." Lord Rennard - View Speech
"My Lords, for the last 25 years, political parties in this country have been legally obliged to declare the source and scale of all their donations above a very modest level. Why should the same rules not apply to political pressure groups trying to influence the political process?..." Lord Rennard - View Speech
"My Lords, does the Minister accept that there can be problems with very large donations to political parties, whether they may originate from abroad or be clearly from within the UK, and that the only way to prevent undue influence on political parties is to ban company donations and have …..." Lord Rennard - View Speech