"As a loyal member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling & Walking—with an emphasis on the cycling rather than the walking—I support the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, on this, and I will explain why. As he indicated, what is behind this amendment is partly what is leading certain noble …..." Lord Russell of Liverpool - View Speech
"Will the Minister give way? We had a debate a few months ago on this very subject and I visited the Fulham Boys School, which is a large all-male school with about 1,200 students, to speak at some length to the headmaster. That school has had a ban on phones …..." Lord Russell of Liverpool - View Speech
"My Lords, I support the spirit behind all the amendments in this group. Amendment 486 is in my name, and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, and the noble Lord, Lord Young, for also putting their names to it.
"My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Knight. He makes a very compelling case for better media literacy. He and other noble Lords will recall that we did push very hard for that during the Online Safety Act’s rather lengthy passage, but without as …..." Lord Russell of Liverpool - View Speech
"I hope I can take it as good news that they are meeting next week with Minister Georgia Gould, so hopefully the purse strings will be loosened...." Lord Russell of Liverpool - View Speech
"My Lords, at Second Reading I said that, while I welcomed the Bill, it was a cause of great sadness that the late Baroness Massey of Darwen was not there to participate. It is a cause of sadness that, had she been here, she would have had her name on …..." Lord Russell of Liverpool - View Speech
"I put my name to Amendment 129 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler, which I am happy to do. She has made a strong case for amending the sufficiency duty or doing something similar to make it clear that moving children beyond a certain geographical distance from …..." Lord Russell of Liverpool - View Speech
"It is actually Lord Russell. I have told this to the House before, but in 1959 my grandfather and Bertrand Russell—the then Earl Russell—jointly wrote a letter to the editor of the Timesthat said: “Dear Sir, we would like to point out that neither of us is the …..." Lord Russell of Liverpool - View Speech
"The range of applications for the support fund over the last few years has typically been between 20 and 50 sessions per annum, so it is right on the margin...." Lord Russell of Liverpool - View Speech
"I have just checked, and I think the Minister mentioned that, with the £3,000, the average number of sessions that would be allowed is about 12...." Lord Russell of Liverpool - View Speech