"I will come on to discuss that very point. I think the noble Lord is referring to Article 25 of the treaty, on which it would be worth testing the Government more.
"My Lords, I, too, welcome the noble Lord, Lord Whitehead, as the new Minister. I particularly agree with his comment on the excellence of the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton. There is another important maritime organisation based in Southampton, namely the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the regulator of the maritime …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"My Lords, I hesitate to interject at this late stage of Committee, but I just respond to the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, who had concerns that many of the organisations giving evidence previously on the retail question were from health-related charities, and I declare my own non-pecuniary interest as chairman …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"My Lords, it is possible that future historians will assess Vladimir Putin as one of the most strategically incompetent dictators in Russian history. A man who intended to destroy and denude Ukraine of its sovereign defence-industrial base has in fact has led to a stronger capability on the part of …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"My Lords, palliative care may not be the answer but it has to be part of the answer, and unfortunately that is just not the case across England and Wales as we speak today. It is estimated by my colleagues at King’s College London and the Florence Nightingale Faculty of …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"My Lords, in trying to summarise the debate so far, I suggest, roughly speaking, that the sentiment of the House is huge support—with the exception of one contribution—for the strategic defence review, but with a big question mark about whether we really mean it: what would it actually take to …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"My Lords, I declare my interest as chair of Cancer Research UK, and it will not be surprising to learn that CRUK and I strongly support the Bill.
Fundamentally, the tobacco industry has a structural problem, which is that it kills 80,000 of its most loyal customers every year and …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"My Lords, this Bill has been years in gestation, and we have heard, in Committee and on Report, that it is going to be years in implementation. The Government, not unreasonably, have pointed to two principal rate limiters for that: workforce and funding. As we have just heard in the …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech
"My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her response to Amendment 59. I accept that there are some philosophical differences of view that she expressed. However, I do not think it was right to say that the scope of Amendment 59 does not include any community and preventive …..." Lord Stevens of Birmingham - View Speech