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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 22 Jul 2025
Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025

"I want to ask a very quick question of the Minister. Why 15%? A number of noble Lords have said very clearly that 15% does not give influence, but they are missing a very important legal right that cuts in at 10%. That is because when acquiring a company, if …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"My Lords, I have two amendments in this group, Amendments 50 and 67, which, like the amendments the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, has just spoken to, which I have also added my name to, relate to day-one unfair dismissal rights. I thank the noble Lords, Lord Leong and Lord Katz, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 08 Jul 2025
Companies House: Filing of Annual Accounts by Small Companies

"My Lords, thanks to the efforts of this House, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act introduced a new power for the Government to regulate in order to find out about people holding shares as nominees for other people, which is one of the easiest and most common ways by …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Armed Forces: Recruitment and Retention

"My Lords, under the Capita system, probably the single biggest difficulty of the recruitment process was actually getting medical records out of the health service. What is happening to improve that?..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

"My Lords, I hope to be even more brief. I have sympathy for this amendment, but it is backward-looking, as it relates to situations that have already happened. We also need to stop them happening in the future. These problems have arisen because of a very badly designed benefit. It …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

"My Lords, I add my support at least to the intentions behind this amendment. We have had a number of discussions in Committee on the potential impact of layering costs and bureaucracy on financial services providers that relate to a particular class of people. In doing that, we risk incentivising …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

"We have had this discussion a few times, but does the Minister accept that most if not all of the safeguards she has talked about exist not in law but in the codes, guidance and internal rules of the DWP? They could be changed at will by a future Government …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

"Am I not right in thinking that that is about to change under the new Data (Use and Access) Act?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 25 Jun 2025
Palace of Westminster: Restoration and Renewal

"My Lords, an awful lot of work by a large number of experts has been carried out over the past few years to learn more about the state of the Palace and to work out options for the best way to restore this building. The knowledge base has moved on …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 24 Jun 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 326A on behalf of the noble Baroness, Lady Penn, who apologises that she is unable to be here.

The amendment is simple: it would require the Secretary of State or the relevant devolved counterpart to have regard to the impact of any regulations …..."

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