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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 18 Jun 2025
Arrangement of Business

"If there is a Division in the Chamber, we will adjourn for 10 minutes, but noble Lords have only to look at the screen to see that no Divisions are scheduled for today, thank heavens.

Because of the weather, we will have the doors open. I urge everyone to please …..."

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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Hub and Spoke Dispensing etc.) Regulations 2025

"My Lords, I broadly support these regulations. I hope that my noble friend the Minister will not mind my intervening briefly to ask a couple of questions; I have no wish to detain the Committee.

Obviously, I understand that community pharmacies have been playing an increasingly expanded clinical role in …..."

Viscount Stansgate - View Speech

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 16 Jun 2025
Conflict in the Middle East

"My noble friend the Minister is absolutely right when he says that this is an incredibly dangerous moment. I declare an interest, as I have very close family members who live in north Tel Aviv and who have spent the last two nights in a bomb shelter. Can my noble …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 13 Jun 2025
AI and Creative Technologies (Communications and Digital Committee Report)

"My Lords, I am grateful to be able to make a short contribution in the gap. I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, and the members and staff of her committee on producing such an excellent report. I thought her opening remarks well encapsulated the issue we face. I also …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 12 Jun 2025
Arrangement of Business

"Good afternoon, my Lords, and welcome to an afternoon of four Questions for Short Debate. If there is a Division in the Chamber, we will adjourn the Committee for 10 minutes, but, as can been seen from the screens, there will not be a Division. Indeed, if noble Lords do …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 12 Jun 2025
Parliamentary Commercial Department

"My Lords, may I raise one issue that is not about the door? In the joint workings that my noble friend will be taking part in, will she try to develop what I might call the spirit of comity before the two Houses? The nature, membership and workload of both …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 11 Jun 2025
Armed Forces Commissioner Bill

"My Lords, I rise in support of my noble friend’s Motion A, and I will be as brief as I can. The Bill, as my noble friend said, is a landmark step in the Government’s commitment to renew the nation’s contract with those women and men in our Armed Forces, …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 05 Jun 2025
National Security Act 2023 (Foreign Activities and Foreign Influence Registration Scheme: Exemptions for Certain Foreign Power Investment Funds, Education, Government Administration and Public Bodies) Regulations 2025

"My Lords, I will not detain the Committee for long. I am in favour of the foreign influence registration scheme and I well remember when the Act went through the House in 2023. I support the transparency that my noble friend the Minister talked about, and I hope that this …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 05 Jun 2025
National Security Act 2023 (Foreign Activities and Foreign Influence Registration Scheme: Exemptions for Certain Foreign Power Investment Funds, Education, Government Administration and Public Bodies) Regulations 2025

"On the subject of exceptions, in Regulation 6 of the statutory instrument on publication, for example, how is Parliament going to know the extent of the exemptions that have been granted? On the face of it, we will not know...."
Viscount Stansgate - View Speech

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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 13 May 2025
Methane (Environment and Climate Change Committee Report)

"My Lords, I am very grateful for the opportunity to say a few words in the gap. I congratulate the committee on its report and the chair on her opening speech and on securing the debate.

Like the noble Lord, Lord Jay, I am a methane learner. I remember first …..."

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