Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2020

My Lords, I have tabled this amendment to raise a few questions about the rule of six, on which I...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Lamont, and surely he is right. I...

My Lords, on 21 September, the Joint Committee on Human Rights said:

“Assessments of the pr...

My Lords, we are talking about the rule of six. I declare my various interests.

The hospita...

My Lords, like others, I tend to think that carrots are more effective than sticks. It is, theref...

I call the noble Lord, Lord McColl of Dulwich. He is not there. I call the noble Baroness, Lady D...

My Lords, we are caught between the Scylla and Charybdis of the so-called libertarians in the Con...

Mr Johnson presented the new regulations as a simplification and a strengthening of the coronavir...

My Lords, remarks do not target the noble Lord, Lord Bethell. If possible, he would be mentioned ...

Balderdash. Twaddle. Gobbledegook. Piffle. Oops, I am sorry, my Lords, I misspoke. I do not want ...

My Lords, I give my commiserations to my noble friend the Minister, who yet again finds himself i...

I, too, am sorry for the noble Lord, Lord Bethell, but the fact is that the Government are making...

My Lords, I strongly support a very strong response to this virus and believe we need to bear dow...

My Lords, these regulations came into effect 28 minutes after they were laid. That is far from sa...

My Lords, governing in these torrid, complex, challenging times is not easy. None of us should pr...

My Lords, here we are again: post-legislative scrutiny and a hapless Minister, who has worked wit...

My Lords, I put my name down to speak with some reluctance because I am getting fed up with sayin...

My Lords, I, too, support the amendment of my noble friend Lord Lamont on two grounds. The policy...

My Lords, although the requirement in England limiting group meetings to no more than six people,...

My Lords, safety is, of course, paramount. Somehow, the messaging from the Government seems not t...

My Lords, I endorse everything that my noble friend Lord Lamont said and I shall list as many of ...

The noble Baroness, Lady Uddin, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Hutton of Furness.<...

My Lords, I hope that the measure we are discussing today will have the effect that the Minister ...

My Lords, “hundreds of thousands” of people would die if we simply “let the virus rip”. That is w...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lamont, for tabling his amendment to focus attention on th...

I start by asking the Minister a procedural question, as other noble Lords have. Will we in this ...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful for this debate, not because it was particularly enjoyable for ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who spoke. We had an excellent debate, with many good speeches ...