Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) Regulations 2020

My Lords, this is arguably the worst crisis—certainly the worst economic crisis—of my lifetime. Y...

I should inform the House that, if this amendment is agreed to, I cannot call any of the other am...

My Lords, this promises to be a very important debate, going to the heart of how we are handling ...

My Lords, we are debating more than 70 pages of changes to the Covid regulations with only 24 hou...

My Lords, first, I apologise to the Minister because IT problems meant that I could not hear some...

My Lords, now is a good moment to remind speakers of the time limit for this debate, which is six...

The noble Lords, Lord Forsyth of Drumlean and Lord Hutton of Furness, have withdrawn, so I call t...

My Lords, it is a pleasure and honour to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, who was the firs...

My Lords, when government Ministers have to spend two days explaining when and how you can eat a ...

My Lords, I appreciate that the issue of reducing the spread of the Covid-19 virus is essential f...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Watkins of Tavistock, with her nurs...

My Lords, a vaccine against Covid-19 is about to be rolled out to millions of people, so I was su...

My Lords, I am angry about the main instrument before us today. I am particularly angry—and hereb...

Try!

“Uninformed” and “superficial” are the most polite that I could find. The document does not even ...

My Lords, I support the regulations. We understand well that neither this Government nor their pr...

My Lords, the analysis of the effects of Covid-19 produced yesterday is, to say the least, disapp...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friends Lord Howard of Rising and Lady Neville-Rolf...

Parliament: a word whose very definition means “to talk, to discuss”. It has come to mean, over t...

My Lords, I, too, try to be a loyal Back-Bencher in my party. I am not supposed to agree with dre...

My Lords, this is not an argument between tackling the virus and ignoring it, as my noble friend ...

The noble Lord, Lord Farmer, has withdrawn so I now call the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley....

My Lords, I will indeed consider voting for either the fatal or a regret amendment. Despite this,...

This woman is mad—totally mad.

You might disagree with me, my Lord—

No, I just think you are mad.

You think I am mad? That is a good start to a civilised debate. Anyway, all this is unnecessary a...

My Lords, I need to remind the noble Baroness of the time limit.

I am sorry; I lost track of time. I got distracted. Noble Lords have got the gist. Some people sa...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for his opening remarks, and for his passion for and dedication...

My Lords, I welcome the changes that the Government have made to Part 4 of the Bill, reducing the...

This has been a fascinating evening, has it not? I wonder whether the Minister has any support. I...

The noble Baroness, Lady Hoey, and the noble Lords, Lord Shinkwin and Lord Moylan, have withdrawn...

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate. I found myself agreeing with many noble Lords on sev...

Perhaps I may say how pleased I was to see the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, in the Chamber today...

It is wrong.

Well, that is my view; I think it is right. I think that is what will happen if he gets his way. ...

My Lords, it has not been the most comfortable two and a half hours of my life, but I have profou...

My Lords, my noble friend the Minister has been a bit on his own this evening—actually, he has be...

Tabled by

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

Tabled by

Lord Cormack

I do not wish to delay the House, or those who wish to play with their electronic voting machines...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

My Lords, sadly, I have heard nothing to change my mind and a great deal to stiffen the sinews. T...