Queen’s Speech

My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing today’s debate. It is a privilege for me to respon...

My Lords, I first pay tribute to her Majesty the Queen as we enter her Platinum Jubilee year. Her...

My Lords, I shall focus not on asylum but on immigration. I declare a non-financial interest as p...

My Lords, I too look forward to the maiden speeches of the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook and Lad...

My Lords, it is the greatest honour and privilege to address your Lordships for the first time. I...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Fullbrook. We have been friends f...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, on her maiden speech and look forwar...

I join in congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, on her maiden speech.

The Gove...

My Lords, there are two sentences in the gracious Speech on which I should like to comment. The f...

My Lords, I refer to my entry in the register of Members’ interests. In the gracious Speech, the ...

My Lords, we heard a beautifully balanced maiden speech by my noble friend Lady Fullbrook. I cong...

One of the proposals included in the gracious Speech is the statement that legislation will be in...

My Lords, the Government’s legislative programme is inseparable from a well-functioning courts sy...

My Lords, as a number of noble Lords have said, the gracious Speech referred to the possibility o...

My Lords, I will talk about fraud, which is one of the great scourges of modern life but was larg...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lords, Lord Woolf and Lord Hope, quoted the Government’s expresse...

My Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the register, in particular as a partner in the interna...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord on his special suit and the two noble Baronesses who will...

My Lords, tourism has been the sector most affected by Covid-19 and it will be the last industry ...

My Lords, I swapped my slot with my noble friend Lady Meacher, at her request.

In the graci...

My Lords, I am deeply saddened that I am not following on from my noble friend Lady Fleet, whose ...

I remind my noble friend of the four-minute advisory speaking time.

My Lords, the UK’s media is in jeopardy. Time is not on our side. Let us make sure that the legis...

My Lords, in declaring my interest as vice-president of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, I h...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, on her maiden speech and very much r...

My Lords, I join in congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, on her maiden speech.

My Lords, I join others in congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, on her maiden speec...

My Lords, this debate includes the work of the DCMS and thus enables us to focus on sport, recrea...

My Lords, I wish to move to issues of modern slavery. I declare an interest as co-chair of the Al...

My Lords, I first congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, on her maiden speech. I am esp...

My Lords, the new plan for immigration will, we are told, increase the asylum system’s “fairness ...

My Lords, I remind noble Lords that the advisory time limit for this debate is four minutes.

I am just finishing.

The forthcoming levelling up White Paper must address these issues if ...

My Lords, I make no apologies for drawing the attention of the House yet again to the state of ou...

My Lords, I shall keep this contribution brief and to the point. Your Lordships will not be surpr...

My Lords, on 17 September 2019, I attended the first day of an historic sitting of our Supreme Co...

My Lords, it is a privilege to take part in this debate, to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Chakr...

My Lords, I must admit to being disappointed that the gracious Speech did not include details of ...

My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, on her maiden speech, and I refe...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Foster, and I congratulate the two nobl...

My Lords, I begin by reminding the House of my interests as master of Pembroke College, Cambridge...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Wolfson, began this debate by saying that the wheels of justice ne...

My Lords, I welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook. As a woman of Glasgow heritage, that alon...

I remind the noble Baroness of the time.

Sorry. They made it clear that we have to treat a person as a refugee, not simply according to th...

My Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook. Maiden speeches are nev...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, whose wisdom I look forward to hearing more...

It is wonderful to be able to talk about justice, home affairs and culture. Based on my own exper...

My Lords, what a pleasure it is to follow the great oratory of the noble Lord, Lord Bird, who I h...

My Lords, I first congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, on an excellent maiden speech ...

My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, on her maiden speech. I was sorr...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, on her maiden speech. It is always a...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Fullbrook on her wonderful maiden speech today, and...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness. I had the privilege of being on the Sele...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord. I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Full...

My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, on her maiden speech.

It i...

My Lords, in response to the gracious Speech, I shall very briefly look at some issues concerning...

My Lords, I join other noble Lords in congratulating my noble friend Lady Fullbrook on her fine m...

My Lords, I will speak briefly about a DCMS issue that I hope will lead to legislation in the cur...

My Lords, I confess that I felt a frisson of excitement at seeing the long-awaited Higher Educati...

My Lords, congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, on a fine maiden speech. I am so...

The noble Baroness, Lady Newlove, has withdrawn. I call the noble Lord, Lord Mann.

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My Lords, I am enthused by the fact that the online safety Bill will have pre-legislative scrutin...

My Lords, I draw the attention of the House to my interests, particularly as chair of 5Rights Fou...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to take part in this important debate and I begin by congratulat...

My Lords, I join in the congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, on her excellent m...

My Lords, it is always good to follow my noble friend Lord Carlile, even though it does generally...

My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Fullbrook, on her eloquent maiden speech, a...

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate, one that has included many speeches that are thought...

My Lords, I thank all, I think, 69 noble Lords who have taken part in this debate on Her Majesty’...