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Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 28 June 2022, in the House of Lords, led by Earl Howe. The answering members were Baroness Thornton and Lord Collins of Highbury.
Lords second reading. Agreed to on question. Committed to a Grand Committee.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
823 cc581-637 
Session
2022-23
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions
Earl Howe | 823 cc581-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords,

“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do ...

Baroness Thornton | 823 cc583-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who will speak in today’s debate and all the organisations and ...


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Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 823 cc585-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this Bill is unnecessary and un-Conservative. It addresses a problem that is far less s...

Baroness D'Souza | 823 cc589-591 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this is, I think, a well-meaning Bill, but I question its necessity. I imagine no one h...

Bishop of Coventry | 823 cc590-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, intense competition for students, jostling for promotion among lecturers, vigorous, oft...

Lord Willetts | 823 cc593-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I begin by declaring my interest as a visiting professor at King’s College London—about...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 823 cc594-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord. I look forward to the answer from the Minist...

Baroness Deech | 823 cc597-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare interests, first as the first holder of the Office of the Independent Adjudic...

Baroness Hoey | 823 cc599-600 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I find it rather depressing that Her Majesty’s Government have had to bring forward a B...

Lord Johnson of Marylebone | 823 cc600-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I draw attention to my interests in the register, as chairman of Access Creative Colleg...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 823 cc602-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Johnson, who was a very open-minded hig...

Baroness Stroud | 823 cc604-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support this higher education Bill. I am sure it will benefit from the input of noble...

Baroness Chakrabarti | 823 cc606-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare interests as a former chancellor of the Universities of Oxford Brookes and Es...

Baroness Shafik | 823 cc607-9 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, who brings a great deal of exper...

Baroness Fox of Buckley | 823 cc609-611 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Shafik, raises some interesting, detailed points that I hope w...

Lord Cormack | 823 cc611-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness; she makes stimulating speec...

Lord Cormack | 823 cc612-3 (Link to this contribution)

Indeed, shame. I believe we have had that dealt with.

We know about the counterculture and ...

Lord Macdonald of River Glaven | 823 cc613-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, since the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, is not present, it is my great pleasure to follow th...

Lord Moylan | 823 cc615-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Lord and I rise as a rare speaker from the Conser...

Lord Sikka | 823 cc617-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Moylan. I declare my interests. I...

Lord Stevens of Birmingham | 823 cc619-621 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my interest as an honorary fellow of Balliol, my former interest as head of t...

Lord Desai | 823 cc621-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I must apologise for going in and out of the Chamber while other noble Lords were speak...

Viscount Eccles | 823 cc623-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in following the noble Lord, Lord Desai, I agree with him that the Bill is attempting t...

Lord Moore of Etchingham | 823 cc624-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, like many noble Lords, and indeed like the noble Viscount, Lord Eccles, who has just sp...

Lord Strathcarron | 823 cc626-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare an interest as a publisher, often of higher education academic titles, which ...

Lord Storey | 823 cc627-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this debate started with the noble Earl, Lord Howe, talking to us about the importance ...

Lord Collins of Highbury | 823 cc628-631 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I was not going to declare an interest until I heard the contribution from the noble Lo...

Earl Howe | 823 cc631-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this has been a memorably good debate. I thank all speakers for the knowledge and perso...

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