Seafarers’ Wages Bill [HL]

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hacking. I look forward to the speech o...

My Lords, as I rise to address your Lordships for the last time, I am standing immediately behind...

My Lords, on behalf of the whole House, may I be first to congratulate my noble and learned frien...

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Since I cannot really improve on what my noble and learned friend and the Minister said, I say th...

My Lords, this is a very important occasion. We have just heard the deeply impressive valedictory...

My Lords, I begin by discussing the Bill. For 27 years, I had the great privilege of representing...

My Lords, sadly, I am not someone who can really do justice to the important matter being discuss...

My Lords, I first declare an interest: apart from working in shipping for 40 years and being a di...

My Lords, I think that when they heard of the P&O Ferries case, the British public’s first though...

My Lords, I add my words of appreciation for my noble and learned friend Lord Mackay. I am a fair...

My Lords, I will speak briefly in the gap. I declare an interest as honorary president of the Uni...

My Lords, I have no current interests to declare, but for context I will tell the House that I se...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken today, but I particularly thank the noble and l...

Before my noble friend sits down, I should be grateful if I could intervene for a moment to apolo...

My Lords, the Bill is clearly not the star of the show today. We have heard so many wonderfully w...

I am very grateful for the noble Baroness’s comments. She spoke about ships that do not have clos...

Is it not really about the service? We cannot legislate for UK workers working in international w...