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Credit Card Invoices - Question (26 Mar 2024)

Lord Blunkett: My Lords, last week I invited the noble Baroness to dinner, if we could find a restaurant with an accessible payment device. That evening, I went to a restaurant that had purchased a cover that made the device accessible. I have been in correspondence with the Minister since and am very grateful for her interest. Could we not simply make all providers offer that service, rather than...

Electronic Payment Devices - Question (19 Mar 2024)

Lord Blunkett: To ask His Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with providers of electronic point-of-sale payment devices to make them accessible for those with a visual impairment, such as via tactile keypad.

Electronic Payment Devices - Question (19 Mar 2024)

Lord Blunkett: My Lords, someone with low or no vision can access a smartphone because there is a Siri or voice-over function, and you can have several goes if you hit the wrong buttons the first time. If you are spending over £100 in hospitality and you are faced with a flat screen and you get it wrong, you lose access to your card. The providers are pretending that there is accessibility when there are...

Electronic Payment Devices - Question (19 Mar 2024)

Lord Blunkett: My Lords, I would like to invite the Minister out to dinner, and I promise to pay if there is a flat screen that I can access.

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Public Sector: Vetting (11 Mar 2024)

Lord Blunkett: To ask His Majesty's Government how long, on average, it takes for security vetting to be completed in (1) security and policing jobs, and (2) other public service jobs which require security clearance.

Higher Education - Motion to Take Note ( 7 Mar 2024)

Lord Blunkett: My Lords, it is a very wise tradition that those who have moved take-note Motions do not make another speech at the end, but I shall just take one minute, if your Lordships do not mind, to thank the noble Baroness for, as ever, a thoughtful and comprehensive response to what has been an excellent debate. I thank everyone who has taken part for their generosity and for their wisdom, including...

Higher Education - Motion to Take Note ( 7 Mar 2024)

Lord Blunkett: My Lords, I draw attention to my registered interests. I am very pleased indeed to be able to lead this debate, and thank all those who are about to contribute. Across different political complexions and none, we should be able to find the kind of agreement that I hope will carry us forward for the future. We have a choice: we can either wallow in nostalgia, meddle, or really look to a future...

Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 9 ( 4 Mar 2024)

Lord Blunkett: My Lords, I rise to support the noble Lord, Lord Anderson of Ipswich. I am glad that this evening I have started to understand the processes of the House of Lords, having been here only eight years. Therefore, I will not speak to Amendment 6, which had to be withdrawn in order to vote on Amendment 7, even though Amendment 6 was in group three, but there we go. I can be even briefer than I...

Skill Shortages in Business and Industry - Question (28 Feb 2024)

Lord Blunkett: My Lords, last week, the Labour Force Survey had a set of statistics that I find staggering—namely, that 850,000 16 to 25 year-olds are not in education, employment or training. Do the Government have any plans, perhaps next week, to give flexibility to the apprenticeship levy, so that we can train and employ these young people?

Peatlands - Question (22 Feb 2024)

Lord Blunkett: My Lords, I did not intend to intervene but in view of the answers I am bound to ask the Minister whether, in a consensual and non-divisive way, he would mind approaching the Duke of Rutland to ask him not to continue burn-off in the south Pennines, which is clearly damaging not just the peat bogs but the general environment, including the atmosphere in my city of Sheffield?

Schools: Gender-questioning Children - Question (22 Feb 2024)

Lord Blunkett: My Lords, I commend the approach of my noble friend on the Front Bench, and I have some sympathy with the Government. In 2000, when we issued the first ever Sex and Relationship Education Guidance, it caused all kinds of division. I hope the Minister agrees—and this applies to politics more broadly— that we must try to come to a consensus and find agreement, rather than following the...

Pavement Parking - Question (21 Feb 2024)

Lord Blunkett: I commend the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, for his Question. There is a major challenge; he and I are fortunate enough to have a degree of assistance in navigating cars and motorcycles on pavements, but others do not. There is an additional hazard as well, which is the new fashion of using electric bikes on pavements. Those are a real danger to all the same cohorts that the noble Lord spelled...

Written Answers — Home Office: Passports: Ethnic Groups (19 Feb 2024)

Lord Blunkett: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Sharpe of Epsom on 31 January (HL1679), whether they plan to review the algorithms used in the automatic verification of passport photographs to ensure that they account for ethnic diversity, notwithstanding any direct human intervention.

Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 6 (12 Feb 2024)

Lord Blunkett: Perhaps the Minister will answer two very simple questions. First, where else in the world have people been offshored but actually offloaded, as opposed to having the process completed and their refugee status acknowledged in the country they have reached? Secondly, what happens if people do not claim asylum in Rwanda?

Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 6 (12 Feb 2024)

Lord Blunkett: My Lords, I speak to Amendment 8 and associated Amendment 72 in my name. I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, and to the right reverend Prelates the Bishop of Bristol and the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich for their support. I have also added my name to Amendment 64 tabled by my noble friend Lord Coaker. I have tabled Amendment 8 for several reasons in relation to what happens to...

Asylum Seekers: Convictions - Question ( 8 Feb 2024)

Lord Blunkett: My Lords, will the Minister confirm that this is absolutely nothing to do with foreign courts? If the system, as outlined by the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, is broken, there have been 14 years for this Government to put it right. Is it not correct that, from 2004 onwards, the restriction was already in place in relation to the removal of those who had committed crimes—including sexual...

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Household Support Fund ( 5 Feb 2024)

Lord Blunkett: To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to announce proposals for the renewal of the Household Support Fund provided to local governments in England for essential assistance to families and individuals, including for the needs of children outside of term time, to alleviate crises.

Victims and Prisoners Bill - Committee (2nd Day) (31 Jan 2024)

Lord Blunkett: My Lords, I know there is an unwritten convention that noble Lords should not intervene when they were not able to be here at the beginning of a group, which in this case was last week, but I do not think that convention prevents me asking a question. Is it not really important that people in the prison system are able to understand what they can do for themselves, and for the victim, by...


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