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Strengthened Statutory Procedures for the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation: DPRRC Report — Motion to Take Note (5 March 2013)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, I was saying that it has been calculated that 80% of the impact on people comes via SIs, not that 80% of legislation is made through SIs. That is why I find it difficult to source. I will try to find a source for the Minister.

Strengthened Statutory Procedures for the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation: DPRRC Report — Motion to Take Note (5 March 2013)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to participate in this debate and I congratulate the noble Baroness on having secured it. I support what she said about the excellence of our report and thank her for the comprehensive way in which she set out the background to the report. It is a pleasure to serve under her wise, inclusive and very firm leadership. I must ask the forgiveness of the House...

First World War: Centenary — Question for Short Debate (4 March 2013)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, I am very pleased to take part in the debate this evening. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Clark, on securing this opportunity, and on his speech which captured the totality and scale of the war without passing over the fact that what we remember-the extraordinary, haunting images which we hold of this war-are individuals, usually men, on the battlefield. I declare an interest...

Olympic Games 2012: Legacy — Motion to Take Note (24 January 2013)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, I am very grateful indeed for the opportunity that the noble Lord, Lord Mawson, has offered the House to reflect on the legacy of the Olympics. Like the noble Lord, Lord King of Bridgwater, I pay tribute to his extraordinary role, not only over the past 20 years but in the way he has seized the opportunities that the Olympics presented to go forward. That was clear in his excellent...

Older People: Their Place and Contribution in Society — Motion to Take Note (14 December 2012)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, it is a privilege to take part in such a profound debate which covers one of the great transformational changes of our time. It was introduced by the most reverend Primate on his last appearance. I hope that it is a temporary au revoir and that we will have the privilege of seeing him in another guise in another part of the House before too long because we would sorely miss his...

Scrap Metal Dealers Bill: Second Reading (30 November 2012)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, who is already beginning to apply his forensic skills to the Bill. It is a great pleasure to welcome the Bill and to join so many others around the House who have already given it their support. Private Members' Bills are often precarious little craft. The whole House has expressed its pleasure in knowing that this Bill...

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill — Second Reading (14 November 2012)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, I am sure that noble Lords would want me to say how splendid it is to see the noble Baroness back in the Chamber and to congratulate her on a very powerful speech. I am afraid I will not be able to follow what she said because I have to talk about the clauses that reflect heritage protection. I hope that she will forgive me. I therefore turn to part 5 of the Bill, which deals with...

Antarctica: Centenary of Scott Expedition — Motion to Take Note (18 October 2012)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Hooper, for introducing a debate that is as important to our scientific future as it is to our heritage. I hope that the noble Lord, Lord Willis, will forgive me if I do not follow him specifically on the question of NERC. I shall come to that at the end of my speech. I am speaking not with my English Heritage hat on, for once, but out of a...

English Cathedrals — Motion to Take Note (28 June 2012)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Lord and to congratulate him on securing the debate. He has been an amazingly effective champion for aspects of our heritage. I very much welcome what he said today and am grateful for the generous remarks he made both about English Heritage and my stewardship of it. I very much endorse what he asked the Minister for; it is not easy for us...

Draft House of Lords Reform Bill: Motion to Take Note (2nd Day) (1 May 2012)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, this has been a very powerful and forensic debate. It is a challenge to be the last Back-Bencher to speak, and the last to have had the privilege of serving on the Select Committee. I said rather casually at the beginning of the process that it was a bit like being sent with Sir John Franklin on his expedition to the Arctic. I was wrong, however-at times it was more like being on...

Health and Social Care Bill: Committee (2nd Day) (2 November 2011)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, I think I can add the support of these Benches to the extraordinary way in which this matter has been resolved. It is a great tribute to my noble friend Lady Thornton, who has led so many of the debates across this House, during which many aspirations have been drawn out, problems identified and voices collected. The Minister responded clearly to what the noble Baroness, Lady...

Schools: History — Debate (20 October 2011)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, we are all in debt to the noble Lord, Lord Luke, for the debate. It is a pleasure to take part and to follow the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, who has done so much in his career to promote history and heritage. I declare an interest as chair of English Heritage and also, in another life, as a makeshift historian. Sadly, I was never taught either by my charismatic noble friend Lord...

Localism Bill — Report (7th Day) (17 October 2011)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, I spoke briefly on the topic in Committee and I was very glad that it reappeared on the Marshalled List, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Best, as I thought that pre-emption might possibly mean that we would not have the opportunity to discuss what is a really important element of the Bill. I commend both the amendments. The questions raised by the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, were...

Planning — Debate (13 October 2011)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Rooker for having created the opportunity for this debate. As noble Lords can imagine, as a planning Minister he was a rather difficult act to follow. For a long time, people were obviously disappointed that I was not my noble friend. They would say, "But Lord Rooker said that we could-", whatever it was. He approached his brief with the same...

Localism Bill — Report (6th Day) (Continued) (12 October 2011)

Baroness Andrews: Perhaps I can buy the Minister some time while she looks at her notes by asking another question about the nature of the order. Why is an order necessary? Does this help to deal with the issues we raised in Committee about transitional arrangements that would have involved saving part of the regional strategies where they were relevant to the LDFs, so that local authorities would not have to...

Localism Bill — Report (6th Day) (Continued) (12 October 2011)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, there is much that the noble Lord has said with which I agree. I must put on my English Heritage hat and declare an interest. One of the disappointments that we have tried to address in this Bill is the need to get greater clarity about the nature of sustainability. While I see the point that the noble Lord is making, that sustainability and development are two words, it is...

Health and Social Care Bill — Second Reading (Continued) (11 October 2011)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, under normal circumstances one might have thought twice about taking part in the debate on a Bill with so many speakers of such expertise. However, this is in no sense a normal Bill, as so many noble Lords have made clear. It was presented as a fait accompli, without prior mandate or consultation; and such is the Government's anxiety to put these changes beyond reach that they began...

Social Enterprise — Question for Short Debate (6 October 2011)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to open this debate on social enterprise. I am particularly gratified that at this hour on a Thursday so many noble Lords have decided to join it. That clearly indicates that we consider this issue to be very important. Since I tabled the debate some months ago, there has been a cast change. I am very pleased to see that the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, will...

Public Disorder — Statement (11 August 2011)

Baroness Andrews: My Lords, I have two quick questions for the Minister. In the Statement that the Leader read, the Prime Minister has clearly given priority to tackling gang culture. A vital part of the partnership that effectively tackles gang culture is, as we have heard in the case of Strathclyde, the voluntary sector. It gets into places that other people cannot possibly reach. Much of the work that is...