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Care Bill [HL]: Committee (3rd Day) (12 June 2013)

The Bishop of Chester: ...a different view. However, he seemed almost to be arguing for greater regulation rather than no regulation. I would be very reluctant to see a free market in implanting more than two embryos into women in this country, for example. The 14-day rule, which may be an irritant to researchers, was fought over and discussed at great length. To those of us who have quite a few reservations in...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 June 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Diana Johnson: ...everyone who accesses such material on the web is an abuser, because accessing images of abuse is an inherent element of the process of abuse. In opening the debate, my hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Helen Goodman) talked about the important work of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, as did the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee. The work that CEOP does is...

International Development: Budget — Question for Short Debate (11 June 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

The Bishop of Derby: My Lords, I, too, would like to add my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Empey, for introducing this debate, and I hope that noble Lords will see that not only do the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Chester and I sit on the same Bench, we have a similar view on this issue. I thank my friend and colleague the noble Lord, Lord Judd, for his wisdom. I hope that I can simply embroider his words...

Global Migration and Mobility (EUC Report) — Motion to Take Note (6 June 2013)

The Bishop of Derby: ...for prostitution, not just in our city but in many cities. This is an issue for government as well as for those on the ground. This is not a nice, free sexual market for consenting adults, it is women and girls being traded in an oppressive, abusive and wicked way. Just in the past two weeks, my colleagues on the ground have told me that a busload of women have come down from Manchester....

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Second Reading (2nd Day) (4 June 2013) See 5 other results from this debate

Baroness Stowell of Beeston: ...institution, the enterprise, the endeavour or whichever word we think best to describe it is a good thing, and that it is important. Some noble Lords, including the right reverend Prelates on the Bishops’ Bench, my noble friend Lady Cumberlege and others, have suggested that gay couples should have their own institution separate from marriage. My noble and learned friend Lord Mackay...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Second Reading (Continued) (3 June 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Baroness Mallalieu: ...for the creation of children; homosexuals cannot commit adultery. Those are the strains of objections voiced by a number of your Lordships, including the noble Lord, Lord Tebbit. We do not stop women over childbearing age or some disabled people from marrying, or those who cannot have or do not want children—of course not. As the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Leicester...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — Second Reading (3 June 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Baroness Cumberlege: ...discrimination in being a woman. When I started in public life nearly 50 years ago, it was actually an advantage to be a woman. When I entered your Lordships’ House, only 5% of Members were women. When I told my husband that I was one in a million, which I was, he was unimpressed. Also—perhaps I should not tell your Lordships this—when I first came here I received more...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 9 — Conversion of civil partnership into marriage (21 May 2013)

Tobias Ellwood: ...Christians today. That reflects how society is very much moving forward. Wives used to be subject to their husbands; children arguing with their parents used to be taken out and stoned to death; women used to have to cover their heads in church. Those things are either unknown by Christians today or simply ignored because they have no place in modern society. The Church has changed its...

Offender Rehabilitation Bill [HL] — Second Reading (20 May 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Lord McNally: ...gets us better value from the money that we are making available for rehabilitation. I take the point made by a number of noble Lords, including the noble Baronesses, Lady Howe and Lady Healy, about women. It is something that we may explore in Committee. I will deal with some of the broader points made by the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Newcastle later, but I do not think that...

Queen’s Speech — Debate (5th Day) (15 May 2013)

Lord Astor of Hever: ...debate has reminded us repeatedly of the opening words of the noble Lord, Lord Triesman: that we live in an uncertain and unstable world. We are fortunate to be able to rely on the men and women working across the FCO, DfID, the MoD and the agencies. Their dedication to maintaining our security, protecting our interests and promoting our values means that Britain is able to act as a force...

Queen’s Speech — Debate (4th Day) (14 May 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top: ...the opposite side, and I know the noble Viscount, Lord Ridley, quite well from being a Member of Parliament in the north-east. I was also very interested to hear that the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Winchester was born in and has such a close attachment to east Africa. I have a very close attachment to east Africa, so maybe we can have the odd conversation in Kiswahili. I have a...

Queen's Speech — Debate (3rd Day) (13 May 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts: ...up in economic activity generally. However, one area that continues to concern me is the persistence of, and perhaps increase in, regional disparities, a matter which the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Birmingham referred to earlier. It is hard to find many signs of recession in London and, to a greater or lesser extent, in the south-east. However, in the review of the Charities Act...

Queen’s Speech — Debate (2nd Day) (9 May 2013)

The Bishop of Exeter: ...around its membership. However, increasingly it is not something that the church finds as easy as it used to. Witness, for example, the temporary failure last November to reach a way forward on women bishops. But what we are experiencing in the church we see writ large in wider society. The holding together of diversity in unity, with a common language and shared frame of reference for...

Written Answers — Church Commissioners: Bishops: Females (18 April 2013)

Anne McIntosh: To ask the hon. Member for Banbury, representing the Church Commissioners, what recent progress the Church Commissioners have made on legislation relating to women bishops.

Persecution of Christians (16 April 2013)

David Lidington: ...to uphold those freedoms to express and practise religious belief. My hon. Friend went to Egypt in January and discussed our concerns about the protection of minorities, including Christians and women, when he met the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party, the Freedom and Justice party. When he went to Egypt again in March, he met the Anglican bishop and representatives of both local...

Death of a Member: Baroness Thatcher — Tributes (10 April 2013)

Lord Hamilton of Epsom: ...tirade about how freedom was what we were all fighting for, and that freedom would conquer in the end. How right she was; the wall came down not very much later. The right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Oxford alluded to the fact that she was brought up as a Methodist, but she was always very much an adopted member of the Church of England. When I was sitting with her in the House of...

HMRC Closures — [Mr Joe Benton in the Chair] (26 March 2013)

Catherine McKinnell: ...them. From 3 June to 31 October, the pilot will run throughout my region of the north-east, and 13 inquiry centres will be closed in the process. For the record, those centres comprise Alnwick, Bishop Auckland, Hexham, Darlington, Durham, Middlesbrough, Morpeth, Newcastle, Stockton, Sunderland and—although I, and many proud Yorkshiremen and women, might quibble over the...

Growth and Infrastructure Bill: Report (3rd Day) (20 March 2013)

The Bishop of Bristol: ...off those rights undermines the integrity of that framework. More specifically, I am also very concerned that employee shareholder contracts are not family-friendly and could discriminate against women. Women, particularly those with caring responsibilities, are most likely to exercise the right to request flexible working and will be most affected by the requirement to give longer notice...

Afghanistan — Motion to Take Note (14 March 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Baroness Warsi: ...in this House would wish to acknowledge the comments made by my noble friend and pass our condolences to the families of those two boys and the families of so many; both of our service men and women and of the innocent lives that have been lost over the years of violence in Afghanistan. We owe it to our service men and women and to the innocent civilians to stand and take stock. For me, it...