Tuesday, 21 February 2023
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking in response to the report of the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee on Prostitution (Third Report, Session...
To ask His Majesty’s Government, further to the commitment by Lord Wolfson of Tredegar on 3 February 2021 (HL Deb col 2286) to “regularly reassess the effectiveness of any law and...
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they will take to assess the impact of their (1) policies, and (2) planned spending cuts, on people with disabilities, to ensure that they do not...
To ask His Majesty’s Government when they expect to discontinue the practice of accommodating asylum seekers in hotels.
The following Answer to an Urgent Question was given in the House of Commons on Monday 20 February. “Our national game has become a worldwide sport, loved and followed by millions. The...
Clause 10: Offence of interference with access to or provision of abortion services
Baroness Sugg: Moved by Baroness Sugg 1: Clause 10, page 11, line 14, at end insert “at an abortion clinic”Member's explanatory statementThis amendment and the following amendments...
Baroness Sugg: Moved by Baroness Sugg 2: Clause 10, page 11, line 16, after “services” insert “at an abortion clinic”Member's explanatory statementSee the amendment in...
Lord Sharpe of Epsom: Moved by Lord Sharpe of Epsom 6: Leave out Clause 12Member's explanatory statementThis amendment is consequential on the removal at Report stage of what was clause 11...
Lord Sharpe of Epsom: Moved by Lord Sharpe of Epsom 7: Leave out Clause 13Member's explanatory statementThis amendment is consequential on the removal at Report stage of what was clause 11...
Lord Sharpe of Epsom: Moved by Lord Sharpe of Epsom 8: Leave out Clause 14Member's explanatory statementThis amendment is consequential on the removal at Report stage of what was clause 11...
Lord Sharpe of Epsom: Moved by Lord Sharpe of Epsom 9: Clause 20, page 21, line 28, at end insert—“(c) P’s conduct mentioned in paragraph (a) has not been taken into account...
Lord Sharpe of Epsom: Moved by Lord Sharpe of Epsom 10: Clause 21, page 23, line 7, leave out from “20(5)” to end of line 8Member's explanatory statement This amendment is...
Lord Sharpe of Epsom: Moved by Lord Sharpe of Epsom 12: Clause 27, page 27, line 12, leave out paragraph (d)Member's explanatory statementThis amendment is consequential on the removal at Report...
Lord Sharpe of Epsom: Moved by Lord Sharpe of Epsom 15: Clause 28, page 29, line 12, leave out subsections (2) and (3)Member's explanatory statementThis amendment is consequential on the removal...
Lord Sharpe of Epsom: Moved by Lord Sharpe of Epsom 17: Clause 33, page 31, line 35, leave out “sections 8 and 13” and insert “section 8”Member's explanatory...
Lord Sharpe of Epsom: Moved by Lord Sharpe of Epsom That the Bill do now pass.
My Lords, the public expect the essential services that they pay for to be there when they need them. This Bill aims to maintain a reasonable balance between the ability of workers to strike and...
The following Statement was made in the House of Commons on Monday 20 February. “I want to update the House on steps that the Home Secretary and I have been taking to address the concerning...
My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat in the form of a Statement the Answer given by my honourable friend the Minister for the Americas and Caribbean to an Urgent Question in...
My Lords, in my old profession this session was called the interval act—the act charged with getting the audience back from the bar, and it very often failed. The Minister has known me a...
Lord Callanan: Moved by Lord Callanan That the bill be committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and that it be an instruction to the Committee of the Whole House that they consider the bill...
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And sometimes to shout at each other.
