Part of Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill - Report and Third Reading – in the House of Lords at 6:00 pm on 23 May 2024.
Lord McNicol of West Kilbride
Shadow Spokesperson (Business and Trade), Shadow Spokesperson (Scotland)
6:00,
23 May 2024
My Lords, as the Bill reaches its final stages, I have a few thank yous from my side. I put on record my thanks to my colleague and friend, the noble Lord, Lord Leong, for his support during the Bill’s passage, to our team in the Labour Lords office—Milton Brown and Cameron Iverson—for their support, to James Fisher in my office and to the Bill team. I also thank the Liberal Democrat Benches and the Government for the collective nature of our work on this.
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