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Promoting home ownership for first-time buyers – Lord Young of Cookham. Oral questions
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My Lords, I want to make a very brief contribution to this short debate. I pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Borwick for his tireless advocacy for improved mobility for those with a disability. It is sad that we will no longer have that advocacy available at the end of this Session. I want to pick up three points arising from the Minister’s response when we debated this in Committee....
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My Lords, I want to make a very brief contribution to this short debate. I pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Borwick for his tireless advocacy for improved mobility for those with a disability. It is sad that we will no longer have that advocacy available at the end of this Session. I want to pick up three points arising from the Minister’s response when we debated this in Committee....
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My Lords, further to the Question of the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, what steps are the Government taking to secure a domestic supply chain for battery materials, to reduce our dependency on China?
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My Lords, further to the Question of the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, what steps are the Government taking to secure a domestic supply chain for battery materials, to reduce our dependency on China?
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My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 119 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale. As he said, this has its genesis in the Select Committee which we both sat on—the Social Mobility Policy Committee. The noble Lord referred to the fact that we reported on 18 November. I just say in passing that the Government are meant to reply to Select Committee reports within two months; in...
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I must inform your Lordships that, if Motion G1 is agreed, it pre-empts Motion G2. Ayes 266, Noes 141.
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I must inform your Lordships that, if Motion G1 is agreed, it pre-empts Motion G2. Ayes 266, Noes 141.
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask The Leader of the House how many House of Lords Select Committee reports have not been responded to by His Majesty’s Government within the recommended time since September 2024.
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To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to publish their response to the report of the Social Mobility Policy Committee Social Mobility: Local Roots, Lasting Change, published on 18 November 2025.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the proposal from The Share Foundation for automatic release of Child Trust Funds at 21 years old.
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To ask His Majesty's Government when they will publish a roadmap to a smoke-free Britain, as set out in the 10 Year Health Plan for England.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what steps are being taken to ensure that ringfenced NHS funding for children's hospices is available beyond 2025–26; and to increase this funding to £30 million per year by 2030.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to activate "street votes", as legislated for in the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential merits of mobility hubs for increasing public transport usage for (1) disabled people, and (2) non-disabled people.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support (1) councils, (2) combined authorities, and (3) transport operators, to create mobility hubs.
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