🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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My Lords, I can see what the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, is saying about Third Reading, but it would be wiser to vote for this amendment now—if noble Lords have any conscience at all, they have to vote for it—and if it is slightly defective it can be amended at Third Reading. If we do not do it now, there is a huge risk of it not coming back.
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My Lords, I will be very brief. I am worried not about whether it is right or wrong to try to stop smoking but about whether this would work. There is no point in passing laws that do not work, as they are not respected. I think back to the amount of pot that was smoked when I was at university, to all the drugs generally around the place, and to the switch from alcohol to ecstasy and other...
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My Lords, should we not remember Reagan’s great stricture that “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help”?
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My Lords, I will briefly speak to something that has always puzzled me. Article 8 has two paragraphs. The first is about “the right to … private and family life”. The second states that you can ignore that if it is “in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the...
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My Lords, I want to make a quick point. If you are trying to build a lot of houses, you have to sell them. The rate of sale determines the rate of building: if you do not sell the houses, the builder goes bankrupt because houses are very expensive to build. As a result, it would open up the market much wider if we incorporated these standards for access, because more people would be in the...
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Does the Minister agree that there is in fact a huge privacy issue here? If, maybe in a marriage, someone can see where their other half has been going when they are not around, it could well cause a major rise in the divorce rate and other things.
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My Lords, I remember what you might call the good old days before the first reform, when a lot of hereditaries got chucked out. In those days, although there were nominally a lot of Peers—many more than now—people turned up when they knew something. There was a hardcore who turned up to run things for the two parties, but other people turned up when they knew something; they would...
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Just to help the noble Lord’s confusion, there are the courtesy titles of the younger sons of certain levels of the peerage.
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether funding will be available to continue the work of the Local Authority Smartcard Services e-Organisation currently working as the Standards Work Package of the National Smartcard project in support of the e-GIF and other national and international standards, when the current funding ends on 31 March 2004.
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