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🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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My Lords, the King’s Speech was right to emphasise that we face an increasingly dangerous and volatile world, but is what is laid out a match for what is required? We are a divided country. We can trace that back, at the very least, to the financial crisis of 2008, when billions were pumped into the banking system to stabilise it, with the City of London particularly exposed. When people...
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My Lords, the King’s Speech was right to emphasise that we face an increasingly dangerous and volatile world, but is what is laid out a match for what is required? We are a divided country. We can trace that back, at the very least, to the financial crisis of 2008, when billions were pumped into the banking system to stabilise it, with the City of London particularly exposed. When people...
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My Lords, is the Minister aware that I have been instructed by my ecstatic kids that I need some updated Arsenal kit? Should I go along with what they suggest?
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To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to implement the recommendations in the UK Gigafactory Commission report Britain’s Battery Future, published on 21 January.
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Our major market is the EU, where shortly we must show that significant value in manufactured goods must originate here or in the EU. In the case of EVs, as the Minister will know, that is the battery. Does she agree, even having said what she has said, that we do not yet have the EV battery gigafactories on the scale we need? The commission on which I served made 10 recommendations. What is...
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From these Benches, the Minister can count on our support.
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My Lords, my noble friend Lady Walmsley signed Amendment 126, to which the noble Earl, Lord Lindsay, referred. It seeks, above all, to ensure that all small retailers are treated fairly. I am sure the Minister will be addressing this. Moving on to cigars and cigar lounges generally, I do not see why these should be exempt. In Committee, we heard from the noble Baroness, Lady Ramsey, about a...
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the UK Gigafactory Commission, Britain's Battery Future, published on 21 January; and what action they plan to take in response to the recommendations in that report.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the expansion of the United States' Mexico City Policy, which restricts international non-governmental organizations from using federal funds to provide abortion services or related information, on UK-funded international development programmes; and what steps they are taking to mitigate any resulting effects.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking through their support to Unitaid to improve access to affordable prevention, screening and treatment tools for cervical cancer in low- and middle-income countries; and how they will ensure that this investment is sustained.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what support they will provide to existing strategic industrial complexes as part of the delivery of the industrial strategy.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the percentage of renewable energy provided by offshore wind in (1) 2030, and (2) 2035; and what plans they have to build and install offshore wind turbines.
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To ask His Majesty's Government how many houses are planned to be built in the next five years in (1) Devon, (2) Essex, (3) Kent, (4) Lancashire, (5) Lincolnshire, and (6) Yorkshire.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the importance of the secure supply of (1) critical minerals, and (2) industrial metals, to the delivery of the industrial strategy and net zero strategy.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to secure resilient supply chains of key materials required for their net zero agenda.
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