🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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My Lords, in his maiden speech in the other place, in relation to the Hillsborough law, Andy Burnham talked passionately about miscarriages of justice, as we have heard. He also commended victims’ families for campaigning for decades against state wrongs. Taking him at his word, will the Minister draw the new Prime Minister’s attention to the IPP scandal and suggest meeting IPP...
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My Lords, like many other people, it seems to me, I was an unlikely comrade of Ann Widdecombe across the political divide when we were Brexit Party MEPs. I think she started off with some hostility to me but, one way or another, we ended up hugging, laughing and arguing civilly more than we had both anticipated. We were great friends, so it is very hard to accept what has happened. One...
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My Lords, last week I met a group of retail workers from across the country, not represented by the big trade associations but from local convenience stores and corner shops. Is the noble Lord aware that their specific concerns at present focus on the violence coming from pop-up vape shops? These are a blight on our high streets and are fronts for black market sales, especially of cigarettes,...
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Report by Freedom in the Arts The New Boycott Crisis and of the impact of artistic freedom of contemporary cultural boycotts – Baroness Fox of Buckley. Short debate; 12:15 pm
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My Lords, I will be there on 15 July and urge everybody to go to the MoJ and join in—advert over. The point was made that we see these as trivial offences but some of them are serious, but what is trivialised is the recall. The mother of the prisoner to whom the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, referred recently handed her own son in on a recall after an anonymous malicious complaint. No charges...
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I appreciate the Minister’s intention but will the Government note that already family lawyers have warned that allegations under this law—not another law—as drafted, with its loose definition of “abusive” and so on, could indeed trigger criminalising parents; for example, if you are a mum who says to a teenager who says that they are born in the wrong body, “No you’re not”....
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My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, is right to raise the important issue of threats to democratic institutions. He has asked us to consider disinformation, foreign interference and levels of distrust in politics. Disinformation as a weapon used by hostile states is a serious threat that needs to be tackled vigorously. However, we must be honest and admit that, sometimes,...
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I thank the noble Lord, Lord Evans of Rainow, for this debate. Its urgency is exemplified by Alan Milburn’s important review of young people and work, which, as people have said, is brimming with shocking and scandalous revelations. Not only are 1 million young people aged 16 to 24 not in work or education, but 61% of NEETs are not even looking for a job, and Britain spends more on health...
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether the E Wing unit for trans women in HMP/YOI Downview is classified as part of the female prison estate.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether HM Prison and Probation Service interprets the word "woman" in the Prison Rules 1999 as excluding biological men in possession of a Gender Recognition Certificate, following the Supreme Court ruling in the case of For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers.
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To ask His Majesty's Government when the results of the data linkage study recommended by the Cass Review will be published, and whether the results will be published before the commencement of the NHS England puberty blocker trial.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether the final findings of the longitudinal outcomes of gender identity in children study will be published before the commencement of the NHS England puberty blocker trial.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to develop a specialist NHS pathway for individuals who choose to detransition, and whether this pathway will be in place before the commencement of the NHS England puberty blocker trial.
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To ask His Majesty's Government, with reference to the longitudinal outcomes of gender identity in children study, what were the final results of the secondary data base analysis, and what are the preliminary findings from the prospective cohort study, which were due to be reported in 2020 and 2023 respectively.
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To ask His Majesty's Government, following recent polling by the Belonging Forum which found that renters are more likely than the general population to (1) feel lonely, (2) not know their neighbours, and (3) feel unsafe walking home in the dark, whether they are developing any policies to promote greater integration of renters in their local communities.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of advice from NHS Sussex Trust that male lactation fluid is (1) safe and (2) beneficial for infants.
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