🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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Risks to the UK’s critical national infrastructure from space debris – Viscount Stansgate. Oral questions
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My Lords, I am very glad to take part in this interesting and very worth while debate. I begin by congratulating my noble friend the Minister on his excellent opening speech. Like him, I declare an interest: I am very proud of the fact that my son-in-law is a senior officer serving in the RAF. I add my congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Barrow, who lived up to his billing, if I may say...
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To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the national security threat to undersea cables connected to the UK.
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In begging leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper, I declare an interest: I was a member of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy earlier this year when we agreed to hold an inquiry into this subject.
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I thank my noble friend for that Answer. The House knows better than it did that undersea cables—not to mention the land cables under the City of London—are part of our critical national infrastructure because of the vital importance of the data they carry. The Joint Committee’s report said that “security vulnerabilities abound”. It recommended that we develop a UK-flagged sovereign...
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My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend on his Question; I submitted exactly the same Question yesterday. Is it possible that some of the sites affected in the UK, including the GOV.UK portal, were not aware that the data was held in America rather than in the UK and that, therefore, when a problem arises as it did in East-1, or whatever it is called, on the east coast of America, they were...
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My Lords, my noble friend the Minister said that the Government are still consulting, so I hope that my supplementary question can be part of that process. I am one of many Members in this House who are concerned about the future of youth orchestras. Can my noble friend say whether the current proposals imply that, in the future, youth orchestras would be subject to the charges involved? That...
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to bring legislation before Parliament to give effect to the decision of the King to remove all titles from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to amend the Counsellors of State Act 2022.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to amend the Titles Deprivation Act 1917.
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To ask His Majesty's Government which minister is responsible for issues involving light pollution.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to publish an updated edition of the Cabinet Manual.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to remove the restriction that renders Roman Catholics ineligible for consideration as a Counsellor of State.
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to publish an updated edition of the Cabinet Manual.
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To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to publish an updated edition of the Cabinet Manual.
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