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Employment Bill - Question ( 6 Apr 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, it is understandable that the Minister cannot give any commitment to what will be in the Bill when it comes. However, given that it was in the 2019 election manifesto and the Government were elected on the basis of delivering that promise, can the Minister give a commitment that they will in fact implement a Bill before this Government go out of office?

Football Governance - Question (22 Mar 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: I welcome much of the report, but does the Minister recall that the Prime Minister, when he was Mayor of London, was very concerned about domestic abuse that arose after football matches where drinking had taken place? Recommendations 42 and 43 of the report are that there should be experiments in reintroducing alcohol into these leagues, which had been banned since 1988. Can he tell me why...

Written Answers — Home Office: Community Safety Partnerships (18 Mar 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of Community Safety Partnerships in England and Wales are using the Cardiff Model (A&E) data to identify serious violence hotspots; whether they have plans to extend the usage of this data; and what is the timetable for that extension.

Health and Care Bill - Report (4th Day): Amendment 163 (16 Mar 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, I support what has already been said and the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay. I also declare an interest in that I was a member of the commission she so ably chaired. I have been on this, along with others, for a decade. Back in 2011 we had The Government’s Alcohol Strategy, which was very good but regrettably fell by the wayside. I was heartened back in...

Public Health: Media Advertising - Question (28 Feb 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to assess (1) the impact on public health of advertising in the media, and (2) whether the tax system regarding such advertisements could be restructured to improve both physical and mental health outcomes.

Public Health: Media Advertising - Question (28 Feb 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: I am disappointed that the Government are not extending the review of the effects of advertising on health over a wider front; I hope that might be reconsidered. It is important that we take from the Chancellor’s move to a variable taxation on alcohol—in which the highest taxes are placed on those drinks with the highest element of alcohol and incentives are offered for lower taxes on...

Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 - Motion to Approve: Amendment to the Motion (24 Feb 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, I have a quick question for the Minister. It is a little wide of the regulations but related to it: the hole in the dyke could be Switzerland. Have we had conversations with Switzerland, and are we going to close any holes there?

Procedure and Privileges Committee - Motion to Agree: Amendment to the Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My noble friend Lord Foulkes asked us to give our views, particularly on the role of the Speaker. I take a different view from what has been expressed by my colleagues. It is interesting to note that only two contributors to this debate have not been ex-MPs. I have been in the House for 25 years this year, and I have seen the House change from when Labour came in in 1997 and we had hundreds...

Procedure and Privileges Committee - Motion to Agree: Amendment to the Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: We had a very good Government then, but it was nothing to do with the Government. From 2010 onwards, we had a big influx of new Peers coming in, and we have this odd situation in which we have so many on the Lib Dem Benches compared with their weight in the country—but this is the House; we are different from the Commons. I have sensed that as more and more MPs have come into this Chamber,...

Living with Covid-19 - Statement (22 Feb 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, I regret that the noble Baroness dismissed the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, so peremptorily. We have one of the worst records on deaths from Covid in Europe. We have seen that we have one of the unhealthiest countries in Europe. We now have the freedom with Brexit to make many changes which people previously said we were unable to make. When will a programme be set out to make this...

Children: Online Protection - Question (10 Feb 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, I do not bring any praise. Age assurance can be driven through easily by a coach and horses. The noble Baroness asked what further work is being done on facial recognition and the other factors which are now developing with technology. When we reflect on the great difficulties we have with so many areas on security, was it not a disaster, in 2011, when the then newly elected...

Knife Crime - Question ( 9 Feb 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, does the Minister recall the meetings which I have had with her about the use of data and focusing on data to identify the locations in neighbourhoods which need extra resources in trying to prevent crime? In particular, does she recall the conversation she had with Professor Shepherd from the University of Cardiff, and the work he has done there, which has been spread to other...

NHS Dentistry - Question (31 Jan 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, is the Minister aware that, as a child of a working-class family in the 1940s, I was given a periodic free check on my teeth, as were all children alongside me at my school? Is it not a shame now, when we talk about inequalities and levelling up, that such a facility is not available for working-class children in this country? When will the Government, with their policy of levelling...

Online Sexual Harassment of Children - Question (24 Jan 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, the Sunday Times yesterday alleged that there is a major hole in the Bill and that there is no provision for protecting children from grooming in the new technology of the metaverse. What does the Minister think about that and does he believe that there is a case for urgent action to be taken?

Sugar - Question (24 Jan 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the effect of sugar on health in England; and what steps they will take to reduce its consumption.

Sugar - Question (24 Jan 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his reply. He would agree that we need a suite of different approaches—

Sugar - Question (24 Jan 2022)

Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe: —to try to make some headway. One of the great successes has been the sugar tax, yet the Government, for reasons which he previously explained, have decided not to extend it over a wider front because of unforeseen contingencies which created problems. Would he examine the prospect of taxing those unforeseen consequences so that the major driver for changing behaviour—pricing—will start...


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