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Northern Ireland Investment Summit - Question (23 Nov 2023)

Lord Swire: My Lords, Northern Ireland scores highly on any indices of a place to live and work and to invest, so I welcome the success of the summit. However, these summits are only so good if they are repeated. What plans does my noble friend have to repeat an investment summit in Northern Ireland? In the event that there is going to be one—and I hope it will become a regular event—what plans can...

Written Answers — Department for Transport: Trains: WiFi (23 Nov 2023)

Lord Swire: To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to make the provision of reliable Wi-Fi on trains a condition of awarding franchises.

Electricity Network Connection Action Plan - Question (22 Nov 2023)

Lord Swire: My Lords, the noble Baroness is precisely right in her Question. While I welcome the new generation of T-pylons, of which we are less visually aware, the visual impact provision scheme has £465 million from Ofgem to bury power lines. The truth of the matter is that National Grid is very against the burial of power lines. It is possible; if it was not, we would not bury them in areas of...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Fenethylline: Misuse (22 Nov 2023)

Lord Swire: To ask His Majesty's Government which NHS trusts in England have reported patients suffering from addiction to Captagon.

King’s Speech - Debate (6th Day) (15 Nov 2023)

Lord Swire: My Lords, the bonus ball for sitting through this debate from the start, other than what we must euphemistically call comfort breaks—although in this place there is not much comfort involved—is that I got to hear two magnificent maiden speeches. The first, of course, was from the noble Lord, Lord Roberts, which was typically excellent. His Wikipedia entry says: “Andrew Roberts, Baron...

Schools: Food Standards - Question (15 Nov 2023)

Lord Swire: My Lords, what is concerning is the apparent lack of understanding among many schoolchildren today about where and how food is produced and what is wholesome and healthy food. With that in mind, is it not time for the Government to look again at investing more in domestic sciences to teach children how to cook good food that does not include unhealthy contents?

Long-Term Strategic Challenges Posed by China - Motion to Take Note (19 Oct 2023)

Lord Swire: My Lords, the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Stirrup, referred in his trenchant speech to the increasingly belligerent comments coming from President Xi. He is absolutely right so to do, given the continuing militarisation and building out of the South China and East China Seas, which many of us have viewed for many years with increased concern, not least because of the uncertainty it is...

Prison Capacity - Statement (17 Oct 2023)

Lord Swire: My Lords, in answer to a Written Question of mine, my noble and learned friend the Minister said on 27 March: “As of 31 December … there were 9,797 Foreign National Offenders”. He has announced today that that figure has now increased to be nearer 10,000, so I very much welcome his determination to do something about this. It should be said that in the 12 years between 2010 and 2022,...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Hornets (15 Sep 2023)

Lord Swire: To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to prevent the spread of Asian hornets in England.

Deep Seabed Mining - Question (13 Sep 2023)

Lord Swire: My noble friend will be aware that, in the winter months, seahorses can go 200 feet deeper towards the seabed and that deep sea mining has the potential to have a very serious negative effect on their habitat—the mining, the chemicals and the noise—and displace them. A more immediate threat to seahorses globally is the continuing pernicious trade in them. Will he join me and the Seahorse...

Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill - Committee: Amendment 5 (12 Sep 2023)

Lord Swire: My Lords, I too will be very interested in my noble friend the Minister’s reply to this amendment. It gets to the kernel of the argument, and actually teases out whether or not this whole Bill is about conservation or something completely different. This amendment is suggesting that it would apply to “a species classed as threatened on the International Union for Conservation of...

Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill - Committee: Amendment 5 (12 Sep 2023)

Lord Swire: The noble Baroness may well be right, because I was in the House of Commons until 2019 and I got no letters on this subject. I was on the Hunting Bill committee when I first came into the House of Commons and I got a lot of letters about that, mainly because all the evidence was being ignored in favour of prejudice.

Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill - Committee: Amendment 5 (12 Sep 2023)

Lord Swire: Just for clarification, when these Ministers and MPs took all the trouble to come from Africa to put their point over, is my noble friend aware of how many of those who support the Bill actually had the politeness to meet them?

Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill - Committee: Amendment 1 (12 Sep 2023)

Lord Swire: My Lords, I must take issue with the noble Lord, Lord Weir, because I do not think that these amendments that some of us are proposing this evening are designed to wreck the Bill. On the contrary, the conversations I have had with my colleagues, who take this issue very seriously, are all about improving the Bill, which is why I will support the amendment of the noble Earl, Lord Caithness. I...

Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill - Committee: Amendment 1 (12 Sep 2023)

Lord Swire: I am extremely grateful to my noble friend for giving way. I entirely agree with him that this must be evidence-based legislation, and a lot of a misleading and mischievous false information has circulated around this subject for some time. Does he share my surprise that the Minister for Environment and Tourism in Botswana felt obliged to issue today a press release, which I think was...

Afghanistan: Aid for Women - Question (11 Sep 2023)

Lord Swire: My Lords, regrettably but perhaps understandably, there are still a large number of women in neighbouring countries, not least Pakistan, waiting to find somewhere to start their lives again. Many are former high-ranking officials, human rights defenders, policewomen or women connected to the police and politicians. Can my noble friend the Minister, who I know takes an enormous interest in...

Creative and Cultural Industries: Impact of Visa and Immigration Policies - Question (25 Jul 2023)

Lord Swire: I think the noble Baroness, Lady Bonham-Carter, has hit on something, because we all know, if only anecdotally, that the system is not working as well as it should. Will my noble friend the Minister commit to going back to his department and having a discussion with DCMS as to how this regime can be better applied? There is no threat of people overstaying, particularly in the performing...

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership - Commons Urgent Question (20 Jul 2023)

Lord Swire: My Lords, the slightly negative terms introduced by some noble Lords on this is regrettable. Some of the countries within this grouping have very fast-growing economies and represent huge potential for British exporters, so I really do believe that we should welcome this move. We want to see many more trade deals of this sort. I think it is the largest trade deal since we have come out of the...

Bank Accounts - Private Notice Question (19 Jul 2023)

Lord Swire: Has my noble friend had any discussions with her colleagues in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office about the fact that some overseas missions find it impossible to open bank accounts in the UK? This happens the entire time, and it seems rather invidious to ask these people to come here to open embassies and then say they cannot bank when they are here.

Small and Medium-sized Housebuilders - Question (12 Jul 2023)

Lord Swire: My Lords, the letter to the Prime Minister refers not to an anti-development policy but to an anti-development environment. I submit that the anti-development environment is in part caused by the fact that people are fed up with the large-volume housebuilders building identikit housing estates up and down the country, and that the people more likely to reflect the desires and wishes of local...


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