Former Independent MP for Beaconsfield ( 1 May 1997 – 6 Nov 2019)
Liberal Democrat Peer (30 Nov 1981 – current)
Former Social Democratic and Labour Party MLA for Newry and Armagh (26 Nov 2003 – 24 Mar 2016)
Former MP for Dublin Borough (18 Aug 1870 – 26 Jan 1874)
Former MP for Mayo (5 Mar 1814 – 4 May 1836)
Former MP for Clonmel (10 Dec 1832 – 31 Jan 1836)
Conservative MP for Esher and Walton ( 6 May 2010 – current)
Conservative Peer (19 Oct 2022 – current)
Lord Clement-Jones: ...noble Baroness, Lady Stowell. I agree with a huge amount of what she said. I reiterate the welcome that we on these Benches gave to the Bill at Second Reading. We believe it is vital to tackle the dominance of big tech and to enhance the powers of our competition regulators to tackle it, in particular through the new flexible pro-competition powers and the ability to act ex ante and on an...
Bill Esterson: ...launched to rescue 290 times in the English channel in 2022. That was 3% of all RNLI lifeboat launches that year. The stories of desperate people crossing the English channel to reach the UK often dominate news and social media. Of course, we cannot know the experiences, backgrounds and personal stories of every person trying to arrive in this way, but it is clear that many of them intend...
Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...and death … leaving a trail of grief and trauma”. Last November, on Red Wednesday—when the FCDO was lit in red to commemorate the persecuted—thanks to Aid to the Church in Need, I met Dominic and Margaret Attah, survivors of the Boko Haram Pentecost attack on St Francis Xavier Church in Owo, when 40 were murdered. Margaret’s legs were blown off. Their bishop, Jude Arogundade, at...
Lord Grantchester: ...the noble Lord, Lord Gardiner. I thank him for committing Section 29 into the Act. The milk industry is extremely competitive. It has evolved with the rise and consolidation of supermarkets. Their dominance in the grocery trade has migrated milk away from doorstep deliveries. The consolidation of the top, supermarket end of the supply chain has driven consolidation in the processing...
Baroness Lawlor: ...themselves often change their views, as indeed has been pointed out earlier in this debate. In particular, there are now doubts about whether some of the physiological assumptions that have dominated the debate are justified. Emphasis has often been placed on the role of the thalamus, a group of cells centrally in the brain that helps to control how sensory and motor signals are passed...
Baroness Lawlor: ...themselves often change their views, as indeed has been pointed out earlier in this debate. In particular, there are now doubts about whether some of the physiological assumptions that have dominated the debate are justified. Emphasis has often been placed on the role of the thalamus, a group of cells centrally in the brain that helps to control how sensory and motor signals are passed...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston: ...must not create barriers to entry. Indeed, one of my biggest fears is an even greater concentration of power among the big tech firms and repeating the same mistakes which led to a single firm dominating search, no UK-based cloud service, and a couple of firms controlling social media. Instead, we must ensure that generative AI creates new markets and, if possible, use it to address the...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston: ...must not create barriers to entry. Indeed, one of my biggest fears is an even greater concentration of power among the big tech firms and repeating the same mistakes which led to a single firm dominating search, no UK-based cloud service, and a couple of firms controlling social media. Instead, we must ensure that generative AI creates new markets and, if possible, use it to address the...
Jo Gideon: ...produces an unbelievable array of foods, and we produce almost twice as many calories per person on this planet as we did back in the 1940s, but the food system that we have created has completely dominated planetary ecosystems. If we look at the food system’s impact, we see that it is by far the biggest cause of biodiversity loss, deforestation, water stress, freshwater pollution and...
Jo Gideon: ...produces an unbelievable array of foods, and we produce almost twice as many calories per person on this planet as we did back in the 1940s, but the food system that we have created has completely dominated planetary ecosystems. If we look at the food system’s impact, we see that it is by far the biggest cause of biodiversity loss, deforestation, water stress, freshwater pollution and...
Jo Gideon: ...produces an unbelievable array of foods, and we produce almost twice as many calories per person on this planet as we did back in the 1940s, but the food system that we have created has completely dominated planetary ecosystems. If we look at the food system’s impact, we see that it is by far the biggest cause of biodiversity loss, deforestation, water stress, freshwater pollution and...
Lord Thomas of Gresford: ...for Berlin, and although I may not match the medals of the noble Baroness or, indeed, the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, I still have the cap that was awarded to me for that privilege. The ground was dominated by a massive limestone podium, the Führerloge, from which the Führer had addressed the crowds. In the Führer’s dressing rooms behind, where the Wrexham team was changing, our...
Andrew Rosindell: ...a society in which freedom of religion is cherished and protected under the rule of law. Having an established Church prevents sectarianism and prevents different religions from vying for power or domination, because everyone accepts that our King is the head of the Church, and that the Christian faith has made the foundations of our society. Everybody can worship freely under that...
Baroness Eaton: ...back to basics and ensure that the state of our roads is vastly improved. As many local councillors—and, I am sure, Members in the other place—will testify, potholes continue to be one of the dominant subjects that constituents raise on the doorstep. My view on this is very simple: local government needs to have certainty around its funding, and multiyear financial settlements with...
...Hong Kong. It will enable the authorities to continue their clampdown on freedoms, including freedom of speech, assembly and the media. It will further entrench the culture of self-censorship dominating Hong Kong’s social and political landscape. It fails to provide certainty for international organisations, including diplomatic missions, operating there. Broad definitions will...
Andrew Mitchell: ...Hong Kong. It will enable the authorities to continue their clampdown on freedoms, including freedom of speech, assembly and the media. It will further entrench the culture of self-censorship dominating Hong Kong’s social and political landscape. It fails to provide certainty for international organisations, including diplomatic missions, operating there. Broad definitions will...
Janet Finch-Saunders: ...examination of an application, but we need to bring some equilibrium into this. We should be establishing a fund to help objectors access professional legal advice, otherwise the process may become dominated by, in some instances, wealthy developers or wealthy organisations who can afford the best possible representation, at any cost, to push forward their clients' application. Finally,...
Dominic Raab: I thank my right hon. Friend for progressing CPTPP with all his usual energy, because it will boost trade and be of huge strategic significance. It is an opportunity of Brexit that must be grasped. On investor-state dispute resolution, he is absolutely right that we must not give way to the naysayers. It will be overwhelmingly in the UK’s interest, given the protections for UK businesses...
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Mark Drakeford: .... By 2022, we were facing a war in Ukraine, a war on our borders here in Europe, and by 2023, we've been wrestling with the cost-of-living crisis and a conflict in the middle east that continues to dominate our thoughts into 2024. The turbulence that we've seen abroad has been matched by political turbulence closer to home. In the five years that I've been First Minister, I've worked with...