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Grand Committee
Artificial Light and Noise: Effects on Human Health (Science and Technology Committee Report) - Thu 09 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brown of Cambridge (XB - Life peer) My Lords, I am delighted to introduce this Science and Technology Committee report on the effects of - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brown of Cambridge (XB - Life peer) artificial light and noise on human health. - Speech Link
3: Lord Krebs (XB - Life peer) It was a great privilege to serve on the Science and Technology Select Committee under her brilliant - Speech Link
4: Lord Benyon (Con - Life peer) I also thank the Science and Technology Committee for its ongoing interest in this area; I hope I can - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of Life - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) can the Minister say what steps are being taken to make the levy more conducive to take-up and more relevant - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) He said, “No—you’re quite clever enough to continue doing pure science”. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Valentine (XB - Life peer) We have the economic challenge of building relevant skills for the future and the social challenge of - Speech Link
4: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) outcomes, not least from artificial intelligence and all the other new technologies, it needs to be human-led—human - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Permanent Secretaries: Appointment and Removal (Constitution Committee Report) - Thu 09 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Drake (Lab - Life peer) rare circumstances a Permanent Secretary is dismissed on performance or misconduct grounds, this is a human - Speech Link
2: Lord Maude of Horsham (Con - Life peer) There is no objective test for it; these are human judgments being made by human beings about other human - Speech Link
3: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) The Government also accepted that broad political alignment should not be a relevant consideration in - Speech Link
4: Baroness Drake (Lab - Life peer) That is true; it is the rules not of science but of judgment that come into play here. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 08 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bull (XB - Life peer) I declare any relevant interests in the register, noting that while my own media interests have ceased - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) Risks Report 2024 by the World Economic Forum ranked misinformation as the biggest short-term risk to human - Speech Link
3: None Amendment 35 changes Clause 27 to make clear that Schedule 2 contains amendments relevant not only to - Speech Link
4: None leave out subsection (6) and insert— “(6) The requirements in this subsection are that—(a) that the relevant - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Defence - Tue 07 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) I recently visited the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, and we agreed to ringfence 5% of the - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) Russia has shown itself oblivious in its tactics to the human cost of its devastating war in Ukraine. - Speech Link
3: Bernard Jenkin (Con - Harwich and North Essex) world is only just waking up to the threat that presents.I will make three further points that are relevant - Speech Link
4: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) That difference in the numbers is relevant: the reason for it is that an actual war is going on in the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill - Tue 07 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) It is therefore not relevant to the actual decisions that any real university takes. - Speech Link
2: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) been compared with what has gone on in the United States, for example, or in Canada or Australia, as relevant - Speech Link
3: None As the noble Lord, Lord Willetts, said, it is not relevant in practice to decision-making. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Bank of England (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 02 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Lamont of Lerwick (Con - Life peer) Forecasting responds to a deep human need but, alas, the forecasts are often wrong.There are several - Speech Link
2: Lord Blackwell (Con - Life peer) important economic decisions in the hands of expert officials might make sense if economics were a precise science - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Youth Homelessness - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Paula Barker (Lab - Liverpool, Wavertree) people is hampering other valuable work in this sector”,and,“The DHSS, the Department of Education and Science - Speech Link
2: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) the cross-Government rough sleeping board, part of which consists of the senior officials in every relevant - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Damian Collins (Con - Folkestone and Hythe) The point about a “proportionate” response is relevant. - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) In fact, we understand from the situation in the European Court of Human Rights, and the property rights - Speech Link
3: Damian Collins (Con - Folkestone and Hythe) anyway and that the rights an organisation would have under article 1 of the European convention on human - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) The Under-Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, my hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Defence Spending - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: None It will provide a very significant boost for UK defence science, innovation and manufacturing. - Speech Link
2: None being clear-eyed about the threats we face; being clear about our capabilities; backing UK defence science - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) the OBR March 2024 GDP forecasts, as is standard practice, and cash totals will be confirmed at the relevant - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) defence, security, resilience, diplomacy, development and trade, as well as elements of economic and science - Speech Link
5: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) if we do not do it now, it will be Europe next, and that will cost an enormous amount more in both human - Speech Link