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Lords Chamber
Budget Statement - Thu 16 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Eatwell (LAB - Life peer) Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Tory squeeze on educational resource is“without precedent in post-war UK history - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) DWP’s history on this is not good. We know that sanctions often do not work. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Moyo (CON - Life peer) and attendants in the Library and dining areas. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Thu 02 Mar 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) that is what they intend, let us do it in a parliamentary way.I just want to recall two episodes of history - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) on retained EU law, aided—again, I risk provoking the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman—by the National Archives - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Thu 02 Mar 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Crawley (LAB - Life peer) Perhaps at this very moment the National Archives is hunting for it down the back of the national sofa - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (CON - Life peer) We are proud of our long and diverse history of freedoms and are committed to ensuring that the necessary - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
Committee stage - Tue 28 Feb 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ludford (LDEM - Life peer) all those poor civil servants, and the National Archives and everybody else who is being dragged into - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) I do not believe in conspiracy theories but I definitely believe in the cock-up theory of history, and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) The comprehensiveness of it will come when the archives have finished their process and so on. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) Archives to see if there are others. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Thu 09 Feb 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) However, history has already taught us that you can never let wrong go unpunished because, if you do, - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannan of Kingsclere (CON - Life peer) grotesque betrayals in history. - Speech Link
3: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) The history of a nation is often symbolised in its great historic buildings, museums and galleries. - Speech Link
4: Lord Marlesford (CON - Life peer) The Swiss Government have recently declassified their police archives on Kirill to show that in the 1970s - Speech Link
5: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) He felt that this was a short intervention and that the world, perhaps based on history, would not stand - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cammell Laird Workers Imprisoned in 1984 - Tue 07 Feb 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) 62,000 workers in 1982 to just 5,000 five years later.It is clear, from papers released by the National Archives - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) History tells the story of injustice and the horrendous impact that it has, not just on those imprisoned - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill
2nd reading: Part 1 - Mon 06 Feb 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) We are proud of the history of the UK legal system, in which common-law principles and legislation are - Speech Link
2: Lord Beith (LDEM - Life peer) They were—it is a fact; it is history; get over it and accept that they are currently part of our system - Speech Link
3: Lord Heseltine (Non-affiliated - Life peer) There was an uncharacteristic lack of history here, because of course Robespierre followed Louis XIV - Speech Link
4: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB - Life peer) National Archives which means it keeps going up. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (CON - Life peer) They are even sorting out in archives and so forth to bring this stuff out. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Financial Services and Markets Bill
Committee stage - Wed 25 Jan 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharkey (LDEM - Life peer) Reform) Bill, and it may be more than that if the National Archives find any more down the back of their - Speech Link
2: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) Late last year, the National Archives identified additional pieces of retained EU law across the statute - Speech Link
3: Baroness Worthington (CB - Life peer) moral position that we will not engage in profiteering from soft commodities—it sort of lapsed into the history - Speech Link
4: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) Indeed, if past history is a guide, logbook loans may well become as prevalent as they were in in 2014 - Speech Link
5: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) Baroness, Lady Bowles, notes, the UK has a history of regulating short selling which predates the introduction - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Windrush: 75th Anniversary - Thu 19 Jan 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Benjamin (LDEM - Life peer) The National Archives holds copies of passenger lists of the many ships that brought Caribbean people - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) We need to challenge our history of racism and celebrate the Windrush generation and Caribbean people - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) But this is not Windrush history; it is British history. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Holocaust Memorial Day - Thu 19 Jan 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Pickles (CON - Life peer) History is being rinsed, and countries are recasting themselves as Nazi victims. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) Some employees just disappeared and were assumed to have been murdered; their archives and research were - Speech Link
3: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (LAB - Life peer) issues of anti-Jewish hate and fascist ideology as consigned to the dustbin of history; and that the - Speech Link
4: Lord Cashman (LAB - Life peer) Does history have enough horrors to shake us from complacency and indifference?” - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) shared experience to memory and to history. - Speech Link