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Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Mon 09 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None The Government will pay close attention to how the new duty embeds in the work of combined authorities - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) I believe that that has highlighted a gap in the structure at the moment. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) My Lords, Amendment 190 in my name would place an obligation on the Government to introduce devolved - Speech Link
4: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) People will pay more for less—that much is certain—but my amendment would at least seek to constrain - Speech Link
5: None case they start writing in to me saying what they pay, because they have to pay the county council element - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 05 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None What might that gap mean in practice? - Speech Link
2: None The legal gap has drawn strong criticism at a senior level. - Speech Link
3: Lord Cromwell (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Please note that the taxpayer would pay nothing. - Speech Link
4: None This amendment seeks to bridge the gap between strategy and delivery. - Speech Link
5: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) between reporting failure and enforced change. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) Framework, to which I would say, even more firmly than before, that these are, regrettably, not mandatory - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) I will aim to expedite that work, but it would not be appropriate to introduce this into legislation - Speech Link
3: Baroness Freeman of Steventon (XB - Life peer) My Lords, I will introduce Amendment 141B in my name. - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) I am grateful for the opportunity to introduce the amendments in this group. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Mon 02 Feb 2026
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barker (LD - Life peer) It may be apprehended that some gap in the welfare of the country may follow from that”. - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) My Amendment 457 would introduce a statutory review of Clause 191 to provide a mechanism that is, in - Speech Link
3: None The case for health data disaggregated by ethnicity is not controversial. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bach (Lab - Life peer) It is surely obvious—it certainly is to me—that there should be mandatory reporting. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Some are mandatory, some are voluntary. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Cash (Con - Life peer) I know we are coming on to ethnicity next. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Cash (Con - Life peer) That is the gap that this amendment seeks to close. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part two - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Sometimes that involves ethnicity. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) It is important that proper data is collected on ethnicity. - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) a requirement to record ethnicity. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Cash (Con - Life peer) My Lords, the mandatory recording of ethnicity data was a recommendation of the Macpherson inquiry—it - Speech Link
5: None Finally, Amendments 438ED and 438EE are new because there is a gap. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 15 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) my noble friend Lord Leigh of Hurley and spoken to by him so powerfully today, address an important gap - Speech Link
2: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) becomes an Act, might offer us.Finally, there are an awful lot of regulators out there, and we all pay - Speech Link
3: Lord Moynihan of Chelsea (Con - Life peer) in one year alone for just one act.I add to the various mentions of where the police were forced to pay - Speech Link
4: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) It is only right that we use that as an apposite threshold to introduce these powers, rather than saying - Speech Link
5: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, said, Amendment 390 would introduce a vital safeguard based on the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) there is a gap here. - Speech Link
2: None Meanwhile, Amendment 58 would introduce annual reporting by HM Inspectorate of Probation on incomplete - Speech Link
3: Lord Sentamu (XB - Life peer) We have to pay attention to that. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The majority of OECD countries have mandatory reporting statutes. - Speech Link
5: None As she has set out, it aims to introduce mandatory participation in education, training, unpaid work - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage part two - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None recommended statutory mandatory reporting. - Speech Link
2: None Mandatory reporting would also align us with global standards in this area. - Speech Link
3: None Mandatory reporting addresses that; it closes the fear gap for the adults responsible for supporting - Speech Link
4: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) The key recommendation was that the UK must introduce a mandatory reporting law for child sexual abuse - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
2nd reading - Tue 04 Nov 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord De Mauley (Con - Excepted Hereditary) For each of the first three years, the UK will pay Mauritius £165 million. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Noakes (Con - Life peer) In cash terms, we will never, never pay less than £120 million a year. - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) It is not a case of saying that if we pay, the United States stays. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) I pay tribute to the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford. - Speech Link