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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 18 Nov 2022
House of Lords (Peerage Nominations) Bill [HL]

"My Lords, there is much of merit in my noble friend Lord Norton’s Bill, and it is hard to disagree with some of its common-sense suggestions for raising standards. However, I cannot support more power being given to an unelected body, as a matter of principle, as a solution to …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 18 Nov 2022
House of Lords (Peerage Nominations) Bill [HL]

"Will my noble friend give way?..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 18 Nov 2022
House of Lords (Peerage Nominations) Bill [HL]

"My noble friend is very kind. What he is asking for with a commitment to attendance, which I have some support for too, is something we could deal with through our internal procedures. That is not beyond our existing powers to implement now. Now that we also have the power …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 25 Jan 2022
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill

"My Lords, like everybody else who has spoken in the Committee so far today, I share the objective of returning to the status quo ante and repealing the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. But as some noble Lords who heard me speak on Second Reading may know, I do so for different …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 30 Nov 2021
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill

"My Lords, as the final Back-Bench speaker, I cannot help wondering whether I have been so placed because I supported the Fixed-term Parliaments Act when the Bill came through your Lordships’ House. While it may have been a political convenience for the coalition Government, as some have argued in this …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 09 Sep 2021
Standards in Public Life

"My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Donaghy, for whom I have huge respect. I also commend, as others have done, the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, for calling this debate.

Standards are not a topic that those of us in public life like to …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 09 Sep 2021
Standards in Public Life

"I thank the noble Lord for giving way. I am grateful to him for referring to my contribution earlier, but I am just a little concerned: I was not suggesting anything in the way that he is interpreting—I did not refer to anything in the way that he is suggesting …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 01 Jul 2021
Government Departments: Non-Executive Directors

"My Lords, transparency and conflicts of interest are important. But it is also important for us to recognise too that Secretaries of State, in the context of analogies to a chairman, need NEDs to help them support driving change and holding the Executive—in this case, the Civil Service—to account in …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 26 Oct 2017
Intergenerational Fairness in Government Policy

"My Lords, it is great honour to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Greengross, who is a leading authority on so many of the topics encompassed by this debate led by the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of Newnham.

It interests me that the two groups in society who feel very unhappy …..."
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Written Question
Palace of Westminster: Repairs and Maintenance
Thursday 14th September 2017

Asked by: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the main recommendations put forward by the Joint Committee on the Palace of Westminster in its report of September 2016; and when they intend to bring forward a motion for both Houses to debate and decide how the restoration and renewal works should progress.

Answered by Lord Young of Cookham

The Government is grateful for the valuable work conducted by the Joint Committee on the Palace of Westminster and has considered the recommendations in its report carefully. It intends to bring forward a motion in both Houses to debate this important matter in the Autumn.