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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 08 Sep 2020
Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

"My Lords, I am delighted to contribute to the end of this debate because it has been of considerable importance. Although I am a co-signatory of the cross-party Amendment 11, I will refer particularly to the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Shutt of Greetland. He had …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 08 Sep 2020
Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

"My Lords, I endorse what the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, has just said about the use of Grand Committee for this stage of a very important constitutional Bill.

I have listened with great interest to the arguments of the noble Baroness and the noble Lord for these changes to the …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 08 Sep 2020
Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

"My Lords, I am delighted once again to find myself in broad support of the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes. It is almost embarrassing to find myself in his company because we do not always agree, but on this occasion I have a strong reason for doing so. Before I get …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 08 Sep 2020
Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

"My Lords, I very much agree with what the noble and learned Lord, Lord Morris, has just said. It is remarkable that the majority of those participating in this debate are former MPs with extensive and distinguished constituency representation behind them. That comes through in the way in which they …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 08 Sep 2020
Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

"My Lords, I am delighted to support the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, on this amendment. I am one of its signatories and it is a cross-party amendment. We have to start to think in firm terms about providing for the eventual, inevitable extension of the vote for parliamentary elections to …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 03 Sep 2020
Representation of the People (Electoral Registers Publication Date) Regulations 2020

"My Lords, shortly I will have some welcoming comments to add to the substantial points made by my noble friends Lord Wallace of Saltaire and Lord Rennard and other Members of your Lordships’ House, but first I register a double disappointment with the Minister’s introduction to this short debate. It …..."
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Written Question
Cabinet Office: Mass Media
Wednesday 29th July 2020

Asked by: Lord Tyler (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many media officer posts there were in each Government Department in July (1) 2019, and (2) 2020; and what plans they have to (a) increase, and (b) reduce, the number of those posts in the next 12 months.

Answered by Lord True - Shadow Leader of the House of Lords

Individual Government departments are responsible for their own staffing decisions.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 27 Jul 2020
Parliamentary Constituencies Bill

"My Lords, it is not my usual source for a wise text, but I shall begin with a quote from the Conservative manifesto of December 2019—significantly not repeated by the Minister this afternoon. We do believe that we should be

“making sure that every vote counts the same—a cornerstone of …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 22 Jul 2020
Intelligence and Security Committee: Russia Report

"My Lords, in the final 72 hours before the EU referendum in June 2016 there was extensive, disguised, unregulated and targeted digital campaign messaging. Ministers ignored this. Why? This occurred again last year, with shadowy Brexit-supporting groups spending hundreds of thousands of pounds and then disappearing. Ministers ignored this. Why? …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Jul 2020
House of Lords: Relocation

"My Lords, given the various attempts by No. 10 to emasculate the scrutiny work of your Lordships’ House, can we take it that this proposal to banish us to York is simply a threat to cut off the House from MPs, Ministers, Cabinet, civil servants and the rest, and to …..."
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