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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 14 Jul 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"My Lords, I will speak very briefly to Amendment 25 in the name of my noble friend Lord Sharpe of Epsom. I reiterate his key point that the imperative is to make it clear that the closed shop is not coming back and that the Government are committed to free …..."
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Written Question
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Monday 14th July 2025

Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they considered the legal opinion by Tom Cross KC and Ruth Kennedy entitled In the Matter of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill published on 28 April when updating the ECHR Memorandum for Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, published on 26 June.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

We were aware of the advice, but did not reference it in our European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) memorandum. The Government prepared the ECHR memorandum to assist the Joint Committee on Human Rights. In that memorandum, the Government has set out the articles of the ECHR which it considers are likely engaged by the bill, including Article 14 together with Article 2.

Written Question
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Monday 14th July 2025

Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they consulted the Equality and Human Rights Commission before publishing the Equality Impact Assessment for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Equality and Human Rights Commission was not consulted before the Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) was published for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. However, the briefing authored by the commission in November 2024 has informed the EQIA.

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is a Private Member’s Bill, and the Government has taken a neutral stance. The EQIA for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is a neutral and independent assessment of the impact of the bill, and the Government did not undertake a consultation process on this assessment.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

"My Lords, I echo the concerns of my noble friend Lord Harper.

I pay tribute to the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford. I have the pleasure of serving with her on the European Affairs Committee, she has great expertise and knowledge of these issues from her experience in the European Parliament, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

"I am listening very carefully to the noble Baroness. She knows that there has been cross-party support on, for instance, information-sharing in respect of the Schengen Information System’s second iteration, which we were members of in 2015, and it is incumbent upon this Government and the European Union to negotiate …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

"Well, if there are appropriate safeguards—I know that is a big “if”—and if there is proper scrutiny and oversight of the issuance of those ID cards, I believe they would allow a number of key agencies, such as the NHS, local authorities, adult social care, children’s services, police forces, the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

"My Lords, I support the excellent amendments in the name of my noble friend Lord Swire. I begin with a confession, which I think is shared by most of my colleagues on these Benches, that we were all whipped in 2006 or 2007 in the other place when in opposition …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

"I have to ask my noble friend a fundamental question. Regarding the biometric data that we currently retain across all the agencies of government, if that system is working, why have the Government—and indeed the previous Government, who he served and I supported—no idea how many illegal immigrants there are …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

"My Lords, I remember those long evenings over the last two years when we debated the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024. The words of Pyrrhus come to mind, because noble Lords on the then Opposition Benches, particularly the Cross-Benchers and the Liberal Democrats, eventually prevented the Act …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

"The European Court of Human Rights is not recognised as a traditional court of jurists as one would recognise, for instance, the US Supreme Court. Many of the people representing their countries are from NGOs who have vested interests in different areas. It is not comparable to our own Supreme …..."
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