"Before the Minister moves on, will he respond to my question? Why have the Government decided to legislate only for that group of workers?..." Baroness Stowell of Beeston - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Twycross on 16 September (HL10228) and following media reports in August of Redbird Capital Partners’ formal notification to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to acquire Telegraph Media Group, when they will update Parliament on action they …..." Baroness Stowell of Beeston - View Speech
"My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s confirmation that the formal bid has been received and that during this phase of scrutiny the existing protections for the Telegraph remain in place. I very much hope that the Secretary of State will soon be able to say that she is …..." Baroness Stowell of Beeston - View Speech
"My Lords, I will focus on disorder in public places and spaces, which is having such a detrimental effect on our lives. In doing so, I will concentrate on Clauses 37 and 38, which create a new stand-alone offence of assault against a retail worker and build on the aggravated …..." Baroness Stowell of Beeston - View Speech
"My Lords, the topic of space makes us think about rockets, astronauts and faraway places, but one of the great things about being a Member of your Lordships’ space committee has been learning that there is a UK space economy. It is vital to so many industries on earth and, …..." Baroness Stowell of Beeston - View Speech
"My Lords, although I take a different position on this from the noble Lord, Lord Fox, I too would like to welcome him back to his place, and I am pleased to see that he is making a good recovery from his accident.
"My Lords, I do not have an awful lot to add to what I said during the debate. I think I covered all the important points. As I said, I have accepted that an aggregate cap of 15% for state-owned investment funds is necessary to ensure the financial viability of …..." Baroness Stowell of Beeston - View Speech
"At end to insert “but that this House regrets that the draft Regulations do not distinguish between state investment funds that are directly or indirectly controlled by a foreign power; that the Secretary of State must be relied upon to intervene if a state investment fund does not act in …..." Baroness Stowell of Beeston - View Speech
"As my noble friend knows and as I have already described, we are now in a different situation from that which we were facing in March of last year, when there was a real prospect that a foreign Government could be the owner of a British newspaper. That matter has …..." Baroness Stowell of Beeston - View Speech
"If the Minister is going to come back to it, I will happily sit down, but I asked her a question about those new notification requirements in the draft regulations yet to be made, and whether the Government would consider my recommendation that the Secretary of State be required to …..." Baroness Stowell of Beeston - View Speech