"My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Taylor of Bolton on her comprehensive and forensic introduction to this report. I wanted to speak in this debate because the role of the regulator is crucial in delivering the Government’s aim of urgently building more homes and in resolving one of …..." Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord John for securing this debate. It is a welcome opportunity to highlight the difficulties faced by our theatres, galleries and arts venues, and there has been unified support for it across the Grand Committee.
"My Lords, it is an honour to follow the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Manchester, who has consistently championed the social housing sector.
Social housing is a vital national asset built to provide families on low incomes with a safe, secure, affordable place to live. After decades of marginalisation …..." Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe - View Speech
"My Lords, we have already had three excellent maiden speeches from my noble friend Lord Hobby, the noble Lord, Lord Blackwater, and the noble Baroness, Lady Leaman. I am looking forward to our fourth maiden speech, that from the noble Lord, Lord Dixon; I am sure he will make it …..." Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for that reply. The universities agree that the changes to thresholds in the compliance assessment metrics should help to further reduce the scope for abuse and non-compliance, but I understand that some real problems have arisen. These relate to the red/amber/green …..." Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of (1) the adequacy of training and quality-assurance processes for student visa caseworkers, and (2) decision-making in the student visa route...." Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for securing the debate and pay tribute to his indefatigable commitment to improving health outcomes and championing research and to his powerful and moving speech. I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to the debate. I know that I …..." Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe - View Speech
"My Lords, like every other speaker, I start by remembering the 72 lives lost and the countless others—the victims’ families, friends and the community—whose lives were for ever changed by the fire. The tragedy that took place at Grenfell Tower in the early hours of 14 June 2017 must never …..." Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe - View Speech
"My Lords, I am sympathetic to the probing amendments in the names of the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, and the noble Viscount, Lord Younger—Amendments 47 and 51 respectively—on value for money, which I alluded to at Second Reading. With any Bill or set of regulations, it is important to have …..." Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe - View Speech
"My Lords, I have no extant interests to declare—my interest in pension schemes is in the past—but I have considerable sympathy with my noble friend Lord Davies’s Amendment 7.
We suffer from chronic underinvestment in genuinely affordable and social housing, which is undermining the social fabric of this country and …..." Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe - View Speech