"My Lords, is my noble friend the Leader of the House in a position to remove the veil from the recently formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation? It is less than two and a half months since this company was put together. Can she tell us which private contractors are being set …..." Lord Browne of Ladyton - View Speech
"My Lords, as was recognised in the other place, reports suggest that Programme Yarrow and Exercise Mighty Oak yielded useful insights and made a valuable contribution to our preparedness in the event of a disruption to the UK’s power supply. However, as proven by the previous Government’s failure to act …..." Lord Browne of Ladyton - View Speech
"My Lords, as the wording of my noble friend Lady Berger’s original Question and her supplementary question rightly emphasises, the report pinpoints AI-generated child sexual abuse images as a growing area of concern. Many of them were indistinguishable from real photographs, with the IWF suggesting that their growing number risks …..." Lord Browne of Ladyton - View Speech
"My Lords, last week I attended a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security, of which I am a member, on the subject of sexual and gender-based violence in Sudan. Panellists expressed their frustration at the absence of Sudanese civil society actors at the conference. Given …..." Lord Browne of Ladyton - View Speech
"My Lords, it is a pleasure to have the opportunity to participate, albeit briefly, in this morning’s proceedings. I enthusiastically join all previous speakers in congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Bridges, and the wider committee on its report. It provides a forensic, grim and justifiably challenging—drawing on adjectives used by …..." Lord Browne of Ladyton - View Speech
"My Lords, is my noble friend on behalf of the Government able confirm that projects such as east Biggleswade—highlighted within days of the general election by the Deputy Prime Minister as a priority and capable of delivering in the order of 10,000 homes—are being prioritised, and are tools such as …..." Lord Browne of Ladyton - View Speech
"My Lords, in the interests of brevity, I will restrict myself to asking my noble friend the Minister whether we plan to take action on four specific recommendations made by the Media Freedom Coalition’s high-level panel.
"My Lords, it is a pleasure to support the Bill. I do not propose to make any attempt at analysis of it or the breadth of its implications. Happily, there is no need for me to do that because my noble friend the Minister did so in an excellent opening …..." Lord Browne of Ladyton - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the resilience of peace and the rule of law in Bosnia and Herzegovina...." Lord Browne of Ladyton - View Speech