"My Lords, I shall be living through the reality that my noble friend Lord Fuller has just outlined: in Eastbourne, we will be completely unparished. The people have been consulted and, having listened to my noble friend beforehand, decided that they do not want an unlimited precept in a town …..." Lord Lucas - View Speech
"My Lords, I had a large number of amendments to my noble friend’s amendment, but I have reduced them in the interests of simplicity and time.
As my noble friend Lord Jamieson has pointed out, at an earlier stage we were promised a government review of this area. To me, …..." Lord Lucas - View Speech
"My Lords, I am delighted to see this series of requests for reviews. I support my noble friend’s Amendment 157. I support also my noble friend on the Front Bench in his Amendment 159, which he will no doubt speak to in due course. It echoes what the noble Lord, …..." Lord Lucas - View Speech
"My Lords, we know that a much higher percentage of pension fund assets could happily be invested in UK assets; indeed, that was the case when I was managing pension funds. It is not the case now entirely because of what politicians have done to the system. We should seek …..." Lord Lucas - View Speech
"My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for that Answer, and I declare an interest as the father of a daughter who is currently accumulating these loans. Does the noble Baroness agree that, particularly for students whose courses are not of the quality required to generate returns of …..." Lord Lucas - View Speech
"My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lord Balfe, and at his request, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in his name on the Order Paper...." Lord Lucas - View Speech
"My Lords, it is a long time since I was managing big pension funds in the 1980s. In those days, we were in the happy position of considering it a bit underweight if you had less than half your money in British stocks; now, it is 5%. It is extraordinary …..." Lord Lucas - View Speech
"My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her comprehensive reply, much of which I completely agreed with. I take issue with only two points.
The first is the restriction of the impact assessment to independent schools. In understanding how regulations work and the effect they will have on …..." Lord Lucas - View Speech
"That this House regrets that the Schools (Recording and Reporting of Seclusion and Restraint) (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2025 are accompanied by an impact assessment that underestimates the cost of implementation; and that they do not enable the best use of the information which will be recorded by schools.
"My Lords, I am grateful to the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee for drawing my attention to these regulations. The committee is the punishment battalion of the House of Lords committee system. I have served my time on it and know that you get a huge pile of papers every week …..." Lord Lucas - View Speech