Lords
Proceedings
10 September 2026
Jodrell Bank Observatory: Funding
When these cuts are finally made, how many jobs will be lost and how many people will no longer be able to get grants or contracts?
Lords
Proceedings
8 September 2026
No. 10 North
My Lords, I see that Ministers and senior officials will be mainly working from No. 10 North. Why does No. 10 south lack the prime ministerial authority to make good decisions?
Lords
Proceedings
7 September 2026
Jackdaw and Rosebank Oil and Gas Fields
Why do the Government wish to increase world CO 2 , and why do they wish to pay taxes to foreign companies and countries rather than to British ones by insisting on importing LNG rather than getting our own gas out of a pipe, which generates much less CO 2 ?
Lords
Proceedings
7 September 2026
Falkland Islands
I warmly welcome the Minister to her well-deserved new post. Will she update the House on where we have got to with the important investment in the oil field 140 miles north of the Falklands? Is that not also going to be transformational for the people of the Falklands, who rightly wish to remain Br…
Lords
Proceedings
7 September 2026
Public/Private Partnerships
My Lords, will the Government speed up the identification of suitable projects and the granting of the necessary permissions? There is plenty of private capital that could help the Government. Will they make sure that enough risk is transferred to protect taxpayers’ interests?
Lords
Proceedings
3 September 2026
Parcel Delivery Services
My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to intervene in this debate, owing to the general lack of interest, but it is a pity because this is an important subject. I agree with the two former speakers that, when the service lets people down, it can be very damaging to their businesses or lives. I…
Lords
Statutory Instrument
2 September 2026
Windsor Framework (Retail Movement Scheme: Plant Health) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
We need to renegotiate the Windsor Framework agreement, which is totally unacceptable. This Parliament needs to govern, and establish the laws for, Northern Ireland, and we need to integrate our internal market across from the mainland of Great Britain to Northern Ireland itself. There is every oppo…
Lords
Proceedings
20 July 2026
EU Security Action for Europe Programme
My Lords, I congratulate the Government on not accepting totally unacceptable terms on the first idea from the EU. Can the Minister confirm that our defence contractors can look forward to a very big increase in orders for our own defence requirements, so we do not need to pay a lot of money to get …
Lords
Proceedings
20 July 2026
2 contributions
British Steel
On nationalisation, have the Government also taken responsibility for the historical debts and borrowings, pre-spring 2025, that the company incurred under Chinese owners? That is a very large historical debt that we should not have to share.
Can I confirm that the Minister said yes when I asked whether the state is taking responsibility for all the historical debts and borrowings?
Lords
Proceedings
16 July 2026
Artificial Intelligence: Legislation
What benefits and staff reductions will the Government achieve with their £3 billion commitment to spending on AI for their own purposes?
Lords
Proceedings
15 July 2026
Maximum Temperature for Indoor Workplaces
Why do the Government think that this country has such a low level of air conditioning systems installed, and will they look again at their rather negative guidance on their acquisition?
Lords
Proceedings
14 July 2026
State of Climate and Nature
Why cut back and close jobs at home, shutting down oil and gas, food production and our factories when it increases world CO₂? This is self-harm on a crazy scale. Why do the Government want to lose jobs and investment?
Lords
Debate
13 July 2026
Clean Water Bill: Chalk Streams
Can the Government give us their estimate of the cost and the timetable for putting in the extra pipes and processing capacity so that we can clean up our rivers?
Lords
Proceedings
9 July 2026
UK Migration
What sustainable rate of net inward migration would the Government like to see going forward?
Lords
Debate
8 July 2026
3 contributions
Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Fox, for reminding us of the importance of contingent liabilities and the need for the Government to complete due diligence before any acquisition. He rightly says that in a hypothetical case—not British Steel Scunthorpe—it might be necessary to move q…
My Lords, there will be an issue with the public interest case, if and when we get to the full nationalisation of British Steel at Scunthorpe. Many of us are unclear as to whether the Government’s aim is to find a medium-term or longer-term solution to the problem of how to keep the two existing bla…
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Lords
Proceedings
7 July 2026
Military Conflicts: International Law
My Lords, why does the Attorney-General wish to break the US-UK treaty on Diego Garcia, when the ICJ has no ability to order us around on Commonwealth and defence matters, and we need to keep that base?
Lords
Debate
7 July 2026
Railways Bill
I agree with the Minister’s three main aims for railway improvement. He is right that punctuality is insufficient. Last year, under 85% of trains arrived within three minutes of timetable and over 4% of services were cancelled altogether. He is right that we need to improve the quality of the passen…
Lords
Proceedings
6 July 2026
National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation
My Lords, my sister died at birth, so I remember well the impact this has on families. What more can the Government and the NHS do to help those families who have lost a baby in such painful circumstances, or who are now bringing up a disabled child as a result of medical difficulty?
Lords
Proceedings
6 July 2026
International Marine Protected Area: Sargasso Sea
I urge Ministers to look again at the giving away of the Chagos. There is no legal need to do so, and my noble friend Lord Cameron, as Foreign Secretary, realised that, did not do so, and had the full support of many of us.
Lords
Proceedings
1 July 2026
Farming Road Map and Profitability Review
Is this not a policy to make us more dependent on imported dairy and meat from the EU, because these policies will find that the carbon targets, the grazing policy and the wilding policy will mean far fewer farm animals in our country?
Lords
Proceedings
30 June 2026
Civil Service Pension Scheme
My Lords, will the Government be asking the contractor for compensation for their costs and inconveniences, as well as the contribution it should be making to those who have lost on their pension?
Lords
Debate
29 June 2026
2 contributions
Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill
My Lords, I fully support this amendment and hope that it will tease out from the Minister a little more about what the underlying purpose of the general legislation is, as I am not too enamoured of this becoming a fully nationalised industry with the ability to acquire all sorts of other steel inte…
My Lords, I welcome these three amendments. Amendment 2 is a necessary slight curtailment but would still leave the Government with enormous scope, given how wide-ranging the three cited reasons for public interest intervention are. Like my noble friend, I cannot think of any other reason why they m…
Lords
Proceedings
23 June 2026
Social Media: Use of X by Government Departments
Does anyone in government have the job of reading all the incoming messages, following the Government’s submission, and do they ever take any of them seriously?