Lord Mott

13 parliamentary sessions on record in this archive

13 sessions
Lords Committee Stage 4 June 2026
Local Councillors: Recruitment, Retention and Well-being
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Forbes, for bringing forward this timely debate and for his powerful opening speech. The growing abuse and intimidation aimed at those who serve in public life is a fundamental threat to our democracy and the integrity of our democratic processes. Having spent…
Lords Proceedings 20 May 2026
King’s Speech
My Lords, I want to address the parts of the gracious Speech aimed at improving the NHS. Attempts to reduce bureaucracy and duplication in the NHS with the Health Bill are welcome if they can be successfully delivered. However, we have seen little progress in more than a year since the abolition of …
Lords Oral Questions 12 February 2026
Donations to Political Parties
My Lords, I particularly welcome the suggestion that the noble Lord, Lord Mott, made. The ideal way to fund political parties is a large number of donations from your voters and your members. That is what my party has largely relied on. We lack large donors, except under exceptional circumstances, a…
Lords Debate 3 February 2026
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 241 in my name. It would require the Secretary of State to commission and publish a report on the educational attainment of school-aged children with a parent in prison. This is a focused and proportionate amendment. It does not prescribe policy. It does not requ…
Lords Debate 16 January 2026
Rare Cancers Bill
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Elliott of Whitburn Bay, for bringing this Bill to the Chamber today and I pay tribute to two Members who are no longer with us, Baroness McDonagh and Baroness Jowell, who both had a huge impact on my career. For about the last year, I have been working wi…
Lords Committee Stage 4 November 2025
Think Work First: The Transition from Education to Work for Young Disabled People (Public Services Committee Report)
My Lords, I am very pleased to contribute to this debate on an important and extremely thoughtful report from the House of Lords Public Services Committee. I thank the committee members and their chair for this great publication. I read it through both a personal and professional lens. After my acc…
Lords Proceedings 31 October 2025
Ukraine
My Lords, I am very glad to take part in this interesting and very worth while debate. I begin by congratulating my noble friend the Minister on his excellent opening speech. Like him, I declare an interest: I am very proud of the fact that my son-in-law is a senior officer serving in the RAF. I ad…
Lords Oral Questions 9 September 2025
Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination Programme
My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of Downpatrick, on securing this important debate. We have heard from her about the need to ensure that all infants receive an equitable offer of protection from the respiratory syncytial virus, and that the maternal RSV vaccination pro…
Lords Committee Stage 9 September 2025
Interpreting Services in the Courts (Public Services Committee Report)
My Lords, I am grateful to have the opportunity to make a brief contribution, though it will take more than five minutes, on this report on interpretation and translation services in the courts. I welcome the new Minister and assure her that, of all the committees in this House, this is the one that…
Lords Debate 5 September 2025
Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend, and I agree entirely with the points that he has just made in support of my noble friend Lord Hayward on a consolidation of electoral law. It is long overdue. I declare my interest as a member of the Remuneration Board of the Welsh Senedd, …
Lords Oral Questions 3 September 2025 2 contributions
Prostate Cancer
My Lords, around one in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their lives. In the UK, it is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and, sadly, it causes around 12,000 deaths a year. Even more tragically, this number includes many men who are dying needlessly due to lat…
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Mott, for initiating this debate. Some of my comments are shared by the noble Lord, Lord Winston, on whose behalf I also make them, as he is in hospital with a broken leg—but he is doing okay. I agree with the comments that the noble Lord, Lord Mott, made abou…
Lords Debate 16 July 2025
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I add my support for Amendment 100 from my noble friend Lady Penn. I will be brief. The thing that struck me most about my noble friend Lord Harlech’s comments is that when I first returned to work after the birth of my first child, having taken two weeks’ paternity leave, I went back with…
Lords Oral Questions 4 June 2025
Special Educational Needs: Dyscalculia
My Lords, I join others in thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Bull, for securing this debate and for her relentless efforts to raise awareness and understanding of this most overlooked of subjects. I share some of the difficulties in pronouncing it, but I will do my best: dyscalculia. I refer to my r…

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