Lord Mohammed of Tinsley — Hansard

Lords Oral Questions 20 November 2025

Child Grooming Victims: Compensation Awards

It is a very good point. Every judge at the end of a criminal trial has the ability to make a confiscation order, and these are being pursued with rigour because it is really important to ensure that criminals do not profit from that kind of illicit activity.

Lords Proceedings 19 November 2025

Gaza and Sudan

My Lords, I join my noble friend Lord Purvis in his frustration about how long it has taken to have a Statement on Sudan. In particular, I have concerns around the credible evidence of atrocities that are highly possible in El Obeid and Tawila. What specific actions are His Majesty’s Government taki…

Lords Proceedings 18 November 2025

Independent Football Regulator

My Lords, I declare an interest as a long-suffering Sheffield Wednesday supporter. Now that the regulator is in post, is the Minister assuring us that there will never be another debacle like the one we have seen at Sheffield Wednesday?

Lords Oral Questions 17 November 2025

Teachers: Music, Drama, Art and Design, and Dance

That is precisely why we need the 6,500 new teachers in secondary and special schools to which the Government have committed. By not only committing to but investing in the profession, we are already delivering results through the increased numbers of teachers that we are seeing. Through the music h…

Lords Proceedings 10 November 2025

Curriculum and Assessment Review

My Lords, I too begin by thanking Professor Becky Francis for her Curriculum and Assessment Review report. There is much in this final report that we on these Benches can welcome. Indeed, quite a few of the ideas bear a distinctly Liberal Democrat imprint: renewed emphasis on a broad and balanced cu…

Lords Oral Questions 5 November 2025

Prison Services: Insourcing

I completely agree. Having run a business for a long time, and paid a lot of tax, I am very aware that I want it spent wisely. Let me give one example: BT does the majority of our phone contracts in our prisons, for prisoners to make calls to family and friends. I managed to reduce the cost of those…

Lords Oral Questions 4 November 2025

Official Development Assistance

The noble Lord is right that in Afghanistan in particular—but not only Afghanistan—there are real problems in accessing education for girls. We will continue to support work on that in those places. More widely on education, especially for girls, the best thing we can do is support countries to stre…

Lords Oral Questions 3 November 2025

Public/Private Partnerships: Shares

We will look at all avenues to improve any potential public/private partnership. There are obviously lessons from the past that we can draw on. I do not know the specific case that the noble Lord mentioned, but Ministers will look at this in the round. They are advising potential organisations on pu…

Lords Proceedings 23 October 2025

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Act 2025

My Lords, at the outset of this debate on the Steel Industry (Special Measures) Act, I congratulate the Minister, the noble Baroness, Lady Lloyd, on her excellent maiden speech, and I look forward to the maiden speech of the noble Lord, Lord Stockwood. I chair the Manufacturing Commission. Manufact…

Lords Proceedings 22 October 2025

Post-16 Education and Skills Strategy

I support the comments of my noble friend Lord Storey and the noble Lord, Lord Knight, on NEETs and funding for them. One of the issues about NEETs is the “not known” figure. We might know the young people who are not in employment, education or training, but often there is a cohort who are not know…

Lords Oral Questions 16 October 2025

Starvation as a Weapon of War

My Lords, given the gravity of the events that are the subject of today’s proceedings, while it is not exactly a pleasure to contribute to this debate, I am pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Mohammed of Tinsley, and to thank him for his powerful contribution, and to have the opportunity to than…

Lords Oral Questions 18 September 2025

Genome Screening: Newborn Infants

There were a number of very helpful points in there. To reconfirm and satisfy your Lordships’ House, this is for conditions that may develop up to the age of five. As with all screening, consent is required. As the noble Lord rightly says, a baby of course cannot consent, but the parents can. Around…

Lords Debate 12 September 2025

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

My Lords, I declare an interest: my brother is a consultant in palliative care. Today, I want to speak in defence of palliative care and hospice support for people with terminal illnesses. It is deeply troubling that this Bill and the debate surrounding it, certainly before today, have given so litt…

Lords Proceedings 4 September 2025

Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

My Lords, I, too, put our record our thanks to the noble Baroness, Lady Casey, for the work she has done to date and for the further work I hope she will do in future. I follow up on the comments made by the noble Baroness opposite on not only schools, but on youth workers and services in particula…

Lords Oral Questions 17 July 2025

India and Pakistan: Peace Representations

My Lords, last month, as co-chair of the India All-Party Parliamentary Group, I hosted a delegation of cross-party Members of Parliament from both houses of the Indian Parliament to the UK. They were sent by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to communicate to us the horrors of 22 April in Kashmir and the…

Lords Debate 3 July 2025 2 contributions

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

My Lords, education is frequently described as a great leveller: a powerful force to close the gap between opportunity and background, between privilege and disadvantage. As someone who experienced that divide, I can say that unless we tackle entrenched inequalities that quietly shape a child’s jour…

From the debate we have just had, It is clear noble Lords have a keen interest in school uniforms. I am going to keep my submission brief. I thank everyone; I think we are all on the same page in the sense that we want to reduce the cost of school uniforms. We have different ideas, but that is what …

Lords Oral Questions 3 July 2025

Housing Associations: Financial Assistance

The noble Lord is quite right that we need to address the skills gap, both for the purposes of building new homes and for repair and maintenance. Some of the new skills are needed to retrofit homes for net zero. We have put aside £600 million over the next four years to train 60,000 skilled tradespe…

Lords Oral Questions 2 July 2025

India: Minorities

I hear the challenge, and it is a judgment, is it not? You are trying to get a trade agreement with the Government of India. Is that best served by including measures on human rights? Would that jeopardise your trade agreement? Should that then happen? Or will you see the reaction that you would lik…

Lords Proceedings 24 June 2025

Middle East

My Lords, I welcome the Statement from the Minister and urge the Government not to follow the drumbeat of escalation and to learn the lessons of Iraq in 2003. On the understandably delayed UN conference initiated by the French and the Saudis, and now that we have this window of opportunity with the …

Lords Debate 23 June 2025

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

My Lords, I speak briefly to the two amendments in this group proposed by my noble friend Lady Walmsley, which I have signed. In particular, I want to probe and press the Government on free school meals and auto-enrolment. I know from lived experience how they changed my life. Rather than running h…

Lords Debate 19 June 2025 2 contributions

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendment 160 to this important Bill. Amendment 159 relates to the establishment of a child protection authority and is also signed by the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge. These amendments, grounded in the belief that every child, no matter where they live and what chall…

My Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Berridge and Lady Barran, and the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, for their interventions and comments, some of which I agree with and some I may not agree with—but that is the nature of the Committee; we are here to debate and improve Bill…

Lords Oral Questions 19 June 2025

Israel and Iran

As I said in my answer to the question from the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Stirrup, I will not speculate on the consequences of, or reasons for, these. Our objective is to stop Iran having a nuclear capability. We are absolutely working with all our allies to achieve that. The means to do that, as…

Lords Proceedings 18 June 2025

Child Sexual Exploitation: Casey Report

My Lords, I fully support the comments of my noble friend Lady Brinton, particularly around the lack of action previously seen around the Alexis Jay report, but I will press the Minister on one of the points that my noble friend highlighted, around bringing in a Hillsborough-style law that would put…

Lords Oral Questions 18 June 2025

Child Sexual Abuse and Rape Gangs Inquiry

The noble Lord is absolutely right, which is why, when this Government came into office in July last year, we looked at the Alexis Jay recommendations, determined that no action had been taken for the previous 20 months on those and determined to take action on them. That is why, in the Crime and Po…

Lords Proceedings 5 June 2025

Regional Growth

My Lords, like my noble friend Lady Pidgeon I support the announcement from the Government. I also support her call for the reinstatement of the £2 bus fare cap. I listened with interest to the Minister’s comment about connectivity in city regions. I want to press him regarding South Yorkshire. I w…