Lord Wallace of Saltaire
The Rt Hon. the Lord Wallace of Saltaire
Liberal Democrat
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 19 December 1995
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Strategic Defence Review 2025
17/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I will focus on two themes in the SDR: the commitment to “NATO first”, and the concept of “whole-of-society” defence and security. NATO firs...
Newspapers: Foreign Ownership
15/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I note that the strategic defence review lists “efforts to manipulate information” among the methods of attack in any future security crisis...
Rutland Lieutenancy
14/07/2025 • Lords
I have just been reading the newly published English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill; I have not yet got through the full 300 pages but I am...
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Tax Increases
09/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I was very struck by the article in the Times the other day by Paul Johnson, former leader of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, in ...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
08/07/2025 • Lords
A constant argument of the Conservatives against any changes to our electoral system has been that the public would be unable to understand a voting s...
That was an imaginative idea from the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, but it is the first time that I have heard it. I am not sure where his sources may be....
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Unpaid Tax
06/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, in pursuing tax evasion, the question of information from our dependent territories is key. There was an agreement between the Treasury and ...
UK Constitution: Oversight and Responsibility (Report from the Constitution Committee)
03/07/2025 • Lords
I ask for an assurance that when the Cabinet Manual is renewed, there will be consultation with the appropriate committees in both Houses bef...
My Lord, the UK is a constitutional democracy without a written constitution. It is a very odd constitution. The integrity of our system of government...
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UK–EU Defence and Security Co-operation
02/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, on Tuesday, the Minister made it clear that the United States remains Britain’s prime ally. Does that imply that this is very much a seconda...
NHS, Armed Forces and Civil Service Staff: Public Meetings
01/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, politics and government are necessarily an informed dialogue between Ministers and civil servants and between senior civil servants and outs...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
01/07/2025 • Lords
In that case, I must have misspoken and I apologise. The Prime Minister makes the nominations and HOLAC considers them. That seems to us to be a valua...
My Lords, this debate has gone a good deal wider than our modest amendment. Perhaps we will come back to oaths, and the question of the balance in app...
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