Lord Hope of Craighead
The Rt Hon. the Lord Hope of Craighead KT
Crossbench
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 27 June 2013
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
20/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Baroness the Leader of the House for all the work that she and those in her office have been doing over many mont...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
08/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, it is quite clear that legislation is needed if we are to control people coming into the House. I support very much the line of thinking tha...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
08/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I tried to deal with this problem when I was convenor in 2018. In that year my noble friend Lord Burns produced his report, which received q...
Before the noble Baroness the Leader sits down, has any thought been given to the fact that the law of Scotland may not be precisely the same as Engla...
Holocaust Memorial Bill
10/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, my noble friend Lord Carlile was kind enough to mention that I was a member of the Select Committee that looked into the whole matter of the...
Diego Garcia Military Base
02/06/2025 • Lords
The fact that the Minister has made this case so effectively raises a question about what happens next. With great respect, I do not think he has answ...
Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill
06/05/2025 • Lords
My Lords, what a pleasure it was to listen to the maiden speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Nichols of Selby. I am so glad that she took such trouble ...
Holocaust Memorial Bill
27/03/2025 • Lords
We were presented, in the committee, with a plan that showed that, during construction, the whole of the garden area would have to be regarded as subj...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
25/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I hope the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, will forgive me for intervening. I certainly do not wish to prolong these proceedings, and I agree with...
My Lords, I shall make one point about the amendment in the name of the noble Earl, Lord Devon. Until the Law Lords were removed from the House, these...
Church of Scotland (Lord High Commissioner) Bill
19/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I very much welcome this Bill and it is a great pleasure to follow the former moderator, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace of Tankern...
Holocaust Memorial Bill
11/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I will speak to the amendment from the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Albans on closure dates. I was a member of the Select Committ...
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