Lord Londesborough
The Lord Londesborough
Crossbench
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 22 June 2021
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Jobs Market
22/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, since the Chancellor announced the £25 billion hike in employers’ national insurance, we have seen the number of people on the PAYE payroll ...
Employment Rights Bill
22/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I will briefly speak to Amendment 167 tabled by my noble friend Lord Freyberg, to which I have added my name. It is a thoughtful, pertinent ...
My Lords, I promise to be very brief. I support all the amendments in this group.
The arguments are building for the establishment of an independen...
Employment Rights Bill
20/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I support all the amendments in this group but will speak specifically to Amendments 129, 131 and 145 tabled by the noble Lords, Lord Sharpe...
Employment Rights Bill
15/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 99 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, which, to me, smacks of common sense, while als...
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 94, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, and Amendment 159, tabled by the noble Lords, Lord Sharpe and Lord ...
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Employment Rights Bill
13/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I support all the amendments in this first group, but I shall speak briefly to Amendment 9 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, w...
Universal Credit: Two-child Limit
08/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, is there any evidence that the two-child benefit cap has contributed to the rapid decline in our total fertility rates? In its latest Fi...
Unpaid Tax
06/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, back in February the Public Accounts Committee accused HMRC of not being
“sufficiently curious about the true scale of tax evasion”
in...
Employment Rights Bill
15/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I rise to speak to two amendments in this group, 270 and 279, which are both under the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes. I support an...
Employment Rights Bill
15/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I address Amendment 287 on the creation of an office for a freelance commissioner in the name of my noble friends Lord Clancarty, Lord Freyb...
Economic Growth
10/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, perhaps I might offer some Cross-Bench objectivity. Here it comes. The 0.7% growth rate in Q1 was encouraging, but the growth rate over the ...
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