Lord Birt
The Lord Birt
Crossbench
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 11 February 2000
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Humanist Weddings
29/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, we are outliers. You can have a humanist marriage in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada ...
UK Infrastructure: 10-year Strategy
23/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, the Minister may recall that I spent six years at No. 10 as Tony Blair’s strategy adviser. I spent a year of my time there, with the team of...
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There was a clear and welcome hint at the beginning of the Minister’s remarks that Drax was temporary, not here permanently. Are the Government consid...
My Lords, we are a remarkably united House tonight. I too support the amendment tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle. I am not t...
Thames Water: Bids
27/04/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I wonder whether the Minister saw the very shocking two-part documentary series on BBC Two about Thames Water, which was made in conjunction...
The Future of News (Communications and Digital Committee Report)
24/04/2025 • Lords
My Lords, journalism takes many forms, but its solemn democratic roles are to investigate and surface hidden matters of consequence, to inform public ...
Football Governance Bill [HL]
17/03/2025 • Lords
I am afraid that I do not think the Minister gives me any choice. I will test the opinion of the House.
Obviously, I do not expect the Minister to commit, but she has always been very generous in the past at inviting people in for talks. Let us be honest...
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Football Governance Bill [HL]
11/03/2025 • Lords
I thank the Minister for her response. I also thank her, as others did earlier, for her extreme generosity with her time and that of her Bill team. We...
My Lords, Amendments 21 and 22 are in my name and those of the noble Lords, Lord Burns and Lord Pannick, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas o...
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Gaza: BBC Coverage
04/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, as with every major organisation, people working for the BBC make mistakes, and mistakes must be exposed when they happen, and the lessons l...
Humanist Weddings
03/02/2025 • Lords
My Lords, more Scots now choose a humanist wedding than those who marry in all other religious ceremonies combined, yet we deny that option to those w...
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
22/01/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I am attracted in principle to the idea of small-scale nuclear reactors scattered across the country on small sites and not just in nuclear ...
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