Viscount Hanworth
The Viscount Hanworth
Labour
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 29 March 2011
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Planning and Infrastructure Bill
23/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I strongly support Amendment 53B, which seeks to relieve newly commissioned nuclear power stations of the burdens of the regulations on ioni...
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
16/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, Amendment 52 is of prime importance. Our planning system has become sclerotic. According to the Explanatory Notes that accompany the Bill, t...
Companies House: Filing of Annual Accounts by Small Companies
07/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, the registration is wholly inadequate. Independent research suggests that numerous UK-registered companies have no UK resident director. Suc...
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
24/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, the Planning and Infrastructure Bill marks a turning point. An intention has been declared by the Government to pursue a major reconstructio...
High Streets (Built Environment Committee Report)
12/05/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I too served on the committee while this report was being compiled. I also commend our chairman and our secretariat.
The report testifies...
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
22/04/2025 • Lords
My Lords, it is universally recognised that nicotine dependence is greatly harmful to the health of the individual and very costly to the state. The E...
Steel Industry
11/04/2025 • Lords
My Lords, why have we been recalled with such urgency to debate the future of British Steel? The immediate answer is that the blast furnaces at Scunth...
Universities: Free Speech
31/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords—
My Lords—
UK Energy: Grid Decarbonisation
24/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, since the announcement by President Macron in the autumn of 2021 of the France 2030 agenda, France has been committed to closing the nuclear...
Great British Energy Bill
11/02/2025 • Lords
I will be brief.
The noble Viscount declares an interest as a member of the advisory board of Penultimate Power. In speaking to his amendment, I wi...
I have been asked to speak on his behalf. Is that liable? That was his request.
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