Lord Grocott
The Rt Hon. the Lord Grocott
Labour
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 1 July 2001
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NHS England: Staff Costs
20/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I was very taken with my noble friend Lord Hunt’s forensic analysis of the coalition Government’s performance on health. He mentioned the £3...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
20/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I am afraid I am going to break the melancholy mood that we have heard from previous speakers. I thought that this day, when this Bill do no...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
08/07/2025 • Lords
If the noble Lord, Lord True, cannot see the difference in category between a life Peer who can sit in here and legislate and a life Peer who cannot, ...
My Lords, I will risk the possibility of being called risible by the noble Lord, Lord True, for disagreeing with him, but I think he has failed to spe...
ARIA: Scoping Our Planet Programme
07/07/2025 • Lords
I have a question for the Minister; I am pretty sure that the answer will be that he has no idea, and that will not be any reflection on him because I...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
01/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, this is such an absurd, fanciful and imaginative suggestion. By way of evidence, can the noble Lord explain to us how 667 hereditaries being...
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UK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago
29/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I have been here quite a long time, but it is a first for me to find myself following both a maiden speech and a valedictory speech by fathe...
Middle East
23/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I welcome and admire the way my noble friend the Minister has presented the case for the Government today, in his calm and measured way—in s...
HS2 Reset
18/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, this is a necessary but pretty depressing Statement announcing, as it effectively is, that when it comes to major infrastructure projects, w...
Political Parties and Elections Act 2009
11/06/2025 • Lords
Does my noble friend recall that, before the last election, the Conservative Government—for reasons that slightly bewildered me and I think some other...
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
08/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, for as long as most of us can remember, Ministers such as my noble friend have been talking about the two-state solution as the holy grail t...
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