The Earl of Erroll

My Lords, I remember what you might call the good old days before the first reform, when a lot of hereditaries got chucked out. In those days, althoug...

Just to help the noble Lord’s confusion, there are the courtesy titles of the younger sons of certain levels of the peerage.

My Lords, I shall say just a few words about Amendment 4, which I support wholeheartedly. It is a move in the right direction. The problem is that if ...

My Lords, it may be worth thinking about where this power for the Prime Minister to appoint Lords came from—I am thinking of the comments of the noble...

In case it may help, I was involved in the original RIPA 2000 and discussions about this. I remember the whole thing about ambulances. The reason it w...

My Lords, paragraph 154 made me think about what on earth I could usefully add to this comprehensive and very pertinent report. We were consistently r...

My Lords, I often walk in the hills—I love them—and the heather, so I have frequently thought about this. In the old days, you would normally find fir...

My Lords, there is another little problem, pointed out to me by a senior member of a publishing company, World Wide Publishing. It has a lot of resear...

I would like to take the noble Lord up on this, because I have had experience with this. When an employee has been behaving very difficultly and somet...

Very briefly, because we are talking about the time periods here, you have to be very careful because accrued holiday goes into that, and if you do no...

Would the Minister look at the policy on moorland and the selective burning of firebreaks? Some of the policies, which do not allow any burning at all...

The Minister said, significantly, that the Government are going to connect 99% of premises. That is not enough, looking forwards, because a lot of peo...

My Lords, I will say a few words, particularly in response to the comments of my noble friend Lord Cromwell about loading costs on to the landlords. T...