Lord Norton of Louth
The Lord Norton of Louth
Conservative
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 31 July 1998
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Recent Debate Contributions
UK Constitution: Oversight and Responsibility (Report from the Constitution Committee)
03/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I very much welcome this report from the Constitution Committee. I have a particular interest in that I was the first chair of the committee...
Employment Rights Bill
23/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Hunt of Wirral and the Minister for their contributions to this short debate. Obviously, I am very gra...
My Lords, this amendment provides the means to check that the Bill, once enacted, achieves the purposes for which it is intended. It is a more compreh...
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Governance of the Union (Constitution Committee Report)
27/04/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I, too, welcome this report from the Constitution Committee and the fact that it is one of several produced by the committee on the working ...
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My Lords, I am grateful to all those who have spoken. It has been an excellent debate. I am especially grateful to the Minister for her detailed respo...
My Lords, it is a particular honour to move this Motion. The Select Committee on Statutory Inquiries was appointed last year as a special inquiry comm...
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Football Governance Bill [HL]
17/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I will stick to what I know about, and for that reason I will make no comment on football. I too commend the Minister for bringing forward A...
House of Lords (Peerage Nominations) Bill [HL]
14/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I think that I am in order in congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Mattinson, on her excellent maiden speech. The noble Baroness noted th...
My Lords, I wish to explain the context of this Bill, detail its principal provisions and, most importantly, stress what it is designed to achieve. It...
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
10/03/2025 • Lords
In the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill, now an Act, we included an ouster clause. Why could that not be included in this measure?
My Lords, I will speak very briefly, mainly because I endorse the words of the noble Earl, Lord Kinnoull, and agree with virtually everything he said....
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Football Governance Bill [HL]
15/01/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I must begin by correcting my noble friend earlier who said we are all football fans. I have no interest in football, but I do have an inter...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
11/12/2024 • Lords
My Lords, time precludes me from digressing to explain why my noble friend Lord True and the noble Lord, Lord Newby, exaggerated the significance of M...
House of Lords Reform
12/11/2024 • Lords
My Lords, I begin with two propositions that, in my view, should form the basis for determining reform of this House. The first is that form should fo...
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