Baroness Buscombe

Baroness Buscombe

The Baroness Buscombe

Conservative
House of LordsActive

Member since 22 July 1998

Recent Debate Contributions

Social Care Reform

21/05/2025Lords

1 contribution

Mental Health Bill [HL]

30/03/2025Lords

1 contribution
My Lords, the Minister will know that I pledged at the very beginning, before the Bill came to this House, that I would do all I could to help its pas...
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Disruption at Heathrow

25/03/2025Lords

2 contributions
My Lords, I shall try once more. I am rather tired because I, too, was very badly directly affected by this incident. The incident itself was deepl...
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Mental Health Bill [HL]

27/01/2025Lords

2 contributions
At the risk of giving the Minister a rather hard time on his first outing in Committee, on the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, about peopl...
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My Lords, perhaps I may quote from our report on the draft Mental Health Bill on this point, while agreeing 100% with both previous speakers....
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Mental Health Bill [HL]

20/01/2025Lords

2 contributions
My Lords, this is an area where I feel I have the possibility of a solution or part of a solution, while supporting very much what my noble friend has...
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My Lords, I want to add to what the noble Baroness just said. Amendment 139 goes to the heart of the Bill in terms of changing the culture and the way...
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Mental Health Bill [HL]

25/11/2024Lords

1 contribution
My Lords, it gives me enormous pleasure to speak in this debate. For me, this legislation is above politics: it is a real opportunity for constructive...
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House of Lords Reform

12/11/2024Lords

1 contribution
My Lords, I recall a few years ago being asked by a senior member of the Royal Family for my view on the continued presence in our House of hereditary...
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Defence Spending

31/10/2024Lords

2 contributions
I am sorry to interrupt, but is that review independent of the MoD?
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My Lords, I am pleased to have this brief opportunity to speak of the road map to spending 2.5% of our GDP on defence, particularly given that I was u...
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