Earl Attlee
The Earl Attlee
Conservative
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 2 March 1992
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
08/07/2025 • Lords
This is the problem, though. When I was running an NGO in Africa, if I had taken a leave of absence and come back to the UK on R&R —some opportuni...
My Lords, I have sympathy for the amendment and I am happy with the percentage suggested, but there is a difficulty. I spent most of 1995 running an N...
Prisons: Mothers and Babies
06/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, we are all very grateful for the efforts of the Minister in this matter. He is very careful to maintain judicial independence and independen...
Malvern Hills Bill [HL]
03/06/2025 • Lords
That it be an instruction to the Select Committee to whom the Malvern Hills Bill is committed that—
(a) notwithstanding that the promoters themselv...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Faulkner of Worcester, for his usual expert introduction of the Bill today. The promoters would have b...
Independent Sentencing Review
01/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, is it correct that in the United Kingdom we have the highest rate of incarceration in Europe and are exceeded only by the United States? Whe...
Public Transport: Expansion and Electrification
18/05/2025 • Lords
My Lords, is it mathematically and physically possible to strengthen the UK’s electricity supply system in time to meet the UK’s net-zero target?
80th Anniversary of Victory in Europe and Victory over Japan
08/05/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I have been a Member of this House for 33 years, and I can tell the noble Baroness that I made exactly the same mistake. I was sitting on th...
Landmines and Cluster Munitions
02/04/2025 • Lords
My Lords, it is an honour to follow the noble Lord, Lord Dubs. We have debated this issue before—18 years ago. I have to say that, in the 25 years I h...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
25/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I am at one with the noble Baroness the Leader about Mr Gove and York, but can she explain why she cannot blow the dust off the royal commis...
My Lords, all these amendments are unnecessary as, in my opinion, there will be no next stage of reform at any time soon—certainly not in this Parliam...
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
25/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I agree with the general thrust of these amendments. When I came to your Lordships’ House in 1992, to get from the House of Commons to the H...
My Lords, the previous Labour Government commissioned a royal commission, chaired by my noble friend Lord Wakeham, which looked very carefully at all ...
Commercial Vehicles: Safety
19/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I wish the Minister a happy birthday. There are 600,000 professional HGV drivers in the United Kingdom. We operate 400,000 HGVs. The Library...
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