Baroness Murphy

My Lords, it is my great pleasure to respond to the Minister. I will keep it brief. I have been using this Act for 40 years since 1983, and I assure t...

My Lords, noble Lords will be pleased to know that this is a very small, probing amendment, on a matter that was brought to my notice by some forensic...

I agree with everything that the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, has said. She is absolutely right that professions should be challenged, and that is par...

Yes, I would say that indeed it was. That year when they gave an extra £400,000 to spreading psychotherapy around was the same time when we were havin...

I thank the Minister for her response. I have to say that psychiatrists remain worried about this and the possibility that they will be expected to ma...

I am awfully sorry, but I should have mentioned that I also have almost all the other amendments in this group. They cover the same question—it is jus...

I apologise. Obviously, I was looking at another figure from a different bit of the impact assessment.

North Carolina.

Does the noble Baroness accept that, in talking about treatment, we are talking about care, education and training in social circumstances? Treatment ...

I wrote the amendment in a terrible hurry as a compromise amendment when I could not table the amendment that I really wished to table, which was seek...

My Lords, it may be an anomaly, but there are now 350 religious organisations in this country which are registered to conduct weddings. In 2013, an or...

My Lords, I add my voice to thank my noble friend Lord Butler for introducing this debate. I hovered on the edge of one arm of the Civil Service, in t...

My Lords, this is a long-overdue Bill, as many have said, and I hope it will progress through the House as quickly as possible. Quite why it has taken...

My Lords, the helpful House of Lords Library briefing paper by Eve Collyer Merritt started with great clarity. The opening statement was: “Social c...