Viscount Younger of Leckie
The Viscount Younger of Leckie
Conservative
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 27 June 2010
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Jobs Market
22/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, feedback from the latest quarterly ONS vacancy survey for April to June suggests that some firms may not be recruiting new workers or replac...
Pensions: Low-income and Self-employed Workers
22/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, we welcome the setting up of the commission under the chairmanship of the noble Baroness, Lady Drake. Making the case for saving for retirem...
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to encourage greater pension saving, and to improve pension adequacy, particularly for low-...
Universal Credit Bill
21/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I thank the Minister for outlining the details of the Bill with her usual clarity. It is regrettable that we have only a Second Reading of t...
National Accident Prevention Strategy
16/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Baroness, Lady Crawley, for securing this important debate. She is rightly concerned about the importance of ensurin...
Universal Credit: Two-child Limit
08/07/2025 • Lords
Following on from the question from my noble friend Lord Brownlow, what decisions are being made and what coherent plan will there be to tackle the we...
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
24/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, in winding up on Amendment 131, I say that, as I laid out in my opening remarks, we believe that the amendment would introduce a clear, comm...
My Lords, we come to the final group, which I am pleased to open. I thank noble Lords who have participated in this Committee, particularly the noble ...
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Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
17/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, the codes of practice are documents which we feel, from how the Bill is drafted, are being treated as ancillary—I set out my stall on that e...
My Lords, we now turn to what I believe is the last group for today. I will speak to Amendments 122A, 122B and 122C, which largely concern the code of...
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Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
15/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, in speaking for the Opposition, I should say that there is quite a bit to say, but I have cut down my remarks in the interests of time. I th...
My Lords, I shall speak briefly to this group. For once I shall be helpful to the Government, as I rise to speak in opposition to Amendments 89A and 8...
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Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
10/06/2025 • Lords
I appreciate the answers that the Minister has given. I also appreciate that there are more answers to come, but could she add to the answer in writin...
My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Vaux, said, we are moving towards the DWP elements of the Bill, although I suggest that these particular amendments ...
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Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill
08/06/2025 • Lords
I just wanted a bit more clarity in terms of the Child Maintenance Service, which she alluded to. My understanding is that, if there is a problem with...
In support of my noble friend Lady Finn and in the spirit of agreeing with what is going on, I just want to ask a probing question of the Minister tha...
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