Lord Shipley
The Lord Shipley OBE
Liberal Democrat
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 13 July 2010
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Renters’ Rights Bill
14/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister and the noble Baroness, Lady Scott of Bybrook, for their comments. We clearly have a difference of opinion abo...
My Lords, in moving Amendment 107, I will also speak to Amendment 108. These amendments would remove unnecessary barriers to the use of licensing sche...
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Renters’ Rights Bill
06/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s reply but it has extended the doubts that I have had about this, because it is still not clear to me why th...
My Lords, in moving Amendment 68 I will speak to Amendments 69 to 71. This issue was not raised in Committee but it is sufficiently important—again I ...
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Welfare Reform
01/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I will ask the Minister a very specific question about young people. The Statement says that almost 1 million young people are not in educat...
Renters’ Rights Bill
30/06/2025 • Lords
The very point that the noble Lord raises is that I do not think it would be sufficient. Indeed, when I spoke on this issue in Committee, I suggested ...
My Lords, I remind the House that I am a vice-president of the Local Government Association. In Committee I was one of those probing the Government’s ...
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
24/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I remind the House that I am a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I understand the ambition of the Bill to speed up infrast...
Music Education: State Schools
23/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Keeley, for the opportunity to hold this debate, and I very much look forward to hearing the maiden speech ...
Renters’ Rights Bill
13/05/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her very full explanation. I think the best course of action would be to review in Hansard what s...
My Lords, I will also speak to Amendment 254 and, on behalf of the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, Amendments 267, 268 and 269.
Amendments 253 a...
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Renters’ Rights Bill
11/05/2025 • Lords
My Lords, these are essentially probing amendments and I am glad that the Minister and her department have had discussions with Citizens Advice. I und...
My Lords, there are four amendments in this group relating to Clauses 22 and 23 on notices to quit, so I wish to move Amendment 171 and speak to Amend...
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Cornwall Council (Adult Education Functions) Regulations 2025
05/05/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I am extremely supportive of these three statutory instruments and thank the Minister for her detailed explanation. The consultation that to...
Licensing Act 2003 (Victory in Europe Day Licensing Hours) Order 2025
05/05/2025 • Lords
I thank the Minister for explaining the objectives of this statutory instrument. We are entirely supportive of what he said. It is appropriate that th...
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