Lord Palmer of Childs Hill

My Lords, what assessment have the Government made of how far the increase in employers’ NICs in April 2025 led to a further switch-out of regular emp...

My Lords, the Minister is quite right to talk about the success of automatic enrolment but, as she touched on, the pension contributions of the self-e...

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I thank the noble Lord. With speakers in the gap, you never know quite where you are. My Lords, first of all, it is a great pleasure to welcome the...

My Lords, the incredible thing about this amendment is that it has signatures and support from the Conservative Benches, the Labour Benches, the Liber...

From these Benches, all I can say is that I echo those words. I hope that the Government have listened to the arguments about AI and will respond posi...

My Lords, many noble Lords get up and say that they will make a short speech; mine will indeed be very short, because all I wish to say is that we deb...

My Lords, I thank the Minister and the Government Benches, particularly for the kind and very true words about the activities of Sir Ed Davey in highl...

My Lords, Amendments 31 and 32 in my name relate to the often-ignored subject of kinship care. The amendments seek to introduce—at last—kinship care l...

I thank the Minister for explaining the Government’s position, but it always seems to be that the real position is how much money we can save and how ...

My Lords, I compliment the Minister for summarising the situation, because no one has done so yet. The question seems to be, as has been so ably put b...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Stedman-Scott, for introducing questions on the Statement. She quite rightly talks about missed opportuniti...

As the Minister said, financial exclusion—people not having access to financial matters—can be dreadful, and that is what the amendment is meant to de...

My Lords, Amendment 126 would require a thorough assessment of the impact of the Bill on people facing financial exclusion. While the Bill’s intent to...