Lord Goddard of Stockport
The Lord Goddard of Stockport
Liberal Democrat
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 14 September 2014
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Employment Rights Bill
22/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I will be very brief. Amendment 154 would remove another huge chunk from the legislation and, for the arguments that I rehearsed in the prev...
The noble Lord, Lord Hunt, will say “Hear, hear” no more because we cannot support Amendment 149A, which is a new amendment that proposes removing Cla...
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Employment Rights Bill
22/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, very briefly, I was a bound apprentice for four years, from when I was 17 or 18 on a council estate outside Greater Manchester. Apprenticesh...
No, I give up.
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Employment Rights Bill
20/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, in Committee we tabled several amendments resisting this reduction from 10%, and the reason for doing that was that we think that is the exi...
My Lords, I have to say that this is probably the most difficult summing up from our group of all the amendments throughout Committee and Report, beca...
Employment Rights Bill
20/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, we are dancing on the head of a pin with these amendments. The noble Lord, Lord Hendy, is right that these are welcome amendments that begin...
Employment Rights Bill
15/07/2025 • Lords
I thank the Minister and the other speakers in this small group. Although it is three minor amendments and it is 11 o’clock at night, for us, and, I t...
My Lords, this is a small group of amendments—only three—dealing with small businesses. I will briefly address my Amendment 111 and the other two. Sim...
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Football Governance Bill [HL]
14/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, just for clarity, I am staying this week in the Chelsea Football Club hotel, and it is a fantastic set-up and a fantastic ground.
My Lords, I will be reasonably brief. The noble Lord, Lord Burns, covered most of what I was going to say on the technical stuff. We sent the Bill bac...
Employment Rights Bill
13/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I wish to state clearly that we on the Liberal Democrat Benches do not agree with Amendments 43, 44, 45 and 193 or their intentions. Through...
We will support the noble Lord, Lord Hogan-Howe, if he pushes this to a vote, for a number of reasons, eloquently given by a number of speakers. It co...
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Employment Rights Bill
17/06/2025 • Lords
I thank all noble Lords—a small but perfectly formed band on this group—for their contributions to the debate. The contribution
View full contribution →My Lords, for the sake of clarity, we on these Benches fully support the Government on expanding employment legal aid beyond discrimination cases to i...
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Employment Rights Bill
17/06/2025 • Lords
My Lords, these amendments collectively highlight the critical importance of supporting small and medium-sized enterprises as they adapt to the change...
Employment Rights Bill
09/06/2025 • Lords
I thank the Minister for his reply and thank other speakers who have spoken in this group. The noble Lord, Lord Hutton of Furness, talked about balanc...
My Lords, an interesting night has been had by all. More ammunition has been thrown into the laps of these Benches than on any other night of the enti...
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