Lord Agnew of Oulton

Lord Agnew of Oulton

The Lord Agnew of Oulton DL

Conservative
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Member since 18 October 2017

Recent Debate Contributions

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Employment Rights Bill

20/07/2025Lords

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My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Barran in her Amendments 111A, 111B, 116A and 116B. I have not spoken on the Bill before, so I refer noble Lo...
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My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Nash’s Amendment 279. It suggests a very mild tweak to the proposed legislation, largely because he is respec...
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My Lords, I am taking a slightly different approach with my Amendment 200, which relates to school uniform policy. It is important to recognise tha...
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My Lords, I was not going to speak on this group—I was a minute or so late, for which I apologise. I wanted to hear the arguments of those who oppose ...
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My Lords, I will speak briefly in support of my noble friend Lady Stedman-Scott’s amendment on jobcentres. I hear the point made by the noble Lord, Lo...
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My Lords, there are around 35 state boarding schools in the country, but there are also a number of private boarding schools that are ready to provide...
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My Lords, my Amendment 119 would provide further opportunities for looked-after children, or those on the edge of care, to have access to boarding sch...
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My Lords, my Amendment 82 would provide further opportunities for children in kinship care to have access to boarding school places where appropriate....
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Employment Rights Bill

04/06/2025Lords

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My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Barran in her amendments, as I am rather confused by how this will improve the education system. I speak a...
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I thank the Minister for her answers. I reassure her that I was not trying to suggest that this is a whole new scale of undertaking for teachers. My n...
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My Lords, this is really a probing amendment. I am the first to admit that this is not an area in which I have deep expertise, View full contribution →
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My Lords, I support this amendment. Clearly, the family decision-making groups are extremely important, and we are discovering them rather late in the...
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My Lords, I speak in support of the purpose clause, in particular, subsection (1)(a) and (c), improving “the safety and wellbeing of children”, ...
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