Lord Bethell
The Lord Bethell
Conservative
•House of Lords•ActiveMember since 18 July 2018
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Strategic Defence Review 2025
17/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, it is a great privilege to speak after the noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate. His points on data are extremely well made, and I thoroughly endo...
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
22/06/2025 • Lords
The Minister is quite right to point out that the Online Safety Act did not get much of a mention: maybe it is some kind of PTSD, because some of us d...
My Lords, I fear that what the noble Lord, Lord Knight, has suggested is indeed happening: private schools, grammar schools and schools in wealthy are...
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Tobacco and Vapes Bill
22/04/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I thank the Minister for bringing the Bill to this House so thoughtfully and clearly. I also declare my interest as a consultant to Oviva, a...
Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Report
28/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, it is a great honour to follow my noble friend Lady Jenkin who has been talking on these issues way before it became so fashionable and drew...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
25/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, public service in the old days used to be quite a different thing. My forebear, Admiral Robert Barlow, used to be the superintendent of the ...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
12/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, it is a great privilege to speak after my noble friend Lord Bellingham, who makes very clear points very persuasively. Attendance in Parliam...
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
18/12/2024 • Lords
My Lords, I will speak in support of Amendment 203, which I have signed, and Amendments 211G and 211H in my noble friend Lady Owen’s name.
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My Lords, I strongly support this amendment. As a former Minister, I was at the front line of genomic data and know how powerful it currently is and c...
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Non-Consensual Sexually Explicit Images and Videos (Offences) Bill [HL]
13/12/2024 • Lords
My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Foster. Like her, I am optimistic about AI in the round, but deepfakes are a nast...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
11/12/2024 • Lords
My Lords, I thank very much the noble Baroness for her kind words on the hard work and diligence of hereditary Peers. I strongly support the sentiment...
Health: Quad-demic
10/12/2024 • Lords
The Minister says that we are determined to learn the lessons of Covid. During Covid we had vaccination rates of 90% but, as she said, only 16 million...
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