Lord Strathcarron
The Lord Strathcarron
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Online Communication Offence Arrests
16/07/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Lebedev, for this debate. I declare an interest as an author and publisher. With the noble Lord’s blessin...
Employment Rights Bill
18/05/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 83, 85, 86 and 88 in my name. I am sure noble Lords will have noticed that, after the Second Reading of this Bill...
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
22/04/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I declare an interest, in that a minority investor in one of my companies also manufactures vapes, although my concerns for this Bill have n...
Employment Rights Bill
27/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I too welcome the four maiden speakers and congratulate them on their speeches. Meanwhile, like some of us here today, I was in the other pl...
Holocaust Memorial Bill
20/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I, too, rise to speak to this amendment, not so much to comment on the design, although I find it meaningless, unimaginative and repetitive,...
To reply to the noble Lord, Lord Austin, I was not for a moment suggesting that anybody here, on either side of the argument, is motivated by that. I ...
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House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
12/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I shall speak to this group of amendments in particular and would argue for the retention of the Bishops as currently constituted. I fully a...
Holocaust Memorial Bill
11/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I thank everybody who has contributed. This has been a really interesting and, as always, passionate debate, with lots of great opinions on ...
My Lords, the well-known Buxton memorial commemorates the Abolition of Slavery Act 1833 and marks the immense contribution of British parliamentarians...
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Migrants: Indefinite Leave to Remain
06/03/2025 • Lords
I thank the Minister for the reply. Using ONS and OBR data, it is possible to project that over 800,000 recent migrants could apply for ILR over the c...
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the number of migrants expected to apply for indefinite leave to remain over the cou...
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
03/03/2025 • Lords
My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Lucas’s Amendment 6, which seeks to open up the by-elections to registered voters—and, in fact, take it even ...
Cultural Sector: Freedom of Speech
08/01/2025 • Lords
In thanking the Minister for that reply, I ask: is she aware that the Independent Press Standards Organisation’s recent rulings breach its own editori...
To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to protect freedom of speech in the cultural sector.
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