Baroness Fookes

Baroness Fookes

The Baroness Fookes DBE

Conservative
House of LordsActive

Member since 29 September 1997

Recent Debate Contributions

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Employment Rights Bill

22/07/2025Lords

1 contribution
My Lords, there being an equality of votes, in accordance with Standing Order 55, which provides that no proposal to amend a Bill in the form in which...
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Employment Rights Bill

15/07/2025Lords

2 contributions
I suggest that we take Amendment 53 and a number of consequential amendments en bloc.<...
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If Amendment 51 is agreed, I cannot call Amendment 52 by reason of pre-emption. Schedule 3: Right not to be unfairly dismissed: removal of qualifyi...
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My Lords, as all noble Lords are back, we may as well resume.
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My Lords, the Committee will adjourn for 10 minutes.
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Arrangement of Business

07/07/2025Lords

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My Lords, it appears that the technological problem has not been solved, so we are going to soldier on as best we can.
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Renters’ Rights Bill

06/07/2025Lords

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My Lords, I too am anxious to have a better explanation. To me, the Bill seems very unfair, as it introduces two classes of people, one of whom will b...
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Employment Rights Bill

17/06/2025Lords

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That is most kind, but we must not be diverted from the business in hand. Is it your Lordships’ pleasure that this amendment be withdrawn?
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Employment Rights Bill

15/06/2025Lords

1 contribution
The noble Baroness will need to because it is an amendment, and therefore at the end one has to ask for it to be either considered or, by leave, withd...
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Holocaust Memorial Bill

10/06/2025Lords

4 contributions
My lords, I would not be seeking to invoke other bodies—one of them foreign—if the fears I expressed much earlier in the Bill’s progress had been take...
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My Lords, given the lateness of the hour and the fact that this amendment, in my name and that of other noble Lords, is rather unfortunately numbered ...
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My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours wishes to take part remotely, and I now invite him to speak.
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US Tariff on UK Films

07/05/2025Lords

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My Lords, that concludes Oral Questions for today. This may be a convenient moment for noble Lords who wish to do so to leave the Chamber—not while I ...
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