Member

Most recently, the crusade has been continued, with great tenacity and wit, by the noble Lord, Lord Grocott. The formulation he has proposed in every parliamentary Session since 2016, apart from this one, is exactly the same as we advance today. Just as with noble Lords who proposed private Bills under the last Labour Government, the noble Lord has found it difficult to make progress with his Bills under Conservative Governments. In 2016, his Bill passed Second Reading but ran out of time in Committee. In 2017, it made it to Report but fell there. In 2019 and 2021, it again passed Second Reading but fell awaiting Committee. The most recent attempt in the last Session of the last Parliament is the only occasion on which it did not have a Second Reading.