Lord Balfe

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor, has gone somewhere, but I congratulate her on presiding over this report. I would have thought it was almost impossible to get an agreement. From time to tim

I thank the Minister for her Answer. The situation that we are in today is not a Labour or a Conservative one; it is one that we have drifted into. Every day, we read in the newspapers about there not

My Lords, 50 years ago I was working in the retail sector when the right honourable Baroness Williams, who was a Member of this House some time later, was the Minister for food prices. At the end of h

To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to ease the repayment terms of Plan 2 student loans.

My Lords, I will start with the one uncontroversial thing I am going say, which is to welcome the noble Lord, Lord Barrow. I look forward to his contribution, particularly in view of his past career.

My Lords, I am told that the programme for drug testing on drivers is in serious disarray, with many people’s samples not being tested. Has the Minister considered using breath as well as blood tests,