Baroness Thornhill (LD)

My Lords, I am not particularly comfortable talking about my own experiences of homelessness, and I am not going to, but the comments we have heard today prove that it can happen to anybody. I am patr

My Lords, my five minutes segue neatly and very nicely from what the noble Baroness, Lady Prashar, has just said. If the Bill is about renewing our democracy, it should be not simply about widening pa

My Lords, I, too, take this opportunity to welcome the Minister to her post. I support this Bill and, in doing so, I must first pay tribute to my noble friend Lady Pinnock. As our local government spo

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Evans, for speaking in the gap, because it saved me from pouncing immediately on the noble Lord, Lord Fuller, whose comments were so provocative—I should know by

We on these Benches positively welcomed the Bill. Anything that preserves social housing is particularly welcome, so the right-to-buy proposals were indeed very valuable, as was the work to protect vu

My Lords, in my pre-political life I was a senior teacher at a very large comprehensive school, and responsible for child protection and what used to be called pastoral care. I dealt with lots of chil