Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Lab)

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, on securing this debate and I am grateful for how he opened it. I thought he was going to be a little more critical and, in turn, I have written a

My Lords, will the Minister acknowledge that our most famous whistleblower here in the House of Lords is probably the noble Lord, Lord Agnew, who was very dissatisfied indeed with the way that fraud w

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for that reply. I am pleased to hear today that the Chancellor has mentioned the possibility of involving mayors in these investment programmes.

My Lords, is it not a fact that, if we are to secure international agreements, we are dependent on the Chinese being willing to enter into them, and in particular our close friends the Americans, who

I too join others in congratulating my noble friend Lady Lister on securing this debate. Like others, I express my great gratitude to her for the lifetime of campaigning that she has undertaken on thi

Is my noble friend the Minister aware of the growing desire for the UK to have an independent sovereign entity in this field? That is going to cost a great deal of money, of course. First, can she cop