Baroness Jay of Paddington (Lab)

My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, I was a Member of the House when we looked at the original Bill introduced by the late Lord Joffe in 2004. I have also been Leader of this House and, ov

To add to what the noble Lord, Lord Stevens, said, I very much dislike the death notices, for example, which refer to people having put up a great fight or having failed to deal with the battle, or wh

My Lords, it seems to have become a regular feature of these Committee sittings that the noble Lord, Lord Deben, and I disagree—but I think we disagree with courtesy, and I hope we disagree on the bas

My Lords, notwithstanding the Government’s determined position of neutrality, which the Minister has rightly said she has repeated many times, would she not accept that, once Royal Assent is given to

I am going to continue with this point, because it is a general point that there has been very limited discussion on the amendments since I have come into the House.

My Lords, I know I am out of order because I was not here at the beginning of the debate on this amendment, but I feel it is important to say to the noble Lord that I was not grimacing at the point he