NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc) Bill

My Lords, I declare an interest as the chairman of the Great Ormond Street Hospital board, and I ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Massey, for introducing the Bill today with such clari...

My Lords, I know it is normal to declare an interest, but I have to declare an ignorance: I am no...

Follow that!

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My Lords, I know why noble Lords are all laughing. I have to follow that. Many a bigger man than ...

You chose me.

It will go down in the records of maiden speeches. I do not know what words will be used—astoundi...

You have stolen my line.

Brought up in a slum, raised as an orphan, illiterate to start with and sleeping rough, my noble ...

Hear, hear!

I support this Bill wholeheartedly. As has been said, it was previously introduced by Wendy Morto...

My Lords, I am pleased to be supporting the “Peter Pan and Wendy” Bill, which concerns royalties ...

My Lords, I would like briefly to pay my tribute in the gap—I have given notice—to the noble Baro...

My Lords, I am grateful for this opportunity to speak in the gap. For reasons I do not fully unde...

My Lords, I am highly indebted to my noble friend Lady Massey for introducing the Bill. I congrat...

My Lords, I preface my remarks by saying upfront that the Government wholeheartedly support the B...

My Lords, when I told my husband of 50 years—and I took a long time to say this to him—that as pa...