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20 July 2026

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Peers question ministers on the link between defence industrial strategy and AI regulation, accountability for deaths of people with learning disabilities and health workforce pressures, and national security risks in the Strait of Hormuz and electricity system resilience and blackout governance.

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Oral questions — defence AI, health workforce, energy security

37:43

Oral questions — defence AI, health workforce, energy resilience

37:43

Defence industrial strategy and AI regulation

37:43

UK defence industry and technological resilience

37:43

UK defence industry, NATO and exports

37:43

Public sector procurement and UK technological resilience

45:59

China’s AI rise and UK investment strategy

47:55

AI safety, foreign investment and EU cooperation

53:19

AI safety, foreign investment and pre-market enforcement

53:19

Cooperation with the EU technological sovereignty package

55:35

Health and education workforce pressures

56:32

Learning disability deaths — report, accountability and workforce

56:32

Learning disability deaths: NCEPOD report and current actions

56:32

Demand for statutory independent reviews of deaths

57:07

Learning disability report — accountability and enforcement

59:24

Specialist workforce, local autonomy and central oversight

01:02:51

Music teachers — recruitment figures and policy

01:06:48

Oral question 4 — headline figures on music teacher recruitment

01:06:48

Music teachers — recruitment strategy and access

01:11:37

Tax relief for cultural outreach and value of music teachers

01:13:33

National security, critical infrastructure and energy resilience

01:17:52

Strait of Hormuz security — ministerial statement and peer scrutiny

01:17:52

Strait of Hormuz — ministerial statement on shipping security

01:17:52

Operational support — seafarer welfare and mine-hunting capability

01:20:51

US coordination, ceasefire efforts and aid restoration

01:23:21

Freedom of navigation and Iran–US memorandum

01:29:05

Gulf bases personnel safety and Houthi naval blockade

01:30:58

NESO blackout risk — summer incident and inquiry

01:39:51

NESO blackout risk — climate resilience of the grid

01:39:51

NESO blackout inquiry — independence and whistleblowers

01:42:29

Industrial policy and aviation regulation — British Steel and Civil Aviation Bill

01:47:26

British Steel nationalisation and Civil Aviation Bill closing stage

01:47:26

British Steel nationalisation — policy rationale and compensation

01:47:26

British Steel nationalisation — rationale and compensation

01:47:26

Nationalisation of British Steel — valuation, compensation and scope

01:47:26

Civil Aviation Bill conclusion and Right to Buy transition

01:57:43

Civil Aviation Bill — third reading closure and enforcement clarification

01:57:43

Civil Aviation Bill — CMA drafting correction and government closing remarks

01:57:43

Civil Aviation Bill — third reading closing contributions

02:01:36

Social Housing Bill — Right to Buy, stock disposal and shared ownership

02:15:41

Right to Buy reforms, minister’s defence and vote

02:15:41

Peers: Right to Buy modelling and reform proposals

02:15:41

Right to Buy sales modelling and rural exemptions

02:15:41

Social Housing Bill — impact of Right to Buy restrictions

02:15:41

Social Housing Bill — regulator powers and rural Right to Buy exemptions

02:18:51

Abolition proposal and enhanced reporting on Right to Buy

02:24:14

Right to Buy abolition case and impact reporting duties

02:24:14

Right to Buy — local replacement duty and opposition to weakening reforms

02:32:01

Data, reporting amendments and use of Right to Buy receipts

02:36:03

Right to Buy — minister’s defence and division

02:40:16

Minister: bill objectives, eligibility rules and rural protections

02:40:16

Minister: bill objectives, eligibility period and processing times

02:40:16

Minister: rural protections and exemption period for new builds

02:45:49

Minister: transparency, data publication and receipts recycling

02:47:39

Minister: transparency amendments and recycling of receipts

02:47:39

Right to Buy qualifying period — division

02:49:39

Right to Buy qualifying period — Amendment 1 division

02:49:39

Lords scrutiny of social housing disposals and shared ownership

03:03:12

Social housing disposals — proposed safeguards and government reply

03:03:12

Social housing disposals — proposed safeguards and data

03:03:12

Stoneham: curbing disposals and mandating reinvestment

03:03:12

Best: extending notice periods and property data

03:11:21

Cameron: rural disposals and 12‑week delay

03:16:55

Coffey: auction rules and local buyer access

03:19:17

Post-disposal transparency — Amendment 22 case

03:22:01

Opposition frontbench: principles on disposals and transparency

03:24:58

Ministerial response on disposals — notice periods, data and auctions

03:28:07

Minister: purpose of disposals measure and notice period extension

03:28:07

Minister: pauses, information in notices and administrative burden

03:30:52

Minister: auction sales, disposals data and recycled grant

03:33:45

Amendments 13–22: ministerial clarification and withdrawals

03:37:28

Shared ownership reform — review and Lords division

03:40:04

Shared ownership review and buyback — case for reform

03:40:04

Lord Young: call for shared ownership review

03:40:04

Lord Young: mandatory buyback scheme for unsellable homes

03:45:37

Shared ownership review — tenant cases and asymmetry

03:49:32

Opposition and Crossbench support — buyback, trapped owners and older people

03:56:06

Shared ownership model — ministerial position and Lords vote

04:09:39

Minister: resisting shared ownership review and buyback funding

04:09:39

Shared ownership buyback — withdrawal and division on Amendment 25

04:18:12

Social Housing Bill — tenancies, domestic abuse and adapted homes

04:30:57

Social housing and domestic abuse protections

04:30:57

Domestic abuse protections and landlord access

04:30:57

Amendments 28–29 — tenancy protection and landlord safety access

04:30:57

Amendments 28–29 — secure tenancy after gang threats and landlord safety access powers

04:30:57

Baroness Warwick: support for Amendment 29 and access for essential safety checks

04:37:21

Amendment 76 — domestic abuse debt and access to social housing

04:40:49

Amendment 76 — domestic abuse debt and access to social housing

04:40:49

Support for Amendment 76 and questions on guidance enforcement

04:46:51

Domestic abuse amendments and landlord access

04:51:16

Opposition frontbench response — widened abuse scope and safety access

04:51:16

Government amendments 30–75 — widening domestic abuse protections

04:54:41

Minister: response on Amendments 28 and 29 — safety moves and statutory access

04:56:30

Minister: response on Amendment 76 — domestic abuse debt and guidance route

04:59:51

Amendments 28, 29 and 30–75 — withdrawals and formal approval

05:02:21

Social housing tenancies — amendments and ministerial position

05:04:48

Social housing Amendments 77–78 — secure tenancies, income reviews and under‑occupation

05:04:48

Amendment 77 — Lord Young’s proposal for five‑year tenancy reviews

05:04:48

Opposition to Amendments 77 and 78 — ‘penalty on aspiration’

05:11:46

Opposition to Amendment 77 — defence of lifetime secure tenancies

05:14:19

Bedroom tax, downsizing and mixed‑income estates

05:17:36

Lord Jamieson — fairness and efficient use of finite social housing

05:19:51

Minister on Amendments 77 and 78 — support for secure tenancies and repeal of ‘pay to stay’

05:22:07

Lord Young’s closing remarks and withdrawal of Amendments 77 and 78; adjournment for dinner break

05:26:18

Social Housing Bill report — Safeguarding adapted homes

06:28:23

Social Housing Bill report stage — Protection of adapted homes

06:28:23

Social Housing Bill report — Amendment 79 on adapted homes

06:28:23

Social Housing Bill report resumes — Amendment 79 on adapted homes

06:28:23

Machinery safety SI under Windsor Framework

05:29:21

Machinery safety SI under Windsor Framework

05:29:21

Minister’s SI presentation and regret amendment

05:29:21

Minister’s SI introduction and regret motion tabled

05:29:21

Minister: overview of Machinery Safety SI and NI–GB approach

05:29:21

Baroness Hoey’s regret motion — dynamic alignment and costs for NI

05:38:39

Peers opposing SI — Protocol, dual regimes and NI business burdens

05:45:47

Lord Empey — call to reset EU–UK arrangements

05:45:47

Post‑Brexit settlement — economic burden on NI businesses

05:50:23

Support for Hoey amendment — NI–GB divergence and UKNI marking

05:55:23

Further NI business concerns — impact, support package and divergence

06:00:03

Windsor Framework machinery SI — stakeholder concerns and ministerial response

06:02:40

Supporters and sceptics — Windsor benefits, divergence and single market options

06:02:40

Pro‑Windsor peer: dual‑market access and GB alignment

06:02:40

Liberal Democrat position — impact assessment, divergence and single market

06:06:12

Lord Hunt: unresolved Windsor issues and cost questions

06:11:14

Machinery Safety SI — Minister’s defence and Windsor Framework scope

06:16:46

Minister: defence of Machinery SI and Windsor Framework scope

06:16:46

Hoey: Windsor Framework SI — withdrawal of regret amendment

06:24:35

Hoey: Windsor Framework SI — concerns and withdrawal of regret amendment

06:24:35

Targeted housing powers, eligibility and local tools

06:34:18

Amendments 80–88 — veterans, prison leavers and eligibility

06:34:18

Amendments 80–81 — veterans’ access, adapted homes and councillors

06:34:18

Peers’ amendments on veterans, adapted homes and councillor roles

06:34:18

Amendment 80 — veterans’ access to social housing and need for adapted homes

06:34:18

Amendment 81 — elected councillors on housing association boards

06:40:00

Opposition response — adapted homes, veterans and exclusionary amendments

06:42:36

Lord Jamieson — defence of citizenship, local connection and income‑review amendments

06:49:31

Minister’s response on housing allocations and vulnerable groups

06:55:05

Minister: adapted homes guidance and veterans’ access to social housing

06:55:05

Minister: councillors on PRP boards and limits of statutory mandates

06:59:51

Minister: eligibility rules, EU obligations and rejection of Amendments 83–85

07:02:13

Amendment on protecting vulnerable tenants — clarification and withdrawal

07:06:16

Amendments 82, 86–88 — prison leavers, tenancy fraud and eligibility vote

07:08:36

Grouped Amendments 82, 86–88 — prison leavers, tenancy fraud and stock use

07:08:36

Amendment 82 — Lord Farmer on ex‑prisoners, homelessness and duty to collaborate

07:08:36

Support for Amendment 87 — tenancy fraud and effective enforcement

07:17:25

Opposition frontbench: against new reviews on tenancy fraud and governance

07:19:04

Proponents: national strategy on tenancy fraud and better stock use

07:24:00

Minister: prison leavers, stock review and governance standards

07:30:37

Ministerial assurances, review timetable and vote on Amendment 83

07:37:18

Q&A — timetable and transparency of social housing stock review

07:37:18

Amendment 82 — Lord Farmer’s withdrawal after ministerial assurances

07:38:46

Amendment 83 — division on citizenship and allocations; related amendments not moved

07:40:24

Empty homes powers and Government response

07:51:53

Empty homes powers and Government response

07:51:53

Peers: powers and investment to bring empty homes into use

07:51:53

Lord Bird: six‑month empty homes rule and social investment

07:51:53

Baroness Coffey: Homes England land and support for Amendment 89

08:01:01

Empty homes, CPO barriers and Amendment 89

08:06:13

Rural homelessness, national empty homes strategy and brownfield-first proposal

08:14:52

Housing amendments — Minister’s response and withdrawal

08:22:25

Minister: response on Amendments 89–90 — empty homes powers and funding

08:22:25

Minister: response on Amendments 91–92 — brownfield presumption and Homes England land

08:26:33

Q&A — brownfield weighting in NPPF and Minister’s monitoring commitment

08:31:10

Lord Bird: Amendment 90 withdrawn and call to remove barriers to social investment in housing

08:34:13

House of Lords

20 July 2026

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 Actual start 14:00 House of Lords

37:42 - 39:33

Lab Member of the House of Lords

Member of the House of Lords | Lords

Vernon Coaker

...from Russia. Of course that takes place within the overall umbrella of NATO. But as he will know, and all noble Lords in the chamber will know, defense industry is a vital...

to establish defense agreements which take forward our, all of our defense needs.

39:33 - 39:54

Con Member of the House of Lords

Member of the House of Lords | Lords

John Redwood

I congratulate the government on not accepting totally unacceptable terms on the first idea from the EU. And would he confirm that our defense contractors can look forward to a very big increase in orders for our own defense requirements so we don't need to pay a lot of money to get contracts elsewhere?

39:54 - 40:18

Lab Member of the House of Lords

Member of the House of Lords | Lords

Vernon Coaker

The answer I think to the noble lord's question is that of course we want the growth of our own industry and that's really important and our own industry to have the means by which it can support our UK armed forces. But our industry also needs exports and our defense also needs exports. So I don't see the two as one versus the other. I think of course growing our own is-

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