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HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I thank noble Lords for introducing their amendments and exploring the reasoning behind them, which I have found helpful. I put my name down to speak to Amendment 17,…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, my reason for speaking in this group relates to licences. I generally support the thrust of Amendment 23, if there can be appropriate definitions, but I was not quite…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillI have one comment and one question. My comment is that I understand everything the Minister said and I broadly agree, but I think the Government underestimate the amount of…09 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services Bill08 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords for having taken part in this debate and for enabling me to find some way in a busy parliamentary schedule to enable airing of a few of the…08 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords for what has turned out to be a very interesting debate. For once, the crafting of my probing amendment produced exactly the responses that I was…08 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, in moving this amendment, I shall make comments that reflect in part on EU relations and therefore on the other two amendments in this group. As the explanatory…08 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services Bill08 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I have some sympathy with the motivation for this amendment concerning co-ordination of regulators and combined regulatory agendas. Of course, there is already an MoU…08 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I was not sure where the debate on short selling would go. I am broadly satisfied with the present rules that prohibit naked short selling and require that a short…08 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I declare my financial services interests as in the register. The two amendments in this group concern the use of international financial reporting standards,…08 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillI want only to point out to the Minister that I believe she said in her reply that the “failure to prevent” offences were targeting financial services firms. That is not the case.…03 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I remind the Committee of my interests as in the register. I have two amendments in this group, one on facilitation of financial crime, which is also signed by the noble…03 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, there are very wide-reaching powers in this Bill and, to start where I ended my Second Reading speech: “I am not against the notion of interventions, but the Bill should…02 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I broadly support this amendment, although I am also interested in what happens after a statement is declined by Parliament. Statements take effect immediately and…02 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, this group contains a range of amendments aimed at improving certainty which I broadly support. In particular I favour the removal of the expression “contemplation”…02 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, it is always very interesting to follow the noble Lord, Lord Lansley. He is approaching this partly in a similar way to me and partly in a different way. I was, and…02 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I thank all those who have participated in what has turned out to be quite an interesting debate. It seems that most or all noble Lords have managed to put their fingers…01 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I support all the amendments in this group and will speak to my Amendment 29, which suggests further measures for regulators to have regard to. I also remind the Grand…01 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services Bill01 Mar 2021