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HANSARDHouse of Lords: ReformMy Lords, I express from these Benches our sadness at the loss of Lord Stunell, a dedicated public servant; our thoughts are with his family and friends, and especially his…01 May 2024HANSARDInfected Blood InquiryMy Lords, as a result of this scandal, two people die on average each week. It now seems that children, even babies, were experimented on in the 70s and 80s without their parents’…24 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillAs an example, if a young people’s badminton team were to be taking a tour of south-east Asia and felt it did not want to take part in events in certain regions of China and came…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, I will be very brief. I do not want to repeat some of the excellent points made, but I do have an amendment in this group about requiring a legislative consent Motion.…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillI absolutely did not mean any disrespect whatever to the Minister. She is completely right; she has never declined to take an intervention and has been very accessible on every…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, I was not expecting this group to elicit quite the debate it did, but it was incredibly helpful and welcome in exposing what the noble Lord, Lord Warner, called…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillI am sorry to keep on about this, but there is then a need to define procurement. In the example that I am, perhaps tenuously, relying on, there would surely be procurement of…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, and the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, for their amendments in this group. They are incredibly helpful. What we are trying…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillI am grateful to the Minister, but I am completely unclear about what a public body is after listening to that. Could she explain what a public function is? That might help us.17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillI sort of accept that, but while my example referred to universities we could equally apply it to other organisations as well. I would not want to see that consideration narrowed…17 Apr 2024HANSARDRail Manufacturing: Job LossesMy Lords, many of us here have campaigned hard to get the Hitachi factory in Newton Aycliffe. Hundreds of local people have had good jobs there for many years now. Is it not true…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, my noble friend Lord Collins is not moving this amendment, but I will do my best as his understudy. This group is slightly different from the first, but we will probably…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillWe have got the public function thing again, which the Minister has referred to frequently. She has clarified that public funding is part of what will determine whether the…17 Apr 2024HANSARDCybersecurity and UK DemocracyMy Lords, I begin by making clear, as my right honourable friend Pat McFadden did in the other place, that we on these Benches support the Government in their efforts to counter…26 Mar 2024HANSARDCabinet ManualMy Lords, the Government made a specific promise about making sure that this was done by the end of the Parliament. With that in mind, and given the widespread view that this is…25 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, that was probably a bit more helpful than I had anticipated, in that it fleshed out some of our really quite fundamental concerns. The noble Baroness, Lady Deech, made a…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillThe Minister raised it—can she give us one example of where a university has ever succumbed to such pressure from its student union?20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, it might be helpful to explain that most, if not all, the amendments we have tabled reflect the fact that we find this quite a difficult Bill to amend in a way that…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillWhat the Minister is saying is genuinely quite helpful, but I am just trying to apply this to my experience of the real world. If a councillor, say, were to make a statement or…20 Mar 2024