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HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I start with an apology to the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes: of course it was her. In fact, I have just seen in my files the letter where it was shared with her and then,…09 Nov 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]09 Nov 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I will move Amendment 17 and speak to its associated Amendment 20, which would place the list of regulators covered by the Bill into a schedule. I know that the Minister…09 Nov 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]09 Nov 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, said, I have added my name to the second of the amendments in this group. There are two parts to the Bill, as we know. One arises from…09 Nov 2021HANSARDMinisterial CodeI feel for the Minister. I know him—indeed, I think the whole House knows him—to be a particularly honourable Member, and we value everything that he has done here. However, I…09 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I want to speak to Amendment 152, to which I have added my name. I welcome Clause 65, because it recognises the additional responsibility that a driver has who causes…08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I will not repeat what I said earlier about my own mother having been killed because of a drunk driver—though I did not mention at the time that I also lost my…08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillIs the Minister saying that if we drafted this slightly better, with “dangerous driving” included, he might accept it?08 Nov 2021HANSARDAlcohol DutiesMy Lords, I welcome that the duty will be related to the strength of alcohol. However, the Budget included a dozen references to wine, just as the Government were boasting that…02 Nov 2021HANSARDMigrationBeing Welsh, we sometimes think that we are the original Britons and I welcome everyone else to our nations. I am pleased that the Minister touched on Windrush. One of the…28 Oct 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement: New ZealandI declare an interest as the very new chair of the International Agreements Committee, which looks forward to scrutinising the deal in due course, once we have the detail. I hope…25 Oct 2021HANSARDAssisted Dying Bill [HL]My Lords, this House has stood up time and again for human rights—for the poor, disabled, gay people, refugees, children and the old—but there is one group now crying out for…22 Oct 2021HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Effect of Renegotiation on Other Trade NegotiationsThat really sounds like wishful thinking. We have heard about New Zealand, and indeed I think the noble Lord was in his place at the time. We have applied to the CPTPP and we have…21 Oct 2021HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Effect of Renegotiation on Other Trade NegotiationsTo ask the Minister of State at the Cabinet Office (Lord Frost) what assessment Her Majesty’s Government have made of the diplomatic consequences for (1) current, and (2) future,…21 Oct 2021HANSARDRegulation of Property Agents Working GroupTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to implement the recommendations of the final report of the Regulation of Property Agents Working Group, published on 18 July…20 Oct 2021HANSARDRegulation of Property Agents Working GroupI thank the Minister for that. As he suggests, we now have cross-industry and consumer agreement on codes of practice for all residential agents covering letting sale and block…20 Oct 2021HANSARDPrime Minister: Meeting with First MinistersMy Lords, DIT Ministers are refusing to engage with the devolved Governments on trade negotiations, other than on very specific devolved competences. However, major trade deals,…20 Oct 2021HANSARDImports from EU to GB: Business PreparationMy Lords, yesterday, my noble friend Lord Adonis shared with us a six year-old photograph of a very slimline David Frost saying that the whisky industry needed the “fewest…16 Sept 2021HANSARDSovereign Defence Capability: Meggitt TakeoverMy Lords, as others have said, we need a defence industry that is secure for jobs and the economy but also whose technology is secure from hostile hands. Given that, as the noble…15 Sept 2021