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HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, my noble friend Lord Hunt referred to “unease” about the Bill. I would put it slightly stronger: the “worry” about the Bill is threefold. First, as we have been hearing,…22 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, it is nice to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes. Clearly, she and I were doing the same thing on Sunday afternoon; when everyone else was out enjoying the rain, we…22 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I apologise for my response during my noble friend Lord Hunt’s comments. Is it not wonderful that you learn something new every day? I had not realised that a Lords starter is not…22 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]What?22 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I think I am in even greater despair now than I was before the Minister responded. Is this a “better regulation” Bill or is it about recognising incoming professionals from other…22 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, my sister is not a chartered accountant, but she is an accountant. I do not know whether that is an interest to declare, but I should note that. Unsurprisingly, I have a…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPublic Procurement (International Trade Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2021I thank the Minister for his introduction, but I am afraid the main question I would like to put to him—to which I fear I cannot expect a reply—is whether all those arch-…15 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]The Minister has to understand that we are wholly supportive of regulator-to-regulator agreements; it is the best way, it is good for our professionals, very good for the City and…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]31: Clause 4, page 3, line 36, after “qualifications” insert “approved by the regulator of the regulated profession”14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I seek the Committee’s indulgence—I did not want to keep popping up in the last group—because there were some unanswered questions which I had posed. I am sure that more…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, as we have heard, Clause 3 gives powers to Ministers to do all sorts of things, but particularly over professional regulators to implement what the Government have…14 Jun 2021HANSARDConstitution InquiryI do not know whether the Minister has read the Haggard and Kaufman book, Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World , but I wonder whether he shares its concern…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, while I absolutely agree with my noble friend Lord Foulkes that any advice would be better if it was comprehensive and included all the things that everyone would want…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I too want to concentrate on Amendment 60A, the new clause proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, which, as the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, has said, is absolutely…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, my noble friend Lord Davies of Brixton merely agrees with the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, but I am actually going to defer to her. It is clear that her amendment is…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, the Government need to justify why this clause is in the Bill. What would happen if it were not? What would we lose? What is the worse that could happen if it were not…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 31 in a way continues what the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, and others, have just touched on. It seeks to answer a concern raised particularly by the British…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]The Minister has not answered my question. She seems to have continued to say that a national authority—that is, the Government or one of the devolved Governments—can decide when…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I am going to leave the question of an assistance centre to one side. I think I have an amendment later on to delete it from the Bill. I have yet to understand why we…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I thought he might. I think he can probably expect us to support him in that. Amendment 49, which is in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, would specifically…09 Jun 2021