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HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, in moving Amendment 17, I shall speak to the other amendments in the group. They make up two distinct elements which, as we have heard, lie at the heart of the Bill. The…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I start by saying that I may have misheard what the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, said. I think she was asking about Amendment 27, which is in the next group. I will speak to…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, in moving Amendment 15 I will speak to Amendment 27, both of which are in my name and those of the noble Lord, Lord Patel, my noble friend Lord Hunt and the noble and…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, there is a problem in what the Minister said. He talked about consultation and a call for input, but that is very passive. As I mentioned on an earlier group, unless you…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, Clause 1 enables regulations to be made—as we have heard, they are never overturned—to require a specific regulator to put in place a procedure for assessing whether to…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for that. On letters, I know that he is backed by many civil servants and colleagues. He is looking at the whole of my office at the moment—me—so could he not…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, the requirement to speak Welsh in Wales is rather important. I have some sympathy with the Minister. Later, we will get to our proposed new schedule—it is on pages 18…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I slightly have the feeling that the back of an envelope was used for the drafting of the Bill. I could be quite wrong, but it has that feel about it. I actually really…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I will dwell on Amendment 18 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Lansley. As he said, delays to services may not have anything to do with the workforce, although they…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, as has been said, the changes made are welcome. However, we should reflect that there are still concerns over the powers. On 7 June, the Delegated Powers Committee…09 Jun 2021HANSARDUK–EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Meetings of BodiesMy Lords, the multi-layered governance structure mentioned by the noble Earl is not the only thing that needs to be set up under the TCA. The civil society forum and the domestic…27 May 2021HANSARDUK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Regions and Industrial SectorsThe Minister and the Prime Minister seem to claim that they did not know quite what the protocol would imply and how tricky it would be to make it work. In front of our European…27 May 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]First, I also welcome my noble friend Lady Blake to our Front Bench, where she has immediately made an impact and demonstrated the impact she will continue to make. Ministers,…25 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateMy Lords, no one who knows this story can feel other than shame that a government-owned institution, the Post Office, oversaw—nay, facilitated—the biggest miscarriage of justice…24 May 2021HANSARDUK Policy Implementation for Wales and ScotlandMy Lords, although we absolutely accept that we must get over Covid and move towards an economic recovery, surely there is another urgency: the very future of the union. The…19 May 2021HANSARDMinisterial Code and Register of Ministers’ InterestsMy Lords, when I became a magistrate, I had never speeded or gone through a red light and I had kept to the Highway Code. Similarly, when I ran organisations, I ensured that I was…19 May 2021HANSARDAnti-Semitic AttacksMy Jewish 97 year-old aunt Rose lives in St John’s Wood. I never imagined I would see such scenes on her street. As Simon Wiesenthal said, “For evil to flourish, it only requires…18 May 2021HANSARDQueen’s SpeechMy Lords, I too am delighted that we will hear from two women as new Peers today, the noble Baroness, Lady Fraser of Craigmaddie, and my noble friend Lady Merron. They both bring…13 May 2021