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HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillI thank the Minister, but she has essentially repeated the speech she gave in Committee. At the time, I took her assurances at face value that primary legislation would be…13 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, this is an issue that I have raised in the House before, having run into the same set of issues—I suspect with some of the same companies down in the West Country…13 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, we should thank the noble Earl, Lord Attlee, for raising a set of significant issues. I have no specialist knowledge in this area, but I am very well aware that SMEs…13 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillFrom these Benches, the amendment makes sense to us.08 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I will be exceedingly brief because we took, as we should have, a lot of time on this issue during Committee. We have also discussed financial exclusion already. Once…08 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillI congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, on being so persuasive. The Government have listened carefully to his advice and have come forward with amendments that are identical…08 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, the amendments in this group fall essentially into two categories. Those that improve communication and representation to statutory panels are small but positive…08 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I will speak very briefly. It will be evident to the House by now that, as was true in Committee, essentially every speaker takes one position, other than the…08 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, in speaking to this group I am channelling my colleague, my noble friend Lady Tyler of Enfield, who is unwell and, to her distress, cannot be here. I will focus on…08 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I can add very little to the extraordinary speeches we just heard, many of them quite brief but absolutely targeted and to the point. I simply want to add just two more…06 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I will make very few comments on this group of amendments. I accept that they are technical. I find some of them distasteful, particularly those that enhance the scope…06 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I will be very brief. I have no objection to either of these amendments, although for very different reasons from the previous two speakers. On the first, which is about…06 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I had the privilege of adding my name to this amendment, and of serving with the noble Lord, Lord Tyrie, in his pre-Lordship days, when he chaired the Parliamentary…06 Jun 2023HANSARDUK-EU Relationship in Financial Services (European Affairs Committee Report)My Lords, I join in congratulating the noble Earl and the committee on this report. It is rather eerie that, so many months after it was written, it still seems to be…17 May 2023HANSARDWhistleblowing FrameworkTo ask His Majesty’s Government whether the whistleblowing framework will include an assessment of the desirability of setting up an independent Office of the Whistleblower to…16 May 2023HANSARDWhistleblowing FrameworkMy Lords, the APPG for Whistleblowing, many Members of both Houses, scores of whistleblowers, significant legal counsel involved with whistleblowing, and even regulators in their…16 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy Lords, I have two amendments in this group. The first addresses freeports. I think even the Government recognise that freeports are catnip to criminals and money launderers. We…11 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill11 May 2023HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency BillMy Lords, I suspect your Lordships will guess that I am not terribly happy. I will be perfectly happy if the Government go away and clean up my drafting; I do not pretend to be at…11 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, I decided to speak today after reading the words of the Immigration Minister, Robert Jenrick, speaking for the Government to Policy Exchange, demonising migrants and…10 May 2023