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HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]My Lords, I welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Merron, as I think this is her first outing in a Grand Committee in the House of Lords, and she is basically doing it in a prison…23 Jun 2021HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]My Lords, there is a clause stand part element to this group and I shall address it first as it has not been the subject of discussion. It is important to make the point that…23 Jun 2021HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]My Lords, I will again be brief but I went nearly mad trying to track some of these amendments through. I accept that they are consequential but I have one question. FSMA 2000, an…21 Jun 2021HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]My Lords, I will be exceedingly brief. As the Minister has said, these are highly technical amendments. Like the noble Lord, Lord Davies, I am frustrated by so many amendments of…21 Jun 2021HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]My Lords, I am definitely in the camp of the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, and my noble friend Lady Bowles here. I say to the noble Lord, Lord Davies, that my understanding of the…21 Jun 2021HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]My Lords, I very much support everything that has been said so far, and I hope that we will get some clarity. Value for money is critical when we are dealing with these kinds of…21 Jun 2021HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]My Lords, the amendments in this group touch on quite a wide range of topics. I hope it will be acceptable if I skim over them. I want to start by picking up the issues raised by…21 Jun 2021HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]I have nothing to add. I looked at the amendments and they all seem to make technical sense to me.21 Jun 2021HANSARDG7 Global Tax AgreementMy Lords, does the Minister agree that the US has used its might and played a blinder? Countries such as the UK will of course see increases in tax revenues under the new global…08 Jun 2021HANSARDFinance BillMy Lords, I pick up the point made earlier by the noble Lord, Lord Leigh, that there has been a relatively small number of speakers in this debate but my goodness they have been…08 Jun 2021HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]My Lords, one of the wonderful things about this House is that there is always a way to say what you want and stay within the rules. So I thank the noble Lord, Lord Vaizey, not…26 May 2021HANSARDQueen’s SpeechMy Lords, this has been an absolutely fascinating debate. I can say with confidence to the Government that they can expect the Bills that they bring to this House to be…12 May 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I will be brief. My noble friend Lord Sharkey comprehensively answered the points raised by the Economic Secretary on Monday and by the noble Earl, Lord Howe, today in…28 Apr 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, we will not challenge this Motion. I cannot say that it goes as far as reassurance, but I think we are in a much better place to have the consultation and its…28 Apr 2021HANSARDKalifa Review of UK FintechScale-up for our fintech sector requires access to international markets. The Government overlooked this in Brexit negotiations and equivalence from the EU now looks unattainable.…27 Apr 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, once again I thank Lord Judd, because he contributed to this Bill, so it is entirely appropriate to reference him, as we close and the Bill passes. This was originally…19 Apr 2021HANSARDFinancial Services Bill19 Apr 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, it seems very fitting that the last amendment for debate on Report should return to the issue of parliamentary scrutiny. Of all the issues that we have discussed over…19 Apr 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, unfortunately, I did not bring with me a copy of the letter that the noble Earl, Lord Howe, kindly sent me in response to my question about the Ministerial Code. I…19 Apr 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I am going to do something quite dangerous and put myself for a moment in the shoes of my noble friend Lady Bowles, picking up a couple of points from the Minister,…19 Apr 2021