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HANSARDTrade BillWhen the noble Lord, Lord Grimstone, drew up that framework for public appointments, there was no way in which he could have anticipated this role, so I hope that he will look…13 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for making it clear that the Secretary of State—13 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade Bill13 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I will be exceedingly brief. My noble friend Lord Purvis of Tweed has made the case and I am not able to better it. I just want to raise an underlying principle. I…08 Oct 2020HANSARDAreas with Additional Public Health Restrictions: Economic SupportMy Lords, the Chancellor replaced the furlough scheme in the expectation of a V-shaped recovery. We have anything but that: as the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, described, the…07 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 23 in particular. All the amendments in this group have very similar goals—they just choose rather different avenues for achieving them.…06 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendments 43 and 44, which again deal with dispute resolution. In a way, these amendments need to be seen together, because Amendment 44 is perhaps a…06 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, and the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, and bow to their expertise. I am stepping in in the place of my noble friend Lord…29 Sept 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, explained, the amendments in this group cluster around the importance of issues such as human rights and other rights in trade…29 Sept 2020HANSARDEconomyMy Lords, the Government have not really grasped the double whammy of Covid and our departure from the single market and the customs union, even assuming that there is a free…28 Sept 2020HANSARDEU Exit: End of Transition PeriodMy Lords, small manufacturing exporters have been put in an impossible position, with no clarity on an FTA, high costs to adapt to borders and blows from Covid-19, and they have…24 Sept 2020HANSARDInterest RatesMy Lords, I have savings products with NS&I and was stunned yesterday morning to get an email announcing savage cuts to its rates. Every bank will now cut its offers in light of…23 Sept 2020HANSARDRestriction of Public Sector Exit Payments Regulations 2020My Lords, the more time I spend looking at these regulations, the more concerned I become. I start from a principle, as I suspect everyone in this House does, that employees in…23 Sept 2020HANSARDEuropean Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions and Common Provision Rules etc. (Amendment) (EU Exit) (Revocation) Regulations 2020My Lords, sparked by the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, let me say how refreshing it is that we are debating a part of the European withdrawal agreement that the Government intend to…16 Sept 2020HANSARDHammersmith BridgeMy Lords, as the Minister said, the impact on the community is absolutely dire, in particular on the transport network. More than 1,000 schoolchildren are taking nearly two hours…09 Sept 2020HANSARDHammersmith BridgeTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what financial support, if any, they are giving to the repair of Hammersmith Bridge.09 Sept 2020HANSARDHammersmith BridgeMy Lords, with apologies for jumping the gun, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper.09 Sept 2020HANSARDRailwaysMy Lords, I beg leave—oh.09 Sept 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I join in the welcome to the noble Lord, Lord Grimstone; he brings great experience to our House. This Bill is a successor to the Trade Bill passed by this House last…08 Sept 2020HANSARDEquivalence Determinations for Financial Services (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020My Lords, this statutory instrument is clearly necessary to enable an equivalence regime for financial services to be in place following the transition period. We all know that…02 Sept 2020