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HANSARDFinancial Services (Miscellaneous) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I have no issues with the first of these SIs. It is another that deals with errors and omissions; I suspect we will see quite a number of them. I do have serious…21 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementI do not want to entirely ruin what the Minister is saying. I know that the noble Lord, Lord Leigh, knows exactly what I will say in this particular instance. The Minister is…20 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementMy Lords, I realise that I am being upstaged by the Prime Minister, who I understand is about to make a statement in front of 10 Downing Street. We have no idea what the content…20 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementThis really is an important point on the loan charge. Regarding the action that the Minister said HMRC had taken against scheme promoters, I do not believe that any of those…20 Mar 2019HANSARDSpring StatementMy Lords—20 Mar 2019HANSARDSmall and Medium-sized Enterprises: Clydesdale BankMy Lords, do the Government recognise that people have been waiting for more than six years for justice? Those SMEs were maltreated by Clydesdale, RBS and Lloyds. They were viable…19 Mar 2019HANSARDSmall and Medium-sized Enterprises: Clydesdale BankMy Lords, since I can now follow up with another question, I remind the Minister that during the coalition years Vince Cable, in his role at BIS, commissioned the first…19 Mar 2019HANSARDBrexit: Non-Disclosure AgreementsMy Lords, I think the Minister will find that many in this House have had conversations with businesses that have said to them directly that they cannot describe the impact of…14 Mar 2019HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I thank the Minister; that is good and welcome news.05 Mar 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Gibraltar) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I will be exceedingly brief because, again, this falls into the category of necessary changes to regulation in order to keep a reasonable consistency in the relationship…05 Mar 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Distance Marketing) (Amendment and Savings Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I shall be exceedingly brief. That the third of these SIs is basically to correct deficiencies in earlier SIs underscores how complex all this is. Obviously we have no…05 Mar 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Distance Marketing) (Amendment and Savings Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Picking up on the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe, on direct marketing, illegal cold calling into the UK happens frequently. We know that Nigeria is often the major…05 Mar 2019HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I begin with a thank you. My noble friend Lord Sharkey and I—I know that the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe, will speak for himself, as he always does so well—very much…05 Mar 2019HANSARDSecuritisation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I will focus briefly on the second of the two statutory instruments. I need help from the Minister, because I am struggling to understand the consequences of this, and I…25 Feb 2019HANSARDMoney Market Funds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, like my colleagues on these Benches, I support this statutory instrument. It is necessary: to put it in technical terms, British investors in money market funds would be…25 Feb 2019HANSARDUncertificated Securities (Amendment and EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I concur with all the comments made by my colleagues on these Benches. I want to raise again the issue that I picked up in relation to the earlier statutory instrument:…25 Feb 2019HANSARDBrexit: Economic ImpactMy Lords, the November analysis demonstrated that every scenario would be hugely damaging to the UK economy; it said that no deal would be worse but that the other options were…20 Feb 2019HANSARDData Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I have some fear that I will raise the noble Lord’s blood pressure even higher, but if he takes a look at the impact assessments that are provided, I think that he will be shocked…18 Feb 2019HANSARDBenchmarks (Amendment and Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Part of the problem is that it was not our regulators that identified years of benchmark manipulation but the US regulator and the US media. We need to be clear about that. Our…18 Feb 2019HANSARDBenchmarks (Amendment and Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I have a really serious question that I want to put to the Minister. I am concerned that one of the effects of this SI—I am not going to oppose it because I think that…18 Feb 2019