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HANSARDGuaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 2019I congratulate my noble friend on her generous and comprehensive response. I was delighted to hear her response to a question about opt-outs being down. However, I am slightly…14 Feb 2019HANSARDStorage of Carbon Dioxide (Amendment and Power to Modify) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I am grateful to my noble friend for moving this statutory instrument. I have just one question. He said that there has been consultation with only the Oil and Gas Authority,…13 Feb 2019HANSARDAir Services (Competition) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, this is designed to be helpful, so I hope that my noble friend will not put me in the “troublemaker” category. I will start with a couple of questions on the airport…12 Feb 2019HANSARDAir Services (Competition) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019On the question of the damage to UK carriers arising from the loss of cabotage rights and freedom rights, do we have any estimate of what that will be?12 Feb 2019HANSARDAir Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My question was about those UK passengers who board the next leg of the flight in Amsterdam or what would be a third country with an international carrier. Does the regulation now…12 Feb 2019HANSARDAir Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I have two brief questions on this statutory instrument. My noble friend the Minister has stated that compensation will be paid in pounds, converted from euros. What if…12 Feb 2019HANSARDSeaborne FreightNo. They have had two.11 Feb 2019HANSARDRecognition of Professional Qualifications (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I welcome the regulations but I will ask a number of questions. The first is, obviously, what are the reciprocal arrangements for the rights of British professionals…11 Feb 2019HANSARDRecognition of Professional Qualifications (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I am most grateful to the noble Lord. We managed to get it on the record from my noble and learned friend Lord Keen that there is no reciprocity. Reciprocity remains a matter for…11 Feb 2019HANSARDRecognition of Professional Qualifications (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords—11 Feb 2019HANSARDRecognition of Professional Qualifications (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018The noble Lord follows these issues even more closely than I do. Does he share my anxiety that from what we learned this afternoon of what the regulations set out, there will have…11 Feb 2019HANSARDRecognition of Professional Qualifications (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords—11 Feb 2019HANSARDRecognition of Professional Qualifications (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I am grateful to my noble friend. I hope he will come on to respond to the precise point about reciprocity. I think that what the noble Lord was trying to say was the question I…11 Feb 2019HANSARDRecognition of Professional Qualifications (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My noble friend is being incredibly generous and I am most grateful to him. I asked what his department is doing on a reciprocal basis, given that this is a matter of negotiation.…11 Feb 2019HANSARDSeaborne FreightMay I press my noble friend?11 Feb 2019HANSARDSeaborne FreightNo we have had two speakers from that side.11 Feb 2019HANSARDBrexit: Food ImportsMy Lords, I apologise. Will my noble friend satisfy those of us in this place and food inspectors that the regulations required to be in place will be passed before 29 March? What…07 Feb 2019HANSARDBrexit: Food ImportsMy Lords—07 Feb 2019HANSARDBroadcasting (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing the instrument before the House this evening. I should declare my interest: I was the Shadow Minister in the other place for the…06 Feb 2019HANSARDBroadcasting (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Presumably this is potentially one of the measures in the £39 billion package that we will agree if we have a deal on leaving, because that particular line of the European budget,…06 Feb 2019