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HANSARDCabinet ManualMy Lords, previous debates in this House on the Cabinet Manual , and indeed on other issues, have demonstrated the importance of the manual, as the noble Viscount suggests, both…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCabinet ManualThe content of the Cabinet Manual is, as I am sure the noble Lord, Lord O’Donnell, would agree, a matter for the Cabinet Secretary and the Prime Minister of the day. The work…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCabinet ManualMy noble friend makes an interesting point.25 Mar 2024HANSARDCabinet ManualThere is a tradition that some material in upcoming policy announcements is sometimes briefed out to engage the great British public, but the substantive announcements are nearly…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCabinet ManualIt is difficult to draw any conclusions of that kind. However, I share the noble Lord’s tribute to the noble Lord, Lord O’Donnell, in putting this together. There are many…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCabinet ManualI hear what the noble Baroness says. Indeed, we have made it clear that draft material will be made available to both the Constitution Committee and PACAC in the other place…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCabinet ManualI will make two points. First, I told the noble Lord that we were looking at this issue and that we might issue guidance on the subject, because the Cabinet Manual is about…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCabinet ManualThere have been different comments made about the Cabinet Manual , and I note the point that he made. We do try, in the main, to make announcements in the House. Indeed, we will…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCabinet ManualAs far as the manual is concerned, the Government, as I have said, are considering options on timing and content in the light of the debates that have been had. As far as good…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCabinet ManualMy Lords, in 2022 the Government committed to updating the Cabinet Manual and continue to consider the approach and timescales. We will provide a full update to the Constitution…25 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillI am not sure that I said exactly that. However, there obviously is a problem in campuses and elsewhere with BDS, and that is what this Bill is about. I shall move on to Amendment…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillI thank the noble Baroness for her intervention. These are difficult issues. I turn briefly to Amendment 9, which would ensure that the prohibition in Clause 1 applied to…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their amendments and for their contributions to the debate. I look forward to scrutinising the Bill and these proposed changes in detail…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillWe will try to do that. I am also happy to discuss this further, because it is obviously an important point in relation to the Bill and, as we agreed at the beginning, we need to…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillI am certainly very happy to come back to that on a later group of amendments.20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillI think I used the word “pressure”. Certainly, I was reading “pressure”, but perhaps I blurred the wording and said “pressurised”. I could equally have used “influenced” or some…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, Amendment 7, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Collins of Highbury, and Amendment 55, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman, seek clarity on whether an individual is…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillI think that sounds right but, if I may, I will clarify if I got that wrong. To some extent, it is important in Committee that we actually understand what is happening. That is…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Mann, for drawing the House’s attention to two important issues with his Amendments 8 and 9. Like my noble friend Lord Pickles, who it is a…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillThe noble Lord is right—student unions are not covered, and I think that I made that clear at Second Reading. It is private activity. Clearly, what matters is the influence on…20 Mar 2024