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HANSARDCivil Service ImpartialityBut, in my own case, I left to go to Tesco, where I served for 15 years. I then took a different path. I served as a civil servant with due impartiality and indeed confidentiality…07 Mar 2023HANSARDCivil Service ImpartialityI will set out the facts from a slightly different perspective. Sue Gray, formerly Second Permanent Secretary at DLUHC and at the Cabinet Office, resigned from the Civil Service…07 Mar 2023HANSARDCivil Service ImpartialityIt is for the Civil Service of the day to prepare for Governments, as I remember doing in 1997, with three lots of policies. It is very important that ACOBA looks at this…07 Mar 2023HANSARDCivil Service ImpartialityI do not like to comment on individual cases.07 Mar 2023HANSARDCivil Service ImpartialityMs Gray does indeed need to apply to ACOBA, which she has not yet done. Her post is a very senior post of a political kind, and I am sure that ACOBA will look extremely carefully…07 Mar 2023HANSARDCivil Service ImpartialityThat is a completely different scenario. Ms Gray will work for the leader of the Opposition, which is a political post that she is moving straight into from the very top of…07 Mar 2023HANSARDCivil Service ImpartialityI agree that it is both unusual and without precedent, and I agree that Ministers must be able to speak to their officials from a position of trust. As the Cabinet Office…07 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI have given my answer. I have been very clear about the importance we attach to food safety from both a government point of view and my own historic point of view, which I hope…06 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI thank the noble Lords for their interventions. I did say that I understood the concerns of the Committee. I was trying to explain that, in this particular case, we need to go…06 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, we have ensured that the Bill contains robust scrutiny mechanisms that will enable the appropriate scrutiny of any amendments or repeals of retained EU law made by the…06 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am sure the Ministers responsible at the Department of Health and in the devolved nations will consult the Food Standards Agency. In the work I do with the Department of Health…06 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillAs I said, I am sure that the Health Ministers will consult the Food Standards Agency. The food standards agencies have been set up for this purpose. If you are making changes to…06 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI understand. I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for trying to help to move things forward; we are certainly keen to do that. Clearly, this enabling Bill is going through…06 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI think I said “decades” once. This is of course a bit different from the normal laws that we debate and put through this Parliament, because it is dealing with retained EU law,…06 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe point I was making is that we are not creating new offences with these provisions. I will look further at Hansard , but I think that what I said was right and not a cause for…06 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, this has been a good debate, probing our powers to revoke or replace, which are important cross-cutting enablers of the REUL reform in the Bill. They will allow the…06 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThere is a balance here. What we have got are powers that allow us to make changes, such as the example that I gave, which will improve the state of regulation. There may be a bit…06 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI think the safeguards were in relation to the clause as a whole, but I will certainly write to the noble Baroness. This has been an important discussion, but for now I ask the…06 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI thank the noble Baroness for raising that; I will have to take it up with the Department for Transport and get back to her. On Amendment 24 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am advised that the interpretive effects are not case law; I thank my noble friend on the Front Bench for that. I do not really want to cause more confusion on this important…28 Feb 2023