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HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]As it is still Committee, can I just ask a question about tax and competition offences? I am not clear whether those are forward-looking or backward-looking, so if you are a…18 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]On modern slavery, the Minister is surely saying that there has to have been a conviction for somebody to be on the debarred list. The first person prosecuted under the Modern…18 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I start by thanking everyone in this Room for taking part and for the widespread support for my amendment and for doing something in the Bill for small business. I was…11 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope of Craighead, who is always so brief and makes such constructive suggestions. The more I…11 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]On the business of frequent challenge, I think it would be quite useful to have some information before we discuss this again. My experience—I have worked in the industry,…11 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]11 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 38, on helping small business, would free up procurement for those businesses with a turnover of under £5 million. I am particularly grateful for the support…11 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I want to express a concern. Although the Minister’s argument seems to be that the powers are already rather limited and that there are natural limitations—for example, the GPA—I…06 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire. I put my name to Amendment 18, and I am glad that the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, did so too and that it is being…06 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I think electricity is later taken out, as I mentioned.04 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I am glad that we have been able to move on to this group of amendments, all of which were tabled in good time. I thank my noble friend the Minister for his apology,…04 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I very much welcome the question of the noble Lord, Lord Scriven, about local authorities. They are so often underappreciated and undervalued, and we need to know what…04 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, this has been a workmanlike discussion, the unpeeling of the onion—the first of many unpeelings of onions, I think. I thank my noble friend Lord Moylan for his support,…04 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]04 Jul 2022HANSARDBanks: ForgeryMy Lords, lack of prosecution is a theme today. So much crime has moved online; what we have heard about in this Question is an example of how that has happened. Can we increase…30 Jun 2022HANSARDMetropolitan Police ServiceMy Lords, we have had some sobering exchanges but, like the previous questioner, I want to go wider. My noble friend knows how much I care about improving effectiveness and value…29 Jun 2022HANSARDSuicide: Online ProductsCan my noble friend estimate when the provisions of the Online Safety Bill in relation to suicide, and indeed wider problems with children, are likely to actually come into effect?27 Jun 2022HANSARDEU Retained LawIt is agreed by everyone that we have a productivity problem in the UK. As we have seen from history, one way of dealing with that is to sweep away anti-competitive legislation,…23 Jun 2022HANSARDBritish BaccalaureateMy Lords, the commission’s report comments on the importance of bringing out the best in teaching. Teach First has transformed the quality of teaching in some areas by attracting…21 Jun 2022HANSARDImmigration (Restrictions on Employment and Residential Accommodation) (Prescribed Requirements and Codes of Practice) and Licensing Act 2003 (Personal and Premises Licences) (Forms), etc., Regulations 2022I thank the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, for initiating this debate on a system that has, of course, already come into operation. I look forward to hearing my noble friend the…07 Jun 2022