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HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall also speak to Amendment 207 in my name. My noble friend Lord Lansley has Amendment 35 in this group but is unable to be with us in Committee this week. At his…11 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I am not sure that we have advanced very much on either of the clauses. I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate, particularly the noble Baroness, Lady…11 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I am sorry to interrupt, but I am struggling a little as to which amendment the noble Baroness is speaking to. Amendment 75B, which deals with market stewardship, is in this…11 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 11A, which is an amendment to government Amendment 11. Amendment 11A is really only a place- holder to discuss some broader concepts about…06 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, the only amendment that is going to be withdrawn is my rather small amendment in this group, Amendment 22. My noble friend said that we needed flexibility, and that good…06 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]06 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 22 is in a group of rather different amendments, most of which have more meat in them than my amendment. It is a probing amendment to paragraph 4 of Schedule…06 Jul 2022HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]My Lords, I have Amendment 24 in this group, which is an amendment to the Minister’s Amendment 23. It is always rather strange speaking to an amendment to an amendment when the…04 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I shall finish by offering a comment on another amendment in this group. Amendment 5, in the name of the noble Lords, Lord Wallace of Saltaire and Lord Fox, is a bit like déjà vu…04 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I have a number of probing amendments in this group and throughout the Bill. The majority of them have been inspired by Professor Sanchez-Graells of the Centre for…04 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]We have not received it.04 Jul 2022HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]14 Jun 2022HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]14 Jun 2022HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]Perhaps I could help the noble Baroness: as a matter of company law, shareholders have relatively few powers in relation to how a company is operated on a day-to-day basis. Their…14 Jun 2022HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]My Lords, as noble Lords know, I criticised the concept of the UK Infrastructure Bank at Second Reading on the basis that it was the Treasury’s plaything and it had the Treasury’s…14 Jun 2022HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]My Lords, I, too, support a separate Department of Energy and Climate Change, but for a slightly different reason because I think we would then allow BEIS to focus on what it…14 Jun 2022HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]My Lords, we have had a short but important debate on this principle. There is nothing fundamentally dividing us on the underlying principle; the issue is how we implement it. I…14 Jun 2022HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 12 and hope we can pick up a little speed with it. At Second Reading, I raised the issue of the UK Infrastructure Bank’s activities having the…14 Jun 2022HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend for that, I think what we take from that is that the framework document needs to be well-understood in its scope and effect for many aspects of the debates…14 Jun 2022HANSARDUK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 42A amends Clause 6 of the Bill dealing with annual accounts and reports, which is one of my specialist topics. I also speak to Amendment 55 in this group,…14 Jun 2022