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HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]My Lords, I have Amendment 53 in this group. It is very much on the theme of Amendment 51, which the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles of Berkhamsted, just spoke to. As she said, the…21 Jun 2021HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 45 in this group is in my name. As has already been pointed out, it differs from the other amendments in the group, which call for reports, as it is a targeted…21 Jun 2021HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]My Lords, I hear what my noble friend the Minister has said—that she was speaking to my amendment and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles, which both rely on the loans to…21 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I will raise just two topics. The first is trust; the Minister regretted that the Committee did not trust the Government on this. We have to remember that when very wide…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 30 is a probing amendment on the abiding theme in our debates on this Bill, namely regulator autonomy. Clause 4(1) says that regulations can be made “for the…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken on this amendment. I heard the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, say that not all regulators were equal. That clearly is true,…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I am glad to have heard the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, introduce her amendment. We both tabled our amendments in light of the British Dental Association’s comments,…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I support the thrust of Amendment 34 and it is good to see the Benches opposite getting involved in the exciting world of chartered accountancy and auditing. I remind…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I speak on Clause 7 standing part of the Bill, rather than on the detailed amendments in this group. We had a brief discussion about the advice centre on our first…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, my noble friend Lord Lansley has hit upon some important issues with his Amendments 34A and 60A. I am not 100% convinced by the drafting of either amendment, but the…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]Could my noble friend the Minister explain why, in Clause 1, which we know will be applied largely to the medical professions—we are therefore dealing with patient safety—it is…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, in last week’s Committee, we emphasised the need for the Bill, and not just the Government’s fine words, to recognise the autonomy of the regulated professions. If the…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I put my name down in this group in order to speak to Amendments 19 and 29, but I shall say a few words first on Amendments 52 to 55. Normally, I do not support Report…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, on the face of it, Clause 1 does seem innocuous, but at its heart there is a power for the Government to interfere in the way that regulated professions recognise people…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I will be brief. The requirement in these amendments for regulations to be published in draft form and consulted on is sensible, for the reasons that the noble Baroness…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate for their contributions, an awful lot of which were on my amendment. Some important issues were raised by the…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I have Amendment 28 in this group, to which the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, has added her name. I have sympathy with many of the other amendments in this group,…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Palmer of Childs Hill, who is no longer in his place, explained the concerns which underpinned his Amendment 12, debated earlier this afternoon:…09 Jun 2021