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HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts in all his amendments. This House has an obligation to ensure that the Bill does everything possible to…16 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, Amendments 99 and 116 deal with the difficult area of mortgage prisoners. Both amendments seek to go beyond what has already been achieved for mortgage prisoners by the…10 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, as many Members of the Committee have already noted, my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe is well known in your Lordships’ House for her pursuit of impact assessments and…10 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I put my name down to speak in this group to support my noble friend Lord Lansley’s Amendment 97, which he has not spoken to. I shall speak to it in this group anyway in…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, my first instinct was to say that the amendments in the name of my noble friend Lord Vaizey are obviously correct. I am sure that the majority of cases that would…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, the effect of amendments in this group may be to restrict the Government’s ability of to act where de facto control is the result of an acquisition. We should not…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I strongly support the amendments in this group, which seek to set up a fast-track process. Anything that can make the processes more friendly to help non-problematic…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I am glad that the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, cleared up the position of Amendment 26 in the previous group, because I struggled, when I came to this group, to work…09 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Trenchard who, as usual, speaks good sense on this matter. While these are clearly probing amendments designed to get the…08 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, my noble friend Lord Blackwell’s Amendment 86 identifies a very real problem that has existed since the Government decided to abolish the Financial Services Authority…08 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I support the call of my noble friend Lady McIntosh of Pickering for a review of short-selling legislation, although I start from a very different position to her. As…08 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I am struggling with Amendment 74 because I think that it is aiming at a target that does not really exist, and it confuses capital and profits and losses. The amendment…08 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillAs I was saying, my Lords, of much greater importance are the plans that the Government have to support and promote the future growth of our financial services sector. The…08 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I will offer a slightly different perspective on this. I understand the problems of overindebtedness among poor people, but I do not believe that Amendment 55 makes…03 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, this is a large group of amendments and I shall not comment on all of them. I had not intended to speak about Amendment 51A, to which the noble Lord, Lord Sikka, spoke a…03 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I respect the opinions of the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, but she will not be surprised to find that I do not agree with a single word of what she…02 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, there are very wide powers in the Bill, and the amendments in this group are sensible and proportionate and go some way to reining in the extent of those powers. Other…02 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, the voiding of a commercial transaction that has already taken place is a massive penalty for those who have entered into the transaction. Parliament should be very wary…02 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, at Second Reading, I said that I felt that a lack of definition for national security was a problem, and I still feel uneasy about that. I understand the need for…02 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, in principle, I do not support proposed new clauses such as this, whether they are called objective clauses or purpose clauses. I have tabled them myself in the past,…02 Mar 2021