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HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eighth sitting)We have debated the amendment and the need for the change to this clause. We have tested the will of the Committee already and will not oppose clause stand part. Question put and…04 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Seventh sitting)Clause 59(4)(a) uses the phrase “amend subsection (1), (2) or (3) to make provision about the content of the CMA’s report”. The Minister used the terms “text” and “content”…04 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Seventh sitting)Thank you, Ms Nokes. On that basis, it will probably not be wise to take the interventions. I am using these things as an example of the ruling party’s attempts to remove…04 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eighth sitting)I think he is trying to intervene. I would not take an intervention from him anyway, because he does not wear a mask. I rise to reiterate our concern about the lack of…04 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eighth sitting)rose—04 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 46, in clause 43, page 25, line 16, at end insert— “(3A) The Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers, and a Northern Ireland department may request the…02 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)I should point out that the amendment does not seek to give the devolved Administrations the power to declare a state of emergency, which I think was implicit in the Minister’s…02 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)The clause makes it clear that subsidies given to safeguard national security are not subject to the subsidy control regime. This is an important principle that must be…02 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)I think the pings you just heard were all the different legal opinions on the application of the subsidy control regime on EU state aid, Ms Nokes. The Minister found a number of…02 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)My hon. Friend the Member for Aberavon uses the word shambles. It is hard to disagree given the Minister’s answer. Until that is addressed, it undermines the operation of the…02 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)I will press the amendment to a Division. Question put , That the amendment be made.02 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)We have heard spectacularly from the Minister the failure of the Government to explain how the regime will operate or to come forward with answers to questions asked during the…02 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)I reassure my hon. Friend that we will indeed be pressing clause stand part to a vote. He is right: businesses need certainty. We are coming out of a once-in-100-year global…02 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)No— [ Interruption. ]02 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)We gave the Government every opportunity with our amendment, but they chose to vote it down. They have left us with what my hon. Friend the Member for Aberavon called a…02 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)I understand the hon. Lady’s concerns, but there is such a big problem with what is set out, it is right for us to register our objection by voting against the clause.02 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)The Minister had the opportunity to accept our amendment, which would have addressed the concern that he has just set out about needing negotiations, because it would have given…02 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)I am interested in the answer to that question as well, given that in the last 11 years of Conservative Government we have not seen the investment in new nuclear that was needed…02 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)Indeed. The role of China in our nuclear industry is a point well made by my hon. Friend. I hope that we will see significant investment in new nuclear as a result of the…02 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 47, in clause 48, page 27, line 6, at end insert— “(2A) On the date on which the Act is passed, the Secretary of State must make a statement to the House…02 Nov 2021