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HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)Thank you, Ms Nokes. That intervention rather makes the point that I was making in the previous debate about the need for definition in the Bill around what we mean by various…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)No, not at all. I have no idea at all why the hon. Member thinks that is where my or my hon. Friend’s arguments were going. We are very much in favour of foreign direct investment…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)Not yet; let me answer my hon. Friend first before I take what I am sure will be an incredibly important and insightful intervention, as always—it does not mean he is right. It is…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)It is great to see you back in the Chair, Ms Nokes. Clause 18 is crystal clear about preventing the use of subsidies to enable businesses to move from one location within the UK…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for intervening. I think he is rather missing the point, which I tried to explain the first time around. I am making the point that the…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend for adding some extremely important examples to my point.28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)We are happy to support clause 22. Question put and agreed to. Clause 22 accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clause 23 Liquidity provision for deposit takers or…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)We support clause 23. Question put and agreed to. Clause 23 accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clause 24 Meaning of “ailing or insolvent” Question proposed, That the…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Fourth sitting)Before the Minister moves on, I want to tie down the difference between short-term and long-term liabilities. From my dim and distant accountancy past, there seems to me to be…28 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Second sitting)Q That is if you have been asked to investigate, isn’t it? Rachel Merelie: Absolutely right.26 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (First sitting)Q You have both outlined your concerns about the system in relatively general terms. Do you have specific advice on what you would do differently on some of the challenges?…26 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (First sitting)Q Before I ask Mr Pope to answer the same question, how would you make that information more widely available and easier to find? Professor Rickard: The database set up by the…26 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (First sitting)Q Thanks very much. I will ask you the follow-up question as well, Mr Pope: if not six months, how quickly should that information be there? Thomas Pope: I will answer the first…26 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Second sitting)Q Good afternoon, Dr Barker. I would like to go over a few things that you said and put them back to you to see if you have answers to the questions that you put to us. You began…26 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Second sitting)Q Sorry to interrupt—I am trying to tease out the issues. That is interesting. I think that you are suggesting that this is going to evolve through practice—that is what you are…26 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you have a specific example from another country that brings this to life for us? Dr Barker: Certainly in the United States, which on the face of it is a free market-oriented…26 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Second sitting)Q Thanks. On the point about the SAU and CMA capacity, I think you were saying that your concern there is that you want confidence that there are enough staff to answer the…26 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Second sitting)Q Good afternoon, Mr Peretz. You have been giving a lot of the very detailed challenges and saying how some of the problems might come out and be addressed. Can I ask you to look…26 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Second sitting)Q I want to ask Mr Rose and Mr Branton about this. You have both talked about building the framework and the additional details have to come later. Are there any elements of the…26 Oct 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Second sitting)Two lots of three months, then. Jonathan Branton: Yes—without compromising anything, it seems to me. In terms of other bits of the Bill that ought to be in primary legislation,…26 Oct 2021