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HANSARDInternational Students: Hotel QuarantineWhat discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the capacity of the Government's covid-19 hotel quarantine system to meet demand from international students entering the UK…26 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Sixth sitting)Absolutely right, and I have no objection to ever relying on anything that has been developed in Cambridge through a collegiate, collaborative approach of people working together.…22 Apr 2021HANSARDNeonicotinoid AlternativesThere was widespread relief this year that the colder weather meant that the risk of aphids spreading virus yellows was reduced. Before that, the Secretary of State had authorised…22 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend is making a very good introduction to today’s proceedings. I express my sympathy to her for having to stand up and sit down; I will not make her do it too often.…22 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Fifth sitting)I fully take the point made by the hon. Member for North Norfolk, but we Opposition Members have a degree of prescience in being able to predict the way that votes in this…22 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a pleasure, Mr Hollobone, to serve with you in the Chair for the second time this week. This has been a really interesting discussion, because it has demonstrated two very…22 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 25, in clause 12, page 5, line 13, at end insert— ““Invention” means the process by which ideas are converted into value in the form of new and improved…22 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Sixth sitting)I would certainly like to do that, because we have a Government who have been unable to insulate our homes for a decade, but never mind. There are many musical references that…22 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Sixth sitting)I do not need to detain the Committee further. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the…22 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Fourth sitting)This is an opportunity; we can help spare the Government future embarrassment. Quite frankly, if we have this set of out-there people running the organisation and they then choose…20 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Third sitting)I am grateful to the Minister. I admit that there is a sense of gentle joshing in the name change. It is not the engineering issue that is important to us, but the invention…20 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Third sitting)I want to question the Minister on the difference between an MOU and the document that she has just referred to. It seems to me that we are not far apart on that. Could we not…20 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Fourth sitting)My hon. Friend has touched on a very important point. It was something that I tried to draw out in some of the evidence sessions. I would point Members to an excellent book…20 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Fourth sitting)It is a pleasure to be part of a Committee that you are chairing, Mrs Cummins. I fully endorse what my hon. Friend has said about the amendment. In fact, she has pretty much said…20 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Fourth sitting)Will that include weirdos and misfits?20 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Third sitting)I beg to move amendment 2, in clause 1, page 1, line 3, leave out “Advanced Research and Invention Agency” and insert “Advanced Research and Engineering Projects Agency”. This…20 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Third sitting)It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms McVey. I look forward to a fascinating discussion about a very important set of issues. Let me start by apologising on behalf…20 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Third sitting)I have learned something this morning. I too was a computer programmer. I hope my hon. Friend was a better programmer than I was—I worry about the code that I left for others. On…20 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Third sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree that this is a fundamental issue. There is a real problem particularly around design, as Caroline Criado Perez identified in her book “Invisible Women:…20 Apr 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill (Fourth sitting)And I am eternally grateful, because that is where I found it. I must say that I was still surprised, because it looks to me more like something that came out of “Star Trek” many…20 Apr 2021