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HANSARDVenture Capital Funds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, the Minister has not answered the fundamental question of why we cannot have the impact assessment before we approve these regulations rather than after. I think that…22 Jan 2019HANSARDVenture Capital Funds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I understand the explanation, but I do not find it satisfactory. Why is the House being invited to approve these statutory instruments without the impact assessment that relates…22 Jan 2019HANSARDVenture Capital Funds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, the noble Lord was intervening on me. It is not a question of accepting the word of the Minister; the Minister has not replied to the point. Indeed, the noble Lord, Lord…22 Jan 2019HANSARDInvasive Non-native Species (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, the Minister has made a good point, but that raises the issue as to why the regulations were put on the Order Paper at all if they had not gone through those processes.…22 Jan 2019HANSARDVenture Capital Funds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I was not able to speak in Grand Committee on these statutory instruments because the Grand Committee and the Chamber were both considering no-deal statutory instruments…22 Jan 2019HANSARDInvasive Non-native Species (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I see. Is the Minister saying that they had not completed the earlier sifting process?22 Jan 2019HANSARDInterchange Fee (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I wish to press the Minister further on these regulations, not in respect of the impact assessment, which in relation to these regulations was de minimis, but in respect…22 Jan 2019HANSARDVenture Capital Funds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I am not giving way to the Chief Whip until I have completed the point.22 Jan 2019HANSARDVenture Capital Funds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018But is that one available either?22 Jan 2019HANSARDInvasive Non-native Species (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, the House is grateful to the Minister for his introduction. First, since this is his department, I will raise with him an issue I raised earlier about the Order Paper.…22 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: Further ReferendumMy Lords, the noble Baroness says that the issues she has raised are technical, but they are important. They go to the heart of the conduct of a future referendum and are very far…17 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: Stability of the UnionMy Lords, the House is pleased that the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, is replying to this debate as it holds him in very high regard. The only surprising thing is that the…17 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: Further ReferendumMy understanding is that, despite what the Minister just said, work is in fact going on in the Cabinet Office in preparation for a second referendum. Would he care to confirm that…17 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: Further ReferendumSince the Minister is not informed about what is going on in the Government for whom he is responsible, could he write to me afterwards to let me know?17 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: Stability of the UnionI am bringing them to a conclusion. The Government in London also suffer from colonial complacency towards England, and we suffer from ideological idiocy in respect of Brexit.…17 Jan 2019HANSARDOccupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018The noble Lord and I have spent some time with other noble Lords in Grand Committee scrutinising a whole swathe of these regulations. Does he agree that a pattern is becoming very…15 Jan 2019HANSARDOccupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018Since there has been no formal consultation, the House has no basis on which to make any judgment at all. The Minister has simply made a number of assertions which appear to be at…15 Jan 2019HANSARDOccupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018The Minister said that the regulations would be cost neutral and the Explanatory Memorandum says, as she has just noted, that they, “make minor and technical changes”, but that…15 Jan 2019HANSARDOccupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018The noble Baroness has just said that the regulations are completely in line with the EU withdrawal Act and do not go beyond any provisions in that Act. But from reading the…15 Jan 2019HANSARDServices of Lawyers and Lawyer’s Practice (Revocation etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Can the Minister tell us how many lawyers will be affected by these arrangements?15 Jan 2019