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HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]My Lords, my Amendments 11A, 11B, 12A and 15A seek to establish fuller procedures for the consideration of any changes to the law that the Government might wish to make that go…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]I did not hear the noble Lord across the Chamber, but it does not affect the point. He wants to vary the level of the bar—that is the issue. I do not object in principle: he has a…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]My Lords, the longer the noble Lords, Lord Leigh and Lord Hodgson, spoke, the more concerned I became about their intentions in relation to the powers proposed in the Bill. I…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]My Lords, I understand what the noble Baroness is seeking to do: to tease out from the Government whether they are prepared to agree to new reporting requirements, which would be…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]Before the noble Baroness sits down, I just want to say that all the points she has made, and made extremely well, seem to me to be met by my noble friend Lord Davies of Oldham’s…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]Therefore only small changes can be made, not large changes. My reading of the provisions in the Schedule is that they involve large, not small, changes.08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]What the Minister has said was clearly written for him by the Box: “‘Adjustments’ is an inherently limiting word”. Will he explain to the House how it inherently limits?08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]Let us be grown up about this. The Minister knows that people disagree about the meaning of “limited” in these contexts. I do not think that we think that the Minister’s assurance…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]My Lords, the noble Lord speaks as if there is not that power at the moment. There is: it is the power to introduce primary legislation. The Government do not lack this power; it…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]My Lords, the sunset clause is for two years, which is nearly half a Parliament. The fact that there is a sunset clause does not somehow legitimise everything that takes place in…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]My Lords, my noble friend Lady Liddell has made an extremely important point. As the debates and scrutiny have progressed and further information has become available on the Bill…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. In that case, why should there not be primary legislation?08 Jan 2019HANSARDSeaborne FreightMy Lords, who is paying for the dredging at Ramsgate? The noble Baroness did not answer that question.08 Jan 2019