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HANSARDCustoms Miscellaneous Non-fiscal Provisions and Amendments etc. (EU Exit) Regulations 2020In addition to the questions asked by other noble Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe, asked about penalties. They will be used where a person is found contravening a customs…19 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe, for his comments. I shall to try to address some of his points. It is clear that the UK, along with the rest of the…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateThe noble Lord asks very important questions. I am not in a position to give a date by which we will attempt to rebalance the budget, but I assure the noble Lord it is a very high…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateThe first question, on the link between vaccination rate and economic confidence, is absolutely fundamental. I am not aware of specific research being done on that. If there is…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateAs I said in my earlier comments to the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, I am not able to give the commitment the noble Lord asks for. The Chancellor will give an economic update in…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateI would remind the noble Lord of the large number of interventions we have made which will substantially support the most vulnerable in society: support to renters to reduce the…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateThe right reverend Prelate asks important questions. I can assure him that very active thinking is going on about how to come out of this awful event as quickly as possible. I…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateIt is right that we should always aim to get the help to the most vulnerable areas, but there is a trade-off between speed of policy announcement and execution and the complexity…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateI am not entirely sure what the noble Lord is referring to—perhaps to supply chain issues in the first few days of Brexit. If that is his question, I can assure him that all is…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateI am not aware of a huge jump in inflation, as suggested by the noble Lord. Indeed, inflation remains extremely low. The pay freeze in the public sector was carefully targeted to…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateMy Lords, there is a balancing act here. We all absolutely accept the grave state of the government finances following this crisis, and we will be doing everything we can to bring…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateMy Lords, the Government are acutely aware of the challenging circumstances aviation is facing. The sector is able to draw on the unprecedented package of measures announced by…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateMy Lords, I do not have an update on the response that the noble Earl received last week, but we will of course notify the House as soon as any is issued.12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateMy Lords, we have used such instruments as discretionary funding support for local authorities. We have just given an additional £500 million to enable them to fill gaps, for…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateThe Government do not accept that the approach the noble Lord is suggesting is the right one. We have put in place the trader support scheme in Northern Ireland, which I had some…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateI very strongly support my noble friend’s views on this. We have seen some remarkable decision-making across government over the last few months, at a much faster rate than…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateWe are aware of the possibility of wrongdoing by businesses and the claiming of grants that were not legitimately theirs but, as I said on an earlier question, the priority was to…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateMy Lords, we expect to provide over £3 billion-worth of support to local authorities over the next year, on top of the support we have already given. For example, over Christmas…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateMy Lords, I do not have those figures to hand, but there will be ongoing economic Statements and my right honourable friend the Chancellor will address this in his Budget in a few…12 Jan 2021HANSARDEconomic UpdateI share the noble Viscount’s view that we need to talk more of a single nation. I fear we will hear more of this up to the devolved elections over the next few months, but I hope…12 Jan 2021