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HANSARDHorizon EuropeI am sorry that the noble Lord cannot believe that the European Commission could do anything wrong, but this is actually part of the trade and co-operation agreement that the EU…09 Mar 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeI am afraid it is indeed the EU’s fault, and no amount of spinning from the Liberal Democrats will get away from that. We want to associate with the programme, we stand ready to…09 Mar 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeThe noble Lord asks a very good question. I know that the Minister for Science has had productive discussions with the Swiss on that. They have an extremely good, advanced and…09 Mar 2022HANSARDGreen SkillsMy noble friend makes a very good point. There are a number of different apprenticeship standards supporting green skills. The horticultural sector is very much a green skill, so…09 Mar 2022HANSARDGreen SkillsThat is a very wide-ranging question. There are a number of them, but I can give some examples: the wave 1 and 2 skills bootcamps in green subjects, such as housing retrofit,…09 Mar 2022HANSARDGreen SkillsIndeed, my noble friend makes a very good point. The UK is responsible for only 1% of worldwide emissions; it is very much a global problem that we have to work internationally to…09 Mar 2022HANSARDGreen SkillsIt is very hard to put a precise number on that, but I can give my noble friend some figures. Our net zero strategy supports up to 190,000 jobs by the middle of the 2020s, and up…09 Mar 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeYes, we will try to do that.09 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI said there was a robust system in place under the money laundering regulations in response to the various points that were made about financial services professionals, estate…09 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillThis is what we are attempting to address in this legislation. We are trying to make the system as transparent as possible, to improve the action on unexplained wealth orders, et…09 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillLet me come back to the noble Lord on that. I certainly commit to full scrutiny of the Bill when it is ready, which I think the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman, also asked me about.…09 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI start by thanking all noble Lords for their constructive engagement in advance of and during today’s debate, and for the support generally expressed for the swift passage of…09 Mar 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeI agree totally with the noble Earl that it is to the benefit of both parties. It provides value for money for the UK, which is why we agreed to associate with it. We thought that…09 Mar 2022HANSARDGreen SkillsIt is very much not business as usual. As the noble Baroness will be aware, we have one of the most ambitious decarbonisation targets in the western world. We have decarbonised…09 Mar 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeMy Lords, in line with the agreement made in December 2020, this Government are committed to finalising our association to Horizon Europe at the earliest opportunity. We continue…09 Mar 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeI agree with the noble Viscount; it is indeed very disappointing that the EU is refusing to abide by the agreement we made with it. I am sure that some of the EU’s supporters in…09 Mar 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeI agree with the noble Lord that the Horizon project is very valuable. That is why we want to continue association with it and why the funding has been allocated. With regard to…09 Mar 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeThe noble Lord makes a very good point. Of course, there is currently a dispute ongoing with Russia about the launch of the OneWeb satellite. My right honourable friend the…09 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillI will come to that in a second. The new register is designed to allow investigators to get behind opaque companies. Whether a title is held by a company or an individual, the…09 Mar 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillThat it be an instruction to the Committee of the Whole House to which the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill has been committed that they consider the bill in the…09 Mar 2022