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HANSARDSupplementary Protection Certificates (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020My Lords, first, I thank all noble Lords for their valuable contributions to this short and simple—actually, not simple but complicated debate. This instrument is vital to ensure…27 Nov 2020HANSARDProduct Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (UK (NI) Indication) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 13 October be approved. Relevant document: 32nd Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (special attention…27 Nov 2020HANSARDProduct Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (UK (NI) Indication) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their valuable contributions to this debate on what is a complicated issue, as a number of noble Lords have accepted. I have set out today…27 Nov 2020HANSARDSupplementary Protection Certificates (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 14 October be approved.27 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillI am not sure whether that was a question or a speech in the wrong place—but I take the noble Lord’s point. I think he is getting issues conflated. The common frameworks programme…25 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy Lords, during the Bill’s progress through Parliament, we have engaged extensively to ensure that it, and the Office for the Internal Market in particular, work for all parts of…25 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillI thank noble Lords who participated in the debate, particularly for their brevity. This is, I suspect, a simple difference of opinion, but I will give it a go anyway. In previous…25 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillI thank noble Lords who have contributed to another admirably brief debate. We are making good progress this afternoon. As I outlined in Committee, Clause 44 reserves to the UK…25 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market Bill25 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillI thank all noble Lords for their interventions on this subject; I understand the sincerity with which Peers have addressed it. However, as I said in my opening remarks, the…25 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market Bill25 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillThe Government intend to deliver measures on procurement through a wider package of procurement reform. The aim is for primary legislation to be made in the second Session, as I…23 Nov 2020HANSARDTravel AgentsMy Lords, we are regularly assessing Covid-19’s impact on tourism businesses. We recognise that these are extremely challenging conditions for those in the sector. High street…23 Nov 2020HANSARDTravel AgentsThere is of course a Minister for Tourism: Mr Huddleston, in DCMS. He is currently convening a cross-ministerial task force on the travel industry. The noble Lord can look forward…23 Nov 2020HANSARDTravel AgentsI outlined the measures that we put in place for individual travel businesses, but bigger operators have been able to access extensive loan and grant schemes. However, I readily…23 Nov 2020HANSARDTravel AgentsI will indeed pass on my noble friend’s concerns. As I have said, I cannot predict what will be in the announcement tomorrow, but we have been looking very closely at all the…23 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy Lords, I start by bringing to the attention of the House an inadvertent error that I made in one of my replies last Wednesday. In response to the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie…23 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillI of course thank the noble Lord for his help in answering the question more thoroughly than I did, and I can confirm my understanding that he is correct in what he says.23 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy noble friend is essentially right, but it would depend on whether it was legal for the good to be sold in the other nations of the United Kingdom. Again, the difference between…23 Nov 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market Bill23 Nov 2020