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HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, it falls to me as the mover of the lead amendment to respond to the Minister. Clearly, there was quite a lot in what she said and we will need to brood over Hansard when…24 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I would be very happy if the Minister introduced my amendment, but in moving it I will also speak to Amendment 243A and Clause 40 stand part. My noble friend Lord Fox…24 Oct 2022HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I add my thanks to the Minister, the noble Lord, Lord Kamall, the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, and their team, and of course to the Minister’s predecessor, the noble Lord,…19 Oct 2022HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for those three sets of assurances. I should have thanked him too for meeting with us prior to today. I am interested in the Minister’s change of…12 Oct 2022HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure BillMy Lords, in moving Amendment 1, I shall speak also to Amendment 13. My noble friend Lord Fox will speak to Amendment 3 in the same group. First, I warmly welcome the noble Lord,…12 Oct 2022HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill12 Oct 2022HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I too welcome the noble Lord, Lord Harlech, to the salt mines. He knows little yet of how much work is involved in being a Whip; that is all that I can say. I would also…12 Oct 2022HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure BillThe view of these Benches is that throughout the passage of the Bill it has been clear that a strong case has been made for better protection for landowners against the power of…12 Oct 2022HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure BillMy Lords, on these Benches we strongly support these amendments which support changes to the current valuation basis, the flaws in which were so expertly explained by the noble…12 Oct 2022HANSARDHorizon EuropeMy Lords, the creation of ARIA was an admission of the bureaucratic nature of the current UKRI research funding system. The Government must adopt plan B, which would be…08 Sept 2022HANSARDDigital Regulation: Communications and Digital Committee ReportMy Lords, I am pleased to be speaking in this short but perfectly formed debate. I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, on her accession to the chair of the…21 Jul 2022HANSARDDigital Regulation: Communications and Digital Committee ReportCan the Minister say a bit more about the Regulatory Horizons Council? It seems to be one of these shadowy bodies that very rarely publish anything or make updates. The Minister…21 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]Thank you. My Lords, if noble Lords thought that my previous speech took a long time, they will not be happy with the second half of it, which concerns the technical parts. These…18 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to speak to a number of amendments in this group on behalf of my noble friend Lord Wallace and myself. I must first apologise that there was no presence on the…18 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I apologise for interrupting, but can the Minister therefore explain why these time limits are so regularly and hugely overridden? The research shows, as I mentioned,…18 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I support Amendments 54, 104 and 535 and will speak to Amendments 67 and 116, which I have signed, which were all so well introduced by the noble Lord, Lord Knight. I…13 Jul 2022HANSARDRegister of Overseas Entities (Delivery, Protection and Trust Services) Regulations 2022Before the Minister moves on to verification, I just wanted to probe a little further on the Regulation 7 points he was talking about. It is reassuring that it will be a limited…12 Jul 2022HANSARDRegister of Overseas Entities (Delivery, Protection and Trust Services) Regulations 2022I thank the Minister for the detail. Can he say whether that will be by an affirmative or a negative process?12 Jul 2022HANSARDRegister of Overseas Entities (Delivery, Protection and Trust Services) Regulations 2022My Lords, first, I thank the Minister for his introduction and give apologies from my noble friend Lord Fox, who is unavoidably detained up a mountain. He would never normally…12 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 46, which comes from a slightly different angle. In our report AI in the UK: Ready, Willing and Able? , our AI Lords Select Committee, which I…11 Jul 2022