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HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillIf my noble friend is saying what the noble Baroness asked, she is making a very serious change. To object to the changes being recommended on the basis that this is the wrong…23 Mar 2023HANSARDImported BeefMy Lords, will my noble friend be kind enough to ask his fellow Minister when I can expect an answer to the letter I wrote to him in my capacity as chairman of the Climate Change…22 Mar 2023HANSARDPolice and Crime CommissionersDoes my noble friend accept that, despite his answers, there is considerable unhappiness about this whole story? I understand how difficult it is for him but, frankly, it will no…20 Mar 2023HANSARDPublic Order BillMy Lords, it would be a great mistake for us to ignore the views that have just been put before us. I was one of those who did not want this clause at all, because I find the…14 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillDoes my noble friend accept that this is too serious a matter to try to turn it into party politics? Does he further accept that international law is crucially important for…08 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillIf something does not exist because it has been overlooked, how would case law which refers to it work? As I understand it, that case law is to be abolished, so we cannot actually…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillDoes my noble friend accept that that is an argument against democracy? Evidently, because it is difficult, we are going to change the law without asking Parliament. My noble…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, I rise not least to celebrate the fact that I agree so strongly with my noble friend Lord Hamilton. We are as one, and it does not matter what we thought when it came to…02 Mar 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillThere are certainly considerations, but surely one of them is that we have an opportunity to make the change in this Bill, and we will not have another opportunity for a very long…01 Mar 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I remind the Committee of my interests, including chairmanship of PIMFA, which represents financial advisers, and at Sancroft we advise a number of financial…01 Mar 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, much of what we have just heard would be very much supported by the group of people with whom I work. We do not want to reduce the protection of either group of which we…01 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am talking about the left-hand side of the road and the first amendment is about motor vehicles. The second one is dealing with the rules of the compensation system for…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI chose to speak on these amendments because I want to talk about the reality of the Bill, which is best exemplified here, rather than later when we will talk about the…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy noble friend was kind enough to mention me and our work together in the European Union. We have now read this letter; evidently, we are to do something which we would never…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI almost dare not go down that line because it has been suggested that what I have been saying is not applicable to these amendments. I think it is applicable, and we have to talk…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillIt is a very serious deficit. I will apply it to this amendment, as my noble friend the Whip insisted. I have chosen this amendment because it is so obviously true that the…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI hope the Committee agrees that I am addressing the amendments.28 Feb 2023HANSARDPrepayment Energy MetersMy Lords, I accept the basis of what my noble friend is arguing, but might he see whether we could look again at the real costs of prepayment meters? It seems that the energy…08 Feb 2023HANSARDEnergy Profits LevyMy Lords, in the announcement of record profits, BP has said that it is not going to reach the very moderate targets it had for moving towards net zero. The Climate Change…07 Feb 2023HANSARDPublic Order BillWhat a good intervention that was; I much agree with it. Returning to the previous intervention, my noble friend can say what he likes; indeed, as a former special constable, he…07 Feb 2023