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HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018Is the noble Lord not being a bit unfair to the Minister? Is the real problem here not the word “informal”? The Minister’s problem is that, if you have a formal consultation, you…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018What is more, that one person was selected but clearly not trusted.14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I do not want to embarrass any Ministers, including the noble Lord who is here. I want to exclude Ministers, both past and present, for a kind of corporate nonsense which the…14 Jan 2019HANSARDHuman Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I say to the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, that we have a real issue here because it is very hard for the Minister to have to respond to this situation. Again, I apologise to her for…09 Jan 2019HANSARDHuman Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019As the noble Lord asks for a guarantee, could he explain how the Government could make such a guarantee? Surely that is our problem; it is not that the Government would not like…09 Jan 2019HANSARDHuman Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I hope that my noble friend will be able to answer this question, but I point out that it is rather difficult to answer. Yesterday or the day before, we were informed that we have…09 Jan 2019HANSARDHuman Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords—09 Jan 2019HANSARDHuman Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My noble friend has not answered my point and this is a debate. The question I want to ask her is this. I accept that there are no large-scale transportation issues, but there are…09 Jan 2019HANSARDQuality and Safety of Organs Intended for Transplantation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019But does that not also underline what my noble friends says: that this is not a change in any way? What we mean is that were there to be a no deal, it is not this that changes but…09 Jan 2019HANSARDHuman Fertilisation and Embryology (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Hear, hear!09 Jan 2019HANSARDHuman Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, the Minister has been put in an impossible position, not by this Committee, but by the Government. We should apologise to the Minister for the fact that we have only her…09 Jan 2019HANSARDHuman Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019It is natural for the noble Lord, Lord Warner, to have put his finger on exactly what I was about to come to as my final point of discussion. I say to my noble friend that the…09 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]I hope that my noble friend the Minister has listened carefully to the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, on this matter. We are faced with a real difficulty here. We have agreed to many…08 Jan 2019HANSARDFinancial Services (Implementation of Legislation) Bill [HL]My Lords, I remind the House of my declaration in the register of interests, particularly my chairmanship of PIMFA, the organisation that represents independent financial advisers…08 Jan 2019HANSARDMigrant CrossingsMy Lords, I want to return to the question asked by my noble friend about the two cutters taken from their operations. If they are not where they were, the people in these…07 Jan 2019