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HANSARDElectricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) Order 2023My Lords, can I ask the Minister briefly about this order? As I understand it, the order is about requiring the providers of energy services to take measures to reduce people’s…26 Jun 2023HANSARDTeacher Training: Dyslexia and AutismMy Lords, I declare an interest as I have a family member who is affected by autism and dyslexia. Does my noble friend agree that one of the problems is that before people can get…22 Jun 2023HANSARDInheritance Tax: Cohabiting SiblingsMy Lords, following up on that last point, is not the problem that the only people who pay inheritance tax are the middle classes, or people whose only asset is the roof above…20 Jun 2023HANSARDHereditary Peers By-electionMy Lords, I confess that I have not always been a great fan of the hereditary by-elections, but we must surely all acknowledge that the process has brought some people of quite…14 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, once again, my noble friend has gone beyond what we might expect in responding to the debate, so it is a pleasure to beg leave to withdraw my amendment.13 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 103 in my name. It is supported by my noble friend Lord Bridges of Headley, who is currently chairing the Economic Affairs Committee, where the…13 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill13 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, when I went home after the last time we discussed accountability of the regulators to Parliament, my wife said to me, “I was watching you speaking on TV and, very…13 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy noble friend has made valid arguments for not putting the amendment, as drafted, in the Bill. However, she and her very clever officials could get around this by tabling an…13 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I agree with everything that has been said by everyone in the debate so far and support all these amendments. I know that my noble friend Lord Bridges is mortified that…08 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I fear that the Minister has stolen my clothes. In speaking to Amendments 25, 29, 31, 36 and 38, which are in my name, and in looking at the government amendments,…08 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I realise that we are on Report, but I should have declared my interest as chairman of Secure Trust Bank. I understand that it is not enough to have done so in…08 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend the Minister for the way in which she has responded to this. I entirely agree with her point, as a former chairman of the Economic…08 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I find myself in the very odd position of having to say that the Government have handled Committee stage consideration of the Bill brilliantly. The Minister listened to…08 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill08 Jun 2023HANSARDBusiness of the HouseIn my noble friend’s discussions with the usual channels, will she make the point that there are some conventions in this House? I have watched debates, even on Report, where…08 Jun 2023HANSARDCovid-19 InquiryMy Lords, does my noble friend not think that the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Hallett, might draw some lessons from the experience of France and Sweden? They have completed…08 Jun 2023HANSARDSMEs: Net-zero TargetsMy Lords, given that their competitors in Germany and elsewhere are extending the deadline for ending the production of motor cars with internal combustion engines, are we not in…07 Jun 2023HANSARDScottish Government: ExpenditureMy Lords, does my noble friend think it reasonable that the Scottish Government, who cannot run ferry services to the Western Isles, where the roads are full of holes and the…06 Jun 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, it is late, so I will not repeat the arguments which have been made by the noble Lord, Lord Tyrie, and the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer. The amendment seems to be a very…06 Jun 2023