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HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill20 Feb 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillI am trying to follow the logic of my noble friend’s argument. If her argument is that Parliament can set up committees so there is no need for legislation, why is it necessary to…20 Feb 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillI am most grateful to my noble friend and do not want to detain the Committee, but the whole point of the noble Baroness’s amendment is to avoid exactly this kind of debate. To my…20 Feb 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, my noble friend referred to the range of views and the House of Commons. I hope that this does not get into a kind of turf war between the House of Commons and the House…20 Feb 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillI am most grateful to my noble friend; I apologise for not having been able to attend all the Committee’s meetings. Can my noble friend help me by defining “public interest”—that…20 Feb 2023HANSARDAdult Social CareMy Lords, given that the Government promised that they would fix social care, and given that in the Answer to this Question the Minister said that there were 10 million people…20 Feb 2023HANSARDAdult Social CareAnswer.20 Feb 2023HANSARDPrepayment Energy MetersMy Lords, is not the problem that people with prepayment meters are in the main people who are financially stretched, but they pay a higher rate for their electricity? What is the…08 Feb 2023HANSARDBroadband: PriceHas my noble friend, as well as having the experience of reading a contract, had the experience of trying to communicate with these providers? You sit on the phone for hours and…02 Feb 2023HANSARDUrgent and Emergency Care Recovery PlanMy Lords, my noble friend quite rightly pointed out that there are more doctors than ever in the NHS, but many of them are in training. As my noble friend Lady McIntosh pointed…02 Feb 2023HANSARDHorizon Europe: UK ParticipationMy Lords, does my noble friend not think that the Government might be more successful in delivering what everyone wants if the Opposition do not keep taking the side of the EU,…31 Jan 2023HANSARDSecondary Legislation Scrutiny CommitteeMy Lords, I confess that, when I was chair of the Economic Affairs Committee, I complained about this rotation. I see that the number of members coming off that committee is the…31 Jan 2023HANSARDPPE ExpenditureMy Lords, will the Minister indicate how much we are paying for storage of PPE? Are the press reports that we paying for the storage of PPE on a substantial scale in China correct?25 Jan 2023HANSARDElectric Vehicle Battery ProductionJaguar Land Rover and Mini are iconic examples of British culture and manufacturing. How can the Minister be satisfied with new Jaguar Land Rovers only being supplied with one key…23 Jan 2023HANSARDTimes Health CommissionMy Lords, if the Government or the editor of the Times want to find out what we need to do about social care or look at what has been agreed on an all-party basis, all they have…19 Jan 2023HANSARDWales: Additional Financial ResourcesMy Lords, has the time not come to get rid of the Barnett formula and to fund the devolved Administrations on the basis of need, which is how they distribute the money themselves?…18 Jan 2023HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets BillMy Lords, I declare my interest as set out in the register as chairman of a publicly quoted bank. I am also regulated by the PRA and the FCA under the senior managers regime, so I…10 Jan 2023HANSARDTax-free ShoppingMy Lords, is my noble friend not immensely encouraged by the enthusiasm for tax cuts on the Opposition Benches?15 Dec 2022HANSARDBiomass StrategyMy Lords, how can it possibly be in the interests of the environment to cut down trees in North America, then use energy to turn them into pellets, then put them on a ship powered…14 Dec 2022HANSARDParliamentary Works Sponsor Body (Abolition) Regulations 2022My Lords, this is not an area that I have looked at very carefully but, when I looked at these regulations, I was rather puzzled by what we hope to achieve by them. The Lord Privy…13 Dec 2022