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HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, it is an enormous pleasure to follow my noble friend and the two noble and learned Lords, and I am certain that I will not be anywhere near as eloquent in speaking to…27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lord Redesdale, I thank the Minister for his kind offer to him. I am sure the Minister will understand that I will want to go and put a wet…27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]Does it not therefore draw attention to the vital importance of very effective enforcement taking place at our borders? That requires us to look very carefully at the funding and…27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, these amendments deal with a range of issues concerning enforcement. As the noble Baroness, Lady Crawley, said, I have signed and fully support the numerous amendments…27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I am grateful, because this takes this back in a sense to an earlier group. The Minister has again referred to the issue of installation. Can he say categorically, on the issue of…25 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, the first amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, Amendment 14, seeks to ensure that the production reliance on software and artificial intelligence are included in…25 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, so many of our deliberations in our various sittings have been seeking to put some flesh on to the skeleton nature of the Bill before us; I have done that on a number of…25 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, this is an important group of amendments. No doubt, the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, will shortly set out his amendments but, as I understand them, by deleting bits of the…25 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]In the Division Lobby, perhaps.20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I begin by thanking the Minister for his willingness to engage with all noble Lords who have shown an interest in this Bill, and I thank his team for the support and…20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]Just for absolute clarity, I did not say that the Bill was too discretionary; I said that the current arrangements were too discretionary and I want a change from that situation.20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]Why?20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I almost want to say that the Minister doth protest too much. We have been given a whole range of examples that he says illustrate that it might be that they will take…20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I apologise but I am not quite sure what the Minister’s concern about my amendment therefore is. It specifically suggests that we put into the Bill a power for the Secretary of…20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]Hear, hear!20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment and the amendment that is still to be debated by the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe. The amendment that I propose is to strengthen and…20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Lord the Minister for his helpful opening remarks and make it absolutely clear that we on these Benches broadly welcome the Bill and very strongly…08 Oct 2024HANSARDRural Crime: NFU Mutual ReportMy Lords, given—as we have already heard from the Minister—the very special challenges and additional costs faced by councils and police forces in rural areas, does the Minister…12 Sept 2024