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HANSARDInsolvency (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I indicated earlier that I was surprised that the Minister was pressing ahead with this, given the critical report from the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments. I…15 Jan 2019HANSARDServices of Lawyers and Lawyer’s Practice (Revocation etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Will that apply to all several hundred SIs? Will they all be incorporated in the withdrawal agreement Bill?15 Jan 2019HANSARDServices of Lawyers and Lawyer’s Practice (Revocation etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019The Minister may have said this before I came in. I apologise: I was held up at a meeting outside. He mentions the United Kingdom, but paragraph 2.1 of the Explanatory Memorandum…15 Jan 2019HANSARDOccupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My noble friend—I have known him for many years—is an expert on social security and a member of the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. The two committees under the noble…15 Jan 2019HANSARDOccupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018The noble Lord is a long-standing friend but my understanding is that things have changed. It was originally planned that the two would be taken together but the Minister has…15 Jan 2019HANSARDOccupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I am not asking that. I should make it clear that I do not have a pension based in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man. At least, if I do, then Brian Donohoe is going to be in…15 Jan 2019HANSARDOccupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018On this constant and ongoing activity with the industry, I wonder whether the Minister can help me. The territorial extent of this provision is the United Kingdom. What is the…15 Jan 2019HANSARDOccupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I thought she had moved only one Motion.15 Jan 2019HANSARDOccupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018The Minister read from paragraph 10.1 of the Explanatory Memorandum for my noble friend Lord Adonis. That paragraph does confirm what she has just read out: that, “the Department…15 Jan 2019HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Border Security BillBefore the noble Lord sits down, I would like to ask him whether he would have been able to give that speech in exactly the same way when the Liberal Democrats were part of the…15 Jan 2019HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Border Security BillBefore the Minister sits down, I want to raise a particular point about the amendment: why six months? Why was six months chosen rather than three months, a year or any other…15 Jan 2019HANSARDTenant Fees BillI am grateful and anticipate being the recipient of a letter. However, if we agree it may be too late because, before we agree, should we not know if Saturdays and Sundays are…15 Jan 2019HANSARDTenant Fees BillI have a question for the Minister about the definition of the day. Does it include any day of the week or is it just a weekday, excluding Saturdays and Sundays?15 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I shall pretend to be a Minister and say that I shall look at that very carefully.14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018The Minister has been very kind and polite, and I am most grateful to him. Talking about the impossibility of dealing with things, I—like the noble Lord, Lord Deben—have some…14 Jan 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018That is a terrible way to address another Member of the House. Will the noble Lord withdraw that remark immediately? This is absolutely disgraceful. I have never been treated like…14 Jan 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I have never been addressed in that way before by a colleague, in 26 years in the House of Commons and now 13 in the House of Lords: by someone saying, “Sit down!” in a peremptory…14 Jan 2019HANSARDPatents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I wonder if the Minister could help me out. I have been listening to the speeches since I came back from the Liaison Committee. In the light of what we have just heard, is the…14 Jan 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018With respect, that is only if everyone agrees—and I for one do not agree.14 Jan 2019HANSARDIntellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords—14 Jan 2019