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HANSARDCompetition and Markets Authority ChairmanMy Lords, whether you characterise the change in chairmanship of the CMA as a sacking or not, all the government statements are clearly designed to create a change in behaviour…27 Jan 2025HANSARDEconomic GrowthMy Lords, I join in the congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, for securing this debate. It is the first time I have had the pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord…23 Jan 2025HANSARDUK/US Free Trade AgreementMy Lords, the Question and the Answer illustrate the weakness of our current position. I have also been reading the papers, and we seem to be relying on the sentimental feelings…20 Jan 2025HANSARDColombia: Bilateral Investment TreatyMy Lords, as we have heard, ISDSs are not rare—there are many of them. However, increasingly they are coming under scrutiny and, moving forward, some countries are not seeking…20 Jan 2025HANSARDReporting on Payment Practices and Performance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024It is really important because we are seeing, not necessarily under the Procurement Act but under the NHS, major legal tussles over the misapplication of the assumed rules of…13 Jan 2025HANSARDReporting on Payment Practices and Performance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024My Lords, it is useful to have heard from the noble Lord, Lord Aberdare, and the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, as they have made it their business to address this issue over…13 Jan 2025HANSARDReporting on Payment Practices and Performance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024Before the Minister sits down, I asked a very specific question around public procurement. I ask it again: if I am a public procurer and two bidders are more or less the same—or…13 Jan 2025HANSARDRegistrar (Identity Verification and Authorised Corporate Service Providers) Regulations 2024My Lords, I thank the Minister for his explanation. For those of us who worked on the economic crime Bills, this is a welcome development. I am interested in the timeline, because…13 Jan 2025HANSARDRegistrar (Identity Verification and Authorised Corporate Service Providers) Regulations 2024With the Committee’s permission, I have just one question that I had meant to ask the Minister. It is around the obligation to retain identity information over seven years, which…13 Jan 2025HANSARDRegistrar (Identity Verification and Authorised Corporate Service Providers) Regulations 2024On Companies House’s right to suspend an ACSP, what right of appeal does the ACSP have in those circumstances? Does it go to judicial review? What happens?13 Jan 2025HANSARDPublic Finances: Borrowing CostsMy Lords, the growth of which the Minister speaks will need investment and, given the state of the public finances, a significant proportion of that investment has to come from…09 Jan 2025HANSARDMultilateral Free TradeMy Lords, first, I express the immense sadness on these Benches at the passing of our noble friend Lady Randerson. She was a wonderful colleague and a great contributor to your…06 Jan 2025HANSARDChina: Human Rights and SecurityMy Lords, like others, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for securing this debate. Unlike others, I also praise him for the propitious timing that he managed to secure for this…19 Dec 2024HANSARDChina: Human Rights and SecurityTry to stop me.19 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall be brief and start with Amendment 79. We could join in the chorus of approval and my noble friend Lady Brinton could come up with dozens of examples that justify…11 Dec 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I thank the Minister, but perhaps there is another of his letters here—for which I also thank him. The CPTPP is not like the European Union—there is not a secretariat overseeing…11 Dec 2024HANSARDEconomic ProductivityMy Lords, the Minister was right to mention skills being central to bringing productivity up. Both our parties had large chapters on skills in our manifestos and, since coming…05 Dec 2024HANSARDUK EntrepreneursMy Lords, when the Minister answered the noble Lord’s original Question, some of it got missed—happily, that was what I was planning to ask. Most entrepreneurs start as small or…04 Dec 2024HANSARDUK EntrepreneursMy Lords—04 Dec 2024HANSARDUndersea CablesMy Lords, one way to mitigate risk is to have redundancy in the capacity of the cables, but redundancy costs money for the commercial organisations that own those cables. What is…03 Dec 2024