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HANSARDStellantis LutonMy Lords, I feel that the onus is on me to concentrate on the Statement at hand. This is undeniably a sad announcement for a business that stretches back to the start of the…28 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, had I been a little shrewder on the grouping, I would have included in this group Amendment 106, which we will debate in the antepenultimate group of the Bill, as it…27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I sort of thank the Minister for his response, but not much, because I think he could have acknowledged that this is a problem, rather than that SEPs exist, because it is a…27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I also support Amendment 35 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Lansley. As opposed to the last group, which focused on a large number of slightly different issues,…27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for that offer, which I am sure we will take him up on. If the Government wish to unburden small and medium-sized businesses, solving this problem would be a…27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I asked a specific question about publishing the code of practice in advance. Can I have an answer, please?27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, very briefly, and complying with time constraints, I warned your Lordships and the Government when speaking to another group that the skeletal nature of the Bill allows…27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, my noble friend Lord Foster will speak to his Amendment 102 in a few minutes, but it makes sense to follow the noble and learned Lords with my comments on Amendment 47…27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I will briefly respond to the noble Earl. He is right to raise this issue, which is clearly important; we look forward to seeing how the Government respond to it. There are…27 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]Briefly, I of course support these four amendments from my noble friends, but I will say a few words on Amendment 56. In a previous group, amendments tabled by me and the noble…27 Nov 2024HANSARDExports to the European UnionMy Lords, renewing—or rekindling—the relationship with Europe is very important. Does the Minister agree that one of the ways to make that harder is for UK product regulation to…20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I join the cavalcade of congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, on his new role. We on these Benches look forward to working constructively with him; having…20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I am not a student of parliamentary history, so I do not know if it is an unprecedented letter, but that was a helpful intervention, and I thank the noble Lord for that.20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I feel that I am standing in the middle of a perfectly good debate between the noble Baroness and the noble Lord. Perhaps we can reconcile it in some other way.20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]If they find themselves in the same Division Lobby, but that is rather unlikely. For this reason—the reason that I spoke of some time ago—I am proposing Amendment 113, which seeks…20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I think the Minister is trying to have it both ways. On the one hand, this committee is so long-winded that important and breathless regulation could not be made and, on the other…20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I beg your Lordships’ leave, and I apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, for taking over his amendment here, but the wording of Clause 2(3)(h) is “any other person…20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]I think we better had.20 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]20 Nov 2024