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HANSARDReporting on Payment Practices and Performance (Amendment) Regulations 2024My Lords, we, too, welcome this statutory instrument in as far as it goes. When I saw that my friend the noble Lord, Lord Aberdare, was speaking, I knew that my speech would get…26 Feb 2024HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Provisions) Regulations 2024Those are laudable aim, Minister. Those of us who laboured long and hard into the night on the then Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill welcome the arrival of this…26 Feb 2024HANSARDLife Sciences BusinessesMy Lords, the Office for Life Sciences reports to the DHSC and the DSIT. The Office for Investment is a joint No. 10 and Department for Business and Trade unit. I spoke to a major…26 Feb 2024HANSARDNational Minimum WageMy Lords, I think the noble Lord, Lord Bird, would agree that there are too many working people who have to rely on the minimum wage in this country and that those at the bottom…21 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesMy Lords, as we have heard, with every day that passes, more questions seem to come up. In Parliament, the Secretary of State’s Statement was strident—I would say unusually…21 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Governance and Horizon Compensation SchemesThat is fascinating and helpful. Given that there is not a SID and that it was the chairman, what was the conduit of the director’s disquiet from the board to the Secretary of…21 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: RacismMy Lords, it is easy to see why the noble Lord was shocked by the racist terms uncovered, which were used by the investigating team in Post Office Ltd. It is even more shocking to…19 Feb 2024HANSARDRegistered Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024My Lords, as someone who has spent a lot of his professional life working on annual reports, I have often had questions about GAAP, but the Minister will be pleased to know that I…19 Feb 2024HANSARDRegistered Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024On chronology, am I right in thinking that there is a commencement statutory instrument that needs to be brought forward for the overall Bill? When might we see that being tabled?19 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: Compensation PaymentsMy Lords, clearly the public statements of the Secretary of State and the former chair, Staunton, are mutually exclusive, and we look forward to hearing the Secretary of State’s…19 Feb 2024HANSARDFood Import RequirementsMy Lords, can the Minister confirm whether the necessary professionals are still being recruited in order to provide this service? What percentage of capacity will be available on…14 Feb 2024HANSARDCombating Disinformation: Freedom of ExpressionMy Lords, my noble friend Lord Strasburger asked about the parliamentary scrutiny of the unit. Does the Minister understand that, if there were to be proper scrutiny of the unit,…13 Feb 2024HANSARDComputer Systems: Independent TestingMy Lords, the Minister set out a long list of things that need considering. I understand his point, so could he perhaps tell us the timetable for this process, when we might hear…12 Feb 2024HANSARDTata Steel: Port TalbotOne way to meet the justified need mentioned by the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, to produce more virgin steel rather than from scrap is to use direct reduced iron technology that can…07 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Appointments: Ministerial ResponsibilityMy Lords, I am not sure that the Minister answered the question from the noble Lord, Lord Arbuthnot. We agreed that the Post Office needs leadership, and last week the Minister…07 Feb 2024HANSARDCarer’s Leave Regulations 2024My Lords, so much of life on these Benches feels a little like pushing water up a hill. If you will excuse me for mixing the medium, this was like pushing an open door; it really…06 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillWhen the Minister writes that letter, perhaps he could extend it to include the United Kingdom Internal Market Act because that seems not to have been taken into consideration.…05 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillThat is beginning to be helpful, but the Minister will be aware that different local authorities are receiving different legal advice. Some are comfortable with the definition…05 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI thank the Minister for his response and for his offer to look through the data, which we will be happy to pick up. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for her support and…31 Jan 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I congratulate the Deputy Chairman of Committees, who once again did a magnificent job. I speak on behalf of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones to move Amendment 108 and…31 Jan 2024