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HANSARDUK-EU Trade: Small and Medium-sized EnterprisesMy Lords, the Minister will have seen yesterday’s reports in the FT that average businesses are facing extra costs of £100,000 to navigate this friction. The Minister has painted…31 Jan 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I know the Minister is a big fan of innovation, so the introduction of some innovative procedure by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas, will no doubt have filled…31 Jan 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI welcome what the Minister says, in some respects. Will the issue of updating electrical and electronic products be part of that review, too? In other Bills, we have discussed…31 Jan 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 2024HANSARDPost Office LtdMy Lords, the Minister said that it was hoped that the appointment would be made as soon as possible, hopefully this year. In the meantime, this organisation is a burning…30 Jan 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]My Lords, having been cleared to annoy your Lordships’ House, I will do my best to do so. This Bill started in your Lordships’ House and now heads to the Commons. Its primary…30 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office LtdThe Minister’s answer is really helpful, because the question is, when is arm’s-length not arm’s-length? It is clear that it has ceased to be an arm’s-length operation, rightly or…30 Jan 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I speak to Amendment 82 in my name. Through the medium of parliamentary reports, it seeks to probe the Government’s position on standards—as was previewed by the noble…29 Jan 2024HANSARDUkraine: ReconstructionI thank the Minister for his Answer; I hope he does not mind if I probe a little bit. There have been widespread reports that the US specifically is leading discussions about…25 Jan 2024HANSARDUkraine: ReconstructionTo ask His Majesty’s Government what legal options, if any, they are exploring to seize any Russian central bank assets that are frozen in the United Kingdom’s financial system…25 Jan 2024HANSARDAlan Bates and Others v Post Office LimitedMy Lords, to date, all the talk has been around what happened to sub-postmasters, but we should remember that Horizon was being used in the Crown offices, the branches that Post…24 Jan 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI appreciate the Minister giving way again and his answers. I am slightly confused; I either misheard or misunderstood, but did the Minister say that Clause 19(5) is, in essence,…24 Jan 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, on the pretext that he would not be here, my noble friend passed responsibility for this group on to me. As noble Lords can see, he is “not” here. This is a long group…24 Jan 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, the hyperactive pen of my noble friend signed up to this amendment as well. It is a great pleasure to support the noble Lords, and particularly to get cover from the…24 Jan 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, clearly the noble Lord’s days on the standing committee were not wasted; we thank him for his incredibly cogent set of arguments. He has said some of what I was going to…24 Jan 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillThe Minister has already introduced a difference between the two. There is a difference between “there is no other reasonable or practicable way” and “indispensable”. They are not…24 Jan 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI appreciate what the Minister said. By “early on in the process” does he mean after the process has been instigated, or before? A lot of this information is needed in order to…24 Jan 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]I shall be brief. Not for the first time, your Lordships are in debt to the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, for intervening on an issue that I think all of us failed to note. His…23 Jan 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]23 Jan 2024HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]Before the Minister sits down, winding back to the point about territoriality, he spoke of national boundaries as being arbitrary. It would help me to understand what kind of…23 Jan 2024