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HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillWhen is a catalogue not a list?28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillChaos.28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillJust to add to that, I say to the noble Lord that if he reads back through Hansard , he will see that my noble friend Lady Randerson dealt specifically with all four of those…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillIt is in the name of my noble friend Lady Randerson.28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI do not think the Minister was coming on to this point; if she was, I apologise. I asked a specific question about regulatory divergence. The Lord Privy Seal was clear that,…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe presence here of the noble Lord, Lord Benyon, is a good indicator of what we will get in the next group: the appropriate department covering the appropriate amendments. These…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillVery briefly, the reason we are welcoming the noble Lord, Lord Benyon, is not because we have grown fed up with the noble Lord, Lord Callanan; it is because he is the major…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThat assessment process is part of what I was hoping the Minister could shed some light on. It is an awful lot of assessment, so could he let us know what proportion of his…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, it seems the debate has started quite strongly already, as I think we expected. I am indebted to the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, for her intervention, which I think…23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillHow does the Bill make that happen, when Clause 15 does not allow an increase in regulatory burden? The Bill does not facilitate what was just stated at the Dispatch Box: it…23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI thank the noble Baroness for her intervention. To be brutally honest, it was her I was thinking of when I made that reference, because I know how hard she worked on that issue…23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI move Amendment 2 in my name and those of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones, the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, and the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle. We talked…23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, I think that we have just introduced a whole other confusion. Clause 15 talks about not increasing the regulatory burden. Is the Minister now proposing that it is the…23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI thank the Minister for giving way. She said that not all protections will fall away. Can she tell us which protections will fall away?23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, this has been a very long debate and I think there have been a lot of excellent speeches across the Committee. I was struck by the noble Lord, Lord Hacking, displaying…23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, my noble friend Lady Brinton has done a fantastic job of explaining why these three amendments have been put forward. I was going to apologise to the noble Lord, Lord…23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords—23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, coming in on that point—I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman, for starting the process—and bearing in mind that the number of regulations and laws we are discussing…23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillIt is not in the Bill.23 Feb 2023