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HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]Coming from Herefordshire as I do, I comment on matters Welsh with great trepidation. I commend the two previous speakers on this amendment. If the Minister could see common sense…26 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, pointed out, this is a wide range of varying amendments on a scale that, I suggest, is suboptimal for the proper scrutiny of this…26 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I thank the Minister, but the question I was rather clumsily trying to ask was whether we extract from the cost the amount of money we expect to take in tax or merely use the cost…24 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]The Minister will have got the message that there is deep disquiet about how this will be structured and will operate. If the Minister has time, can she reflect on Hansard and…24 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]Following on from that, if the Secretary of State can give and the Secretary of State can take away, and we have no sense that this panel will endure past the next government…24 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords—24 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I speak in place of my noble friend Lord Wallace on Amendments 349A, 349B and 353A, all of which refer to and reflect on the procurement review unit. On page 13 of…24 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, before the Minister finishes, I have two points. On the big question, I asked whether she thought that Clause 41 would prevent the VIP lane problems resurfacing or…24 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, as we have heard, Clause 41 covers the very important issue of direct awards that may be awarded to protect life. The Covid pandemic tested our current systems but, in…24 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I think it is.24 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, as the noble Viscount set out so speedily, this new concept of dynamic markets is so new that a lot of it did not even make it into the original Bill; it had to be…24 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for her response. The notion of, in a sense, using professional misconduct as the catch-all for everything else is something that we could pursue after…24 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]A chilling effect on corruption?24 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise as a cipher for my noble friend Lord Wallace, who has tabled a number of amendments in this group. He is unable to attend this and the next day in Committee, so I…24 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]During that spirited defence of the need to keep things open for international companies to be able to bid, the Minister used the phrase “value for money”. Can she define the…24 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]It is surprising that the Minister cannot answer that.24 Oct 2022HANSARDWorkforce: Trades Union CongressThe noble Lord talked about opportunities for the supply chain. The biggest barrier to growth and prosperity in this country is a shortage of skills, so will the Minister take…19 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic UpdateMy Lords, until about a week ago, the whole Cabinet and most of the Members opposite were proclaiming that the only way to deliver growth was through a whole suite of tax cuts. We…19 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomic SituationMy Lords, the Minister has many times referred to growth. I am sure that the Government recognise that for that growth to come, private sector companies must have the confidence…13 Oct 2022HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure BillIn reference to the consultation, does the Minister include product safety and product security in the term “unsafe”?12 Oct 2022