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HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillMy amendment?29 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillMy Lords, I see the point that the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, has made, and I commend him for getting past this amendment before 9.21 pm, which is of course sunset.29 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill29 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillMy Lords, one of the things that the briefing from the high value catapult team confirmed is the enormous difficulty there will be in creating a viable business from what His…29 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillMy Lords, this is a mixed bag of amendments. I will speak primarily to Amendment 29 in my name but also to some of the others. Amendment 29 highlights the potentially distorting…29 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillOn a number of occasions, the Minister has painted a picture of a breathless process, where all the organs of government have to operate at breakneck speed. Taking the Government…29 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister, his team, the department and the two experts who came all the way from Coventry in 35-degree temperatures to educate the noble Lord, Lord Hampton,…29 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillMy Lords, I have to say I was a bit grumpy when the Conservative Party tabled these amendments that we had tabled in the Commons, but in retrospect I am very pleased. No…29 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillMy Lords, I do not want to be the bringer of bad news to the noble Lord, Lord Redwood, but I suspect that it is pretty clear that the condition of the blast furnaces is poor and…29 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, for his support for these amendments and I was pleased to hear the closing part of the Minister’s statement. We all want the costs…29 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillI will be very brief and speak with some support for the noble Lord, Lord Wigley. As far as I can tell, the Bill does not require legislative consent from either Cardiff or…29 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillMy Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 10 and 11 in my name. Agreement appears to have broken out. The noble Lord, Lord Hunt, the Minister and I all agree that the wording of…29 Jun 2026HANSARDG7 SummitMy Lords, I thank the Lord Privy Seal for allowing this Statement to be repeated in your Lordships’ House. Self-evidently, I am standing in for the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, and it…23 Jun 2026HANSARDEmployment Tribunal (Extension of Time Limits) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2026My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for getting the old team together. I was missing the Employment Rights Bill, which had been such an important part of my…23 Jun 2026HANSARDEmployment Tribunal (Extension of Time Limits) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2026I was planning to write a letter on that very subject, because I felt that it was not necessarily due in this debate, so there is a letter heading in the Minister’s direction on…23 Jun 2026HANSARDHong Kong Economic and Trade OfficeMy Lords, as the noble Baroness said, Peter Wai was a UK Border Force officer and a special constable, but it has also been reported that he was a director of a private security…22 Jun 2026HANSARDHong Kong Economic and Trade OfficeMy Lords—22 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel TariffsMy Lords, in responding to the last point made by the noble Lord, today I forwarded to the Minister a very detailed list of the categorisations of steel that will not be available…18 Jun 2026HANSARDDefence Investment PlanOne way of achieving the objectives that my noble friend spoke about, to give some certainty, could be for the UK to join the defence, security and resilience bank. In answer to a…16 Jun 2026HANSARDSteel Industry (Nationalisation) BillMy Lords, I join the chorus welcoming the noble Lord, Lord Leong, to his new ministerial role. He has not only got the new role but got it in time to steward this Bill, and the…16 Jun 2026