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HANSARDNewport Wafer FabTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their position regarding the acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab by Chinese-owned technology company Nexperia.07 Apr 2022HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]To follow up on the points that the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, and I made about the relationship between Westminster and Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast, does the Minister agree with…05 Apr 2022HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I think all in this House would send good wishes to the noble Lord, Lord Grimstone, and wish him a hasty return to the Front Bench opposite. The noble Baroness, Lady…05 Apr 2022HANSARDEnergy Storage CapacityMy Lords, the success of offshore wind was driven by the contracts for difference structure that has caused private money to pour into the sector. The Government have recently…05 Apr 2022HANSARDExports: Support for BusinessesMy Lords, I am sure that the Minister will agree that businesses in areas such as conference organisation, music and theatre, which rely on people travelling from this country to…31 Mar 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillMy Lords, it is genuinely pleasing to see the Minister looking in a substantially better state than he did at the end of Report. I am pleased that he is back up and at the…28 Mar 2022HANSARDP&O FerriesMy Lords, as the Minister knows, multi-divisional companies such as DP World use a legal corporate veil so that they can hide behind the deeds of those subsidiaries. However,…23 Mar 2022HANSARDSub-Postmasters: CompensationMy Lords, on the face of it, this is belated but good news. We should remind ourselves that this all started when a large international corporation, a huge public service and…23 Mar 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillMy Lords, before speaking to this group, I must say that our colleagues, my noble friends Lady Randerson and Lord German have been struck down with Covid, so, although there are…22 Mar 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillMy Lords, as the Minister has set out, this group includes a number of concessions around the transparency issue. Again, we should thank him for coming some of the way towards the…22 Mar 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillYour Lordships will remember that I made a very long speech on the DPRRC’s reports and I would like to think that it was the power of reasoning within that long speech that led to…22 Mar 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillI am sorry to prolong this, but is the Minister now saying that, for a streamlined scheme that is presented by central government and could be taken up by, for example,…22 Mar 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillI apologise to the Minister and thank him for giving way. I am struggling a little with why the Government want to hoard the right to create streamlined subsidies to central…22 Mar 2022HANSARDP&O FerriesMy Lords, I want to talk about business culture, the culture of an organisation that takes action like this, the culture that led the management of P&O to turn these people out of…22 Mar 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillI rise to support briefly Amendments 3, 51 and 61. On the point made by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, and our Green friend, I was not aware that this scheme excluded…22 Mar 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillI rise on behalf of the noble Lord, Lord Lamont, to move Amendment 47 and also speak to Amendments 48 to 50. I had never expected to be the noble Lord’s stunt double but I do not…22 Mar 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for his answers, although many of them are disappointing. On Amendment 56, it would be helpful if the Minister could write on how that challenge…22 Mar 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillHave I been fired as the Minister’s speechwriter?22 Mar 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill22 Mar 2022HANSARDTrade with the European UnionMy Lords, the Minister talks about exports and I am sure he would like to recognise the challenge facing our energy-intensive industries. They are competing internationally on an…21 Mar 2022