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HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, this has been a short but important debate. I expect the Minister to stand up and say that EEA professionals whose qualifications were recognised before the end of the…14 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I assure the Minister that I have managed to work out that if two things are standing next to each other I can feel differently about one from the other. Everything that I have…14 Jun 2021HANSARDEmployment RightsMy Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. This is a relatively small, long-overdue step towards upholding workers’ rights, and to that extent it is welcome.…10 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I will be very brief. In his response, the Minister said that the calculation for shortages would be granular. Whether it is because it is late or because I am stupid, I do not…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, this amendment, I should emphasise to the Minister, is offered very much in the spirit of helpfulness. At Second Reading, the Minister said: “The Bill will allow action…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, this has already been a more interesting debate than I had anticipated. The response of the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, on the subject of such clauses was not…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, this group is perhaps the inevitable consequence of trying to reduce a highly complex system and situation, as the Minister has highlighted, into a small…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]Thank you. I did send an email—it is probably lurking in the system. Coming back to the Minister’s assessment that the costs would be low, I am again looking at one of my noble…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for putting this amendment forward, and I commend him on the forcefulness of his speech. I am not going to repeat things he said, but…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I join noble Lords in congratulating the Minister on moving quickly on this. I also congratulate the GMC and the Nursing and Midwifery Council on moving quickly in terms…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I thank the Minister, who has used words to set out why the Government want to put “substantially” in there but in no sense explained it. Again, the Minister stated the importance…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, given the United Kingdom’s position on the G7, we should in fact be a net skills exporter rather than an importer. It is to be regretted that this is not within the…25 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateMy Lords, let us remind ourselves of the human scale of this outrage. Starting more than 20 years ago, the Post Office prosecuted nearly 1,000 sub- postmasters and…24 May 2021HANSARDRail Disruption: Social and Economic ImpactsMy Lords, I declare that I am a member of the GWR APPG and a user of GWR’s services. In her Answer to the Question, the Minister said, quite rightly, that the “vast majority” of…13 May 2021HANSARDVice-President of the European CommissionMy Lords, the Minister has recognised several times the problems that exporters are having with standards. Can he tell us how many times since January he has raised this issue…29 Apr 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, the Minister used the word heavyweight; I would use the word authoritative about the speeches we have heard from the noble Lords, Lords West, Lord Butler, Lord Lansley,…28 Apr 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, the sands of dissent are passing through the hourglass of incredulity. The Minister is right; there has been a long debate. It is very nice to hear that he values the…28 Apr 2021HANSARDPost Office Court of Appeal JudgmentMy Lords, I thank the Minister for bringing this Statement to your Lordships’ House, and for his two letters to all Peers over the last five weeks. I should say that I have been a…28 Apr 2021HANSARDForensic Science and the Criminal Justice System (S&T Committee Report)My Lords, I often start speeches by saying that it is an honour to follow this or that noble Lord, but I have to say that it is absolutely a great honour to follow the expertise…26 Apr 2021