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HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, it is a huge pleasure to follow such assembled knowledge and experience. I shall do my best to sum up from these Benches. On a previous Committee day, we debated an…16 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, it is nice to be in the Chamber rather than the glass cubes in which we have been confined. I assure your Lordships, and agree with the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, that…16 Mar 2021HANSARDBudget StatementMy Lords, we have a long debate in front of us and, in opening for the Liberal Democrats, I will not try to cover every single item in the Budget. I will not have time to go into…12 Mar 2021HANSARDGlobal Navigation Satellite SystemMy Lords, the cost of OneWeb does not stop with the Government’s share of $1 billion. In order to complete the array, the chairman of Bharti Enterprises says that a further $2.5…10 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillI am probably being extremely stupid here, so please forgive me. In the first example of a foreign business supplying a critical operation in this country, I understand that that…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillThis covers similar territory to Amendment 30 and the answer that we were given to it. I will read that carefully, as some of the answers are complex, as the Minister himself…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillI remind the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, that this is a particular Bill designed to do a particular thing. It is not a higher education Bill. While he may feel strongly about many of…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I agree with the analysis of the noble Lord, Lord Vaizey, that Her Majesty’s Government have underestimated the potential workload that this unit will get, but I am not…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, it would seem, when looking at Clause 29 and listening to the reasoned arguments of the noble Lords, Lord Hodgson and Lord Clement-Jones, that the Government would be…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillWere my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones here he would pick up his fishing rod again and say that this is a question of mesh size. But, actually, the issues raised by your…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Leigh, is correct to say that the Bill is far more important than the outside world seems to realise. When I have been speaking externally, I have…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillThis follows on quite well. Throughout this debate and lots of debates about Bills, we hear your Lordships use the phrase “unintended consequences”. Actually, giving the…09 Mar 2021HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for her thorough review of both the amendments, and of the scene. The Bill seems to have been around almost as long as the Covid pandemic. I am…04 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I fear I might have missed a trick here. I think we have two quite different amendments and I should have been smarter and disaggregated Amendment 94 from Amendment 14.…02 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I am second to no one in my admiration for the noble Lord, Lord Callanan, but I am quite glad that we have the other Minister in the hot seat for this one, the noble…02 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillDuring that comprehensive answer, I think I heard the Minister say something and I would like to test whether I understood correctly. In explaining why people should not be…02 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillI am grateful for the Minister’s gratitude. I am also grateful to Members of the Committee who have spoken, but I am a little shocked by the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, who seems…02 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, Amendment 1 is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones. At Second Reading the Minister described the Bill as “a major upgrade to the Government’s…02 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill02 Mar 2021HANSARDVauxhall at Ellesmere Port and Battery Manufacturing StrategyMy Lords, I am on the executive of the All-Party Parliamentary Motor Group. In his Statement, the Secretary of State boasted that some £1.5 billion of joint funding had gone to…02 Mar 2021