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HANSARDTrade BillIt is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Patel. I shall speak to Amendment 51, to which I am a signatory. Before I do that, I commend my noble friend Lady Sheehan,…01 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillI thank the Minister for his response on Schrems II, which was very helpful. I would like just one further detail. Can he confirm that the advice, when it comes, could concern…01 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, in responding to the last group of amendments, the Minster, the noble Lord, Lord Grimstone, expressed surprise at the broad nature of the debate. I would say to him,…01 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 6 in my name, but before that I want to speak more generally on Amendments 1 to 5. These all refer to Clause 1 and the UK’s future…29 Sept 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I am sitting here looking at the small surface wipes, which profess to kill 99.9% of all viruses. In his speech, the Minister used broadly the same terms twice, and…29 Sept 2020HANSARDEconomyMy Lords, even with the job support scheme, economists and others are predicting at least 1 million being made unemployed by the end of the year. For many of them and their…28 Sept 2020HANSARDEnergy White PaperAs the Minister knows, the current target for offshore wind generation is 30 gigawatts by 2030. During the election campaign, Boris Johnson said that if the Tories won, that…28 Sept 2020HANSARDREACH and CEMy Lords, the Government have been flexible. They have listened and proposed lengthening the registration time for chemicals under British REACH, which I think is welcomed by the…17 Sept 2020HANSARDSquare Kilometre Array Observatory (Immunities and Privileges) Order 2020My Lords, it is a great honour to follow the noble Lord, Lord Rees, the one person in the Room who is qualified to tell us about this project. We welcome this statutory…14 Sept 2020HANSARDElectricity and Gas etc. (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020My Lords, I congratulate the previous speakers on their speeches and the Minister on his comprehensive description, particularly of the tidying-up part of this statutory…03 Sept 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Legislation: Human RightsMy Lords, when the Secretary of State announced a change in Huawei’s status last week he also said that full-fibre and older networks will be treated differently from 5G in terms…21 Jul 2020HANSARDOneWebAs recently as last year, OneWeb raised $1.25 billion, then in March of this year, having launched only a fraction of the satellites that it needs, it filed for bankruptcy…08 Jul 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillThere is nothing I can add to the comprehensive speech of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones, so I shall sit on my hands.29 Jun 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy Lords, I was going to promise to be brief but, after the attempt of the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of Richmond, I am not quite going to match his brevity. We have heard some very…29 Jun 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillThe issue of 2025 was raised by both of us, so could the Minister clarify that?29 Jun 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy Lords, I am glad to follow my colleague, my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones. This amendment is largely built on Amendment 21 from Committee. During the response to that…29 Jun 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy Lords, this amendment addresses a real issue. We have seen in the past that control of the final few yards into a house or the ownership of a switch in a box on a street has…29 Jun 2020HANSARDCorporate Insolvency and Governance Bill23 Jun 2020HANSARDCorporate Insolvency and Governance BillMy Lords, this will be something of a novelty but I am going to be gracious. As is appropriate, I congratulate the Government on bringing forth Amendment 49, as did the noble…23 Jun 2020HANSARDCorporate Insolvency and Governance BillMy Lords, the Minister was right that this is an important Bill because it is about people’s jobs, livelihoods and future prosperity. I think we all agreed from the outset that…23 Jun 2020