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HANSARDInsolvency (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No 2) Regulations 2019To be clear, the modification is with us rather than with Europe.30 Sept 2019HANSARDInsolvency (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No 2) Regulations 2019Can the Minister clarify the point about the modified version of the jurisdictional tests?30 Sept 2019HANSARDInsolvency (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No 2) Regulations 2019My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing this SI and for his explanation. I associate myself with the comments of the noble Lord, Lord McNicol, about the necessity for…30 Sept 2019HANSARDSpending Round 2019My Lords, it seems like we were never away. In fact, if we listened to the Lord Speaker earlier, apparently we were not; we were here all along. I trust that the Minister did not…25 Sept 2019HANSARDNuclear Power StationsMy Lords, I welcome the new Minister to his position. He will be aware that I usually use this opportunity to conflate nuclear power with energy storage. With high-capacity energy…09 Sept 2019HANSARDSterlingMy Lords, here is another statistic: the ONS says that productivity fell 0.6% between April and June. Over the summer Andy Haldane, who is not only the chief economist of the Bank…03 Sept 2019HANSARDPriorities for the GovernmentMy Lords, there was no mention of industrial strategy in the Statement. Given the two new incumbents of the Treasury and their stated views on, and opposition to, industrial…25 Jul 2019HANSARDBritish SteelMy Lords, I associate myself with the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, in that we all hope that some resolution can be found and that this business can be sold as a…24 Jul 2019HANSARDMount Everest: SafetyMy Lords, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, that this is a serious situation. In my experience, one of the roles of the guides is to do just such an assessment of the…18 Jul 2019HANSARDNational Health Service: Healthcare AdviceMy Lords, there is a wider principle here. Even if effective, anonymised data is gathered and generated, where does the value lie in that data? Can the Minister tell us whether…16 Jul 2019HANSARDCompanies: Parental Leave PracticesMy Lords, picking up on that point, research done this year at the University of Birmingham indicates that it is not just parents or potential parents who have low knowledge of…10 Jul 2019HANSARDRural Post OfficesMy Lords, the Minister speaks a good game but the truth is that sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses are leaving their jobs in the hundreds, if not the thousands. The review is…09 Jul 2019HANSARDApprenticeshipsMy Lords, I declare my interest as an officer in the APPG on Apprenticeships. I apologise for my voice today. In a rhetorical flourish in 2015, David Cameron announced that the…04 Jul 2019HANSARDEnvironment and Climate EmergencyMy Lords, in last week’s legislative debate, a number of your Lordships spoke about the need to will the means, as did I, and about the technologies that we will need to deliver…01 Jul 2019HANSARDClimate Change Act 2008 (2050 Target Amendment) Order 2019My Lords, I will take that as my cue. I fear that I am intruding on a domestic, and of course we do not like to comment on domestic disputes. I assure the noble Baroness that I…26 Jun 2019HANSARDNuclear Energy: Small Modular ReactorsMy Lords, any decision on SMRs should be taken within the context of the best possible carbon-free energy system. Does the Minister share my view that nuclear is competing not…10 Jun 2019HANSARDFord in BridgendMy Lords, I draw attention to the interests in my name in the register and thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. I commend the noble Lord, Lord Griffiths,…10 Jun 2019HANSARDNational Minimum Wage Naming SchemeI join the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, in thanking the Minister for repeating the Statement. I am confused by his answer and the debate in Hansard yesterday in the other place,…05 Jun 2019HANSARDCreative Industries: Apprenticeship LevyMy Lords, the Minister will recall that last year, Peter Bazalgette led a review on how best to frame the apprentice levy to drive the creative sector. In an Answer to my noble…04 Jun 2019HANSARDBritish SteelMy Lords, I too thank the Minister for repeating the Statement made in the other place. Yesterday, we talked about the environment of uncertainty around Brexit, which has put…22 May 2019