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HANSARDFree Trade Agreement Negotiations: AustraliaMy Lords, I first thank the noble Lord for his kind comments. It is the case that politics sometimes enter into these matters in the other House. Maybe that is not a surprise,…24 Jun 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement Negotiations: AustraliaMy Lords, I think the House is well aware of the scrutiny processes that these agreements go through. The process culminates in the CRaG process, in which the other place has the…24 Jun 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement Negotiations: AustraliaMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to answer my first question from my friend and noble friend Lord Udny-Lister from this Dispatch Box. He is right: we are making extraordinary…24 Jun 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement Negotiations: AustraliaMy Lords, I can certainly confirm that the House will be given sufficient time to scrutinise these agreements, not just because that is right in its own instance but because our…24 Jun 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement Negotiations: AustraliaMy Lords, my noble friend is absolutely right. A point I have made previously from this Dispatch Box is that it is not the signing of these agreements that is important but the…24 Jun 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement Negotiations: AustraliaMy Lords, I am happy to confirm to my noble friend that there will be absolutely no diminution of the controls that we apply to imported agricultural produce. As he will know, our…24 Jun 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement Negotiations: AustraliaMy noble friend makes an important point. If someone came to listen to these proceedings for the first time, they would think we were debating an agreement with a hostile…24 Jun 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement Negotiations: AustraliaI am very happy to give my noble friend a full assurance on those matters. As noble Lords will be aware, we applied to the Trans-Pacific Partnership as to whether we could…24 Jun 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement Negotiations: AustraliaI thank my noble friend for that. I indeed looked into the question of food miles before this debate. I was pleased and slightly surprised to find that Australian farming methods…24 Jun 2021HANSARDFree Trade Agreement Negotiations: AustraliaThe noble Lord, Lord Carrington, asks two important questions. If I may, I will consult my ministerial colleagues in Defra and write to him on these matters, so that I can give…24 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I thank the noble Baroness for her comments. Of course, it goes without saying that I always listen to the noble Baroness’s comments very carefully and take them away for…22 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord for that. Surely this is why we are going to have the assistance centre and why we are going to require regulators to publish on their websites what it…22 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank noble Lords for the comments in this debate, which, as they may imagine, I have listened to with a certain lack of enjoyment. If I may, I will come back to the…22 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, for his amendment and the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for the views he expressed. The amendment would impose a time limit…22 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I note that the noble Lords, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, Lord Fox and Lord Patel, have stated their intention to oppose that Clause 13 stands part of the Bill. The purpose…22 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I thank noble Lords for their contributions on Clause 9. In answer to my noble friend Lady McIntosh of Pickering, we are not relying on EU data to work out the coverage. As we…22 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter of Kentish Town, for her amendment, which sets out the autonomy of regulators to act in the interests of their profession. I note…22 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend for that comment. As we know, these questions are difficult to answer in the abstract. What I can say is that, where primary legislation is needed, it will…22 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord for his question. Again, I repeat that I am very happy to hold round tables on this, as necessary. On the noble Lord’s particular point, if a new separate…22 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, for that. I really believe that we have to wait until we see the detailed text of the Australia FTA, which will be subject to proper scrutiny.…22 Jun 2021