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HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) BillMy Lords, I refer to my declaration in the register of interests as president of the Institute for Free Trade and an adviser to the UK Board of Trade. I had not been aware prior…09 Jan 2023HANSARDTax-free ShoppingMy Lords, the Treasury has a long history of downplaying the secondary effects of tax reductions. It has done it on corporation tax and the IR35. Oxford Economics tells us that…15 Dec 2022HANSARDOfficial Development AssistanceMy Lords, it is a huge privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bruce of Bennachie. I first heard him speak more than 30 years ago, when he was president of the Scottish Liberal…15 Dec 2022HANSARDHealth: MalnutritionMy Lords, the House has been consistent and united in wishing to see the eradication of food poverty. Will my noble friend the Minister confirm that one of the ways we can do that…14 Dec 2022HANSARDAjax VehiclesMy Lords, the sunk-cost fallacy is a powerful distorter of human behaviour in institutions as well as among individuals. When we look back at, say, the procurement history of the…12 Dec 2022HANSARDTrading Relations: USA, EU and ChinaMy Lords, with all the talk about deficits and the mercantilist mood in the House, will my noble friend the Minister take this opportunity to remind the House that imports are a…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, listening to the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, just then, my mind drifted back a decade or so to a debate in the domed hemicycle in Strasbourg on the issue of state aid in a…02 Nov 2022HANSARDPolice and Crime Commissioners and PanelsMy Lords, at the risk of asking another unhelpful question, I say that the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, and the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, are on to something about…31 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, I had been planning to speak on the detail of the amendments. It seems to me to be quite unreasonable, as the noble Lords, Lord Dodds and Lord Bew, have already said,…31 Oct 2022HANSARDUK-India Free Trade DealMy Lords, I also welcome my noble friend the Minister to the Dispatch Box. If the House will indulge me for a second, I have known the Minister since we were teenagers, and he has…26 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, no one had proposed anything like the Northern Ireland protocol until the second half of 2017. It is worth recalling the genesis. I was a Member of the European…11 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillThere is absolutely no question that the Northern Ireland protocol would not have been agreed had there not been an anti-Brexit majority in another House that was saying in terms,…11 Oct 2022HANSARDEconomy: The Growth Plan 2022My Lords, I am not sure we have fully grasped the magnitude of our predicament. You cannot place a complex modern economy into a cryogenic state and then just bring it out without…10 Oct 2022HANSARDNegotiating Objectives for a Free Trade Agreement with IndiaMy Lords, I begin by declaring an interest as an adviser to the board of JCB. I mention it because it has really become, in practical terms, an Anglo-Indian company. Since my…06 Sept 2022HANSARDFlags (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022My Lords, I had not planned to participate, but I give my full-throated support to what the noble Baroness, Lady Suttie, suggested. Not only is the Somme important in the…05 Sept 2022HANSARDChannel 4: Annual ReportMy Lords, is my noble friend the Minister aware of something that struck me as quite a striking feature of this report, which is that the chief executive of Channel 4 has had a…21 Jul 2022HANSARDFood Insecurity in Developing Countries due to Blockade of Ukrainian PortsMy Lords, what a pleasure and privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Alton of Liverpool, the breadth of whose interests matches the depth of his humanity, and how sobering that…21 Jul 2022HANSARDEconomic DownturnMy Lords, one way to help with the cost of living is to bring down prices by removing tariffs. We still have tariffs that fall heavily on clothing, footwear and foodstuffs. Those…18 Jul 2022HANSARDBill of RightsMy Lords, when the European convention was promulgated in 1950 and enshrined in 1953, this country already had strong and trusted laws in place that guaranteed free speech,…23 Jun 2022HANSARDWater Companies: Sewage Discharge MonitoringMy Lords, have my noble friend or his department seen any assessment of the impact on rivers or consumers if, as some in this House want, the water companies were nationalised?21 Jun 2022