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HANSARDEuropean Union: Negotiations (European Union Committee Report)Well, my Lords, that really was back to 1958. Were the coronavirus pandemic not dominating the public debate almost to the exclusion of everything else, the admirable and forensic…16 Mar 2020HANSARDEuropean Union: Negotiations (European Union Committee Report)Will the noble Baroness explain why it is that she believes that the European Union is not behaving in a manner consistent with the political declaration when my noble friend’s…16 Mar 2020HANSARDEuropean Union: Negotiations (European Union Committee Report)Obviously the noble Lord did not listen very carefully to the quotation that I read from the joint declaration. It makes it quite clear that we recognise that geographical…16 Mar 2020HANSARDEuropean Union: Negotiations (European Union Committee Report)Perhaps I can give the noble Viscount an answer to his question. The answer is no, it does not mean that. It could only mean that if the French agreed to make it mean that, and…16 Mar 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Deep CleaningMy Lords, does the Minister recognise that there is some anecdotal evidence—I declare an interest, because my grandson is involved—that the time gap between taking a test and…11 Mar 2020HANSARDRefugee Crisis: Greece and TurkeyMy Lords, the Minister said that the Government are giving additional funds to Turkey to support the enormous burden it has been bearing. Will British support for that effort by…10 Mar 2020HANSARDBrexit: Financial Assistance for BusinessesMy Lords, will the Minister recognise that he has indulged in a little bit of selective quotation? He has quite correctly referred to the statement that Northern Ireland remains…26 Feb 2020HANSARDImmigration: Points-based SystemMy Lords, will the Minister answer a couple of questions about the impact of this points-based system on the higher education sector? First, she said in the Statement that there…25 Feb 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I suggest that the Fisheries Bill to which we are giving a Second Reading today is no more than a picture frame without a picture. What that picture will be—the detailed…11 Feb 2020HANSARDClimate ChangeMy Lords, I hope I may be forgiven for concentrating my remarks in this extremely timely debate—for which I thank the noble Lord, Lord Browne of Ladyton—on the international…06 Feb 2020HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL]I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness but I simply do not understand why she spent a huge amount of time telling us that this has nothing whatever to do with the European…04 Feb 2020HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL]My Lords, some seven years ago I chaired, together with the noble Lord, Lord Bowness, an inquiry at whose heart was the issue of whether it was in this country’s interest to…04 Feb 2020HANSARDGlobal BritainMy Lords, will the Minister answer the question she has already been asked but did not answer, which is why we signed up on Friday to a level playing field and on Monday we seem…03 Feb 2020HANSARDIran: Stability in the Middle EastMy Lords, I rise to speak in the gap to make three very brief and simple points. The first is that we, the international community, are gradually slipping closer to another war in…30 Jan 2020HANSARDHorizon 2020My Lords, will the Minister give a really clear assurance that, when the negotiations on the next relationship between the UK and the EU start in March, the British Government…27 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy Lords, I lend my support to the amendment, to which I have put my name, and I will add a couple of points which have not previously been made. We are of course going over…21 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillIf the noble Lord’s research had gone a little further back, he might have been quite startled by what he found. He would have found that the procedures laid down in this…20 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy Lords, I support the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter. I point out that the amendment on the Order Paper on Report is a considerably reduced text from the one…20 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI am grateful to the Minister for giving way. Could she be clearer about this correspondence with the Commission? The Minister said in the meeting we had yesterday, and again just…15 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillIf I can help the Minister, the point that my friend the noble Lord, Lord Bowness, was making is that the Minister said it was in the hands of the Commission. He has now said that…15 Jan 2020