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HANSARDEnergy MarketsMy Lords, having been a Minister through six energy crises rather similar to this one, I cannot resist a bit of sympathy with Ministers having to go through it all again and…09 Mar 2026HANSARDSmall Businesses: VAT ThresholdIs the Minister aware that, according to official statistics, 99.18% of all British businesses are defined as “small”—those with 50 employees or fewer. It sometimes seems, in the…05 Mar 2026HANSARDUK-India: Comprehensive Economic and Trade AgreementMy Lords, as a member of the committee that produced this report, I congratulate our former chairman, who has just spoken, for guiding us through an extremely complex and quite…04 Mar 2026HANSARDResetting the UK-EU Relationship (European Affairs Committee Report)My Lords, I am very glad that the title of the excellent report we are discussing refers to a “reset”. Indeed, there seems general agreement in all the documents, including the…26 Feb 2026HANSARDBritish Military Equipment: Chinese ComponentsMy Lords, under the Washington declaration of 2023, we were promised by the then American Administration that all electric vehicles, military and civil, exported from this…25 Feb 2026HANSARDBritish Military Equipment: Chinese ComponentsMy Lords—25 Feb 2026HANSARDBritish Military Equipment: Chinese ComponentsMy Lords—25 Feb 2026HANSARDUS TariffsMy Lords, I know that history does not always repeat itself, but would it be a kindness at this stage to remind President Donald Trump that the American tariff protections of the…23 Feb 2026HANSARDRoyal Navy: CaribbeanMy Lords, further to the Question from the noble Lord, Lord West, I am not fully familiar with the full remit of the Joint Interagency Task Force South, but is it working the…09 Feb 2026HANSARDChina: Human Rights and UK National SecurityMy Lords, did the Minister notice the comments the other day by Mr Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, about the role of the middle powers in this digital age of connectivity,…02 Feb 2026HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: UK PreparednessMy Lords, does the Minister agree that AI systems are proliferating rapidly and may compete rather than co-operate, and that this degree of self-correction is perhaps one of the…22 Jan 2026HANSARDDiego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory BillMy Lords, I have one final question to the Minister, while confessing, quite frankly, that I have taken zero part in the earlier Committee stage—but Third Reading, contrary to…12 Jan 2026HANSARDGreenlandMight it be helpful to pass to President Trump and the Washington team the useful advice of the late Professor Joe Nye of Harvard, who was a good friend of this country? His…08 Jan 2026HANSARDPublic Sector ProductivityMy Lords, does the Minister recall that, under both parties at the end of the last century, we attempted to beat this problem of productivity in the public sector by developing…07 Jan 2026HANSARDUK-EU Common Understanding NegotiationsMy Lords, I will focus on the comments in the Statement on electricity co-operation trading with the European Union. Obviously, there are millions of families in this country who…18 Dec 2025HANSARDNuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference 2026The Minister takes this extremely seriously, and so he should. Does he agree that the NPT review now faces the worst challenge in the 50 years since its inception in 1968? Will he…10 Dec 2025HANSARDRoyal Navy Submarine ForceMy Lords—08 Dec 2025HANSARDRoyal Navy Submarine ForceMy Lords, is not the most immediate and serious threat to our national prosperity and security the safety of our entire subsea cable system, on which the nation depends daily and…08 Dec 2025HANSARDData Adequacy Status: EU Data Protection StandardsMy Lords, when it comes to data adequacy, the Government are, of course, aware of a report from the UK Statistics Authority that said: “Quality problems have manifested into…04 Dec 2025HANSARDHydrogen and Fuel Cell IndustryMy Lords, is there not one more hydrogen potential that the Minister has not mentioned? In transporting electricity, or transporting hydrogen, the prospect can be raised of…19 Nov 2025