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HANSARDPost Office Horizon: Compensation and LegislationI thank my noble friend. Absolutely, we can compensate only people who come forward. In the different pools, a large number of people who have been identified have not submitted…27 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon: Compensation and LegislationI am genuinely grateful to the noble Lord for that point. I agree in many instances. Governments—or the state, as he rightly said; this is not party political or individually…27 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon: Compensation and LegislationI am grateful to my noble friend and pay tribute to his work. The Post Office will not play a role in deciding the correctness of the overturned convictions in the Bill; that will…27 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon: Compensation and LegislationAbsolutely. In conclusion, the Bill will immediately exonerate everyone whose conviction is being quashed. It is not a requirement to apply to have your conviction quashed; the…27 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon: Compensation and LegislationI thank my noble friend for raising that point. The signing of the form saying that you are innocent is not to do with the conviction being quashed but is in order to receive…27 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office: Executive RemunerationI am very grateful to the noble Lord for raising this point. I think we all agree that this is an extremely distressing situation for the postmasters involved. A committee hearing…27 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon: Compensation and LegislationI thank the noble Lord, Lord Fox, for those comments. I should say that the Government have full confidence in the CEO and in the board whom we have appointed over the last two to…27 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office: Executive RemunerationUnder current arrangements, the Government, as shareholder, approve the targets underpinning executive performance pay. Targets are typically approved on an annual basis as these…27 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon: Compensation and LegislationI thank my noble friend for raising that point. I think it has been widely publicised that Fujitsu has apologised for its role in this —as one would expect and hope—but has also…27 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon: Compensation and LegislationI thank all noble Lords for participating in all these debates and of course my two opposite numbers for their comments in their opening statements. Without me going through a…27 Feb 2024HANSARDReporting on Payment Practices and Performance (Amendment) Regulations 2024That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 10 January and 1 February be approved. Relevant documents: 10th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee .…27 Feb 2024HANSARDPost Office: Executive RemunerationMy noble friend raises a very good point. I am aware of people’s frustration over the longevity of the processes, but Sir Wyn Williams’s review will be extremely important in…27 Feb 2024HANSARDLife Sciences BusinessesThe noble Lord is absolutely right to raise this as a core issue. I am quite frustrated myself at some of our planning points, which certainly delay the building of these…26 Feb 2024HANSARDLife Sciences BusinessesI am grateful to the noble Baroness for her prompting. The Government have put more money into the MHRA, specifically for clinical trials, to assist all of our agencies to license…26 Feb 2024HANSARDLife Sciences BusinessesI am grateful to my noble friend for that point. This is very much the work of the Office for Life Sciences, the Department for Business and Trade, and the Office for Investment.…26 Feb 2024HANSARDLife Sciences BusinessesI am extremely grateful to my noble friend for that question, and I congratulate her on the astonishing amount of work that she has done to promote the sector. I am happy to have…26 Feb 2024HANSARDPaternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024Yes—24 years ago, the noble Lord had a greater degree of flexibility then than these minimum standards imply. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Fox, for raising that. I also thank the…26 Feb 2024HANSARDLife Sciences BusinessesI am grateful to the noble Lord for raising this. It was not in my diary, but this is an area of great passion for me and, if I can attend, I certainly will. I am sure some of my…26 Feb 2024HANSARDPaternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord McNicol, for making the point about the declaration of interests. I hope that, for once, I also have no interests to declare in a debate and…26 Feb 2024HANSARDLife Sciences BusinessesI hope I have answered this to some extent. There is no limit to the amount of work that we can do to get more investment into this sector. It starts from the smallest…26 Feb 2024