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HANSARDRegistered Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024My Lords, with the leave of the House, I beg to move the four Motions standing in my name on the Order Paper en bloc. In doing so, I declare my interest as a director and person…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 2024HANSARDReporting on Payment Practices and Performance (Amendment) Regulations 2024I greatly thank noble Lords for their passionate inputs into this debate. This is a serious issue. I should say that, although I do not believe I have any personal conflict, I…26 Feb 2024HANSARDReporting on Payment Practices and Performance (Amendment) Regulations 2024I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Leong, for that point. We will have this data. I am looking, and average payment times between businesses peaked in December 2020 at 30 days…26 Feb 2024HANSARDPaternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024My Lords, I am delighted to be here today for this debate on the draft regulations, which will benefit working families by providing valuable additional flexibility to paternity…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 2024HANSARDReporting on Payment Practices and Performance (Amendment) Regulations 2024That the Grand Committee do consider the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance (Amendment) Regulations 2024. Relevant document: 10th Report from the Secondary Legislation…26 Feb 2024HANSARDReporting on Payment Practices and Performance (Amendment) Regulations 2024I thank the noble Lord, Lord Aberdare, for those points. The timeline is genuinely as soon as possible. We felt it was more important, given the timing of the cliff edge and the…26 Feb 2024HANSARDPaternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024That the Grand Committee do consider the Paternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024.26 Feb 2024HANSARDReporting on Payment Practices and Performance (Amendment) Regulations 2024I am grateful to the noble Lord for the direction of his question. I do not necessarily think that I can answer it specifically. It would be unfair to deviate away from the main…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 2024HANSARDLife Sciences BusinessesI am always grateful for challenge from any Peer in this House, but I have very different figures. If I look at the turnover of the life sciences sector, I find that, in 2022…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 2024HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Provisions) Regulations 2024My Lords, it is a pleasure to see the same team back again. We have covered late payments of paternity leave and now we are on economic crime; I hope that they are not linked. I…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 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 2024HANSARDEconomic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Provisions) Regulations 2024I am grateful to the noble Lords for their support of this technical point. If people are listening to these debates, they should not be under any illusion that there has not been…26 Feb 2024HANSARDRegistered Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024As always, I thank noble Lords for a very powerful and constructive debate around this essential legislation. I genuinely think it will make an enormous difference to the quality…19 Feb 2024HANSARDRegistered Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024My Lords, I beg to move that the Committee also consider the draft Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024, the draft Service Address…19 Feb 2024HANSARDRegistered Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024That will happen next week, I am told. I look behind me hopefully on questions like that, but we will do that next week and I hope we stick to this timetable. As I have said,…19 Feb 2024