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HANSARDRegistered 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 2024HANSARDRegistered Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024That the Grand Committee do consider the Registered Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024. Relevant document: 8th Report from the Secondary Legislation…19 Feb 2024HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]My Lords, I beg to move that the Bill do now pass. If I may, I will say a few notes of thanks to the participants and highlight a few core points. Other speakers may wish to do…23 Jan 2024HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]I spent a long time working on that joke—it did not work the first time, but I thought I would try it at this final point. This Chamber has seen productive debate, including…23 Jan 2024HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]I appreciate all the comments made. I will revert back on the principles around legislative consent, but I can assure your Lordships that we are having very constructive…23 Jan 2024HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]That the Bill do now pass.23 Jan 2024HANSARDRegulatory Approval for New Products and ServicesI am grateful to the noble Baroness for those comments. She is absolutely right: we can never move too fast as long as we can do it in a safe and appropriate way. My noble friend…22 Jan 2024HANSARDRegulatory Approval for New Products and ServicesI am grateful to the noble Baroness for her points. This is clearly a topic of much broader debate, and I am very grateful to have been given the regulatory reform agenda in my…22 Jan 2024HANSARDRegulatory Approval for New Products and ServicesI completely agree with the noble Lord’s point and I absolutely take it to heart. The point is to see regulation as a service, where we have to take the appropriate action to…22 Jan 2024HANSARDRegulatory Approval for New Products and ServicesI am grateful to the noble Lord for his comments and am always stung by comparisons with our near and dear neighbour. But I can reassure him that our global investment summit…22 Jan 2024HANSARDRegulatory Approval for New Products and ServicesIn the Autumn Statement, we set out proposals to improve the performance and accountability of regulators through reforms to the growth duty. These include asking regulators to…22 Jan 2024HANSARDRegulatory Approval for New Products and ServicesIt is always intimidating for a junior Minister to receive questions from someone as significant as my noble friend. He is absolutely right: over the past year, the Government…22 Jan 2024HANSARDRegulatory Approval for New Products and ServicesI am grateful for that comment; of course, I would contact the Treasury about it, since that is its specific focus. I totally agree that we need to have trust in financial markets…22 Jan 2024HANSARDRegulatory Approval for New Products and ServicesI am grateful for those important words and I absolutely agree. There are issues in ensuring that regulators’ mandates are properly focused. It is important to get a balance…22 Jan 2024HANSARDRegulatory Approval for New Products and ServicesI am grateful to my noble friend for that point. I would be delighted to meet with any stakeholders he suggests are useful. The mutual movement is an ancient and important…22 Jan 2024HANSARDRegulatory Approval for New Products and ServicesWe should celebrate the fact that we are raising more money for tech in this country than Germany, France, Spain and Italy combined in many sectors—but we are not complacent. I…22 Jan 2024HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]I am very grateful to my noble friend for that comment. He is absolutely right that the Business and Trade Committee and the IAC are able to request a debate, which, as I said,…16 Jan 2024HANSARDTrade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, but it may surprise him to know that we are not yet fully acceded or party to CPTPP. As soon as we are, it is absolutely right that…16 Jan 2024