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HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThat is exactly the point I was going to address under my second heading, “default”. As I read the Bill, those laws that are not identified in time automatically vanish. As I read…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI think I understood from what the Minister said a few moments ago that I will not get an answer to the question I posed on Tuesday. This time I think he said that he understood…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, I support the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, but I am afraid that I do not agree with the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Lawlor. I…02 Mar 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI very much agree with the noble Lord. I will simply make two small points at this stage of the debate. The first is about the public resonance of our discussion. In the House of…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am most grateful to the Minister, and I admire his excelsior position that we are aiming at higher and higher standards. If he was to follow the advice of the noble Lord, Lord…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillAnd there will presumably be some that the Government are going to abolish altogether, in which case, nothing will come to this House: we will never have the chance to express a…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI do not think that the Minister gave a substantive answer to the point that I raised. I am happy that there should be no substantive answer now provided that we get one at some…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillOne of the more entertaining bits of the Minister’s elegant reply was the opening bit, in which she gave us a new rationale for the sunset clause: it was necessary in order to get…23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am very interested in what the Minister is saying. This asbestos review sounds like good news. However, given what she has said, there seems now to be an overwhelming case for a…23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI too welcome the Minister to her role. I knew her first as a very distinguished civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, so know that she will understand…23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillThe rebuke is absolutely correct, and I withdraw my remarks. When I said “you” I meant the Government vicariously, but I may have elided from first referring to the Minister…23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords—23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI think I understand the noble Lord’s argument, and that he is therefore going to end by saying that he accepts Amendments 1, 23 and 40. If our standards are so high, there can be…23 Feb 2023HANSARDPublic Order BillI have great sympathy for the noble Baroness’s argument and that advanced by the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, but could she explain whether her objection to Clause 11 would be…07 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillDoctrinaire, ideological, subversive of Parliament, a headlong rush, an arbitrary timetable, a blank cheque for government by diktat—this Bill is coming in for a bit of criticism…06 Feb 2023HANSARDRwanda: Memorandum of UnderstandingThey did not say so at the time but the Government now maintain that the CRaG Act 2010 overruled the previous understanding that the Government would also draw to Parliament’s…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) BillMy Lords, I have considerable sympathy with those who argue that the regulatory procedure is insufficient for looking at these regulations for all the familiar arguments, which I…23 Jan 2023HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) BillMy Lords, I rather agree with the noble Lord, Lord Lansley. There are two points to bear in mind, particularly about the agricultural concern. First, Australia is a very long way…23 Jan 2023HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) BillI still have not heard what “different” means in Clause 2(1)(a). I do not need to know now, but if I do not hear by Report, I shall be tempted to join the noble Baroness, Lady…23 Jan 2023HANSARDTrade (Australia and New Zealand) BillBefore the noble Lord sits down, can I ask him about his reassurance to the noble Lord, Lord Lennie, on Amendment 1? He said we need not worry about Clause 1(2) because Clause…23 Jan 2023