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HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, I added my name to Amendment 37 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ullock. I wish to say a few words about it and about the other amendments in this…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillBecause this has cropped up a couple of times, I think it is important that we distinguish between a regulation or a rule and its implementation or enforcement. So, we might say,…28 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillI am sorry to interrupt the Minister yet again but I was pleased to hear that she has agreed to write to the noble Lord, Lord Fox, to clarify this question, which was asked by the…23 Feb 2023HANSARDRetained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) BillMy Lords, it has been a long day of debate and I will invite noble Lords to pause and think about tea—maybe the tea in the Peers’ Dining Room—and about one particular ingredient…23 Feb 2023HANSARDUK Food ShortagesMy Lords, I thank the Minister for that very helpful summary of the situation. I would like to ask him a few questions. There are photographs in the newspapers today of full…23 Feb 2023HANSARDHorizon Europe: UK ParticipationMy Lords, first, does the Minister recognise that, when we were members of Horizon, we took out more money than we put in because of the excellence of our proposals? Does the…31 Jan 2023HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillObviously, I agree that the different parts of the genome serve different functions. As the noble Baroness said in Committee, when we were students, we learned about junk DNA.…25 Jan 2023HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillI thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, for introducing the amendment because it gives me a chance to say two things quickly. One, which she alluded to, is our discussion in…25 Jan 2023HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillIf I could just interrupt the noble Baroness, I think it is wrong to bring up Dolly the sheep in this conversation, because this has nothing to do with cloning. It is a completely…25 Jan 2023HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Benyon, and his officials for the very productive conversations that we have had and thank the Government for tabling amendments that, as he…25 Jan 2023HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillI thank the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, for her courtesy in giving way. I will make only two brief comments. The first addresses the point that the noble Baroness, Lady…25 Jan 2023HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillI thank the noble Lord, Lord Winston, for giving way. I also thank him for sending me a paper by Claire Robinson which makes many of the points he has just alluded to. I would…14 Dec 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillI thank the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, for allowing me to ask a brief question. The noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitchurch, asked an important question about resources for the…14 Dec 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillI want to follow up on that point. We will come to it in a moment when we discuss labelling, because I will mention it again then, but the pressure on local authorities will be…14 Dec 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillMy Lords, I can assure noble Lords that this is not some sort of Cross-Bench conspiracy, but I am afraid to say that, although I can see the arguments, I too do not support the…14 Dec 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillDoes the company claim that it can tell whether that single base pair change was produced by genome editing or by mutation? If so, how?14 Dec 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, for raising the question of exogenous DNA, which I mentioned at Second Reading, as did she. I am sorry to say…12 Dec 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillI am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness, but I want to make the point that when we talk about “free of risk”, we have to get things in perspective. In so-called conventional…12 Dec 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillI thank the Minister, but I have one question of clarification, just to check that I have understood what he said—namely, while accepting that it is important that public goods…12 Dec 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ullock, for introducing this amendment so eloquently. I have added my name to it. In fact, I felt that the amendment was…12 Dec 2022