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HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]18 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend Lady Noakes for the splendid way in which she addressed my amendments last week, for which I am most grateful.18 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]13 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, before I speak to my Amendments 84 and 88, I will just say that, while I do not think it is a registrable interest or a conflict of interests, my experience in these…06 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]04 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I am the bearer of a simpler brain than the noble Baroness, so I may not cast too much helpful light, but I will do my best. I come to this more in general terms than…04 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My noble friend should not feel he has to apologise for responding to colleagues in Committee who raised a number of points. That is precisely what we are here for, and we are…04 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I am glad to have the opportunity, by way of Amendment 3, to probe—I think it is literally that—how the Bill is to be interpreted in relation to the activities of…04 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I am sorry to interrupt my noble friend, but I am glad that I was not misdirecting myself. On the noble and learned Lord’s point, I understood what it meant only when I looked at…04 Jul 2022HANSARDPublic Procurement (International Trade Agreements) (Amendment) Regulations 2022My Lords, I am very glad to have the opportunity to say a few words about these regulations and I thank my noble friend for introducing them so clearly. As somebody who laboured…15 Jun 2022HANSARDAsylum Seekers: Removal to RwandaWill my noble friend commit the Government to providing substantive evidence to the inquiry launched by the International Agreements Committee, of which I am a member, and in…14 Jun 2022HANSARDSewel ConventionMy noble friend will be aware that treaty making is a reserved power to the United Kingdom Government, but the scope of the treaties into which we are now entering, particularly…13 Jun 2022HANSARDFood SecurityMy Lords, I declare an interest as I live quite close to Newmarket, where an exceptionally large solar farm is proposed on high-quality farmland. I wonder whether my noble friend…13 Jun 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very glad to follow the noble Lord, Lord Stevens. He very helpfully reminded us that we might legislate but it is the Government’s job to execute. The ability with…25 May 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]Forgive me—it was actually added to Schedule 9. But I am referring to paragraph 3 in Schedule 11, on repeals. None the less, I welcome the Bill and look forward to our debates on…25 May 2022HANSARDNational Institute for Health and Care ExcellenceMy Lords, would my noble friend agree with me that the publication by NICE last month, about its work on evaluating new treatments for severe drug-resistant infection, was really…23 May 2022HANSARDWorking Practices (International Agreements Committee Report)My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter of Kentish Town—my noble friend, for these purposes—on her introduction to this debate and on her chairmanship of the…19 May 2022HANSARDUK-Rwanda Asylum Partnership ArrangementMy Lords, further to the question of the noble Earl, Lord Kinnoull, I do not think that my noble friend has responded to that point. A memorandum of understanding can be defined…25 Apr 2022HANSARDPublic Procurement: British Standard 95009My Lords, my noble friend will recall that the Chancellor said in his Spring Statement how vital innovation is to the increase in productivity in our economy. Public procurement…05 Apr 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I want to contribute to this group and speak to Motions G1, G2 and H. As context, I say that my noble friend, the Front Bench team and their Bill team have gone to…05 Apr 2022