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HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency Bill17 Nov 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency BillThe purpose of Amendment 22 —this is in the part of the Bill about what conditions ARIA might attach to its financial support—is to give ARIA the flexibility to attach whatever…17 Nov 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency BillMy Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale. Two of the amendments in this first group are in my name, Amendments 25 and 27, and I want to speak to…17 Nov 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency BillThis group consists entirely of amendments in my name. Very helpfully, they have been grouped together so you do not have to hear from me too often. Helpfully, it also groups…17 Nov 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency BillI am grateful to my noble friend, particularly because, as far as I can tell, we are all agreed that ARIA should have the flexibility to do these things. Where we not quite all in…17 Nov 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency BillParagraph 17(1) allows anything.17 Nov 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency BillMy Lords, I am very glad to follow my noble friend Lady Noakes, who has typically managed to make some penetrating remarks about the prospective corporate governance of ARIA. All…17 Nov 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]09 Nov 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend for his introduction to his amendment and for speaking to this group, and for his very kind words about our very constructive…09 Nov 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I thought that my noble friend gave an extremely helpful response to the debate and explanation of the relationship between the Government’s new clause in government…09 Nov 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, there are three amendments in this group, characterised by the fact that they appear more or less in the same place in the Marshalled List. My Amendment 11, which leads…09 Nov 2021HANSARDPublic Health England (Dissolution) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2021My Lords, it was not my intention to speak in this debate—I wanted to come and listen to it—but I am prompted by a number of contributions just to say one or two things in…09 Nov 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]09 Nov 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend and to the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, and other colleagues who participated in this short debate. We do not necessarily need to…09 Nov 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]This group has two amendments, which do indeed relate to Clause 2, in my name and, for Amendment 6, that of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter of Kentish Town. I am grateful for her…09 Nov 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I hope noble Lords will forgive me, but I want to intervene briefly in the debate. I am Lord Lansley, of Orwell, which is nowhere on the route that has been mentioned;…09 Nov 2021HANSARDAdvanced Research and Invention Agency BillMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for his introduction to the Bill. Like the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Brixton, I had a feeling that we were being handed the Dominic…02 Nov 2021HANSARDHealth and Social Care Levy BillMy Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Baroness; I agree with her on one or two items I will come to in a minute. She had some ideas about how these revenues might be…11 Oct 2021HANSARDBrexit OpportunitiesMy Lords, I am sure that the business community, which faces considerable pressures on costs and competitiveness, will be pleased to hear about the standing commission and the…16 Sept 2021HANSARDHealth and Social CareMy Lords, I very much welcome the additional resources for the NHS and social care, but will the Government increase and accelerate the resources for social care? Everyone in the…09 Sept 2021