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HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillI am grateful to my noble friend. I think he slightly confused two things together at the end, in talking about insufficient or wrong information. If there is wrong information,…16 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I will speak briefly to my Amendment 86 in this group and express my support for Amendments 78 and 79, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord West of Spithead. I will not…16 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lady Noakes for introducing this group of amendments. She has explained very well how we want to ensure that the greatest possible…16 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, this group should not take us very long. There are just two points in it. Amendment 76 relates to Clause 54, “Disclosure of information,” and in that clause, there is a…16 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillI am grateful to my noble friend for his response. I will read it carefully, but, if I understand it correctly, I entirely agree with him on the explanation of Clause 57 and the…16 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillNoble Lords will be pleased to know that this is the last time they will hear from me in this Committee. My amendment is terribly simple. In so far as the annual report lists the…16 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, this first group consists of two amendments, both in my name and both relating to the interaction of the export control regime with the investment screening regime.…16 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill16 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillI am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for his responses to this short debate, and indeed to those who participated in it. It was helpful to elaborate some of the issues,…16 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill16 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill16 Mar 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, I am glad to have this opportunity to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Warwick, who referred to the International Agreements Committee, on which I have the privilege to…15 Mar 2021HANSARDBudget StatementMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to welcome my noble friend to this House and to congratulate him on his excellent maiden speech. It was brief, but it had a moment of humour in…12 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I am pleased to follow my noble friend Lord Leigh. I am sure he is being modest; I would think that tomorrow evening is all sold out. But I agree with him; nobody seems…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, when we discussed the second group, I said that when we are looking at the national security risk, the purposes of the Bill are to define the relevant entities and…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I want to say a word on this group, because I am particularly interested in Amendment 29A, which would remove Clause 8(8). This is of interest, not least because of the…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I am pleased to have the chance to speak briefly to Amendment 38. This group is linked, in so far as we are all addressing issues relating to limitations on the…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillI shall refer only to Amendment 30, in my name, in this group. Earlier, we discussed the question of material influence. At this point in Clause 8, the fourth case to which we…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, first, I express my warm thanks to my noble friend Lady Noakes, who happily introduced Amendment 97 far better than I would have. I had neglected to notice that we had…09 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill09 Mar 2021