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HANSARDTrade BillI am grateful. Just for the avoidance of doubt, will my noble friend the Minister agree that it is not without precedent for pre-appointment hearings to take place for…13 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, at this late hour, I draw noble Lords’ attention to the debate on the predecessor Bill on 4 February 2019, in which I made similar points to those that are reflected in…13 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I am glad to have the opportunity, in this group, to follow my noble friend Lady McIntosh. She will forgive me if I do not speak to her two amendments but instead…13 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I am glad to have this opportunity to say a few words about these two amendments. I can be a bit simpler than I had intended to be because my noble friend and the movers…13 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillI am grateful to my noble friend for his response to the debate. I want to make one point. I fear that the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, may not have understood my point about…13 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I agree with Amendment 58 and I hope all noble Lords agree with it, because it is our shared intention. I am pretty sure that it is the intention of those negotiating on…13 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade Bill13 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillI am most grateful to the Minister for his response and to all those who took part in the debate. Everyone expressed their views in a positive way, and there was widespread…13 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay. On the points she made about the relationship with the devolved Administrations, when we were debating the…08 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillI have been leader of the House.08 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister but I would like to add one point that arises from what my noble friend Lady Noakes said. It is important that we recognise precisely…08 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillSince I have no text, it will not be the same speech, so if you will forgive me, I will not do that. It will appear in Hansard , and I encourage Members to read it there. In any…06 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillI was making the point that in amendments last week, I was trying to help the Committee. The objective of quite a number of the amendments was to influence the content of future…06 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I am rather pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, since it gives me an immediate right of reply. If she looks carefully at the debates last week, which…06 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade Bill[ Inaudible ]—the view of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Albans that the Government are genuinely committed to achieving our environmental and climate change…01 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I say first that I very much agree with everything that my noble friend Lady Noakes had to say, which means that I can save myself saying some of those things by…01 Oct 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for the assurances, although I note his powder is as yet dry in relation to some of the subjects we will discuss later. If…29 Sept 2020HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Falkner of Margravine, because I think I can follow up precisely the point she made. I think that the debate we have had…29 Sept 2020HANSARDTrade BillI thank noble Lords for my first opportunity to speak in Committee. Since Second Reading, an all-party parliamentary group has been established on the subject of trade and export…29 Sept 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Act 2020: Temporary ProvisionsMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, although in this instance I have to disagree with him that we must face up to a conflict of interest…28 Sept 2020