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HANSARDCovid-19: Planning SystemMy Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the Cambridgeshire Development Forum. Can my noble friend assure the House that the Government are following through on their guidance…08 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: UK Border Health MeasuresMy Lords, I understand the rationale for the decision, which is that we should seek to constrain the transmission of the virus from areas with community transmission to places…04 Jun 2020HANSARDCovid-19: HousingMy Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the Cambridgeshire Development Forum and I welcome my noble friend to his ministerial position. Will the Government introduce primary…18 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: StrategyMy Lords, there is limited evidence about the extent of transmission of the virus between children and between children and adults. Returning to the issue of schools, I wonder…12 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Deep CleaningMy Lords, the Minister made a good point about timing. Sometimes certain measures require preparation by public authorities and the public before they can be initiated. Does he…11 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]Happily, I think we are in agreement about this. There are two tiers of allocation: the determination of fishing opportunities between the national fisheries authorities and the…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I apologise for my late arrival at the Committee. I believe my noble friend Lady McIntosh very ably excused me for being late and introduced the amendment in an earlier…09 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I would be grateful if noble Lords would look at the revised version of Amendment 36 on the supplementary Marshalled List. It is revised not because I have changed my…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I am grateful to my noble friend. There were 14 amendments in this group, so it was not easy to tackle them all, not least since we managed to introduce them all in 18 minutes—it…04 Mar 2020HANSARDNHS: Doctor RetentionMy Lords, does my noble friend agree that the well-being of doctors is a critical factor in this? He will recall that Professor Michael West and Dame Denise Coia produced a report…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare my interest again today—if I may do it once, rather than each time I speak. As I mentioned on Monday, the company of which I am a director is in a partnership…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I asked a question, but I do not require an answer now. In so far as the Department for International Trade, for example, is engaged in trade negotiations that might impact on…04 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I have just one thing to say about this group. Amendment 6 addresses an issue we discussed at Second Reading: managing so many objectives. The noble Lord, Lord Krebs,…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, perhaps I might add a question to this. To understand what the equal access objective is about, one should look at Clause 17 of the Bill. If a Scottish fisheries…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare an interest at this stage as a director of a company that is in a partnership with another agency among whose clients is UK Fisheries. I put that on record. I…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, if my noble friend will forgive me, I want to interject for a short moment, not about the definition of the national benefit objective but on the second part of this…02 Mar 2020HANSARDWuhan CoronavirusMy noble friend’s appreciation of what is being done in contact tracing and the urgency that has been invested in that and other aspects of containment of the disease is welcome.…11 Feb 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, I do not want to embarrass the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, but I thought that was an excellent speech. It reminded me of an important point about the drafting of…11 Feb 2020HANSARDNet MigrationMy Lords, what conclusion do the Government draw from the fact that my home city of Cambridge is one of the places in the country with the highest level of inward migration and…03 Feb 2020