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HANSARDBrexit: EU Students’ Tuition FeesMy Lords, my noble friend has made clear, even if he has not said so, that the Government intend to implement the withdrawal agreement. In doing so, clearly we would extend the…29 Apr 2019HANSARDNational Policy Statement for Water Resources Infrastructure 2018I apologise for interrupting my noble friend’s flow. I declare an interest as chair of the Cambridgeshire Development Forum. As my noble friend will know, Cambridgeshire is the…11 Apr 2019HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMy noble friend argues that the Bill is therefore unnecessary, but I am afraid that it would be necessary if, for example, the European Council made a counterproposal for a…04 Apr 2019HANSARDVaccine HesitancyMy Lords, in the study the noble Lord referred to in his Question, the correlation between populist voting and vaccine hesitancy in the United Kingdom was less than in a number of…01 Apr 2019HANSARDNational Health Service (Cross-Border Healthcare and Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I am sorry; I hope my noble friend will forgive me. Regulation 16(4) states: “The Secretary of State must maintain a list”. From that list flows the structure of access to…27 Mar 2019HANSARDNational Health Service (Cross-Border Healthcare and Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I did not have an opportunity to contribute to this statutory instrument earlier last week on the related SIs, for which I apologise, but I certainly contributed to the…27 Mar 2019HANSARDNational Health Service (Cross-Border Healthcare and Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019To jump back, my noble friend’s point that the Government already provide information suggests, as I hope would be the case, that if needs be, the Government can publish the list…27 Mar 2019HANSARDNational Health Service (Cross-Border Healthcare and Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I suppose I am asking whether the Government would be ready to publish such a list on 12 April, were it necessary to do so.27 Mar 2019HANSARDBrexit: Petition to Revoke Article 50 NotificationMy Lords, I declare an interest as the Leader of the House of Commons who introduced the parliamentary e-petition system. It is of course a petition to Parliament, not to the…26 Mar 2019HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI apologise for interrupting my noble friend, but the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, asked a very interesting question to which I would genuinely like to know the answer. My…26 Mar 2019HANSARDArrangement of BusinessMy Lords, my noble friend the Chief Whip was absolutely right to express a degree of caution over the question of regulations. If the European Council does not agree to an…18 Mar 2019HANSARDTrade Bill13 Mar 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy noble friend the Minister may know what their intentions are but, as I understand it, in a number of instances—and I think the Swiss are among them—they will use what are…13 Mar 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister for her response to this short debate. It is fitting that we have further evidence in her response of the constructive and positive…13 Mar 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I will make three very quick points. First, we need to be clear that Amendment 31 simply tries to attach the words “special consideration” rather than “take account”. It…13 Mar 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to be the back-marker on Report. Amendment 59 inserts text into the schedule that sets up the process for appointments to the Trade Remedies Authority,…13 Mar 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I profoundly believe that we should not leave the European Union without a deal in place, but making this amendment to the Bill would not prevent that. Such an outcome…13 Mar 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillFurther to that point, I think following the list exactly may be the most difficult thing for the Government to do. Amendment 16 sets out to commit to a report on payments. We…12 Mar 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillI am making a simpler point: it is no good asking for information that is not collected. There is a good reason why it is not collected. Although, this might happen in future, at…12 Mar 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillThe Minister may wish to advise on this. I understand that we probably do not—because there is no requirement to recover the money—whereas, under an EU agreement, we collect the…12 Mar 2019