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HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I wanted to wait until the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, had spoken, because I wanted the chance to agree with her amendment, which raises the same question that I was…07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for his positive reply to my first amendment, where the use of a subscription during the cooling-off period is covered by the powers in…07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, in speaking to this amendment, I will also speak to Amendment 191, and in doing so declare my interest as the proprietor of the Good Schools Guide, an organisation that…07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I very much support this amendment. We are a capitalist society, and capitalism relies on a return on capital being provided to the people who provide the capital. In…07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I entirely agree with the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, on that last point. It is really important that we keep at the question of how we tax digital businesses. One…07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, to pick up the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, on his two amendments, I can absolutely see where he is coming from on standard-essential patents. This reflects quite a…07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, we move from a very new problem to a very old problem. My Amendment 215B asks that the Government restore to us the protection we used to have from double-glazing…07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I get the impression from my noble friend that this is not an area of the Bill that the Government want to move on, but I get the impression from the Committee that we…07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill07 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I beg to move Amendment 124A and to speak to Amendments 124B and 124C. These are all small amendments aimed at making trading standards a bit more effective in practice.…05 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for his answers to my amendments, particularly for his offer of a continuing dialogue between Committee and Report. It seems clear to me…05 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI am grateful to my noble friend for his answers, by and large, but I do not understand how Clause 245 is supposed to work. I cannot see how, in its wording, it provides…05 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, we now move on to subscription contracts. I would very much like to understand the reason for Clause 252(2)(c). The Government seem to contemplate that, if a consumer…05 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI shall be clearer after reading my noble friend’s remarks.05 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I have a clutch of amendments in this group. Amendment 138A continues the series of improvements to trading standards regulations. Before we came under EU regulation, we…05 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I have one amendment in this group, Amendment 110A, which will be echoed in subsequent groups as part of a general concern about making sure that trading standards are…05 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I have Amendment 131 in this group. It is my understanding, and of course the Minister may correct me, that the investment that a student makes in their university…05 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI am grateful to my noble friend for his response to my amendment, which I will read with care when I have Hansard in front of me. For now, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.05 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill05 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill05 Feb 2024