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HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill11 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill11 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill11 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill11 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill11 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill11 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI thank all noble Lords who have contributed to the final group this evening, group 4. Amendment 61 tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, would enable the Competition…11 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillYes, this will be happening quickly.11 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI thought the noble Lord would appreciate that clarity. Amendment 63 was tabled by my noble friend Lord Hodgson and I thank him and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas, for…11 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillThat is correct. Colleagues from the Ministry of Justice will be following this debate closely and will have heard the points made by my noble friend Lord Hodgson regarding the…11 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI thank both noble Lords for that. The update will be provided shortly. I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, on the beauty of the wording that the “research” for the…11 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill11 Mar 2024HANSARDBrexit: Benefits to Economy and SocietyI thank the noble Lord. The major benefit that we must be better at communicating is certainly around our international trade. We all know that when the UK voted to join the…06 Mar 2024HANSARDBrexit: Benefits to Economy and SocietyI thank my noble friend. This could get quite spicy. I will keep to trade. We have just joined the CPTPP—we need a new name for this trans-Pacific partnership. The last time I…06 Mar 2024HANSARDBrexit: Benefits to Economy and SocietyI thank the noble Earl. We heard in the Budget today the Chancellor identify the creative industries as one of the five key new industries coming through which will power our…06 Mar 2024HANSARDBrexit: Benefits to Economy and SocietyI thank the noble Lord. I can give some detail on that. If you take out inflation and things such as precious metals, our exports today are in real terms 1% ahead of 2018. After a…06 Mar 2024HANSARDBrexit: Benefits to Economy and SocietyAs I said, in the last five years we have obviously had Brexit, but also there has been Covid, massive disruption to the supply chain in China and massive contraction in…06 Mar 2024HANSARDBrexit: Benefits to Economy and SocietyI thank the noble Lord. Yes, this is an issue, and it relates to 24% of our pie chart of exports; that is, our manufactured goods exported to the EU. Some 41% of our exports go to…06 Mar 2024HANSARDBrexit: Benefits to Economy and SocietyThere have certainly been some difficulties and friction in certain areas and sectors, as I have identified. Those are being worked on and will be considerably improved by the new…06 Mar 2024HANSARDBrexit: Benefits to Economy and SocietyIn January 2024, my department published an overview of the benefits of Brexit, on its fourth anniversary, to the UK economy. Since the referendum, the UK economy has grown faster…06 Mar 2024