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HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I support the noble Lord’s endeavours. He and I have debated with Ministers on many occasions the interaction between the CRaG process, our international negotiations…26 Oct 2022HANSARDUK-India Free Trade DealMy Lords, I also welcome the noble Lord to his position. Since I have been covering international trade issues for these Benches, he is now the seventh Minister that I have been…26 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I am grateful for that response. I struggle with the first part of what the Minister said because I lifted the wording from Articles 16 and 17 of the Australia agreement. If we…26 Oct 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]That is what the Government are doing. All the other requirements in the Bill are not in the trade agreements with other countries. That is the point that I was making. The…26 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI always find it very interesting to follow the noble Lord. As I said before, I have been trying to understand his dilemma. For all the accusations against these Benches,…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, if the argument of the noble Lord, Lord Bew, is so powerful, why has he failed to persuade the noble Lord, Lord Morrow, who started his remarks by saying that he has no…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I am concerned about his argument when it comes to the position of the new—again—Home Secretary. She said in July: “The Northern…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI will match his “Get rid of Clause 11” with “Get rid of them all”, because that is our position. The Advocate-General said at Second Reading: “the peril … was not inherent in the…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI am grateful for the answer. I respectfully believe that my point had value, because if the Government are using precedent and customary law, it is relevant to highlight that it…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI am grateful. I read that paper, but that was prior to Michael Ellis, the Paymaster-General, when the Bill left the House of Commons, telling the Commons that talks had been…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 2 and 6 in my name and support those in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman. As we start our customary, more-detailed…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillCould the Minister clarify the sequencing of talks with the EU, Article 16 and the regulations under this Bill? Is it still the Government’s position that, before the regulations…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI am grateful to the noble Lord; he knows that I like and respect him. I am trying to follow the rationale of his argument with regards to us legislating here. Earlier, he made…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, it may assist the House to know that we from these Benches can confirm our support for the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman, and the amendment…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords—25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillIs this the noble and learned Lord correcting the record now from his Second Reading speech? I am quoting directly from Hansard that “the problem lies in the protocol and not in…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillThe noble and learned Lord has just told the Committee that the problem is with the implementation of the protocol. In his Second Reading winding speech he said that “the problem…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI hear he has changed. The former Paymaster-General, who is now the former Attorney-General, was citing the former Attorney-General Suella Braverman, who is now the Home…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillAs the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, said, there is a difference between recognising that there are mechanisms that could be put in place as safeguarding and rebalancing measures, and…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI will refer to this in the next group, but the Minister might want to add a little extra with regards to the case he cited: the International Court of Justice threw out the…25 Oct 2022