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HANSARDAfghanistan Humanitarian Crisis: UK ResponseMy Lords, while the Taliban are overseeing a humanitarian catastrophe, the UK and others have a moral obligation to the people of Afghanistan. While I welcome the Government’s…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillSuch as opening something?09 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillI am grateful for that “no progress” update from the Minister. With regard to the current situation in Northern Ireland, including the suspension of the Assembly and the…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillI am grateful to the Minister for his reply, but I am also grateful to my noble friend Lord Fox, the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, and the noble Baroness, Lady Blake, for their…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillWith respect, we are in Committee on a Bill and we are making law, and simply to say that this is a complex legal area is not correct. We are making law—and it is not convincing…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillI have been following the Minister’s line of argument, but I do not think that it comes to the same conclusion. Under UKIM, a provision that is a subsidy scheme is not permitted…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillMy Lords, in moving Amendment 66 I shall speak also to Amendments 72 and 78. In so doing, I thank the Minister for his earlier reply to the brief exchange on the interaction of…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill09 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillBefore the Minister concludes, I listened carefully to her comprehensive reply, for which I thank her. I think I heard her mention an additional 50 posts. The impact assessment…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillI thank the Minister. I ask because my understanding is that a regulatory provision can be a subsidy; it has nothing to do with there being two separate pieces of legislation. As…09 Feb 2022HANSARDInternational DevelopmentMy Lords, the most vulnerable women and children on earth live in South Sudan, where one in 10 babies die before the age of five. As the UNICEF website highlights horrifically:…08 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillI do not think that is relevant, because no one had any doubt about the fact that the internal market is a reserved power. They are both reserved powers; in the internal market…07 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillWith regard to companies or interested parties, Clause 76 allows an interested party to make a request to a public authority for information about a subsidy or a subsidy scheme…07 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillI am grateful, but that was not my question. Regardless of the period of challenge after the subsidy has been updated on the database, Clause 76 allows an interested party to make…07 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord. I was thinking that it is not usual for us to have difficulty hearing what the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, says: it was down to…07 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillI have the text of the Command Paper in front of me. I heard the Minister say that the Government are negotiating for a single scheme to apply for all businesses across the UK.…07 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillThe case that the Minister makes is a case against what he took through in the internal market Act. Under that Act, the Secretary of State is responsible for the economic impact…07 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillMy Lords, it is always a genuine pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord in his analysis of these issues. I support the noble Lord, Lord Lamont, in seeking a degree of…07 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillI have been reviewing the code on the publications from local government; local authorities must publish on a quarterly basis any expenditure that exceeds £500, including grant…07 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillCan the Minister confirm that, as we discussed in the debate on the previous group, if this scheme is run by a local authority in England, its duty to publish in three months…07 Feb 2022