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HANSARDSubsidy Control BillI am grateful to the Minister and to my noble friend Lord Fox and the noble Baroness, Lady Blake. This very short debate has been illustrative because, some of the flippancy…02 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillIs it the view of the Minister that the powers under subsection (6) allow for delayed disclosure?02 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillSo the point the Minister is making, which is to have the legal ability to delay disclosure, is afforded under subsection (6). The deletion of subsection (7) then does not affect…02 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill02 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillMy Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 53 in this small group, which relates to the interaction between this legislation and EU legislation that will continue to apply to…02 Feb 2022HANSARDCPTPP (International Agreements Committee Report)The Minister may not have anything to fear but the House does, and it has debated ISDS on a number of occasions. I recall from when we scrutinised the Canada agreement that it…01 Feb 2022HANSARDCPTPP (International Agreements Committee Report)It is a pleasure to follow the new member of the committee. I happily restate what I said on previous occasions: that this committee does the House a great and important service.…01 Feb 2022HANSARDEU: ImportsMy Lords, with the 12-mile queues on the A20 in Kent last week, the Commons Transport Committee took evidence from the Transport Minister, the noble Baroness, Lady Vere, who is in…01 Feb 2022HANSARDRussia: SanctionsMy Lords, I put on record my appreciation for the Minister telephoning yesterday and alerting me to the Statement. He is courteous and approachable, and it is very much…01 Feb 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillThe Minister and the Government have been consistent in saying that moves are unnecessary, specifically because of principle G, but principle G says that “beneficial effects (in…31 Jan 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillAs I understand it, the guidance states that every authority now needs to define for itself what a social equity is as far as deprivation is concerned, even taking into…31 Jan 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillWill the Minister address the points about how the regulated asset base will be considered—I understand his comments about that—and specifically about support for the small…31 Jan 2022HANSARDEconomic Crime: Planned Government BillThe latest full accounts of Aquind Ltd give its directors as Mr K Glukhovskoy and Mr A Temerko. Four years ago, the Minister was a member of the board and at that time it had a…31 Jan 2022HANSARDMiddle East: Human RightsMy Lords, the International Relations Committee found that the Government were on the wrong side of international human rights law in not pausing arms sales to Saudi Arabia while…31 Jan 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillMy Lords, if I speak briefly now, I need not intervene on the Minister. Relating to electricity and energy, having had a second weekend without electricity in the Scottish borders…31 Jan 2022HANSARDUkraine: Minsk II ProtocolMy Lords, the Normandy format is still of great importance. Are there any British officials taking part in the talks in Paris today under the Normandy process? The Minister knows…26 Jan 2022HANSARDAfghanistan (International Relations and Defence Committee Report)My Lords, as one of, I think, 12 members of today’s Committee who are former or current members of the International Relations and Defence Committee, I too commend our chair for…24 Jan 2022HANSARDVaccine Patents WaiverMy Lords, when I raised the matter of a TRIPS waiver with the Minister during the passage of the Trade Bill on 1 October 2020, when my noble friend Lady Sheehan had an amendment…24 Jan 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillThe Minister is being generous in giving way this evening. For the record, will the Minister say—it was hard to discern from the comments on the processes—what the geographical…19 Jan 2022HANSARDSubsidy Control BillMy Lords, we on these Benches support a legal system of state aid subsidy support, built on the principles of a sound industrial strategy, where there are identified areas of need…19 Jan 2022