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HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s reply to the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, which I will come to in a moment. He was extremely dismissive of legislative powers to implement…14 Jun 2021HANSARDOfficial Development AssistanceTo ask Her Majesty’s Government when they intend to seek parliamentary approval for the proposed cut to the Official Development Assistance budget.10 Jun 2021HANSARDOfficial Development AssistanceMy Lords, the Minister had said that the Government would bring legislation forward to amend the Act that I took through this place, and then the Government said that they would…10 Jun 2021HANSARDUN Peacebuilding Fund: Financial SupportMy Lords, I declare an interest in that I chair the UK board of Search for Common Ground, the global peacebuilding charity. Last year, the Government said that the centrepiece of…10 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I say to the Minister respectfully: he did not assuage my fears, because he did not address them. Can he reassure me now, from the Dispatch Box, that none of the Henry VIII powers…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]If I make a slightly longer intervention than I planned, it might allow the Minister to consult the Whips in order to respond to the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, in a constructive…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]I am grateful to the noble Baroness for bringing forward these amendments. She is very modest and did not tell the Committee whether they are considered opposition amendments,…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]Could the Minister repeat what she said at the Dispatch Box? She said that the regulators do not have parliamentary oversight in setting their fees. The Health Department’s…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord. To start where he left off, it is a disappointment that the Government chose not to have this Bill as a creature…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response to the points raised by my noble friend and myself about the assistance centre. I thought he might reply along those lines, which…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, we are indebted to the noble and learned Lord for bringing Amendment 47 to us and to the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, for his comments, and I have two questions for the…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I first endorse the remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, whose comments in this area are very important. I know that it is not in order in these proceedings to…09 Jun 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, raised her consistent point, for which I give her respect, about declaratory statements within legislation. My noble friend Lord Fox, in…09 Jun 2021HANSARDAgricultural Exports from Australia: TariffsONS data from two weeks ago showed that the UK lost £1 billion in goods exports in just one month in January to our nearest trading partner, Ireland. This is more than the entire…08 Jun 2021HANSARDHealth Partnership Schemes: FundingMy Lords, can I remind the Minister again that he committed to meet the noble Baroness, Lady Sugg, myself and the Peers for Development group? This week and next, the UK is…07 Jun 2021HANSARDUK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Regions and Industrial SectorsMy Lords, the ONS publication on Tuesday this week detangled the impacts of Covid and the impacts of the TCA by comparing quarter 1 2021 figures with quarter 1 2018 figures—the…27 May 2021HANSARDUK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Regions and Industrial SectorsTo ask the Minister of State at the Cabinet Office (Lord Frost) whether Her Majesty’s Government still plans to commission an impact assessment of the United Kingdom–European…27 May 2021HANSARDOverseas Development AssistanceBefore the Minister and his colleagues halved aid to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable women and children in malaria-plagued and war-scarred Yemen, which the UN…26 May 2021HANSARDProfessional Qualifications Bill [HL]My Lords, I welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Blake, to her position on the Labour Front Bench and look forward to working with her in her new role. She has already demonstrated a…25 May 2021HANSARDQueen’s SpeechI counted three references to values in the Minister’s speech. Former Secretary of State John Kerry said that “values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.” We are told…19 May 2021