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HANSARDBrexit: Food Labelling and Food SafetyDoes the Minister accept that of the 32 RASFF members, the United Kingdom is in the top four of countries that issue the notifications that help others? The only countries that…11 Mar 2019HANSARDGeneral Food Law (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, this is my first opportunity to welcome the Minister and congratulate her on her government appointment. I sincerely wish her well for the future. As for interests to…06 Mar 2019HANSARDTrade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I had not intended to visit the Grand Committee on these SIs today because, as the Minister said, there are no major policy changes. I declare an interest—it is not an…27 Feb 2019HANSARDTrade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Following what the Minister said in reply to the question from the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, I suggest that he had better have a better answer when he comes to deal with the…27 Feb 2019HANSARDBrexit: OptionsAre any Ministers going to Tokyo to discuss with Honda the announcement it has just made about closing the Swindon factory in 2022? Is this not relevant to parliamentary opinion…18 Feb 2019HANSARDData Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I think my noble friend has not quite got it. I assure him that, as the noble Lord, Lord Cunningham, said earlier, Sub-Committee B is in the process of sending a letter to the…18 Feb 2019HANSARDData Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019Yes. As I speak, a letter is winging its way from Sub-Committee B to the Treasury. It was agreed at our meeting last week, the committee having discussed it in previous weeks.18 Feb 2019HANSARDData Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019That is because of a dispute between the two chairs. Sub-Committee B agreed in discussions last week about the terms of that letter and will meet tomorrow. I do not know what has…18 Feb 2019HANSARDData Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019You are.18 Feb 2019HANSARDMobile Roaming ChargesMy Lords, as my noble friend on the Front Bench said, this is exactly analogous to what is in a statutory instrument waiting somewhere in this House on credit card use outside the…07 Feb 2019HANSARDDeportation: JamaicaMy Lords, the implication of what the Minister said, a bit like what the Home Secretary said yesterday, is, “Oh, this is a law that Labour brought in. We are being forced to do…06 Feb 2019HANSARDVenture Capital Funds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I am just about to go up to Sub-Committee B of the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. Sub-Committee A met yesterday. In the papers we have upstairs, the grand…22 Jan 2019HANSARDNew Home Building ProgrammeDoes the Minister accept that this is really a branch of preventive medicine? In respect of the Government’s review, will they talk to Sir Nicholas Wald, professor of preventive…10 Jan 2019HANSARDFolic AcidTo ask Her Majesty’s Government when they will commence their consultation on the mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid to prevent foetal abnormalities.09 Jan 2019HANSARDFolic AcidThe Minister knows that the average consultation lasts about 12 weeks. The Government made a very welcome and positive statement on 22 October, but that was 12 weeks ago. Bearing…09 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: Legislative TimetableHow many of the statutory instruments that the Government have submitted to both Houses for scrutiny have been sent back by the sifting committees because they were put forward as…07 Jan 2019