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HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I thank those who have contributed to this debate for the various points they have raised. The noble Lord, Lord Griffiths, has it right: this is a complex and detailed…10 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I am pleased to be part of this debate, which is narrow in some senses but has the capacity to reach quite widely. It is narrow in the sense that it has been framed…10 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I believe the House owes a great debt of gratitude to the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, for the work he has been doing on this issue over the last nine years. I have been…08 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I start by expressing support for Amendment 79, introduced by my noble friend Lord Tunnicliffe. As the Woolard R eview pointed out, the buy now, pay later issue is a…08 Mar 2021HANSARDData Protection Act 2018: ChildrenMy Lords, it is very hard to square the two strands that the Minister is dwelling on: that children were in favour of more legislation to help them challenge the issues concerned…04 Mar 2021HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy Lords, like others, I start by joining the Minister in thanking all our digital providers for the work that they have been doing during the pandemic, which, of course, will…04 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, that was a very interesting intervention from the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, which enhances her reputation as a banker of some repute. I am sure her figures are…03 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I declare my interest as a former chair of StepChange Debt Charity. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, and the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, for their kind words…03 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I will move on to the first of my amendments: Amendment 54. Clause 34 as drafted, is quite short, and it is hard to reconcile it with what I understand to be the…03 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I declare my interest as a former chair of StepChange, the debt charity. I put my name down to speak in this group of amendments because they give me an opportunity to…01 Mar 2021HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for his comments and the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, for moving his Motion 1D on a cross-party basis. I put on record, as he did, how enjoyable it was…23 Feb 2021HANSARDFinancial Services Bill22 Feb 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, with this amendment, we come to the end of the group of amendments that precede the Bill. This is another slightly detached issue that I hope will get a response from…22 Feb 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate. I am deeply embarrassed by all the personal comments and blushed to my roots, which I hope was not too…22 Feb 2021HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, first, we are sorry that the noble Lord, Lord Grimstone, is not able to be present for the debate, but we know that he is following his Government’s rules by…02 Feb 2021HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, despite the problems in relation to attendance and ability to speak that we have heard about, this has been a very good debate, full of passion and erudition. We do not…02 Feb 2021HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, this has been a very good debate, which has demonstrated clearly why the celebration of our existing high standards, which might be affected by international trade…02 Feb 2021HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, is right to have raised in this brief debate the recent events which, as reported in the press, certainly seem to cast a completely new…02 Feb 2021HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for her kind words. We have enjoyed working with her over this period. The Bill has been an exemplary one in terms of making sure that the House is…28 Jan 2021HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy Lords, I thank the Government for their amendment. As other noble Lords have said, this was originally raised in the other place by the Labour Party and withdrawn. A similar…28 Jan 2021