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HANSARDCovid-19: Businesses and the Private SectorI add my thanks to those of others to the noble Lord, Lord Dobbs, for securing this debate. Despite the limitations on speaking time it has been of high quality throughout, with…21 May 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI will be brief as well—the Committee has heard enough from us already. As the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, said, this is a probing amendment to see where the Government’s…19 May 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 18. The noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, will come in on Amendment 19, which has a similar bent but a slightly different way of moving…19 May 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillI am very grateful to all those who have contributed, particularly the Minister, whose detailed explanation deserves further consideration and I will read it very carefully in…19 May 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy Lords, I will read carefully in Hansard what has been said and reflect on it. I am bound to say that, as the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, pointed out, we are back in the…19 May 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy Lords, I move Amendment 12 and will speak to Amendment 13. Taken together, these amendments probe in a little more detail the way in which operators and property owners will be…19 May 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill19 May 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill19 May 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy Lords, the benefit of making one or two Second Reading-style comments at the start of the debate on these amendments has been well proven by what has been said. A lot of…19 May 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillMy Lords, in moving this amendment I will also speak to Amendment 9 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, which covers much of the same ground. In the Future Telecoms…19 May 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillThis is a very interesting argument, which I do not really understand. It has come up on previous amendments and we need to bottom it out before we get to the end of today’s…19 May 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) BillThe case has been so well made by my noble friend Lord Adonis that I have very little to add. I thought, as he did, that the exchanges in the Commons were extraordinary. We need…19 May 2020HANSARDTelecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill19 May 2020HANSARDData Protection: Age-appropriate Design CodeI am delighted to hear that, my Lords, although no date has been given. The Government have a bit of ground to make up here, so perhaps it will not be delayed too long. Does the…18 May 2020HANSARDData Protection: Age-appropriate Design CodeTo ask Her Majesty’s Government when they intend to lay the regulation giving effect to the age- appropriate design code required under section 123 of the Data Protection Act 2018…18 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: BusinessMy Lords, we do not underestimate the challenges of lifting the lockdown that has been in place since 23 March 2020. It is in all our interests for it to happen safely and we…13 May 2020HANSARDCoronavirus Business Interruption Loan SchemeMy Lords, unlike the pubs that they supply, most of our small breweries are not eligible for grants or business rate relief. As a consequence, over half of them have not been able…12 May 2020HANSARDIncome Equality and SustainabilityMy Lords, I join with others in thanking the most reverend Primate for his service to the House and to the country. His excellent speech caps a career spent campaigning for…06 May 2020HANSARDCovid-19: British Business BankMy Lords, does the Minister agree that once the current, very welcome, liquidity initiatives to soften the supply shock to the UK economy have done their work, it will be…30 Apr 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Business Interruption LoansMy Lords, the Government are to be congratulated on the scale of—and, indeed, the welcome adaptations to be made to—the CBILS, but other countries seem to be disbursing more money…22 Apr 2020