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HANSARDExtradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL] I am sorry to interrupt. The sensibility behind the noble Baroness’s comment is that this a matter that we can come back to at Third Reading. Without wishing to be overly…23 Mar 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Holiday and Caravan ParksMy Lords, those who are temporarily resident fall under the points previously made; the Minister has carefully explained how that is happening. However, is there not also a danger…23 Mar 2020HANSARDBudget StatementMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this very good debate, and the Library for its briefing, which was very informative and useful. As a result, this has…18 Mar 2020HANSARDContinuity Agreement: Kingdom of MoroccoMy Lords, I thank all who participated in this wide-ranging debate. I make no apology for that: we will inevitably have to confront the question of how Parliament and the…09 Mar 2020HANSARDContinuity Agreement: Kingdom of MoroccoThat this House regrets that, in agreeing a continuity agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Kingdom of Morocco, laid before the House…09 Mar 2020HANSARDContinuity Agreement: Kingdom of MoroccoMy Lords, I shall speak about the UK-Morocco association agreement. I also intend to make some remarks about the underlying issue here: Parliament’s continuing inability to…09 Mar 2020HANSARDNational Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2020My Lords, I welcome the SI before us. As has been said, it is interesting to see every year the amount of work that goes into providing the analysis and evidence for it. It is of…03 Mar 2020HANSARDParental Bereavement Leave Regulations 2020My Lords, this has been a useful and helpful debate on an uncontentious set of regulations stemming from a Bill which had to be a Private Member’s Bill but did, it should be said,…03 Mar 2020HANSARDArtistic Content: Copyright ProtectionDoes the Minister agree that unless Article 17 or an equivalent measure is introduced, creative personnel in this country are going to be disadvantaged relative to how they would…02 Mar 2020HANSARDUK-US Trade Deal Negotiating ObjectivesMy Lords, I first apologise for not being present at the very start of proceedings on this Statement. Unfortunately, my printer got stuck and I had to wait until I was able to…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]I would like one more chance to narrow down the point on which we were exchanging before the other two very good contributions came in. The noble Lord has a reputation in this…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]To follow up on what the noble Baroness has said, we understand the delicacy of the situation and that considerable discussion has preceded the Bill we are debating today. I…02 Mar 2020HANSARDFisheries Bill [HL]My Lords, this has been a very interesting discussion—a counterpart to the discussion on the first group, where we failed to agree. This had a lot more agreement, though there are…02 Mar 2020HANSARDWuhan Coronavirus: TourismMy Lords, the noble Baroness mentioned the work that VisitBritain is doing to try to understand better what the impact will be of this awful situation. I looked at its website…26 Feb 2020HANSARDTrade: StandardsMy Lords, it has been a very good debate, and I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, on getting her name on the Order Paper early so that we have a good…25 Feb 2020HANSARDBusiness ConfidenceMy Lords, it is not all sweetness and light, as the noble Lord would wish us to see. The report to which the Question refers also carries a health warning, which the Government…28 Jan 2020HANSARDTV Licence Fee EnforcementMy Lords, I think it is fair to say that the issues that have just been raised are not the direct responsibility of the new Secretary of State, whom I welcome to her place, but…23 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillBefore the Minister sits down, I hope that she can respond to one section of what I was asking about, on the interaction between existing responses to the data adequacy question…15 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill15 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lords who have contributed to this short but good debate. It was a robust response. I thank the Minister for the various points that she was able to…15 Jan 2020