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HANSARDTrade Bill23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade Bill23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I sense there has been a bit of a change in the composition of the House—I cannot imagine why, because we have reached some of the more interesting elements of the Bill.…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade Bill23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, Amendment 16 in my name deals with state aid and whether it will continue under any new arrangements brought forward by the Government. It is essentially a probing…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI was going to ask the Minister about the TRA—I am glad that he tried to clarify what he had said, because he did raise a doubt about what was arranged. Have I got it right? I…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI am grateful to all those who have contributed to this debate. It was indeed a probing amendment and an attempt to elicit a series of responses from the Minister. We have those…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade Bill23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, we are moving to a point that has already been raised and given a small trailer by the noble Lord, Lord Purvis. We need a system in place, although I am sure that the…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI am on the same page as the noble Lord, Lord Purvis. Why is it so complicated? The joint ministerial committee system has, as he said, worked well for more than 20 years. It…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI am grateful to the Minister for that full reply. I am looking forward to the letters, which I will read very carefully. It is sufficient to leave the position on Amendment 17 as…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI go back to an earlier question asked by the noble Lord, about whether or not the Government are in a position to notify those who are directly involved in this in a no-deal…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, my noble friend has done us a great service in introducing this amendment with considerable verve and in such detail that nobody feels it necessary to pick it up. I put…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, once again I support the amendments of my noble friend Lady Henig; I will also speak against Clauses 4 and 5 standing part of the Bill. Counterintuitively, I will deal…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade Bill23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, this amendment, for which I am grateful for the support of the noble Lords, Lord Patten of Barnes, Lord Purvis of Tweed and Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, has a long and…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillIn a spirit of mutual congratulation, I think it best to say that on this occasion we will withdraw the amendment—but we will probably want to look at the debate carefully and…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, it is impossible to summarise what has been a very wide-ranging discussion. It certainly ended up in a rather more heated and fetid atmosphere than I expected when we…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMaybe Dr Fox has an analogue that we do not know about, hopping around. “I do not know” is the answer.23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his full response. We would welcome the opportunity to meet up with him. We are converging on this point, though the noble Baroness,…23 Jan 2019