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HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, in speaking to Amendment 29 in my name I will also speak briefly to the amendment with which it has been grouped: Amendment 56 from the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer. At…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI am grateful to the Minister for her full discussion of these issues. As she started I was thinking that we could have got a better result if we had drafted Amendment 29 in the…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, we intend to exercise a considerable amount of scrutiny on the issues in Committee, but—as hinted at by the Chief Whip in his elegant speech, in which he kindly named…21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade Bill21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, it has been a very good debate. Most of the interchange has been on the latter part, on Amendment 101, but we have made some interesting discoveries, there is food for…21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI absolutely agree with that. My final point is to pick up on the SMEs and the need to consider them not so much as one amorphous group but to try to find ways of reaching out to…21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI fully accept what my noble friend has said, and I am sorry if I misrepresented him. I think he has the right point there. It picks up what I was going to say about the point…21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI am grateful to the Minister for her comments. I think she summed up very accurately the sense in the debate that we have issues here that are worthy of further consideration and…21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, the previous debate was about process and how approval mechanisms were in play. This amendment has been grouped with Amendment 5, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord…21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade Bill21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillThe Minister must put me right if I am wrong. She just said that these were such small changes that they would not warrant anything other than simply negative scrutiny. However,…21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillWith respect, I think that the noble Lord had a second and more important part to his question. What happens if we want to change them?21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI thank all speakers in this short debate. The early contributions were to do largely with devolved issues. I think that we will come back to them, but they raise exactly the…21 Jan 2019HANSARDTelevision Licences: Over 75sMy Lords, going back to the main point, this is a completely classic cock-up by the Conservative Party. It promised, in its manifesto, that this issue would continue until the end…21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI thank the noble Baroness for giving way. We are in the territory of “may” and “must”, trying to decide whether we are drafting as we speak. I just want to ask her to calm down a…21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, this group of amendments plays back themes that we have already discussed in the first and second groups, so I will not spend much time on them. Amendment 6 suggests…21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade Bill21 Jan 2019HANSARDTakeovers (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I do not want to delay the House unduly, but I would not wish the evening to conclude with the Minister going off in confusion and worrying all night. Just to be certain, there…15 Jan 2019HANSARDTakeovers (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, I will pick up on a couple of points raised by the noble Lord, Lord Fox, and respond in part to some of the points made by the Minister in his introduction of this…15 Jan 2019HANSARDInsolvency (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing this issue. The SI seems to be welcomed by many in the industry and deals with a particularly difficult issue in a very constructive…15 Jan 2019