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HANSARDNuclear Regulatory Taskforce ReviewOn the noble Baroness’s first point, I have been clear that there has been a long-standing neglect of nuclear. That has been across multiple Governments, and we should recognise…27 Nov 2025HANSARDNuclear Regulatory Taskforce ReviewI could not agree more about the urgency. We have a very big task, both with disposal of existing stores and with getting new nuclear moving. I had a meeting just yesterday…27 Nov 2025HANSARDNuclear Regulatory Taskforce ReviewI am absolutely delighted that the Opposition Benches have a feeling of urgency about this, because we certainly have not had it for the past 13 years. We have urgency; we have…27 Nov 2025HANSARDNuclear Regulatory Taskforce ReviewA decision was made to get on with small modular reactors, and Wylfa is the site for that. That will start next year. At the same time, we have started a programme to look at…27 Nov 2025HANSARDDigital IDI thank the noble Baroness for her point. In terms of digital inclusion, we know, of course, that not everyone has a mobile phone. The vast majority do: I think 92% of people do.…14 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDI thank my noble friend for his question. The consultation will start later this year. It will be very broad, and we welcome input from many groups. We know that this is not…14 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDI thank the noble Viscount, Lord Camrose, and the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for the points that they have raised with the Government. Unsurprisingly, I have no doubt that…14 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDThe new part, as I have said, is exactly about the right to work and the ability to have identity related to the right to work. That will form a platform for digital ID and the…14 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDI thank the noble Lord for those observations. The consultation needs to be inclusive, involve various groups, and give everybody a chance to input into this from societal and…14 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDI thank my noble friend for that powerful and informed statement. I am sure that my noble friend’s offer for people to come and visit will be taken up, and I certainly would like…14 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDI am certainly not going to stand here and say that it is going to be absolutely error-free, because nothing is. I am not going to say that it is easy, because it is not. But…14 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDI thank my noble friend for his comments on migration. I agree that this is one way in which one can detect whether illegal employment is going on. It will be a deterrent, because…14 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDThe argument about individual privacy is an interesting one, because digital ID is a way of increasing privacy. At the moment when you show a form of ID, it includes all sorts of…14 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDWe are, of course, fully committed to everything in the Good Friday agreement. My colleague, the Minister for Digital Government and Data, was in Northern Ireland just last week.…14 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDThe benefit to the average worker is that they are being employed by an honest company, in the right way, and they are not having their jobs taken by people who should not be…14 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDLet me just try to be clear about a point that I think is important. The required element of this is the bit to do with the right to work. The notion that this is available for…14 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDYes.14 Oct 2025HANSARDMerck Research SiteMy Lords, the decision by Merck, or MSD, not to progress its investment, with 126 jobs lost—I express my sympathy to those individuals—is part of a broader effort by MSD to…11 Sept 2025HANSARDMerck Research SiteI have indeed tried to continue the brilliant work of the noble Lord on bringing together parts of government in this area; I met people from many different departments about this…11 Sept 2025HANSARDMerck Research SiteThe decrease in funding for the life sciences sector, in terms of NHS purchasing of medicines, started in 2015 and has continued since. It has not been a good position. We are…11 Sept 2025