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HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, in moving Amendment 10 I will also speak to Amendment 13 and the others in the group. I would particularly like to say how helpful I thought the amendments from the…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillI defer to my noble friends on that. Part of my concern about this law is that there will be a great deal of employment for my learned friends to be found in it, if it were to go…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, I apologise for interrupting. The Minister will be well aware that there is a particular use of the term “public body” by the Office for National Statistics, which means…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, I cannot resist suggesting that one definition of a “public function” is somewhere you are served warm white wine and canapés. That is a suggestion of how loose some of…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, first, we are in the territory of the chilling effect, are we not? If there is a very large number of bodies which are not going to be sure how far they come within the…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, I rise to support these amendments and simply emphasise that the whole issue of climate change and environmental degradation is now a very major one, which divides…17 Apr 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, I will try to be brief at this late hour. I spent my entire career studying and writing about foreign policy. The noble Lord, Lord Moylan, was kind enough when he made…17 Apr 2024HANSARDFrance: SecurityMy Lords, we now know that the fourth meeting of the European Political Community summit will take place in Blenheim in July. The European Political Community is one of Macron’s…16 Apr 2024HANSARDSurplus Carbon EmissionsMy Lords, since we are talking about various forms of renewable power, have the Government paid enough attention to hydro power from rivers in England and Wales? In France, the…27 Mar 2024HANSARDUkraine: Arms and Ammunition CostsMy Lords, can the Minister tell us how closely we are co-ordinating our efforts in the provision of arms and assistance to Ukraine? What steps are the Government taking to expand…26 Mar 2024HANSARDCabinet ManualMy Lords, in due course there will be an election. There are probably only four months more of parliamentary sitting before we reach the general election. In saying that these…25 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, I am an academic and, in the course of my career, I have been an associated member of three colleges in Oxford and Cambridge. One has a governing body in the mid-30s;…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, I am slightly better informed. We have many difficulties with this Bill. I must say that it would be much easier if it were simply a Bill about boycott of Israel and…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, I have had advice from a professor of law at Cambridge University that it is not within scope where the research funding is not public. It is then a private act, not a…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillThe Minister has just said that we need legislation to silence unpopular views. I have to say that, as a liberal, I find that one of the most illiberal things that we could…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 8. I declare an interest: I have two children, both scientists, working in universities. My son runs a microbiology laboratory at Edinburgh…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) BillMy Lords, as we are starting Committee, I will say a few things about how we should handle the Bill from now on. After Second Reading and the Commons stages, during which there…20 Mar 2024HANSARDEconomic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill20 Mar 2024HANSARDExtremism Definition and Community EngagementMy Lords, I will make two points. First, I think there was an overlap between some of the work that the Intelligence and Security Committee has been doing about foreign…19 Mar 2024