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HANSARDEU: Future RelationshipMy Lords, I, too, welcome the Minister to his new position and look forward to a series of robust exchanges in the months to come. As I was coming down to the House, I was…27 Feb 2020HANSARDAlgorithms: Public Sector Decision-makingMy Lords, I first came into this whole area when I was a Lords Minister in the Cabinet Office seven years ago, when we were struggling with the beginnings of Whitehall going…12 Feb 2020HANSARDAir Accident InvestigationMy Lords, I understand from reading the press that a large number of private aircraft operated in British skies are registered in the Isle of Man. Is that a tax avoidance scheme…10 Feb 2020HANSARDYorkshire: DevolutionMy Lords, is the Minister aware that the city region model simply does not fit North Yorkshire? When I asked the last Minister responsible for this how he defined a city region…10 Feb 2020HANSARDData Science: Government ProcessesTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to consult Parliament on proposals to improve the use of data science in government processes.04 Feb 2020HANSARDData Science: Government ProcessesMy Lords, the noble Earl will be aware from the Science and Technology Committee report of a feeling that the Government have lost momentum since 2015 in the transition to digital…04 Feb 2020HANSARDEuropean Union: Trading ArrangementsMy Lords, at the time of the referendum, Boris Johnson, now our Prime Minister, assured voters that frictionless trade would continue. That has now been completely forgotten, and…30 Jan 2020HANSARDHouse of Lords: AppointmentsMy Lords, the Minister may remember that I was in the coalition Government as Lords Minister responsible for attempting to put a scheme for Lords reform through this House. He may…30 Jan 2020HANSARDNHS: DataMy Lords, the Conservative manifesto promised a good expansion of data sharing across government. We all know that there are many advantages of doing that, as well as the need for…28 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy Lords, may I raise a short constitutional question that came up last week and which relates to this? In our debate on Clause 38 last Thursday, the noble and learned Lord, Lord…21 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy Lords, as unamended, the clause we are debating restates the principle of parliamentary sovereignty. Many of us considered that the devolution settlement had modified the…21 Jan 2020HANSARDHouse of Lords: Future LocationMy Lords, is it an indication of the depth of research undertaken by the Government on this that the briefing to the Sunday Times said that one advantage of York is that it is now…20 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy Lords, this is an unusual Bill in a number of ways. We were debating in Committee that it has a clause which restates that parliamentary sovereignty has been established, so we…20 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy Lords, Clause 38 is purely declaratory: it has no effect whatsoever, except to appease the appetite of the hard ideologues on the Conservative right. The Select Committee on…16 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy Lords, I entirely accept that. I am merely talking about those who have written about this. I am talking, as my noble colleague on the Labour Front Bench suggested, about those…16 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI have indeed read Dicey and I am conscious that his views on a number of issues were influenced by his growing opposition to home rule.16 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy Lords, in that case, I find the phrase “unnecessary repetition” entirely appropriate to this clause as a description of what it is for. I referred to the duality principle; I…16 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillNot just the League of Nations—there was also withdrawal from the joint agreement with Iran, although that was an executive act. I was saying that our Parliament, which is…16 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy Lords, my name is also on Amendments 27 and 28, and I wish to add my support for them. The Constitution Committee’s report, published two days ago, says in paragraph 3: “This…15 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy Lords, I assure the noble Lord that I am strongly in favour of reforming the House of Lords. I hoped when I was appointed to this House that I would in due course become an…15 Jan 2020