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HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)I was not quite; I was referring to the investment agreement on the Hinkley deal that enabled the Chinese state nuclear corporation to develop one third of that series of reactors…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)I wonder whether I can tempt the Minister to confirm that the 2015 Secretary of State’s investment agreement concerning Chinese control of the nuclear power station and reactor…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)Yes, indeed. The hon. Member is quite correct to draw attention to clause 22, which concerns false or misleading information. It relates to where someone has, at the time of the…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend makes an important point, which was reflected in the evidence sessions on this Bill. I want to dwell on that briefly, because he makes a really important point.…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)Our amendment was genuinely intended to be helpful, to try to ensure that what we see as a loophole is closed. The Minister has indicated that, in his view, that loophole would be…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)Yes, indeed, that is right, but what seems to be the case under the schedule is that the creditors and shareholders of that company would expect their rights and their ownership…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)But if the IP, the patents and various other things have been made off with by another company, and the administrators have presumably agreed to that, although they never hold the…01 Dec 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Sixth sitting)Will the Minister expand on some of the provisions in schedule 1, particularly as they relate to what might be a UK version of the case that I mentioned earlier concerning the US…01 Dec 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty Second sitting)Although the Minister has provided a good concordance on where to look in the Bill for things that could conceivably pull it together, nothing in the Bill actually does that.…26 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty Second sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. Hon. Members with an elephantine memory will recall that at the beginning of this Committee’s deliberations—I have here the…26 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty Second sitting)I do not think a healthy and resilient environment can be interpreted in any other way than an environment that needs to be as healthy as possible for human development and…26 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty Second sitting)Further to that point of order, Mr Gray. At the risk of straining the point of order, I would like to add my thanks at the conclusion of our Bill Committee proceedings. They have…26 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty Second sitting)Mr Gray, we consider that the aims of new clause 33 have already been aired in new clause 29—we know the result of that—so we do not wish to move it. New Clause 34 Reducing Water…26 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)Indeed, Mr Gray; I will not be too far tempted on to the history of regulation and privatised industries and how that has worked out, other than to say that the checks and…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)The new clause specifically talks about targets, and in the 1991 Act targets did not exist. While it is true that there are general environmental obligations in that Act, they do…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. Let us see how we get on with this one, Mr Gray. Again, this is a very simple new clause; I thought the last one was simple,…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)That is indeed absolutely what we hope will happen and what the new clause is intended to underpin. The Minister, I think, has just made a further point in favour of the new…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)What I was doing was engaging in a bit of what-iffery. The Minister came back to me and said that the OEP could set up its own register, if it wanted to do. That is not what we…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)That was not quite the question that I asked the Minister. What I asked was: if the OEP did decide to set up its own independent register, what would Ministers have to say about…24 Nov 2020HANSARDEnvironment Bill (Twenty First sitting)I am not sure that I will any more, actually. The Government’s suggesting that the Committee should move swiftly on because they do not particularly like an Opposition new clause…24 Nov 2020