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HANSARDGreat British RailwaysMy Lords, the Minister will be aware from previous questions of the considerable concern about the service between Euston and Holyhead. Members of all parties in another place…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEnvironment Act 2021: TargetsMy Lords, may I press the Minister further on the quality of our rivers? Does he accept that, in order to get action taken effectively, targets have to be not only set but…25 Oct 2022HANSARDEnergy SuppliesMy Lords, I am sure that the Minister is aware that the Government of Wales have banned fracking, not just on the question of environmental impact in the conventional sense but…12 Oct 2022HANSARDHer Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth IIMy Lords, I rise to speak on behalf of Plaid Cymru in paying our tribute to the late Queen and extending our sympathy and condolences to all the Royal Family. Seventy years ago,…09 Sept 2022HANSARDAvanti West CoastMy Lords, I declare an interest as a regular user of the Avanti service from Holyhead to Euston—or at least I used to be. There is now only one through train a day, leaving…07 Sept 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I have waited until the latter stages of this debate before intervening, for the simple reason that my Amendment 78A deals with totally different subjects from…13 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I am grateful for and accept the integrity with which the Minister is putting that forward and the spirit in which he stated the difficulty that there would be with my amendment.…13 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 124A, which stands in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, who is involved in other parliamentary duties at this point. She asked…13 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness. I support Amendment 38 moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, and support very strongly the points that she and,…11 Jul 2022HANSARDBroadcasting Sector White PaperMy Lords, the Minister will be aware that Wales has a vibrant television and film industry and that back-to-back films have been exported to over 100 countries. Given that…11 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness. This group of amendments brings together three different but equally important threads that are material to this Bill, each…06 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I want to raise one narrow aspect; that of Dŵr Cymru, Welsh Water. The position of Welsh Water is somewhat different from that of the other water providers within…06 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I want to address the change in relation to Scottish law. Before doing that, I will pick up the point made a moment ago by the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, with regard…06 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]Scotland may come in but, at the moment, it is doing its own thing. This is a matter of getting a process where fine-tuning is possible. It is not so much the content that…04 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak briefly, as I intervened on the Minister’s opening speech. I want to reinforce the points that have been made and perhaps add a little to them. I come to…04 Jul 2022HANSARDWest Coast Main LineMy Lords, does the noble Baroness appreciate the negative effect that performance on the west coast line is having on potential industrial and economic development in north Wales?…04 Jul 2022HANSARDProcurement Bill [HL]I realise it is unusual to intervene on the opening speech, but it may be for the convenience of the Committee to understand the changes with regard to the devolved…04 Jul 2022HANSARDArrangement of BusinessMy Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for having made this statement, but will he appreciate that the effect of this sort of change goes beyond the usual channels in this House?…04 Jul 2022HANSARDSmall Modular Nuclear ReactorsMy Lords, may I break the habit of a lifetime and welcome the statement made by the Prime Minister in his speech in Newtown last month, when he announced an SMR for Trawsfynydd?…28 Jun 2022HANSARDFire and RehireMy Lords, does the Minister recall an action 20 years ago in the Friction Dynamics factory in Caernarvon—the former Ferodo factory—where the employer had locked out the employees…15 Jun 2022