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HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fourth sitting)Q My apologies for not being here at the beginning. I am interested in your work on sovereign wealth funds and private equity funds, in terms of working out the value of an…26 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Very quickly, although this looks at equity investment, do you have any thoughts about the fact that debt holders can be much more influential and therefore possibly get away…26 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Fourth sitting)Q When you were answering Chi Onwurah’s question, you posed the question, why would you buy a company if there is just a 1% risk that you would not be able to sell? I was going to…26 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Third sitting)Q I want to refer back to some earlier questions about the skills within the investigatory unit that would be within BEIS. With your knowledge of Government, do you see any sort…26 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Third sitting)Q Do you think it should be formalised or do you think an informal relationship with other Government Departments will be adequate? Professor Martin : I think it should be formal.…26 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Third sitting)Q And the debt issue—the fact that debt holders can be more influential over businesses than equity holders? Christian Boney: That is certainly fair. I think the level of…26 Nov 2020HANSARD UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership AgreementBy rights, the Chair of the International Trade Committee, the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Angus Brendan MacNeil), should be making this speech, but he is stuck in the…25 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Second sitting)Q May I follow on from that question about the resources? There is talk about 1,800 companies coming forward and voluntarily disclosing that this transaction is going on, but I am…24 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Sir Graham. Dr Lenihan, my questions refer back to points you made in response to the first batch of questions. You spoke of the review regime not being quite up to…24 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (First sitting)Q It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. Sir Richard, I want to ask some questions about how the Bill and the mechanisms that make it operate cut across…24 Nov 2020HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill (First sitting)Q I would not want to put words in your mouth, but it sounds like you would suggest that this Committee urge the Government to look at the possibility of developing relationships…24 Nov 2020HANSARDOfficial Development AssistanceAn awful lot of stuff has been said this afternoon, most of which I agree with. I come at this issue from two perspectives; the first is as the co-chair of the Conservative…09 Jul 2020HANSARDDraft Enterprise Act 2002 (EU Foreign Direct Investment) (Modifications) Regulations 2020My apologies for pressing the point, but having been the Minister for Investment at the Department for International Trade, I know there are quite significant implications in the…08 Jul 2020HANSARD Domestic Abuse BillI thank the hon. Lady; I am conscious that there are a lot of people. My hon. Friend the Member for Louth and Horncastle came to Kidderminster to meet with Natalie’s family. It…06 Jul 2020HANSARD Domestic Abuse BillI will.06 Jul 2020HANSARD Domestic Abuse BillThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me a bit earlier than I was expecting. I rise to speak to new clauses 4 to 11 in my name and that of the right hon. and learned Member…06 Jul 2020HANSARD Agriculture BillI want to talk about new clause 1, which is in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for North Dorset (Simon Hoare), and new clause 4, which has not been selected but was tabled…13 May 2020HANSARD Domestic Abuse BillLike my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton), I shall recycle a speech I made on the first Second Reading of this important Bill. I feel incredibly…28 Apr 2020HANSARD Lea Castle Farm QuarryI beg to move, That this House has considered Lea Castle Farm Quarry. It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley, and to be in Westminster Hall, even as…17 Mar 2020HANSARD Women in the Commonwealth: Trade and InvestmentMy hon. Friend makes an interesting point about how we can help people in extreme poverty in those countries. A problem, however, is that if we create new tariffs across the world…11 Mar 2020