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HANSARDOfficial Listing of Securities, Prospectus and Transparency (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I am most grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. She just said something that alarms me greatly, which is that there will now be two forms of IFRS, one for the EU and the…18 Feb 2019HANSARDOfficial Listing of Securities, Prospectus and Transparency (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019The Minister’s description of the position is not at all what I understood. As I understood it from my noble friend Lord Tunnicliffe—who spotted this, to his great credit—at…18 Feb 2019HANSARDOfficial Listing of Securities, Prospectus and Transparency (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Bridges, has told the House, quite correctly, that at present he has a role with Banco Santander. Although in my case there is no possible financial…18 Feb 2019HANSARDEU WithdrawalMy Lords, I do not know if it has something to do with the algorithm used by the Whips’ Office to allocate the order of speakers in these debates, but this is far from the first…13 Feb 2019HANSARDTrade BillBefore the Minister moves on to detailed points, perhaps this might be a good moment for him to tell the Committee, out of all the countries with which we would like to have our…04 Feb 2019HANSARDTrade BillI am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. As he rightly says, free ports are distortionary by definition. If you create a free port close to another port, one will survive…04 Feb 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I think that this is a very good amendment and I will come to the substance of it in a second. I just want to make two points by way of introduction. First, here we are…04 Feb 2019HANSARDTrade BillThe noble Lord is, once again, moving into the dangerous business of making elementary errors in the interpretation of statistics. Quite clearly, where we had a relationship with…30 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, the fact that, if the Government have their way, in two months’ time we shall be dragged out of the single market is a tragedy of great proportions which will affect…30 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord again, but I will just correct him on this matter. If he looks at the figures, he will see that France and Germany have increased their…30 Jan 2019HANSARDFloods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord again, but I am afraid that he may have missed the point. I am sure he knows an awful lot about this subject, so he must know about the…22 Jan 2019HANSARDFloods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I thank the Minister for giving way. Does he not accept that one very important thing we shall lose if we leave the European Union in two months’ time is the Francovich principle,…22 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, it is quite unjustifiable that anybody should accuse people in this House of filibustering on this matter. One can see that we have taken only 35 minutes on a very…21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I have been listening to the debate with great interest, but I am worried that the House may be making a technical mistake that could have wider implications. With the…21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI want to be absolutely clear about something. I did not suggest for a moment that SMEs do not have a valuable part to play in defence procurement. I said simply that it may be…21 Jan 2019HANSARDLeaving the European UnionMy Lords, if the Prime Minister had ever had any intention of probing the scope for consensual solutions to the problems of Brexit, she surely would have done that ages ago,…21 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I think it is the turn of this side of the House—21 Jan 2019HANSARDSeaborne FreightMy Lords, when did any British Government in any field last place a major contract with a company that had no experience whatever of operating? Are the Government confident that…08 Jan 2019