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HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, as ever, Ms Nokes. Clause 78 applies the provisions in the Bill to subsidies made by means of primary legislation, as set out in…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)The clause establishes a customary provision that the Bill applies in full to the Crown. As part of this customary provision, the Crown does not include Her Majesty in her private…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)The clause enables the Secretary of State to make secondary legislation to establish how gross cash and gross cash equivalent are to be determined when designing a subsidy or…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)The clause makes consequential amendments to the Financial Services Act 2021, in relation to regulated activities in Gibraltar within the scope of the Act. In doing so, the clause…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)The clause establishes that expenditure incurred under the terms of the Bill in connection with the subsidies database, established under clause 32, is to be paid out of money…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)The clause provides for the Secretary of State to make regulations that amend, repeal, revoke or otherwise modify existing primary or secondary legislation, including retained…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)The clause sets out the parliamentary procedures that apply in relation to powers to make regulations conferred on Ministers by the Bill. It sets out the procedure that applies…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)Essentially, the subsidy control regime differentiates between the subsidies in devolved primary legislation and the subsidies in an Act of Parliament in a way that respects the…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)I think I covered schedule 3 in my opening remarks on clause 78.18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)The power to issue statutory guidance, as is currently provided for in clause 79, will allow the Government to offer greater colour and detail to public authorities in how to…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)It is incumbent on us to engage on any changes. How we engage and the timing of that will depend on the circumstances. However, if we are going to do this and make it work,…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)I can commit to this: we want to share parts of the draft guidance as we develop it, because we want to make sure that the guidance is there as we go through this process.…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)The clause establishes that any directions made under the Bill must be made in writing, and also makes provision for a direction to be varied or revoked by a subsequent direction…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)The clause establishes the definitions used for various terms within the Bill, whether those terms are defined elsewhere in the Bill or in external sources of law. It also…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)The clause establishes that, barring one exception, the Bill extends to England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The one exception is clause 48(3) of the Bill.18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)Rightly, the hon. Member for Aberdeen North does not want to extend the Bill—she has extended the Committee, but that is fair enough—18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)She has raised some really important points and it is important that she gets them on the record, because we have a shared aim to ensure that we get this right and make it work…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)Clause 91 establishes which parts of the Bill will come into effect and when. It provides the Secretary of State with a power to bring certain provisions of the Bill into force by…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)I will speak first to amendment 82. As I have previously stated in addressing other amendments to this clause, the power to issue statutory guidance in clause 79 will allow the…18 Nov 2021HANSARDSubsidy Control Bill (Eleventh sitting)The clause allows for limited amendments to be made to subsidies or schemes, referred to as permitted modifications. They can be made to subsidies made under the terms of the Bill…18 Nov 2021