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HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023My Lords, these regulations were laid before the House on 10 July 2023, and they will be made under the powers provided by the Product Security and Telecommunications…07 Sept 2023HANSARDEU ProgrammesMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made in the other place earlier today by my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Science,…07 Sept 2023HANSARDEU ProgrammesI thank the noble Lords, Lord Bassam and Lord Wallace of Saltaire. Dealing first with the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, I think it is a stretch by anybody’s imagination…07 Sept 2023HANSARDEU ProgrammesAs a number of noble Lords have observed in this debate and previously, the fact that we were not members of the Horizon programme was of great concern and probably did lasting…07 Sept 2023HANSARDEU ProgrammesI thank my noble friend for the question. A statistic that I like to use, which maybe will give some reassurance that Horizon is not purely an EU-based body—I am sorry if it…07 Sept 2023HANSARDEU ProgrammesI thank the noble Lord for his question, and of course pay tribute to his relentless focus on holding us to account on making sure the Horizon deal went through. I am delighted…07 Sept 2023HANSARDEU ProgrammesBetter than nothing is indeed a dispiriting thing. Better than Erasmus is the assessment that the Government made when declining the opportunity, on negotiation of the TCA, to…07 Sept 2023HANSARDEU ProgrammesFirst, as I was obliged to explain to the House at the time, I was unable to comment on ongoing negotiations for fear of prejudicing their outcome. The initial position of the EU…07 Sept 2023HANSARDEU ProgrammesI will come back to the question of visas, and I take the point. I am pleased to say that we are also reassociating with Copernicus. It is such an important programme for the…07 Sept 2023HANSARDEU ProgrammesI thank the noble Lord for the question. I recognise the issue, and although my ability to fix that is pretty limited, I will of course take that back to my colleagues.07 Sept 2023HANSARDEU ProgrammesTo the noble Baroness’s first point, I am pleased to say that the EU has agreed jointly with us to help to publicise the new arrangements with the UK and our association and to…07 Sept 2023HANSARDEU ProgrammesI hope very much that Cancer Research UK, a body for which I have enormous respect, welcomes this news. I hope that the noble Viscount will pass on my very best wishes and that it…07 Sept 2023HANSARDEU ProgrammesI thank the noble Lord for that question. I slightly struggle on the subject of who is or is not allowed to work in our universities as a result of this. I am not aware that…07 Sept 2023HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023That the Grand Committee do consider the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023 Relevant…07 Sept 2023HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023I thank the crowds of noble Lords for their valuable contributions to the debate. I will make some general comments to start and then come to specific points that noble Lords have…07 Sept 2023HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023That is an interesting experimental chamber to have, because we can compare the two regimes, so I am happy to make that commitment, yes. The assurances about online marketplaces…07 Sept 2023HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023I do not want to say anything inaccurate. I hope that it is acceptable for me to write to the noble Lord.07 Sept 2023HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023No, the consultation took place with a wide range of civil society and other stakeholders. Mechanisms are in place to update, should it not prove to be as proportionate as we…07 Sept 2023HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023I have to confess that my familiarity with some of that legislation is a bit limited, but I was attempting to convey that the full extent of the regulation covering those devices…07 Sept 2023HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) Regulations 2023I think we are talking about the continent.07 Sept 2023