Some of our greatest earnings are from carriage by sea, and a great many of our goods go through Europe but are destined for countries outside it. Will those goods be exempt from the new regulations or will they be required to accept them, if it is no longer in their interest to pass through European ports?
My Lords, my eyes have misted over with gratitude that I have lived long enough to see this happening. My congratulations go to the Government and everybody who has participated in making this possible and making it acceptable to all sides. Thinking of the day when I voted not to stay in the first place, I can only say that, now at last, the air is fresher. We can breathe again and do all the...
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My Lords, I am very sympathetic to this amendment’s aims, and have been ever since we joined the market. It relates to an issue that was one of my strongest concerns when making up my mind to vote against going in in the first place, which I did: the question of all the animal welfare measures, little and big, and the worst measure of all, which sees animals waiting overnight and longer at...
My Lords, it is not often in your Lordships’ House that I have been at odds with the noble Baroness—we usually make quite a good gang together—but I have to say that the very last thing that I want to remain after we leave the EU is a lot of these badly drafted regulations, which do not achieve their objectives in many cases and can be improved. I shall not detain the House by going...
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I would just like to put the opposite view. Some of the regulations that we have had to accept from the EU on health matters were likely to be completely unhelpful and possibly even make matters worse. I remember when people were concerned about harmful additives in food and parents, in particular, wanted to know more, so the EU produced a regulation in which the information was to be given...
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To ask Her Majesty's Government when they intend to bring into force the whole of Section 152 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002.
asked Her Majesty's Government: How many male patients were treated in geriatric wards in the National Health Service in England and Wales during 2005 and 2006 respectively; and How many female patients were treated in geriatric wards in the National Health Service in England and Wales during 2005 and 2006 respectively; and How many male patients were treated in general surgery wards in the...
asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Answer by Baroness Amos on 10 December (HL Deb, col. 105), on what date the visa granted to Chris Pasipamire was issued; and what length of stay in the United Kingdom it allows.
asked Her Majesty's Government: What estimate they have made of the cost to the legal aid budget over the next three years, as a result of the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998.
