John Whittingdale: ...2030. I am sure that he will want to examine these matters further. The amendment tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) focuses on digital exclusion. The Bill provides for the use of secure and inclusive digital identities across the economy. It does not force businesses or individuals to use them. Individual choice is integral to our approach. As...
Rosie Winterton: ...standards for access to customer data and business data. (2) Standards created by virtue of subsection (1) must be interoperable with those created as a consequence of Part 2 of the Retail Banking Market Investigation Order 2017, made by the Competition and Markets Authority. (3) Regulations under section 66 and 68 must ensure interoperability of customer data and business data with...
Steven Bonnar: ...will be aware, agricultural policy is devolved to Scotland, and it is crucial that the Scottish Government’s policies are unhindered by this place and the threats imposed upon it by the UK Internal Market Act 2020, subsidy control regimes and a lack of a long-term replacement for that structured EU funding. Those of us who sit on the EFRA Committee heard evidence from devolution experts...
Lord Curry of Kirkharle: .... It was an excellent speech, as anticipated. I also commend that his first public engagement was the trip to Ukraine. It was such an important signal. Like others in this House, I welcome this Bill and the CPTPP. It is clearly a hugely important step forward and crucial in opening up trade opportunities for British companies in significant and growing markets, which we absolutely need to...
Lord Clement-Jones: ...”? That is an excellent recommendation. I also very much welcome that we are rejoining Horizon, but there was no mention in the Minister’s speech of how we will meet the challenge of getting international research co-operation back to where it was. I am disappointed that the Minister did not give us a progress update on the department’s 10 objectives in its framework for science and...
Barry Gardiner: ...this King’s Speech prevent even more excess deaths this winter? It is often said that the first job of Government is to protect their citizens. That does not just mean from external threat or internal crime, but in the basics of life. What could be more basic than the warmth of a decent home? Thankfully, energy prices have fallen since last winter, but they remain 70% higher than in the...
the Earl of Kinnoull: ...Parliament and the Executive. His weapons of choice were wit and that lethal logic. He briefly held the record for the size of a government defeat on one of the amendments in the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill, but he took no pleasure in that. He took pleasure only when, eventually, the point that he wanted to have included was conceded by the Government. I recently spent some time...
Baroness Taylor of Stevenage: ..., putting them at risk of exploitation. At the extreme end we will see an increase in deaths and fatalities which are totally preventable”. In the course of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill, we tried very hard to get the Vagrancy Act repealed. During the debate on LURB I cited nine Acts that are directly in place to deal with anti-social behaviour and aggressive begging. Local...
Joel James: ...I suddenly not able to pronounce simple words; sorry—shellfish produced in Wales, and we have the potential to create fisheries for scallops, oysters, abalone, shrimp and considerably improve our market output and demand, yet we allow water companies to continuously pollute our waterways. Data from the 'Storm overflow evidence for Wales' report shows that there are 2,142 storm overflows...
Julie James: ...to say that the Chair of the legislation and justice committee has answered his own questions in his own speech, but, just to reiterate the point, we've been clear throughout the passage of this Bill in the Senedd that the Welsh Government's position is and remains that where the Senedd legislates in non-reserved areas, it does so free from the requirements of the United Kingdom Internal...
Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan: ...the general principles debate to include within the explanatory memorandum that will accompany the future regulations an assessment of whether the future regulations engage the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020. Having given that commitment, I don't feel it's necessary to include a provision for this on the face of the Bill, and I ask Members to reject amendment 4.
Jamie Hepburn: ...ways in which the United Kingdom Government’s actions have constrained and undermined devolution. Those include reducing the effective powers of the Scottish Parliament through the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020; giving powers to UK ministers to intervene directly in matters that are within devolved responsibilities; undermining the Sewel convention; for the first time, blocking...
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard: ...report, and the ex-chairman of the committee on the brilliant timing of this debate. Like previous speakers, I believe that we need to work together with the EU “to safeguard the rules-based international order” and “co-operate against internal and external threats” to the values and interests that we share. That means rebuilding a relationship extending beyond trade and economic...
Bill Esterson: ...and commitment to all electric across a number of its brands. Then there is ULEMCo in my constituency—please look it up—which has pioneered the use of hydrogen as a drop-in fuel to existing internal combustion engines to cut emissions while full hydrogen options for combustion and fuel cells are being developed. Those, and many more, are examples of the amazing potential in this...
Lorna Slater: ...and human health issues, is a great concern to us. I thank Stephanie Callaghan, Brian Whittle and Kenneth Gibson for highlighting the nature of some of the companies that are involved in the marketing, and the danger that the products pose to our children by those companies putting profits ahead of human and environmental health. I want to reassure members that we are taking serious action...
Lord Naseby: Is my noble friend aware that a number of us have taken an interest in this market, recognising the enormous steps that His Majesty’s Government have taken on the development of offshore wind? At a time when it is stated that we are facing a possible bill of £65 billion to replace the internal grid to all our homes in the United Kingdom, is it not more appropriate that the resources we do...
Stuart McMillan: I welcome the programme for government and the ambitious announcements that the First Minister made this week. A total of 14 bills are to be introduced, including, just to name four, those relating to education, land reform, housing and Scottish languages, which can all lead to important outcomes for the country. The programme for government is anti-poverty and pro-growth, which will...
Miriam Cates: ..., we spent the lesson creating a spreadsheet on how much someone might earn if they worked at McDonald’s for 48 hours a week. We looked at what their rent costs might be, what their energy bill might be, how much they might spend on food, and how much it would cost for them to have the lifestyle they wanted—to be able to buy the computer games they wanted, and clothes to go out in. By...
Mark Griffin: ...a First Minister delivering his first programme for government. This was the Government saying loud and clear that it has run out of steam, has run out of ideas and has given up—a delayed housing bill, a cladding bill that the deputy first minister wasted two years on and plans to tinker with the unfair and broken council tax. Where were the plans to empower communities? Where was the...
Lord Johnson of Lainston: I am pleased to provide the House with the following updates from the Department for Business and Trade today. United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Services Exclusions) Regulations 2023 in accordance with section 18(10) of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 This statement is made in accordance with section 18(10)[1] of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (“the UKIM...