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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 02 Dec 2022
Protection for Whistleblowing Bill [HL]

"That the Bill be now read a second time.

Relevant document: 19th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 02 Dec 2022
Protection for Whistleblowing Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I thank the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Whistleblowing and its past and present chairs, Stephen Kerr and Mary Robinson, for the APPG’s role in making sure that this issue is heard in Parliament. Lawyers working with the APPG developed the Bill that I am bringing forward today in …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 02 Dec 2022
Protection for Whistleblowing Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I will follow the usual convention of not giving a wind-up speech at the end of a Private Member’s Bill, but I acknowledge that so many of your Lordships spoke so eloquently. There were brilliant speeches about very individual situations that bring to light exactly the culture and …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 10 Oct 2022
Economy: The Growth Plan 2022

"My Lords, I have this vision of the noble Lord, Lord Dobbs, sitting beside fireless firesides.

Let me switch tone and say to the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, that I recognise and welcome her to her new role. I assume that she will speak frequently on Treasury issues, so we …..."
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Written Question
British Business Bank
Tuesday 28th June 2022

Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what ministerial directions they have given to the British Business Bank; and what were the contents of those directions.

Answered by Lord Callanan - Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

A Ministerial Direction is a formal instruction by a Minister to the Chief Accounting Office of their department to proceed with a spending proposal. These are available on the GOV.UK website.

In the case of the British Business Bank plc, a Written Direction is a formal instruction issued by or on behalf of the British Business Bank’s Shareholder, the Secretary of State for BEIS, to proceed with a requested course of action after the Board has raised its concerns through a Reservation Notice. With respect to the Government’s Covid-19 Loan Schemes, all these notices are publicly available to view on the Bank’s website and GOV.UK.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 16 May 2022
Queen’s Speech

"My Lords, let me take this opportunity to join in the many thanks to Her Majesty the Queen and express our pleasure at seeing her in such good form over the weekend.

“Yesterday upon the stair,

I met a man who wasn’t there.

He wasn’t there again today”.

How better …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill

"My Lords, my colleagues are doing all the heavy lifting from these Benches, and I am incredibly grateful to them. I have signed Amendment 92 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, which I think found itself in drifting into the wrong group: it is actually part of …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill

"My Lords, I will try to be brief on this issue. Amendments 40 and 41 both refer to whistleblowers and protection for them. Whistleblowers will be absolutely crucial if the register proposed in this legislation is to be accurate, but they will also be crucial for unexplained wealth orders and …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 14 Mar 2022
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill

"Obviously, I am very disappointed with the answer and the ongoing complacency that undermines the legislation we are passing, but at this point in time I beg leave to withdraw the amendment...."
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