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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 15 Jun 2021
Children with Genetic Conditions: Specialist Support

"My Lords, I draw attention to my registered links with Mencap. The Disabled Children’s Partnership, which has been mentioned, has estimated that almost half of disabled children have lost confidence in communicating because of a disruption or delay to speech and language therapy during Covid, a factor not adequately addressed …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 09 Nov 2020
Carbon Emissions

"My Lords, Anglesey is known as “Energy Island”, not just because of the Wylfa nuclear site but because of the potential of wind power and tidal power around its coast. Will the Minister therefore confirm that renewable projects around that coast will be eligible for financial help from the Government’s …..."
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Written Question
Developing Countries: Fossil Fuels
Wednesday 24th June 2020

Asked by: Lord Wigley (Plaid Cymru - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they give to policies for reducing the use of fossil fuels by 2050 when developing trading links with least developed countries.

Answered by Lord Grimstone of Boscobel

The United Kingdom has long supported the promotion of our values globally, including ambitious global action to tackle climate change, and this will continue as an independent trading nation. We have already legislated to deliver net zero emissions in the United Kingdom, becoming the first major economy to do so.

Climate change is one of the most serious threats facing our world. We are committed to upholding the United Kingdom’s high environmental standards and will consider the mechanisms available to us, including through our trading relationships with Least Developed Countries.

Written Question
Food: Imports
Tuesday 17th March 2020

Asked by: Lord Wigley (Plaid Cymru - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that any future trade agreements with other countries will require that no imported food or drink may contain any asbestos which could enter into the body of a consumer.

Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)

We remain firmly committed to upholding our high food safety standards outside the EU. The UK’s independent food regulators will continue to ensure that all food imports into the UK comply with those high standards.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 01 May 2019
Trade Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Swiss Confederation

"My Lords, as a member of the sub-committee chaired so well by the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, I am glad of the opportunity to pay tribute to him for his work as chair and to the work of the staff of the committee. A tremendous amount of work goes on …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Mar 2019
Trade Bill

"My Lords, I too welcome the amendment. I apologise for taking so little part in the Bill’s progress since participating at Second Reading. This intermittent pattern has been due largely to being stretched on Brexit matters across many different committees and calls.

I support the comments of the noble Lord, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Mar 2019
Trade Bill

"Does the Minister accept that the problem as seen from the devolved regimes is that, very often, consultation does not amount to very much indeed? That is why the word “consent” is very much more powerful. If consultation was something that was driven with the intention of having a meeting …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 06 Mar 2019
Trade Bill

"My Lords, I shall try to be as brief as the noble Lord, Lord Kerr. I too tabled an amendment early in the Committee stage—the predecessor to the amendment that he so ably moved at that time. My feeling is that we have lost an opportunity to find a satisfactory …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 21 Jan 2019
Trade Bill

"My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for introducing this amendment. As far as it goes, I support it, but I shall take up a point that was made a moment ago by the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, from the Liberal Front Bench that trade agreements will certainly …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 21 Jan 2019
Trade Bill

"On that point, might there be a disagreement between Westminster and Cardiff, or Westminster and Edinburgh, on what continuity is —in other words, on the interpretation of where these definitions apply? For example, it is not just medical matters that arise in the health sector: purchases for hospitals and all …..."
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