Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill

My Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale. Two of the amendments in t...

My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 1 and the amendments in this group that are about giving a ...

I would like briefly to intervene on this important group of amendments and should declare an int...

My Lords, I apologise for not taking part at Second Reading; I was at the COP 26 climate talks, w...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 1, 21 and 26. While the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, made a com...

My Lords, I shall make just a few comments. I declare my interests, as I did on Second Reading. I...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord. He is completely right when he says that cli...

My Lords, I will speak in support of Amendments 1 and 26—to which I have added my name—and Amendm...

My Lords, this has been a fascinating debate. I thank all noble Lords for their contributions. I ...

My Lords—ah. I caught the expression on the Minister’s face, and I apologise for delaying his rem...

I thank the noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate, for his intervention. When he was unable to complete ...

I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this excellent and illuminating debate. I think it...

Moved by

Baroness Noakes

2: Schedule 1, page 6, line 18, leave out paragraph (c)

My Lords, in moving Amendment 2 I will speak also to Amendments 6, 8 and 10 in my name. These are...

My Lords, I am very glad to follow my noble friend Lady Noakes, who has typically managed to make...

My Lords, I strongly support what the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, has said regarding his Amendments...

My Lords, I will speak only briefly, primarily about the amendments from the noble Baroness, Lady...

My Lords, I am now going to indulge in some groupthink by agreeing with the last speaker and the ...

My Lords, I will quickly put on record our position on this. I am also fascinated to find out why...

At Second Reading I raised the appointment of the chair and the chief executive by the Government...

This group of amendments relates to the balance that we need to strike between ARIA’s independenc...

Before my noble friend moves off this particular point, he will know, and the Committee will have...

That is the exact point. At the moment they are occupied by the same person, but at some point in...

I asked some specific questions about the future legal structure of ARIA and the nature of who it...

I will write to the noble Lord with the legal details he requires.

My Lords, I can probably help the noble Lord, Lord Fox. In the case of public corporations create...

The non-execs and execs, or just the non-execs?

No, the members. The members are executive and non-executive, as defined. They comprise the body....

Moved by

Baroness Randerson

4: Schedule 1, page 6, line 21, at end insert—

“(ba...

My Lords, I start by declaring an interest as chancellor of Cardiff University. Given the current...

It is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness. I have a lot of sympathy for what she says and wou...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, in her Amendment 4 and to...

My Lords, I support our using our full capabilities across the regions; however, while they shoul...

My Lords, I will comment on Amendment 4 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson. We mus...

My Lords, as co-chair of the Midlands Engine APPG, I am very supportive of the levelling-up agend...

My Lords, I offer Green support for the intention of all these amendments, although I agree with ...

My Lords, I want to express the hope that the Minister is going to tell the Committee that consul...

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate. I fully associate myself with the words of my nobl...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, for her remarks on these amendments. Many p...

I very much thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this discussion. I would say to the nobl...

Moved by

Baroness Chapman of Darlington

11: Schedule 1, page 9, line 35, at end inser...

I think this set of amendments really gets to the meat of our concerns. These amendments are all ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 16 in my name. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Browne, for his ...

My Lords, I shall talk to Amendment 16, which I am hopeful that the Minister will tell us is unne...

The noble Lord was chastising the Explanatory Notes earlier for not explaining. On this occasion,...

I apologise for wasting the Grand Committee’s time. I go back to the simple argument I made in re...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Chapman’s Amendment 11 in particular, as well as others ...

My Lords, I can probably help the noble Viscount. It is a shame that the noble Lord, Lord Morse, ...

Again, this is an interesting group of amendments, and the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman, and the ...

I have just a word of disagreement on some of this. Short-termism has been our problem; we must k...

I thank noble Lords who have contributed. These amendments relate to ARIA’s annual report and to ...

I thank the Minister for what he said, but if he thinks that this is some short-lived political c...

Moved by

Baroness Noakes

17: Schedule 1, page 10, line 23, leave out paragraph (a)