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House of Lords Official Report Vol. 808 Monday No. 157 7 December 2020 PARLIAMENTARYDEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICIAL REPORT ORDEROFBUSINESS Questions Trident Nuclear Programme ...................................................................................................................................945 Convention on Biological Diversity ........................................................................................................................948 Colombia ................................................................................................................................................................951 Covid-19: Social Mobility.......................................................................................................................................955 Conduct Committee Report Motion to Agree ......................................................................................................................................................959 Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Aquatic Animal Health and Alien Species in Aquaculture, Animals, and Marketing of Seed, Plant and Propagating Material (Legislative Functions and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Veterinary Medicines and Residues (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Motions to Approve .................................................................................................................................................964 Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 Motions to Approve .................................................................................................................................................965 Conflict Minerals (Compliance) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Motion to Approve...................................................................................................................................................965 Export Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Motion to Approve...................................................................................................................................................965 Trade Bill Report (1st Day) ....................................................................................................................................................965 Grand Committee Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Considered in Grand Committee........................................................................................................................GC 253 Plant Health (Phytosanitary Conditions) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment) Order 2020 Considered in Grand Committee........................................................................................................................GC 265 Direct Payments to Farmers (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 World Trade Organisation Agreement on Agriculture (Domestic Support) Regulations 2020 Considered in Grand Committee........................................................................................................................GC 275 Unmanned Aircraft (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Considered in Grand Committee........................................................................................................................GC 276 Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2020 Considered in Grand Committee.......................................................................................................................GC 287 Lords wishing to be supplied with these Daily Reports should give notice to this effect to the Printed Paper Office. No proofs of Daily Reports are provided. Corrections for the bound volume which Lords wish to suggest to the report of their speeches should be clearly indicated in a copy of the Daily Report, which, with the column numbers concerned shown on the front cover, should be sent to the Editor of Debates, House of Lords, within 14 days of the date of the Daily Report. This issue of the Official Report is also available on the Internet at https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2020-12-07 In Hybrid sittings, [V] after a Member’s name indicates that they contributed by video call. The following abbreviations are used to show a Member’s party affiliation: Abbreviation Party/Group CB Cross Bench Con Conservative DUP Democratic Unionist Party GP Green Party Ind Lab Independent Labour Ind LD Independent Liberal Democrat Ind SD Independent Social Democrat Ind UU Independent Ulster Unionist Lab Labour Lab Co-op Labour and Co-operative Party LD Liberal Democrat LD Ind Liberal Democrat Independent Non-afl Non-affiliated PC Plaid Cymru UKIP UK Independence Party UUP Ulster Unionist Party No party affiliation is given for Members serving the House in a formal capacity, the Lords spiritual, Members on leave of absence or Members who are otherwise disqualified from sitting in the House. © Parliamentary Copyright House of Lords 2020, this publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 945 Arrangement of Business [7 DECEMBER 2020] Trident Nuclear Programme 946 House of Lords Baroness Goldie (Con) [V]: The MoD routinely evaluates and reviews all major contracts as they near Monday 7 December 2020 their end dates. It conducted a review of the governance model in place for the management of AWE plc, and it The House met in a hybrid proceeding. was following that review that the MoD decided that AWE should revert to a direct government-ownership 1 pm model. Webelieve that will simplify and further strengthen the relationship between the MoD and AWE. Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of Newcastle. Baroness Bryan of Partick (Lab) [V]: My Lords, will Arrangement of Business the Minister confirm that the Government’s defence priorities include cyber and space projects, and that Announcement they continue to recognise, as they said in the 2018 defence review, that security challenges involve non-state 1.08 pm actors,migration,pandemicsandenvironmentalpressures? The Deputy Speaker (Lord Brougham and Vaux) How will the Trident programme fit their own priorities (Con): My Lords, the Hybrid Sitting of the House will or help to tackle any of those threats? now begin. Some Members are here in the Chamber while others are participating remotely, but all Members Baroness Goldie (Con) [V]: I agree with the noble will be treated equally. I ask Members to respect social Baroness’s assessment of the threats of cyber. That is distancing. If the capacity of the Chamber is exceeded, why the recent defence financial settlement reflects the I will immediately adjourn the House. importance that the Government attach to both cyber Oral Questions will now commence. I ask those and space activity. The nuclear deterrent, which was asking supplementaries to keep them to no longer overwhelmingly mandated by Parliament in 2016, is a than 30 seconds and confined to two points, and I ask very important but separate part of our capability. It for Ministers’ answers to be brief. is there to deter, and it has proved to be an effective deterrent. Trident Nuclear Programme Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (Non-Afl): The UK Question Trident nuclear programme is at the heart of our enduring and lasting relationship with the United 1.08 pm States of America. Can the Minister undertake that any discussions on the future of that programme will Asked by Lord West of Spithead articulate and take into account the enduring importance To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether a of Scotland’s contribution to the United Kingdom new United Kingdom warhead is required to extend union, the union’s defence and the NATO alliance’s the Trident nuclear programme to 2049; and if so, defence? by when it will be required. Baroness Goldie (Con) [V]: I thank the noble Baroness for making a very important point. She is correct that The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (Baroness the Trident missile system is essential to our deterrent. Goldie) (Con) [V]: My Lords, in order to ensure that That is why we work closely with the United States in the Government maintain an effective deterrent that respect. She is also correct to point out the throughout the commission of the Dreadnought class significance of defence to the United Kingdom. Faslane, submarines and into the future, the Secretary of State where the deterrent is located, is now the UK’ssubmarine for Defence formally announced to Parliament on headquarters. That is part of a general pattern of vital 25 February 2020 that the UK will replace its nuclear defence activity which is spread throughout the United warhead. The replacement warhead programme will Kingdom and which Scotland benefits from significantly. be delivered to a schedule that ensures that our deterrence posture under Operation Relentless endures uninterrupted. Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (Con): My Lords, as a I am withholding specific information about the in-service timely reminder,the House of Commons voted relatively date to safeguard national security. recently by a majority of 355 to effectively renew Parliament’s commitment to the nuclear deterrent by Lord West of Spithead (Lab):
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