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House of Lords Official Report Vol. 807 Tuesday No. 138 3 November 2020 PARLIAMENTARYDEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICIAL REPORT ORDEROFBUSINESS Questions Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy....................619 Qualifications .................................................................................................................622 Life in the UK Test ........................................................................................................626 Covid-19: Christmas Breaches of Restrictions ...............................................................629 Covid-19: Places of Worship Private Notice Question ..................................................................................................632 Business of the House Motion on Standing Orders .............................................................................................636 Conduct Committee Motion to Agree..............................................................................................................637 Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Bill Commons Reason............................................................................................................644 Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention, Levy and Safety Net and Levy Account: Basis of Distribution) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 Motion to Approve ..........................................................................................................649 Defence and Security Public Contracts (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Motion to Approve ..........................................................................................................661 Covid-19 Update Statement........................................................................................................................674 Grand Committee Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Motion to Approve ...................................................................................................GC 253 Pesticides (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 .................................................GC 268 Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020...................GC 283 Motions to Approve Flags (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 Motion to Approve ...................................................................................................GC 284 Electricity (Risk-Preparedness) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Motion to Approve...................................................................................................GC 294 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/2020-11-03 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/. 619 Arrangement of Business[3 NOVEMBER 2020] Integrated Review of Security Etc. 620 House of Lords just defence but our development programmes, as well as diplomacy. The intention is very much to ensure that Tuesday 3 November 2020 we will, as I said, in due course be able to announce a date on the further progress of the integrated review. The House met in a hybrid proceeding. Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab): My Lords, the Noon current crisis highlights that international co-operation is the greatest tool for confronting global threats and Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of Winchester. advancing our values and interests. Sadly, under this Government the UK has lost much of its influence at Arrangement of Business the United Nations, along with losing its historical Announcement place at the ICJ, and has failed in a series of high-profile votes at the Security Council and the General Assembly. 12.07 pm Will the review fully consider the UK’s policy towards the UN and can the Minister explain how the Government The Deputy Speaker (The Earl of Kinnoull) (Non-Afl): will seek to strengthen and regain the UK’s influence My Lords, the Hybrid Sitting of the House will now at this important institution? begin. Some Members are here in the Chamber,respecting social distancing. Others are participating remotely, but all Members will be treated equally. If the capacity Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con): My Lords, it will of the Chamber is exceeded, I will immediately adjourn not surprise the noble Lord that I disagree with him. the House. Oral Questions will now commence. Please We continue to have a very big influence at the United can those asking supplementary questions keep them Nations, including at the UN Human Rights Council. no longer than 30 seconds and confined to two points; He is all too aware of the recent incremental success I ask that Ministers also give brief answers. we have had on the challenging subject of Xinjiang. On elections, the noble Lord refers back to that of 2017 on the ICJ; subsequently, there have been several Integrated Review of Security, Defence, UN positions, as well as an election to the important Development and Foreign Policy institution of the ITU, where the British candidate Question was successful. This was down to the influence we carry. I assure him that I agree with him on this point: it is important that we sustain and retain but also 12.08 pm strengthen the role of the United Kingdom in global Asked by Lord Howell of Guildford affairs, including through our work at the UN. To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the Integrated Review of Security,Defence, Development Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD) [V]: My Lords, and Foreign Policy will be (1) completed, and the noble Lord, Lord Howell, referred to money and (2) published. asked whether we would be looking at chicken or egg. Does the Minister agree that although it is vital that we spend at least 2% of GDP on our Armed Forces, in The Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and the context of a declining economy with Covid 2% may Development Office (Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon) (Con): not be enough? What conversations are being had with My Lords, the integrated review continues but, in light the Treasury about this? of the decision to move to a one-year spending review, we are considering the implications for its completion. We will of course provide an update in due course. Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con): My Lords, I am sure the noble Baroness appreciates that the whole Lord Howell of Guildford (Con) [V]: My Lords, idea behind a one-year spending review is to ensure I thank my noble friend for that reply. With the that we prioritise the issue of the economy, as she comprehensive spending review now delayed, can we rightly said, but also other challenges that we face in be clear about which comes first: the much-needed the Covid crisis. That said, when we look at the review of defence spending or the fundamental review context of the thresholds set, particularly at NATO, I of our position in the world and how to defend it, am proud that the United Kingdom continues to which the integrated review is meant to address? Has stand by our commitment to spend 2% of GDP on my noble friend noted that the new call for evidence defence but also 0.7% on development. questions from the review, put out in August with an absurdly short window, make no mention at all of our Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (Con): My Lords, the trade and business prosperity in the new world conditions UK has some of the most advanced military capabilities on which everything else will depend? Will he pass the in the world—the F35 fighter, the Type 45 Destroyer word to the reviewers to correct that? and cyber, to name but three—but our real military advantage comes when we can network these capabilities. Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con): My Lords, I always With the addition of space and cyber to the traditional take my noble friend’s advice and listen to it carefully. domains of land, air and maritime, can my noble I will of course follow up on that point. On his wider friend reassure me that multi-domain integration will question, the integrated review takes into account not be at the heart of this review? 621 Integrated Review of Security Etc. [LORDS] Qualifications 622 Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con): My Lords,
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