Vol. 811 Wednesday No. 223 28 April 2021 PARLIAMENTARYDEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICIAL REPORT ORDEROFBUSINESS Questions Northern Ireland: Citizens’ Rights......................................................................................................................................................2229 Zimbabwe: Human Rights ..................................................................................................................................................................2233 Care Home Occupancy Rate...............................................................................................................................................................2236 Northern Ireland: Flight Passengers and Covid-19.............................................................................................................................2240 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Private Notice Question .......................................................................................................................................................................2243 Highgate Cemetery Bill Motion to Agree...................................................................................................................................................................................2247 Monken Hadley Common Bill Motion to Agree...................................................................................................................................................................................2247 Whiplash Injury Regulations 2021 Civil Liability Act 2018 (Financial Conduct Authority) (Whiplash) Regulations 2021 International Accounting Standards (Delegation of Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 Employment Rights Act 1996 (Protection from Detriment in Health and Safety Cases) (Amendment) Order 2021 Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) (High-Risk Countries) Regulations 2021 Motions to Approve..............................................................................................................................................................................2247 Prisons (Substance Testing) Bill Third Reading ......................................................................................................................................................................................2248 Botulinum Toxin and Cosmetic Fillers (Children) Bill Third Reading ......................................................................................................................................................................................2248 Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill Third Reading ......................................................................................................................................................................................2249 Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill Third Reading ......................................................................................................................................................................................2249 National Security and Investment Bill Commons Reason.................................................................................................................................................................................2252 Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2021 Motion to Approve ...............................................................................................................................................................................2265 Financial Services Bill Commons Reason and Amendment.......................................................................................................................................................2302 Post Office Court of Appeal Judgment Statement.............................................................................................................................................................................................2318 Carrier Strike Group Deployment Statement.............................................................................................................................................................................................2331 Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill Commons Reason and Amendments .....................................................................................................................................................2344 Fire Safety Bill Commons Reason.................................................................................................................................................................................2355 National Security and Investment Bill Commons Reason.................................................................................................................................................................................2375 Grand Committee Integrated Review: Development Aid Motion to Take Note ......................................................................................................................................................................GC 521 Biodiversity Motion to Take Note......................................................................................................................................................................GC 564 Lords wishing to be supplied with these Daily Reports should give notice to this effect to the Printed Paper Office. 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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 2021, this publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 2229 Arrangement of Business[28 APRIL 2021] Northern Ireland: Citizens’ Rights 2230 House of Lords Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con): My Lords, it is fair to say that urgent progress is needed to restore Wednesday 28 April 2021 confidence on the ground and to address the outstanding protocol issues. However, I remind the noble Baroness The House met in a hybrid proceeding. that, as she will know only too well, Article 2 of the protocol states: 12 pm “The United Kingdom shall ensure that no diminution of rights, safeguards or equality of opportunity, as set out in that part of the 1998”— Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of Rochester. Belfast/Good Friday— “Agreement entitled Rights, Safeguards and Equality of Opportunity results from its withdrawal from the Union, including in the area Arrangement of Business of protection against discrimination”. Announcement 12.06 pm Lord Lamont of Lerwick (Con): My Lords, if there is equality of rights between the citizens of Northern The Deputy Speaker (Lord Lexden) (Con): My Lords, Ireland and the rest of the UK, how is it that in GB at the Hybrid Sitting of the House will now begin. Some a funeral, even a royal funeral, only 30 people are Members are here in the Chamber while others are allowed to attend, whereas in Belfast, apparently, a participating remotely, but all Members will be treated funeral for an IRA/Sinn Féin supporter can be attended equally. I ask all Members to respect social distancing. by over 1,000 people? If the capacity of the Chamber is exceeded, I will immediately adjourn the House. Oral Questions will now commence. I ask those asking supplementary Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con): I certainly do questions to keep them to no longer than 30 seconds not want to be drawn into answering on that particular and confined to two points, and I ask that Ministers’ thing. I simply reiterate that the Government take answers are brief. their obligations in regard to the rights of all United Kingdom citizens incredibly seriously.The Government are committed to the Belfast/Good Friday agreement, Northern Ireland: Citizens’ Rights and the protocol does not impact on the constitutional Question arrangements within the United Kingdom or the provisions in that agreement. 12.07 pm Asked by Baroness Hoey Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab Co-op): My Lords, does the Minister agree that any difference between Toask Her Majesty’sGovernment what assessment the rights of citizens in Northern Ireland and those of they have made of the rights of Northern Ireland the rest of us in the United Kingdom is one of the