"My Lords, all the amendments that I have put down to the Bill are derived from evidence we received on the National Resilience Select Committee. I am sorry that I was not here last week to address those that came up then, and I am very grateful to my noble …..." Baroness Northover - View Speech
"I thank the Minister for her thoughtful reply and I thank other noble Lords for their support here. Clearly, we are all seeking to move in the same direction. There is a challenge and risks here that are incredibly important. Whether this is the right way forward, we will have …..." Baroness Northover - View Speech
"My Lords, this amendment again comes out of the evidence submitted to our National Resilience Select Committee.
It has been reported that many SMEs think that they are too small to be a target. However, as was reported at Second Reading, government research shows that 50% of UK SMEs faced …..." Baroness Northover - View Speech
"I thank the Minister, and I thank noble Lords for their support. This is clearly an area where we agree that there is a problem; we are very vulnerable in the United Kingdom. What we have in place is clearly not working sufficiently well if 60% of SMEs that are …..." Baroness Northover - View Speech
"My Lords, I too thank the noble Baroness for introducing the Bill. From these Benches we welcome the Bill, but we feel that in a number of ways it does not go far enough. Hostile state actors, organised crime and others are increasingly targeting our systems at every level with …..." Baroness Northover - View Speech
"I thank the Minister for that reply. I hope he has read the adaptation report of the Climate Change Committee, in which it warns very clearly about the effects of increased flood and wildfire risk to the financial sector and the economy more generally. The Minister will remember the effect …..." Baroness Northover - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the long-term implications of climate change and nature loss for housing insurability, mortgage lending and household financial resilience...." Baroness Northover - View Speech
"I appreciate that. The Sargasso Sea is extremely important for hundreds of species, so will the Government advocate for the highest level of protection, under which all industrial fishing, in particular, is banned?..." Baroness Northover - View Speech