Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Con)

My Lords, I am very grateful to all those who have participated today and for the way in which noble Lords have expressed cross-party support for the Bill. It is right not only to congratulate noble Lords on showing the way forward that the Bill could produce, which would mean a strengthening of investment within the space industry, but on giving us the opportunity to show that the UK is indeed intending to be a leader in the development of all the technological changes that are about to come. My noble friend Lord Moylan was rather coy about his age, whereas he is but young in this House. I am not saying I am going to send him into space—I promise noble Lords that I will never do that to him—but I would say to him that we have the opportunity here to ensure that we support the development of technology. He was right to ask the questions that he did. I was intrigued by the question about Section 4 of the 2018 Act. I will check again, but I read the Hansard of this House for that Bill—I did not fully read the Commons Hansard—and I was not aware that there had been questioning regarding that. I thank my noble friend for asking that, because it is now on the record, and the Minister gave such a good answer. Me saying a Minister has given a good answer probably has not happened since last summer—I can change occasionally, but not often. This is an opportunity for the Bill to go through this House, with, I hope, further support so that we are able to get the Bill through in a timely manner, so that those who are willing to invest in a very important industry feel that they have been given the ability to do so, still facing risk, but knowing where the risk lies.