Parliamentary search - Employment Bill [HL]

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

697 c661-701

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Legislative stage

Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Employment Bill (HL). (Explanatory Notes HL Bill 13-EN published).
Thursday, 6 December 2007
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Campbell of Alloway | 697 c701 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is not a question of golf clubs. The question is the relationship between the Labour Pa...

Lord Bach | 697 c700 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not sure where in the situation we are talking about—membership of a political party ...

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Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 697 c700 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is not the position that in the bad old days it was left to the courts to deal with abuses...

Lord Henley | 697 c691 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by offering a little advice to both the Liberal Front Bench speakers who seemed to...

Lord Razzall | 697 c691 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Henley, is being seriously silly. I spent 10 seconds attacking the Co...

Lord Cotter | 697 c690-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is fairly general agreement on and support for this Bill—apart from the previous spe...

Lord Bach | 697 c699-700 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall try to answer the noble Lord’s question. This was a decision made by the European ...

Lord Henley | 697 c692-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord is being oversensitive. I suggested to my noble friend that it smacks sligh...

Lord Bach | 697 c695-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, let me say what a pleasure it has been to listen to this Second Reading debate. The...

Lord Bach | 697 c701 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not think that Clause 17 has anything to do with whatever relationship there may have...

Lord Razzall | 697 c701 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the Minister answers, I wish to make entirely clear from these Benches that—althoug...

Lord Bach | 697 c701 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for a moment I thought that the noble Lord, Lord Razzall, was complimenting me, but I am n...

Lord Bach | 697 c701 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that my noble friend answered the noble Lord very adequately when he was asked que...

Baroness Miller of Hendon | 697 c669-71 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, here we go again. Since what I consider to have been that dreadful day in May 1997 when my...

Baroness Turner of Camden | 697 c667-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate and I am obliged to the Minister fo...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 697 c664-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join the noble Baroness, Lady Gibson of Market Rasen, in her tribute to the cadet force ...

Lord Watson of Invergowrie | 697 c682-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to contribute to an important debate on an important Bill. I was...

Lord Hoyle | 697 c679-81 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in rising to speak, I declare an interest: I am not only a member of Unite but I was presi...

Lord Morris of Handsworth | 697 c688-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start with a double declaration of interest. I am a member of the trade union Unite and ...

Lord James of Blackheath | 697 c685-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as ever, I must emphasise that I speak as a non-lawyer, but I have been a frequent custome...

Baroness Miller of Hendon | 697 c672 (Link to this contribution) All right, my Lords, I will continue. DBERR is not being even-handed between workers and the unions...

Lord Wedderburn of Charlton | 697 c672-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Miller. By my calculation, this...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 697 c675-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Wedderburn, who tried to teach me th...

Lord Campbell of Alloway | 697 c678-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord who has just spoken because I can curtail my own speech, w...

Baroness Miller of Hendon | 697 c672 (Link to this contribution) Do you think I should, my Lords? All right, I will say just one or two things, but I might upset som...

Lord Henley | 697 c701 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the noble Lord is not going to give us the joys of the final part of his speech, perhap...

Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen | 697 c661-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am pleased to be speaking in this debate today on the Employment Bill. Overall, I welcom...

Lord Campbell of Alloway | 697 c699 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, could the noble Lord explain the intendment of the clause having regard to the concession ...

Baroness Wilcox | 697 c672 (Link to this contribution) No, go on.

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