Parliamentary search - European Union (Amendment) Bill

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

700 c859-1038

Session

2007-08

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office
European Union Committee

Legislative stage

Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

European Union (Amendment) Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 40-EN also published.
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
Bills
House of Lords

EU: Lisbon Treaty (EUC Report)
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Lords

The future of NATO and European defence. Defence Select Committee ninth report with proceedings, evidence (HC 111 i-ii 2007-08 and HC 707 i-ii 2006-07 not printed separately) and appendices.
Tuesday, 4 March 2008
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons

Treaty of Lisbon: an impact assessment. European Union Select Committee (HL) tenth report in 2 volumes with proceedings.
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Bishop of Chichester | 700 c881-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise for making my maiden speech when so many noble Lords wish to speak and thereby...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 700 c962-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, having listened to the noble Lord, Lord Ryder, I wonder whether he uttered the same conclu...

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Lord Ryder of Wensum | 700 c960-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the debate has been lengthy and several noble Lords are waiting their turn, so I shall be ...

Lord Owen | 700 c975-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for nearly 40 years, this country of ours has been grappling with how to create wholeheart...

Lord Inglewood | 700 c978-81 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in my few remarks this evening I shall address three aspects of the Bill: first, whether w...

Baroness Turner of Camden | 700 c981-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to participate in this important debate. I start from the basis ...

Viscount Falkland | 700 c964-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my old Chief Whip, the late Lord Harris of Greenwich, when I was his deputy, used to say t...

Earl Ferrers | 700 c966-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is always fun to listen to the noble Viscount, Lord Falkland. He is always a cheerful s...

Lord Vinson | 700 c970-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the wise humour of my noble friend Lord Ferrers. When t...

Lord Watson of Richmond | 700 c972-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a challenge to follow the noble Lord, Lord Vinson, in this debate. His vision of thi...

Lord Renwick of Clifton | 700 c989-91 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have in this House an extraordinary array of expertise on this matter, including most o...

Earl of Liverpool | 700 c987-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, some of my remarks will have echoes of contributions made earlier by, among others, my nob...

Baroness Northover | 700 c985-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hesitate to contribute to this debate, given the long experience, expertise and record o...

Lord Marlesford | 700 c983-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am a firm believer in continued British membership of the EU. I want us to be on the ins...

Lord Radice | 700 c998 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord has sat down.

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 700 c998 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I did not interrupt him during his peroration and it is appropriate to ask him an importan...

Lord Radice | 700 c996-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the European Union Committee and my noble friend the chairman on a wonderfu...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 700 c998 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down—

Lord Bowness | 700 c991-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this debate, while it is an essential parliamentary process of ratification, is neverthele...

Lord Burnett | 700 c994-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bowness. We have the privilege of se...

Lord Leach of Fairford | 700 c938-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should declare an interest as chairman of Open Europe, which from time to time has submi...

Lord Goodhart | 700 c935-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Tugendhat, who was of course a most distingu...

Lord Willoughby de Broke | 700 c944-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not know what I have done to deserve being singled out by the noble Lord, Lord McNall...

Baroness Hanham | 700 c947-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one of the vagaries of the changes that the Government have made to the structure of Parli...

Lord Harrison | 700 c940-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we saw the publication today of your Lordships’ economic committee’s report on migration p...

Lord Sewel | 700 c942-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is always a delight to follow by noble friend Lord Harrison, partly because of his dire...

Baroness Deech | 700 c954-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Plumb, in that my position in the speakers lis...

Lord Maclennan of Rogart | 700 c949-52 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, earlier in this debate, in a notable speech, the noble Lord, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, test...

Lord Plumb | 700 c952-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Maclennan, who finished with some wise wor...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 700 c1024-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my first important and pleasant task is to congratulate the right reverend Prelate the Bis...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 700 c1028-38 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, may I say to the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Wirral, how much I have missed him? For w...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 700 c998 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have a great admiration for the noble Lord, but my noble friend has sat down. The hour i...

Viscount Astor | 700 c999-1000 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the noble Lord has sat down, it is my turn. There are those who are against the treaty ...

Lord Lee of Trafford | 700 c1000-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as one who believes in European integration and co-operation, I welcome the Lisbon treaty ...

Earl of Onslow | 700 c1002-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Lee, has eloquently supported military co-operation with France. I ag...

Lord Garel-Jones | 700 c1008-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Earl, Lord Sandwich, for, in his own words, passing such a clean ball to...

Earl of Sandwich | 700 c1006-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is always refreshing to listen to the noble Lord, Lord Stoddart. He speaks clearly and ...

Lord Teverson | 700 c1009-11 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one of the things that saddens me about this treaty is that we end the life of a body call...

Lord Haskel | 700 c1011-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the hour is late and nearly everything has been said, so I shall not detain your Lordships...

Lord Rees-Mogg | 700 c1012-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is very late and I shall not detain you very long. I want to discuss two linked subject...

Lord Moran | 700 c1019-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I must apologise for not being here for the earlier part of the debate but, having a damag...

Lord Dykes | 700 c1020-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Grenfell, has been so praised tonight that I am sure that, if he were...

Lord Monson | 700 c1014-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the hour is indeed late. On the other hand, a number of my noble colleagues of a broadly s...

Lord Gilbert | 700 c1016-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, noble Lords are not witnessing attempted identity theft. The noble Lord, Lord Denham, is d...

Lord Dykes | 700 c1023-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I know that that causes a frisson, because the RSPB has more members than any political pa...

Lord Dykes | 700 c1021-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, my Lords, I accept the correction. That is understandable, bearing in mind the rational n...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 700 c916 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great honour for my noble friend Lord Willoughby de Broke and me to speak in this ...

Lord Brittan of Spennithorne | 700 c914-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, I apologise to the House for the fact that a very long-standing commitment means th...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 700 c916-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the truth is still valuable to the British people, even if it is not valuable to some nobl...

Lord Roper | 700 c922-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a particular pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Goodlad. I much appreciated his...

Lord Goodlad | 700 c919-22 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my very old friend, the noble Lord, Lord Pearson of Ranno...

Lord Jay of Ewelme | 700 c928-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that the noble Lord, Lord Waddington, will forgive me if I do not follow precisely ...

Lord Waddington | 700 c924-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Roper, but he will forgive me if I ...

Lord Tugendhat | 700 c932-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Tomlinson, as I agree very much with...

Lord Tomlinson | 700 c930-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Jay, because it gives me the perfect...

Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 700 c910-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I speak in support of the Lisbon treaty and, as a member of the Select Committee, I commen...

Lord Blackwell | 700 c904-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Williams of Crosby, but, as we ...

Lord Williamson of Horton | 700 c908-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as a former head of the European secretariat in the Cabinet Office i...

Lord Lawson of Blaby | 700 c899-901 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when the so-called European Union constitutional treaty was rejected by the people of Fran...

Baroness Williams of Crosby | 700 c902-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have only one comment to make on the speech made by the noble Lord, Lord Lawson of Blaby...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 700 c896-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness. I would not for a moment have thought that it was tru...

Baroness Quin | 700 c897-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the Bill and the treaty. It should be seen as a success story for Britain, as it...

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 700 c893-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, who takes his ti...

Baroness Williams of Crosby | 700 c896 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I make it clear that I have already written to the newspapers that carried that report to ...

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 700 c890-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am a member of the Select Committee chaired by the noble Lord, Lord Grenfell, and theref...

Lord Kinnock | 700 c883-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great privilege for me to follow the maiden speech of the right reverend Prelate t...

Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank | 700 c888-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, while we all welcome the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Chichester to this debate, m...

Lord McNally | 700 c871 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if it comes as a shock to the Conservative Party, it is even slower thinking than I first ...

Lord Grenfell | 700 c872-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, after a lot of heat, I shall try to offer a little light. I invite the House to take note ...

Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 700 c878-81 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Lisbon treaty, whose ratification by the UK we are debating today, is by no means the ...

Lord Strathclyde | 700 c871 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does that mean that the noble Lord and his party will abstain on the question of the refer...

Lord McNally | 700 c871 (Link to this contribution) No, my Lords, we will not abstain on the referendum.

Lord McNally | 700 c868-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Howell, for warming-up the audience for me in that w...

Earl of Onslow | 700 c870 (Link to this contribution) Come off it.

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 700 c861-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, let us be clear. The Companion is very clear about interjections in speeches. I referred t...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 700 c863-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I believe that the whole House will be extremely grateful to the noble Baroness the Leader...

Lord Strathclyde | 700 c871 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very pleased that the noble Lord has allowed me to intervene and I do not think that ...

Lord McNally | 700 c870 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I know that noble Lords do not like it, but the real duplicity is by a Conservative Party ...

Lord Strathclyde | 700 c870 (Link to this contribution) My Lords—

Lord Forsyth of Drumlean | 700 c861 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister, who has given a clear exposition of the treaty. Will she ex...

Lord McNally | 700 c871 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sticking to the position that the Liberal Democrats took in the House of Commons, whi...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 700 c859-61 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. The Bill will allow the United Ki...

Lord Giddens | 700 c957-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at this stage of a very long debate the best things come in small packages, and that is wh...

Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 700 c1005-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would expect the Liberals to think that that was a great speech. They would sell this co...

Lord Howe of Aberavon | 700 c885-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it must be about a quarter of a century or more since the noble Lord, Lord Kinnock, first ...

Lord Astor of Hever | 700 c958-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my concerns relate to that part of the Lisbon treaty that the draftsmen call the ““externa...

Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 700 c1004-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most obliged to the noble Lord, Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank, who earlier set out very...

Lord McNally | 700 c871 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I can go on for longer, but if you want to break with the Companion, that is fair enough. ...

Notes

Debated with Lords motion to take note of the report of the European Union Committee on The Treaty of Lisbon: An Impact Assessment (HL 62 2007-08).

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