Parliamentary search - European Union (Amendment) Bill

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Parliamentary proceeding

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702 c641-66

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2007-08

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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European Union (Amendment) Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 40-EN also published.
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Lord Hunt of Wirral | 702 c650 (Link to this contribution) The most reverend Primate.

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 702 c650 (Link to this contribution) Okay then, my Lords, I will. If there had been a vote for a referendum, it having been agreed in ano...

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Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 702 c651 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness completely. It is important that young people, indeed all ...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 702 c650 (Link to this contribution) Thank you. It is even in front of me and I get it wrong. In my position I should have got that right...

Baroness Ludford | 702 c650-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for giving way and apologise that I have not heard all of the d...

Lord Tomlinson | 702 c653 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry to intervene; I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way, but he has now le...

Lord Sentamu | 702 c652-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the public were correctly to read Hansard, which is recorded accurately, of our earlier...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 702 c653 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I really enjoy listening to the most reverend Primate. He takes us on journeys that are fa...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 702 c654 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord asked me a direct question. He has not answered my direct question, but I s...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 702 c653-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not belong to a political party which once campaigned to withdraw from the European U...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 702 c654-5 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 31B: 31B: Clause 8, page 4, line 8, leave out ““on Royal Assent”” and insert “...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 702 c654 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Lord Watson of Richmond | 702 c656 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise only because the noble Lord has spent so much time talking about my alleged positio...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 702 c656 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is turning into a fascinating debate but I must get to the core of the amendment. How...

Lord Kinnock | 702 c656 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for clarity, can the noble Lord, Lord Howell, say what significance he attaches to the rea...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 702 c656-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would love to answer that question and the noble Lord speaks from authority. I hope that...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 702 c659 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are now in the 16th minute of this interesting speech, but in the past 10 minutes I hav...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 702 c659 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord is a good listener but in this case he has not been a listener, because I h...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 702 c643 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I realise the noble Baroness is anxious to intervene, but let me just explain. The 2004 le...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 702 c643 (Link to this contribution) It is the same leaflet.

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 702 c642-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord knows that I have a long track record, of which I am very proud, of being p...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 702 c641-2 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 31A: 31A: Clause 8, page 4, line 8, leave out ““on Royal Assent”” and insert “...

Lord Jay of Ewelme | 702 c643 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have just one question for the noble Lord. I did a little research on the two documents ...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 702 c643-4 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the noble Lord will continue to participate in the debate, because it is very helpful to...

Lord Dykes | 702 c644-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that the noble Lord who has just moved this amendment will not necessarily feel off...

Lord Sentamu | 702 c648-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have always admired the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Wirral, particularly when he was in the...

Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 702 c647-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it would be churlish of me not to rise and thank the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Wirral, for ...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 702 c650 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been an interesting albeit shorter debate than our previous debate, but an import...

Lord Watson of Richmond | 702 c649-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I also welcome the sentiments expressed by the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, but the strategy—or ...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 702 c647 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am really very pleased at the noble Lord’s support for this amendment, but is there a si...

Lord Dykes | 702 c647 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the noble Lord would like to invite me, we could go together and test this on the doors...

Lord Tomlinson | 702 c647 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was merely pointing out that the noble Lord has obviously never been to Walsall.

Lord Howell of Guildford | 702 c665 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is the last moment when we want to get into any kind of detail, but it is simply beca...

Lord Kinnock | 702 c665 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord is—I am sure, inadvertently—being slightly misleading, because the only UK ...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 702 c666 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I did not say ““unconstitutional””, but the noble Lord is absolutely right at this late st...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 702 c662-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if my noble friend Lord Tomlinson is right and they do not talk about it in Walsall, so be...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 702 c663-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will straight away agree heartily that the Minister has done enormous amounts—staggering...

Lord Sentamu | 702 c665 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the noble Lord accept that the European Court of Justice uses the same standard of pr...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 702 c659-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was very surprised to see this amendment put down late last night because I can find ver...

Lord Anderson of Swansea | 702 c660-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is no final destination in politics; it is a journey. It is the illusion of the extr...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 702 c659 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I mentioned the timetable and method for the implementation of any other treaty provisions...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 702 c662 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, earlier in the debate someone said that we were on a journey; we are coming to the end of ...

Lord Tomlinson | 702 c662 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, they do not talk about that in Walsall.

Baroness Ludford | 702 c661-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, over our seven hours of debate I have listened to many Conservative speakers. The noble Lo...

Lord Sentamu | 702 c662 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am bothered by an Act of Parliament which comes into force because of what we were sent,...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 702 c659 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the noble Lord can point out to me where the common energy policy and oil stocks are in...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 702 c659 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I did not say that they were but it is not accurate, correct, fair or true to say that I h...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 702 c642 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am happy to agree with the noble Lord. I just wish to ask who the ““we”” are in this res...

Lord Hunt of Wirral | 702 c652 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been an interesting and helpful debate. I would say to the Minister that when I s...

Lord Dykes | 702 c647 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have never heard anyone ask that kind of question on the doorstep. I have never heard an...

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