Marine and Coastal Access Bill [HL]

Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bills on Tuesday, 10 February 2009, in the House of Lords.

Marine and Coastal Access Bill (HL). Lords Committee stage fourth day. Clauses 43 to 48 agreed to. Clause 49 agreed to as amended. Schedule 5 agreed to.

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

707 c1019-78,1092-110

Session

2008-09

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Legislative stage

Committee stage

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Marine and Coastal Access Bill (HL). Explanatory Notes HL Bill 1-EN also published.
Thursday, 4 December 2008
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1033 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, has raised some interesting points and I look forward to hearing th...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1032-3 (Link to this contribution) In moving Amendment 85DD, I will also speak to Amendments 85E to 85H and 89C to 89F. My noble friend...

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Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1037 (Link to this contribution) I certainly did not seek to give the impression that I did not understand the importance of public m...

Lord Tyler | 707 c1037 (Link to this contribution) Is it not a fact that in any democratic discussion what is unique about a public meeting is that the...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1033-7 (Link to this contribution) Public participation is very important indeed to the integrity of the processes for developing both ...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 707 c1033 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak briefly to my amendments grouped with those of my noble friend, and I am grateful to...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 707 c1038-9 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to come back to the Minister, whom I thank for giving way. We should not plan for failure...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1038 (Link to this contribution) We return to the important question of the practicality of the arrangements for ensuring that there ...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 707 c1037-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for the detail in which he has dealt with this series of amendments. I am not e...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1039-40 (Link to this contribution) We will just have to accept that we are going to use acronyms and hope that readers will understand....

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1039 (Link to this contribution) This is an important discussion, although the noble Lord will understand that I am a little wary of ...

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1040-1 (Link to this contribution) When taking the Planning Bill—it is now an Act—through this House in the previous Session, one of th...

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1040 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 85K 85K: Schedule 5, page 228, line 31, leave out sub-paragraph (6)

Lord Greaves | 707 c1041-3 (Link to this contribution) In speaking to this group, in particular I shall speak to the three amendments in my name and that o...

Lord Livsey of Talgarth | 707 c1043-4 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may add to what has been said by my noble friend Lord Greaves and the noble Earl, Lord Cat...

Duke of Montrose | 707 c1043 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Greaves, has pointed out that this matter is complicated and confusing. I was c...

Lord Livsey of Talgarth | 707 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I apologise.

Duke of Montrose | 707 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I am a little confused because, so far as I understa...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1044-6 (Link to this contribution) We are debating the fifth group, comprising Amendments 85K, 86, 86A, 86FA, 86GB and 89M. The noble L...

Lord Livsey of Talgarth | 707 c1044 (Link to this contribution) I was speaking to Amendment 89BZA.

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1044 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the noble Lord can tell us to which amendment he was speaking so that we can clarify the mat...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1044 (Link to this contribution) It is like the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill, which we considered in G...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1048-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for what he said about our amendments. I shall refer his comments to m...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1047-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Baroness for that. I am delighted that I prayed her name in aid on that i...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1047 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to add to the number of contributions made from these Benches, but I have been prayed in ...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1047 (Link to this contribution) The disagreement between us is about the distinction between scrutiny and Parliament having what can...

Lord Tyler | 707 c1046 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Greenway, is not in his accustomed place. If he were, he would be quoting from ...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1049 (Link to this contribution) I will try to give that information. However, it is often not for the Government to say how Parliame...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1049 (Link to this contribution) That is probably right. The Committee is interested specifically in the role that this House will ha...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1049 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord cannot get away with that. He speaks as though his own party were not part of the usu...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1049 (Link to this contribution) That is a very refreshing statement from a government Minister, but the reality is sometimes differe...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1049 (Link to this contribution) I certainly undertake to write to noble Lords in the light of this debate with any further informati...

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1049-50 (Link to this contribution) That was a very good debate. I thank the Minister for agreeing to reconsider Amendment 85K on the re...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1049 (Link to this contribution) That may be a compliment to those on these Benches in this House. I am not sure that it is entirely ...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I need to make this clear. The noble Earl referred to the final text for parliamentary scrutiny. Tha...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1020 (Link to this contribution) In some parts.

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1019-20 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 85C is grouped with the Question on Clause 43 stand part and with Amendments 86E, 86F and ...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1019 (Link to this contribution) Clause 43: Preparation and coming into force of statement Amendment 85C 85C: Clause 43, page 22, l...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1023 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the noble Earl. He asked me that specific question and I ought to have answered it. I...

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1023 (Link to this contribution) I admire the Minister’s resolve and confidence that the Government will obtain complete consensus wh...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1020 (Link to this contribution) ““In some parts”” is the caveat from the Front Bench. I cannot commit my Front Bench. The term ““wi...

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1020-1 (Link to this contribution) This group of amendments follows on naturally from the discussions we had in our last day in Committ...

Duke of Montrose | 707 c1021 (Link to this contribution) I approach Amendment 85C from a slightly different angle from my noble friend Lord Cathcart. Can the...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1021-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this short debate, particularly the noble Duke, the ...

Duke of Montrose | 707 c1022 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord for giving way. Surely he will allow that, in drawing up the marine policy st...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1022 (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting point. However, I am trying to establish the preceding point. Of course, we a...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1022 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord for giving way. Is he really saying that if there is a serious policy disagre...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1022-3 (Link to this contribution) Exactly, and if they are going to do that, and nothing on earth will stop them—nor would anyone in t...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1027 (Link to this contribution) Will the Government set out in some form the difference between national policy statements and marin...

Baroness Wilcox | 707 c1026 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that clarification. It would surely have been sensible to have considered a...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1026 (Link to this contribution) That is so, but the noble Baroness will be all too well aware of the consultation preceding the deve...

Baroness Wilcox | 707 c1026 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said that consultation took place. Who were the consultees and what was the response? I...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1026 (Link to this contribution) I shall narrow that point. We went back and talked to parliamentary counsel about the drafting of th...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1025 (Link to this contribution) When I first looked at the amendments in the group, I thought that they were fairly simple and strai...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1025-6 (Link to this contribution) As the noble Earl, Lord Cathcart, was generous enough to acknowledge, we have been around this cours...

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1023 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 85CA 85CA: Clause 43, page 22, line 24, at end insert— ““( ) When preparing an MPS, the p...

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1023-5 (Link to this contribution) I tabled the amendments to probe a little further the differences between the procedures set out in ...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1023 (Link to this contribution) I find the concept of an obligation to reach agreement quite strange. On partial withdrawal, the Min...

Lord Colwyn | 707 c1028 (Link to this contribution) If this amendment were to be agreed, I would not be able to call Amendment 85DZA, which has already ...

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1028-9 (Link to this contribution) Again, I agree with the general thrust of these amendments and I hope that the Minister will careful...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1029-31 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to noble Lords who have spoken on these amendments. Of course we want the MPS to be a ...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1031 (Link to this contribution) Until the Minister got into some of the detail of suspension, after his initial blanking of it, I th...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1027 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I was too brief when I referred to the impact assessment. I was indicating the process of re...

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1027 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for setting that out quite clearly. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Ame...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1027-8 (Link to this contribution) Clause 44: Review of statement Amendment 85D 85D: Clause 44, page 22, leave out lines 26 and 27 an...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1028 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak also to Amendment 85DC. I cannot claim the credit for the drafting of either of these ...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1027 (Link to this contribution) I know why, for the best of reasons, the noble Lord was not with us on the previous occasion but I s...

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1027 (Link to this contribution) That was an interesting debate, on which I have a number of points to make. First, if I were cheeky ...

Duke of Montrose | 707 c1056 (Link to this contribution) Up to this point, we have quite rightly and properly been considering what form an arrangement of th...

Duke of Montrose | 707 c1056 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 86GA 86GA: Clause 46, page 23, line 30, at end insert— ““( ) Where any authority consider...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1056 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention. Indeed, all may become clear after reading the next instalment....

Duke of Montrose | 707 c1055 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness is talking about the terrestrial planning process. We have discovered that in the...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1055 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord has the Committee’s sympathy for his eye problem. He looks extremely dashing with his...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1057-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to noble Lords who have spoken in this short debate. I say to the noble Lord, Lord Gre...

Duke of Montrose | 707 c1058 (Link to this contribution) I must thank those who have supported me on this amendment. My only quarrel with the Minister is tha...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1057 (Link to this contribution) I do not really want to add anything to what the noble Duke has said, except to say that it is an ex...

Baroness Byford | 707 c1057 (Link to this contribution) I support my noble friend’s very important amendment. Those of us who have worked with MAFF and Defr...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1050 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 86B 86B: Schedule 5, page 229, line 20, after ““practicable”” insert ““, but not longer t...

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for correcting me. I will need to read exactly what has been said in this usefu...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1050 (Link to this contribution) In moving Amendment 86B, I shall speak also to Amendments 86C, 86D and 86K. I hope that this is a mu...

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1053-4 (Link to this contribution) Clause 46(8)(b) seems to state that the construction of marine plans must not be delayed or interrup...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1054-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to noble Lords. I tender two apologies. The first is for the rather piratical guise th...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1051-2 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the words, "““as soon as reasonably practicable””," do not enjoy universal approval...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1052 (Link to this contribution) This is not something on which one would go to the stake, although I would say that, while the terms...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1053 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 86GZG 86GZG: Clause 46, page 23, line 29, leave out paragraph (b)

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 707 c1064 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 86J 86J: Clause 47, page 24, line 13, at end insert— ““( ) Sub-regions of the marine plan...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 707 c1064 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the Minister’s helpful suggestion about giving as much detail as possible. In th...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1064 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to prolong this. I am sure that discussions will continue to be held on how we can ens...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1065-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Baroness for moving the amendment and opening up this part of the Bill. I...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 707 c1065 (Link to this contribution) This amendment should prove a little simpler because we shall not be looking at devolution issues. I...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 707 c1066-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend Lord Greaves for his support. He is absolutely right that terrestrial planni...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1066 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. In the terrestrial planning system the kind of complic...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1066 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord will recognise one complication—namely that terrestrial planning has a rather longer ...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 707 c1059-60 (Link to this contribution) The amendment takes us to Chapter 2, which deals with marine plans. Clause 47 deals with the marine ...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 707 c1059 (Link to this contribution) Clause 47: Marine planning regions Amendment 86H 86H: Clause 47, page 24, line 13, at end insert— ...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 707 c1060-1 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to speak to the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, as it rightly draws attention to...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 707 c1063 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend Lord Livsey for his support in speaking to the amendment. I also thank the n...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1061-3 (Link to this contribution) This has been a good debate. I ought to start by emphasising the importance of marine plans. They wi...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1063-4 (Link to this contribution) It is not for my department to ask the Welsh Assembly that question. We should certainly be working ...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 707 c1064 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that reply and for going into some detail on my amendment. He rightly antic...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1064 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness will be aware of the difficulty that I have with her proposal. However, it may be...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 707 c1064 (Link to this contribution) That is a tremendously helpful offer. I realise that I am being slightly obtuse because I cannot see...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1100-1 (Link to this contribution) That is helpful information, and I am grateful to the noble Lord. I do not claim to be an expert on ...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1100 (Link to this contribution) I was wondering whether to intervene to make that point. Is it not the case that local development p...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1098-100 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Baroness and the noble Lord for speaking to these amendments, as it allow...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1101-2 (Link to this contribution) As information has reached me on that matter, perhaps I may inform the Committee that Section 36 of ...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1101 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Taylor of Holbeach. I should have attributed the two longer am...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 707 c1097-8 (Link to this contribution) These amendments, which we support, derive from the Link coalition of wildlife and environmental gro...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1096-7 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I should just get on with it. Amendment 89ZC uses the same language as Amendment 90ZC and is...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1096 (Link to this contribution) We thought that it was the noble Baroness. We are relieved to see that she is here, ready to speak.

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1096 (Link to this contribution) My copy has the name of the noble Lord, Lord Hanningfield.

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1103 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that. My final point, which I might as well make, is that the situation could be the ot...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1103 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 89AZA 89AZA: Clause 49, page 25, line 16, at beginning insert ““Unless prepared and adopt...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1103-4 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 89AZB 89AZB: Clause 49, page 25, line 17, at end insert ““(see section 57)”” Amendment 8...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1102 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that. We will all scrutinise the wording of this legislation very carefully.

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1102 (Link to this contribution) I suppose one could argue the case the other way round and say that these matters will always be sub...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1102 (Link to this contribution) I was not going to press the Minister on that point, but I was going to draw his attention to the we...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1102-3 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to keep intervening, but this is a very important point. I realise that a person or organ...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1102 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that. I merely add that judicial review is about procedure and is therefore very t...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1074-5 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is suffering a little and we sympathise with him. Does this not come back to the quest...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1075 (Link to this contribution) I understand what the noble Lord is saying but he will recognise the Government’s reluctance to comm...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1094 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend may withdraw the amendment, but I hope that he does not do so with confidence. I do ...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1094 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Baroness, and I am sorry that the phrase that the noble Lord should withd...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1092-3 (Link to this contribution) Clause 49(1) defines marine plans. Subsection (2) defines a marine plan as a document which, among o...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1093-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord for introducing the amendment. We had considerable debate on sustain...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 707 c1077 (Link to this contribution) We have had a useful debate. I see the measure as being one of the prime drivers for action. The Bil...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1092 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 88B 88B: Clause 49, page 24, line 35, leave out ““the sustainable development of the area...

Baroness Young of Old Scone | 707 c1075-6 (Link to this contribution) I have picked on the noble Lord in his hour of trouble, but I want to refer to the point of my amend...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1076 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness is being a little unfair to the construct of the Bill. She will see that Clause 5...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1095 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend is right that I am not going to withdraw the amendment with confidence, though I wil...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1095 (Link to this contribution) Of course.

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1096 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to move the amendment, but I had wondered what the name of the noble Lord, Lord Hanningfi...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1096 (Link to this contribution) We had better clarify this. This is the beginning of a group starting with Amendment 89ZC in the nam...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1095 (Link to this contribution) That happens for other countries’ territorial areas, such as the rest of Europe, including Ireland. ...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1095 (Link to this contribution) I understand that. I accept entirely the objective in those terms. It will be necessary for the appr...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1096 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 89ZC 89ZC: Clause 49, page 25, line 4, leave out ““unless relevant considerations indicat...

Baroness Byford | 707 c1070-1 (Link to this contribution) I support my noble friend’s amendments. All of us around the Committee are agreed that there must be...

Baroness Young of Old Scone | 707 c1068-9 (Link to this contribution) I wish to speak to my Amendments 87B and 88A. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Taylor of Holbeach, for e...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1069 (Link to this contribution) I must respond to that. I have shown great confidence that the arrangements will work, but because o...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 707 c1067 (Link to this contribution) Clause 49: Marine plans for marine plan areas Amendment 87 87: Clause 49, page 24, line 29, leave ...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 707 c1067-8 (Link to this contribution) We have already gone into great detail about the requirement to produce a marine policy statement. I...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 707 c1070 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak briefly to my Amendment 87C in this group, which, again, talks of how much detail the ...

Baroness Young of Old Scone | 707 c1070 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry if I inspired the Minister’s wrath, but I am sure that, being a reasonable man, he would ...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1070 (Link to this contribution) My amendment is a minnow in this group. The noble Baroness said everything and more that I would hav...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1074 (Link to this contribution) Of course we command a great deal of expertise on marine matters but I shall probably have to write ...

Lord Greenway | 707 c1071 (Link to this contribution) Presumably marine plans depend to a great extent on what is included in the marine policy statement,...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1071-3 (Link to this contribution) There are enough questions there to keep the Committee, and certainly me, busy for a little while, b...

Baroness Byford | 707 c1073 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry. I know that the Minister is having difficulty today, and I sympathise with him over the ...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1073 (Link to this contribution) I am arguing the more general case that the totality of the planning system is bound to be a distant...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1073 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister understand that what is causing so much concern around the Chamber is his use of w...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1073 (Link to this contribution) We are taking the issue seriously but the Committee will recognise where our ambition lies with to r...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 707 c1073 (Link to this contribution) I went to considerable lengths to say that the detail of each plan would vary according to the time ...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 707 c1073-4 (Link to this contribution) We have no intention of letting the policy jog along. Nothing I have said suggests that the Governme...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 707 c1074 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is talking about whether it is practical to arrive at the system by 2012. The Governmen...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1106-8 (Link to this contribution) This is another amendment which highlights the importance of ensuring that there is a collaborative ...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1108 (Link to this contribution) We have managed to get through that without anybody using the term ““holistic””. I am grateful to th...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1108-9 (Link to this contribution) I should have said something about the point raised on the concern that local authorities were exper...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1109-10 (Link to this contribution) I hope that that is with the special interest group and not simply the LGA corporately because, by d...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1104 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 89B 89B: Clause 49, page 25, line 24, at end insert— ““(11) Nothing in this section prohi...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1104 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak also to Amendments 89LA to 89LC, and one of my noble friends has Amendment 94ZZA in th...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 707 c1104-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak briefly to my Amendment 94ZZA, which is grouped with those of my noble friend. It seek...

Lord Tyler | 707 c1105 (Link to this contribution) I support my noble friend Lady Miller on this issue. As the Minister may recall, ever since Second R...

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1105-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for moving the amendment. Those of us who were at the helpf...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1053 (Link to this contribution) The amendment seeks clarification of Clause 46(8), which provides for the consequences—or perhaps I ...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 707 c1103 (Link to this contribution) I am introducing Amendments 89AZA, 89AZB, 89CB, 89FZB and 89HB to improve the clarity of the Bill in...

Lord Greaves | 707 c1095-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that explanation. We should not discuss this much further, but I should be clear t...

Baroness Hamwee | 707 c1031 (Link to this contribution) Schedule 5: Preparation of an MPS or of amendments of an MPS Amendment 85DD 85DD: Schedule 5, page...

Earl Cathcart | 707 c1051 (Link to this contribution) I join the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, in expressing concern that the terms ““reasonably practicabl...

Lord Livsey of Talgarth | 707 c1060 (Link to this contribution) Coming from the other side of the Bristol Channel, I would like to speak about the potential issues ...

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