Bribery Bill (HL). Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Grand Committee.
Bribery Bill [HL]
Debate on bills on Wednesday, 9 December 2009,
in the House of Lords,
led by Lord Bach.
The answering
member was Lord Henley.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
715 c1085-126
Session
2009-10
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Bribery Bill (HL). Explanatory Notes HL Bill 3-EN also published.
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Bills
House of Lords
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Bills
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Earl of Onslow | 715 c1109-10 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I would first like to say what a privilege it was to serve on the Select Committee under t...
Lord Mayhew of Twysden | 715 c1110-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I enthusiastically follow my noble friend’s encomium on the chairmanship of the noble Visc...
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Lord Elystan-Morgan | 715 c1112-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the book of Ecclesiastes reminds us that there is no new thing under the sun, and bribery ...
Viscount Colville of Culross | 715 c1110 (Link to this contribution)
I am involved in running RIPA, the Act to which the noble Earl has just referred. I do not think tha...
Earl of Onslow | 715 c1110 (Link to this contribution)
But if I am right, powers derived from RIPA have been used on waste disposal instances. That is what...
Lord Henley | 715 c1119-21 (Link to this contribution)
And the noble Lord, Lord Williamson. I apologise for leaving his name out; I will not do so again.
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Lord Thomas of Gresford | 715 c1115-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I too was a member of the committee which considered the draft Bill. I join in the tribute...
Lord Henley | 715 c1118-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I suspect that the Minister will be relieved to introduce a Bill from the Ministry of Just...
Lord Bach | 715 c1121-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a rare—even unique—pleasure for a Minister on the Front Bench to hear such unanimous...
Lord Goodhart | 715 c1094 (Link to this contribution)
I have to say, perhaps putting on my hat as the chair of the Delegated Powers Committee, that such a...
Lord Pannick | 715 c1094-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I join other noble Lords in warmly welcoming the Bill and commending the work of the Joint...
Baroness Whitaker | 715 c1095-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this is a very, very well worked-on Bill and it shows it. We have had time to think about ...
Lord Patten | 715 c1096-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in declaring all my business interests, as the Bill relates to commercial organisations in...
Lord Woolf | 715 c1099-101 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as has already been anticipated by the noble Lord, Lord Bach, I shall begin by making a di...
Lord Lyell of Markyate | 715 c1101-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the Constitution Committee and of the Joint Committee...
Lord Williamson of Horton | 715 c1104-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I was a member of the Joint Committee under the able chairmanship of the noble Viscount, L...
Lord Borrie | 715 c1106-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I add my welcome for the Bill. So many noble Lords have welcomed it that the last speaker ...
Viscount Colville of Culross | 715 c1108-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I must learn to run rather faster round the corridors of this House because I missed the k...
Lord Bach | 715 c1085 (Link to this contribution)
That the Bill be read a second time.
That the Bill be read a second time.
Lord Goodhart | 715 c1092-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have the greatest respect for the views of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Lyell of Mar...
Lord Goodhart | 715 c1091-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I start by declaring an interest as a member of Transparency International UK, which is th...
Lord Lyell of Markyate | 715 c1092 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, during the 10 years that I was a law officer—and I watched my noble and learned friend Lor...
Lord Waddington | 715 c1090-1 (Link to this contribution)
Will my noble and learned friend allow me to raise one matter? Having served on the Joint Committee ...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 715 c1091 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my noble friend for his intervention, and to some extent I understand how difficult...
Lord Bach | 715 c1085-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is fitting that we should have the Second Reading of the Bribery Bill on the United Nat...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 715 c1089-90 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I warmly welcome the Bill and thank the Minister for the clear way in which he has introdu...
Lord Bach | 715 c1124-6 (Link to this contribution)
I hope that the noble Earl will not press me on that tonight. It is one of the matters that we will ...
Earl of Onslow | 715 c1124 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Minister help me? If a company is badly convicted of one of these offences, is it no cause ...
Earl of Onslow | 715 c1094 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the noble Lord for giving way. I know that I am speaking later, but he has raised a very imp...
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