Parking (Code of Practice) Bill

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Amendment 7, in clause 1, page 1,...

Following previous stages of our consideration of the Bill, and having received a number of repre...

May I be the first to congratulate my right hon. Friend on piloting his Bill thus far? Many of ou...

I am happy to give that assurance and to confirm that the appeals process will be free of charge....

I commend the right hon. Member for East Yorkshire (Sir Greg Knight) for his Bill and for the ver...

May I address some remarks to the amendments in my name, particularly amendments 7 and 8 to claus...

May I just say to my hon. Friend that so far, throughout this whole process, I have found the Gov...

I hope that is so. One way of establishing that my right hon. Friend is right would be if the Gov...

A time limit could be put into the legislation so that by such a time this should be done.

That is exactly the purpose of my amendments.

Amendment 7 would insert, in the first line o...

As always, my hon. Friend and neighbour considers these matters carefully, and I am listening car...

My hon. Friend makes a perfectly fair point, and I have tabled the amendment as a fall-back posit...

May I say gently to my hon. Friend that if his amendments are accepted, they may cause some diffi...

With greatest respect, perhaps my right hon. Friend’s point is relevant to my other amendments th...

On amendment 7, how will the Secretary of State be judged on the requirement to “use his best end...

That very challenging question is not dissimilar to the questions that I asked the Government and...

Presumably, whether best endeavours have been followed in the Brexit negotiations is likely to ca...

With the greatest respect, I do not understand why my hon. Friend says that. According to the Gov...

My point is that in this instance best endeavours would always be in the eye of the beholder. The...

In my submission, if an aggrieved member of the public felt that the Government had not been usin...

Is this amendment not a licence to take power away from this House and put it into the courts? Th...

What my hon. Friend says is interesting if one applies the analogy of best endeavours to what is ...

indicated assent.

I see the hon. Gentleman is expressing his strong agreement.

I think my hon. Friend is seeing shadows on the wall where they do not exist. The Government have...

Is my right hon. Friend saying that he himself will undertake to harass the Minister? I am afraid...

My hon. Friend should not be so dismissive of his own impact. As he will know, I was a sponsor of...

Gosh, Madam Deputy Speaker, I am being flattered into submission. Perhaps this is an appropriate ...

Order. It is important that we stick to the amendments in front of us rather than what might be a...

I shall use my best endeavours to comply with your ruling, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I think th...

I congratulate the right hon. Member for East Yorkshire (Sir Greg Knight) on his commitment to en...

I think 50% of MP4—[Interruption]—sorry, 75% of them are in the Chamber. Perhaps they will give a...

Absolutely; it is important that that happens. At the beginning of his speech, the right hon. Mem...

The hon. Gentleman has set out very clearly the concerns in his constituency. He has been an MP s...

Absolutely. It is not just my city of Perth—I understand that there are issues across Scotland, w...

As ever, the hon. Gentleman is making an eloquent and passionate defence of the Bill, which is ex...

Absolutely. I have seen examples of correspondence from debt collection agencies, and the increas...

I want to speak, very briefly, about new clause 1 and amendment 6. I congratulate my right hon. F...

Will my hon. Friend also give himself credit? It was partly as a result of the representations th...

I thank my right hon. Friend for that generous intervention, but I fear that it may be a little t...

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in support of this important Bill, and I commend the r...

I support the Bill. Does my hon. Friend agree that some of these car parks are set up to trap mot...

I totally agree. It can be difficult for the general public to understand these machines; they ar...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for East Yorkshire (Sir Greg Knight) on introducin...

I totally agree: all operators, whether large, medium-sized or small, should be part of this code...

What a pleasure it is to follow the hon. Member for Warrington South (Faisal Rashid) and his exce...

I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is about to come to the amendments. We are now discussing the a...

I will be getting to that point, but it is important to set the context as well.

My first e...

As ever, my hon. Friend is using his forensic intellect to consider these matters, but is not the...

Absolutely right. The Court would not thank this House at all for requiring it to make that kind ...

Does the hon. Gentleman suspect, as I do, that the hon. Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher ...

The hon. Gentleman recognises that my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch is a Member of grea...

My amendment 8, which seeks to incorporate the phrase “best endeavour”, is completely nugatory in...

That was elegantly done. Well, on that basis, I do not have much more to say. I have made the poi...

It is wonderful when both sides of the House come together to support and put in place legislatio...

Taking all that the Minister is saying into account, what is his best estimate as to when these m...

I cannot give my hon. Friend a precise answer to that question, simply because, in the first inst...

May I just echo the Minister’s final comment? I, too, hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Chr...

I am not going to do so.

Thank you. It is very good to have clarity for the Chair.

Question put and agreed to.