Civil Aviation Bill

Moved by

Lord Davies of Oldham

2: Clause 1, line 2, leave out “desirability of each h...

My Lords, Amendment 2 seeks to amend the government amendment which the noble Earl, Lord Attlee, ...

My Lords, my noble friend has moved Amendment 1 and the noble Lord, Lord Davies, has moved Amendm...

My Lords, I was coming to that. The noble Lord has anticipated my very next sentence. It was nece...

My Lords, I am by and large happy with the government amendments in this group and will talk part...

My Lords, I apologise to the House for not being able to take part in the Committee stage of this...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Davies. I have never found “desirability” in legislation...

My Lords, I support the Minister in his amendments. Although one might be seduced into agreeing w...

My Lords, I add my gratitude to that expressed by various Members of this House for the movement ...

My Lords, in this House I intermittently find that the words of St Augustine come to my mind: “Lo...

My Lords, like most noble Lords I think that the amendment moved by my noble friend has gone a lo...

I, too, recognise and understand that the Minister has tried to meet concerns. In a way, the nobl...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Oldham, for his measured and eloquent explanatio...

My Lords, I apologise to the House if I was rather long-winded in the introduction, but as I was ...

The noble Lord, Lord Davies of Oldham, is very insistent and persuasive. He is clearly convinced ...

My Lords, I am astonishingly grateful.

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

3: Clause 1, page 2, line 17, at end insert—

“( )...

My Lords, I praise the Government for listening and taking on board the very serious concerns we ...

I find it quite astonishing that, as far as I know, the Bill makes no mention of greenhouse gas e...

My Lords, I am not certain that I agree with the noble Baroness’s argument that the amendment sho...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her explanation of this amendment, which we deb...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his considered response. There is a great sense that there is ...

Unfortunately, I can make no undertaking to come back on this at a later stage in the Bill.

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Earl Attlee

4: Clause 1, page 2, line 30, at end insert—

“(5A) For the...

Moved by

Lord Stephen

5: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—

“CAA’...

This amendment is about the very important economic and social impact of air services. It is a ve...

I am very sympathetic to the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Stephen. Indeed, I have said on man...

My Lords, it will come as no surprise that I am sympathetic to the amendment in the name of the n...

My Lords, this amendment is fairly wide-ranging in calling for the CAA to,

“have regard to ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Stephen for tabling the amendment, which provides us with ...

I understand that and the Minister is right, but I wonder if he could be absolutely clear. This p...

Yes, my Lords, I agree with the noble Lord’s analysis. Heathrow is one of the few airports runnin...

I thank the Minister for that detailed and technical explanation. I understand the points that he...

Moved by

Lord Rotherwick

6: Clause 2, page 2, line 37, after “air transport services”...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 10 and to Amendment 11, which seeks to add a new clause...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Rotherwick, is nothing if not persistent in his position with rega...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Rotherwick for tabling these amendments and I admire his d...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for fully addressing my amendments—obviously, nowhere near to m...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

7: Clause 2, page 3, line 10, after “relates,” insert—

“(c...

Moved by

Lord Davies of Oldham

8: Clause 2, line 2, leave out “desirability of each h...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

9: Clause 2, page 3, line 24, at end insert—

“( ) For the ...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

12: Clause 9, page 8, line 19, after “to” insert “operator”

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 13 to 16, 20 to 22, 24 to 25, 27, 30 to 51, 59 and 65 ...

My Lords, the Minister said that he would be speaking for 15 minutes, but he has obviously gone r...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

13: Clause 12, page 10, line 7, at end insert “, and

(b) a...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

14: Schedule 1, page 67, line 36, at end insert—

“Effect o...

Moved by

Lord Davies of Oldham

17: Clause 18, page 13, line 28, at end insert—

...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 17 I shall also speak to the other three amendments in this group, ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his amusing and thorough explanation of the reasons behind h...

My Lords, I am grateful for that full answer. In fact, I did not actually raise the issue of bord...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

20: Clause 22, page 16, line 25, after “paragraphs” insert “6A,”...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

21: Schedule 2, page 72, line 36, at end insert—

“6A (1) S...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

22: Clause 66, page 40, line 12, leave out “, including the supp...

Moved by

Lord Rotherwick

23: Clause 66, page 40, line 15, at end insert—

“( ) t...

My Lords, by decoupling my earlier amendments I appreciate that the Minister may have addressed, ...

My Lords, I recognise that the amendments in this group propose to make further, explicit provisi...

I apologise again for wrong-footing the Minister by decoupling this amendment. It obviously cause...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

24: Clause 67, page 41, line 27, at end insert—

“(8) For t...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

25: Clause 68, page 41, line 32, leave out “, including the supp...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

27: Clause 68, page 41, line 39, leave out “and (7)” and insert ...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

30: Schedule 8, page 97, line 13, leave out “Part 5 of”

31...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

35: Schedule 10, page 105, line 26, after “determination” insert...

Moved by

Lord Davies of Oldham

52: Clause 80, page 50, line 11, at end insert—

...

My Lords, I can move this amendment with some brevity. We have discussed the issue before, and I ...

My Lords, I fully agree with the noble Lord that we all want to ensure that passengers are treate...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister and beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Rosser

53: Clause 82, page 51, line 15, at end insert—

“(a) the i...

My Lords, we considered this amendment and Amendment 54 in Committee. There is concern that there...

My Lords, the noble Lord raises an important point. It is vital that these issues are handled cor...

The question I asked was not whether there were any outstanding issues still to be resolved but w...

My Lords, I do not know whether there are any significant outstanding issues. It depends on what ...

A significant outstanding issue would be one which might lead to a damaging loss of staff with ex...

Moved by

Lord Davies of Oldham

55: After Clause 82, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 67. I started off with the terrible prejudice that I ex...

My Lords, I can assure the House that I have never detected any prejudice in the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, I very much respect the Minister’s expression of caution on how the new scheme is to be...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

56: Clause 83, page 51, line 27, at end insert—

“( ) the f...

My Lords, the Civil Aviation Authority’s primary and overriding duty under this Bill is to carry ...

My Lords, I have a lot of sympathy for this amendment. However, most of us, as the noble Lord ind...

My Lords, I note that in the preamble to subsection (1), it says that the CAA,

“must publis...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, for the explanation of the problem. I fea...

My Lord, are there any penalties for airlines that contravene the regulation?

My Lords, I suspect that there are sanctions but I would prefer to write to the noble Countess an...

I thank the Minister for his response and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, and the noble Count...

My Lords, it is an important issue and therefore I expect that the CAA will cover it. Why would i...

I will tell the Minister why it would not: because it has not been put explicitly in the Bill. Th...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

58: After Clause 83, insert the following new Clause—

“Acc...

We discussed this amendment at some length in Committee. I do not intend to go through all the po...

My Lords, I hope that I can do a bit better to meet the needs of the House and the noble Lord, Lo...

Before I do that, I am aware of the panel, not least because the Minister referred to it in Commi...

My Lords, I would expect it to produce reports that would be published. If I am wrong on that, of...

I would be grateful to know from the Minister what the position is on that. Clearly, if this pane...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

59: Clause 96, page 59, line 38, at end insert—

“( ) is a ...

Moved by

Baroness Worthington

60: Before Clause 100, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, I must apologise. I have just come back from a foreign trip and picked up a rather bad ...

My Lords, I declare an interest in various environmental organisations, as in my declaration of i...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for expressing once again the reasoning behind her amendment...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his comments but I am disappointed. It is fine to list all the...

Does the noble Baroness agree that the fact that the airlines are unhappy about this should not n...

Absolutely. I was going to comment on that very fact, because the Minister began by commenting th...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

61: Before Clause 100, insert the following new Clause—

“A...

My Lords, this amendment provides for a new clause which would give the National Audit Office ove...

My Lords, I fully agree with your Lordships on the need for the CAA to be efficient in carrying o...

I thank the Minister for his response. He is obviously very keen to get on to Amendment 62 on the...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

62: After Clause 101, insert the following new Clause—

“CA...

Your Lordships may recall that, during Grand Committee consideration of the Civil Aviation Bill, ...

My Lords, I am pleased to see the amendment because it gives me a chance to ask the Minister abou...

My Lords, I strongly support the remarks of my noble friend Lady Mar. I admire the campaign that ...

My Lords, we began our deliberations today with the Minister making a response which greatly chee...

My Lords, it may be helpful to the House if I respond to the noble Countess’s point about cabin a...

Before the noble Earl sits down, can he confirm that it is a function of the Civil Aviation Autho...

My Lords, I refer the noble Countess to the Questions for Written Answer that I have answered.