Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

Sorry—I meant cartels. I am glad noble Lords were listening. It is one of those days already; if ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his introduction to the Bill, and for the meetings and briefin...

My Lords, because this is a Bill that emanates from a department with a Liberal Democrat Secretar...

My Lords, I declare two interests. First, I am chairman of Scottish and Southern Energy, which is...

My Lords, this is a wide-ranging, detailed and innovative Bill but I will concentrate on one aspe...

My Lords, there is a huge number of issues in the Bill. For example, along with others, I am very...

My Lords, I will focus only on the equality provisions. I welcome Clause 74, which adds a new and...

My Lords, the Bill has much to commend it and I welcome it to your Lordships’ House. I found the ...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Tugendhat, I address Clause 70(4) and proposed new Section 43...

My Lords, I am delighted to return to the Chamber today after a long period of illness. I am even...

My Lords, I am sure that noble Lords would want me to say how splendid it is to see the noble Bar...

My Lords, I am very comforted that the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews, feels comfortable about her ...

My Lords, that was a short and sweet speech, which I am sure we all welcome.

Do not complain.

I would not dream of complaining. I am afraid I shall take a little longer than the previous spea...

My Lords, this is not a Bill to set the pulse racing. I find it difficult to summon up much enthu...

My Lords, I begin by drawing attention to my interests in the register—in particular, that I chai...

My Lords, when I previously have participated in debates with the noble Baroness, Lady Ford, it h...

My Lords, this summer Britain emphatically demonstrated the quality of its creative talent to the...

My Lords, I believe that the Minister is today presenting his first major piece of legislation in...

My Lords, I declare an interest as the chairman designate of the Competition and Markets Authorit...

My Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Marland, who regards this Bill as exem...

I hope noble Lords will agree that it is not contentious to say that the creative industries in t...

My Lords, I certainly agree that our creative industries are not a contentious issue in this Hous...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill and my noble friend at the Dispatch Box who will take it through the...

My Lords, I do not believe for a moment that the provisions for the removal of the so-called regu...

My Lords, I want to follow on with much of theme of whistleblowing spoken about by my noble frien...

My Lords, I shall focus my concerns on the equality aspects of the Bill. I welcome the statements...

My Lords, I rise to speak on one specific aspect of the Bill, but one that I consider to be very ...

My Lords, in putting together any speech I have always tried to be logical. Most of all, I have a...

My Lords, as many noble Lords have done, I am going to concentrate on one part of this Bill—a ver...

My Lords, in the time available I want to focus on the workplace impact of the Bill and say somet...

My Lords, as many noble Lords have spoken about equality and human rights issues, I decided to fo...

My Lords, I am very pleased to participate in this Second Reading debate and to be part of my nob...

As the noble Baroness accused me of complacency, perhaps I could ask her to confirm that nothing ...

I think that the noble Lord is quite wrong, and I will go on to say why. According to the Paris p...

My Lords, this is a most important and welcome Bill. The Queen’s Speech which promised this Bill ...

My Lords, as others have already said, this Bill covers a large number of different topics. To mi...

My Lords, perhaps the first test of this or any Bill is whether it lives up to its hype. Will its...

My Lords, I want to focus on Part 1 of the Bill concerning the Green Investment Bank. The America...

My Lords, the Minister will not be surprised to learn that I find much of this Bill quite unaccep...

My Lords, I congratulate the House on the number of people who have participated in this debate. ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for this excellent debate. I am very grateful to the noble Lord...

Perhaps I may gently say to the noble Lord that I was aware that he was taking a comfort break du...

I apologise. I am happy to accept that, but I thought I heard her say what I suggested, and I was...

I thank the Minister for that. I know that it is very difficult to deal with the questions raised...

It is not that I am not prepared to write—I am always prepared to write and to get engaged in dia...