Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

My Lords, I hope it will be thought appropriate that before discussing the first amendment, we sh...

My Lords, first, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, for his generous and though...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his comments. I note in respect of the first amendment that, w...

Moved by

Lord Gardiner of Kimble

26F: Clause 52, page 47, leave out lines 25 and 26 a...

My Lords, government Amendment 26F addresses a recommendation made by the Delegated Powers and Re...

My Lords, at this stage, I would have expected—and the Committee might have welcomed—my noble fri...

Moved by

Lord Gardiner of Kimble

26G: Clause 53, page 52, line 14, leave out “the app...

My Lords, first, I am sorry to hear that the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews, is indisposed. I very ...

My Lords, I shall be brief about this. My notes from the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews, confirm th...

Moved by

Lord Gardiner of Kimble

26H: Clause 53, page 52, leave out lines 15 to 18 an...

Moved by

Lord Gardiner of Kimble

26M: Schedule 17, page 239, line 38, at end insert—<...

My Lords, government Amendments 26M and 26N make minor and technical changes to Schedule 17 to th...

Moved by

Lord Gardiner of Kimble

26N: Schedule 17, page 242, line 36, at end insert—<...

Moved by

Lord Gardiner of Kimble

26P: Schedule 17, page 242, line 37, leave out parag...

My Lords, government Amendment 26P changes the procedure for making a national class consent orde...

My Lords, we are pleased with the amendment and grateful to the Minister for his contextual words...

Of course I will write to the noble Lord along the lines that he suggests.

Moved by

Baroness Campbell of Surbiton

27: Clause 56, page 54, line 40, leave out par...

My Lords, I must declare an interest, having been a founding commissioner of the Equality and Hum...

My Lords, I recently put my name down to this amendment at the instance of the TUC. It is one of ...

My Lords, I put my name to this amendment because I do not support the removal of the commission’...

My Lords, I, too, support Amendment 27 and associate myself with the noble Baroness, Lady Campbel...

My Lords, I rise to support what the noble Baroness has just said. One of the first things that I...

My Lords, I am very glad of the opportunity to intervene briefly in this debate and should declar...

My Lords, I apologise to the mover of the amendment that I was not present when she spoke. I shal...

Does the noble Lord think that there is no place at all in the whole of statute for aspirational ...

My difficulty is that I cannot see what is added in Section 3 to what is mentioned in the other s...

My Lords, it is very seldom indeed that I disagree with my noble friend Lord Lester. I call him m...

My Lords, first, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell, on moving this amendment and o...

My Lords, one of the disadvantages of being around as long as I have is that you observe the tide...

My Lords, I appreciate the passion and commitment that my noble friend Lady Campbell brought to t...

My Lords, despite the legal view presented by the noble Lord, Lord Lester, I refer us back to som...

My Lords, I did not intend to speak in this debate, but I have been fired up by comments made. I ...

My Lords, it is significant that it has taken an hour and 10 minutes to get to this point. Noble ...

Can I not ask the noble Baroness to go a bit further than that? For that comment by the Secretary...

The noble Lord makes an absolutely perfect point; I wish I had made it myself. I have two final p...

My Lords, this has been an important and impassioned debate. I must say that, from the conversati...

Will the Minister provide the Committee with a financial breakdown of exactly how the cuts to the...

I think that it would be easier for me to provide that in a follow-up letter subsequent to today’...

Yes, of course.

I add that I hope that very soon—indeed, imminently—we will publish the budget that the Governmen...

Since the Minister has been kind enough to refer to me, perhaps I may say to her that I hope it i...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. I hoped that I had said that in my remarks concluding that the p...

If I were the noble Lord, Lord Lester, I might be slightly worried about this. Perhaps the Minist...

They are separate because the public sector equality duty review, which we will debate when we co...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her genuine attempt to understand and respond to all our argum...

My Lords, before putting the Question for withdrawal, it may be helpful to the Grand Committee if...

I thank the Deputy Chairman of Committees for that, but perhaps I may also say that advice was ta...

Indeed, so my predecessor told me, but since then we have had the great advantage of electronic c...

My Lords, before we leave that point, it would be very helpful if the Annunciator could keep up w...

With great respect to the noble Lord, that is known as the art of keen anticipation, which I lear...

Moved by

Baroness Thornton

28ZB: After Clause 56, insert the following new Clause—