Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

My Lords, in its 10th report of this parliamentary Session, the Delegated Powers and Regulatory R...

My Lords, I shall say just a few words on the Minister’s very welcome amendments in response to t...

My Lords, we on this side will also be interested to hear the answer to that question, although I...

My Lords, I add my welcome for these amendments and thank the Minister.

My Lords, I begin by expressing my thanks to my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones for the important...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

32B: Clause 68, page 65, leave out lines 5 and 6<...

My Lords, I think we gave the issues a pretty good airing on Monday, so I will not tax the patien...

My Lords, I rise briefly to add a few words in support of everything that my noble friend has sai...

My Lords, we on this side of the Room support the introduction of the measures to do with orphan ...

My Lords, the very limited extent to which orphan works can be used is not just a cultural issue,...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

33: After Clause 68, insert the following new Clause—

Amendment 33 is inspired by the Creators’ Rights Alliance which feels that the contractual scales...

My Lords, extended collective licensing requires fair contracts. People who work in the creative ...

My Lords, I rise not least for the pleasure of supporting entirely what my noble friend Lord Clem...

My Lords, a change to the scope of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, as envisaged by this amend...

I thank my noble friend the Minister for that response. I think that is as good as it gets at thi...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

33A: Schedule 21, page 255, leave out lines 1 to ...

The government amendments in this group are in response to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Re...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for bringing forward the series of amendments in this group and fo...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support my noble friend Lady Buscombe. In fact, while she mentioned g...

My Lords, these government amendments, brought forward in response to the DPRRC recommendations, ...

First, I appreciate the general support of the noble Lord, Lord Young of Norwood Green.

On ...

My Lords, thank the Minister for his explanation of the various amendments to which I have spoken...

Moved by

Baroness Buscombe

46: Schedule 21, page 256, line 39, leave out “may” and in...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

46A: Schedule 21, page 256, line 41, at end inser...

Moved by

Baroness Buscombe

49: Schedule 21, page 257, line 37, leave out first “or” a...

My Lords, Amendment 49 relates to the jurisdiction of the Copyright Tribunal, which we feel needs...

These amendments, which relate to collecting societies, are sensible measures. Clearly, the bodie...

My Lords, Amendments 56A and 56B would require the Government to ensure that regulations governin...

My Lords, I shall begin with Amendment 49. I can confirm that it would not be possible to make un...

My Lords, I think the Minister said something slightly different at the beginning. Perhaps this i...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

50A: Schedule 21, page 257, leave out lines 40 an...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

51A: Schedule 21, page 257, line 44, leave out “t...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

58A: Schedule 21, page 260, line 23, leave out “t...

Moved by

Lord Mitchell

58BA: Clause 70, page 65, line 24, at end insert—

“(2B) ...

My Lords, in addressing this section of the Bill, I should like to say a few words. I am very con...

My Lords, I support my noble friend on this amendment. I sat through the earlier discussions whic...

My Lords, noble Lords are very familiar with the arguments in favour of action on directors’ remu...

I thank the Minister for that reply. I think we are not too far away in our philosophy and in wha...

Moved by

Lord Young of Norwood Green

58BC: Clause 70, page 65, line 29, at end insert...

My Lords, I listened carefully to the previous debate because there is a link. I concur with the ...

My Lords, I concur with the noble Lord, Lord Young, in his interesting remarks that the interests...

I thank the Minister for his comments, some of which I found helpful. I will read the points he h...

Moved by

Lord Mitchell

58BD: Clause 70, page 66, line 8, leave out “ordinary” and ins...

My Lords, this group of amendments is about accountability. We will be going over some of the are...

My Lords, this is clearly a serious issue and the noble Lord, Lord Mitchell, is right to use this...

My Lords, Amendments 58BD, 58BF and 58BG would make the vote on remuneration policy a special res...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his comments. We are perhaps a little further away from each o...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

58BH: Clause 72, page 71, line 11, after “concern...

My Lords, Amendments 58BH, 58BJ and 58BK relate to the information that must be published by a co...

My Lords, we welcome this amendment. It is in the spirit of giving shareholders more information....

I am pleased to have support for these minor and technical amendments.

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

58BJ: Clause 72, page 71, line 13, leave out ‘Cha...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

58C: After Clause 73, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, we announced at Second Reading our intention to introduce into the Bill a new provision...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing this new provision. We consider that the concept b...

My Lords, I welcome the general support given to Midata by the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, in he...

It seems to me that the Minister was talking about charging by the current owner of the informati...

The noble Lord, Lord Whitty, makes an interesting point. I will need to double check and revert t...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply. I am particularly reassured by the ongoing discussi...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

58D: After Clause 73, insert the following new Cl...

Moved by

Lord Razzall

58F: After Clause 73, insert the following new Clause—

“F...

My Lords, this is a new point. Although the amendment which stands in my name and that of my nobl...

My Lords, we very much welcome the amendments tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Razzall, and the nob...

My Lords, these amendments would introduce a statutory requirement for institutional investors to...

My Lords, I must say I am slightly disappointed by the Government’s response to this. This amendm...

I would like to clarify this matter or go some way to clarifying it. I re-emphasise that the Gove...

If I may say so, that very short response was more helpful than the Minister’s previous comments....

Moved by

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

58GA: Clause 74, page 73, leave out lines 34 to ...

In moving Amendment 58GA, I will speak also to Amendments 58GB and 58GC, which together clarify t...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that very clear explanation of these amendments; we welcome th...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her support of our amendments. The Government v...

Perhaps the noble Baroness could write to me about what the time limits are, as that is quite imp...

I will follow that up in writing. It is worth making the point that there will be a second consul...

Moved by

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

58GB: Clause 74, page 73, leave out lines 37 to ...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

58H: After Clause 74, insert the following new C...

My Lords, one of the key aims of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill is to encourage long-t...

My Lords, I have considerable sympathy with the amendment proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Steven...

My Lords, I had not intended to talk about what I am talking about now, but it is pertinent, part...

My Lords, this amendment seeks to amend the Insolvency Act 1986 to prevent suppliers withdrawing ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Razzall and Lord Mitchell, for participating in this deba...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

58HA: Clause 78, page 75, line 39, after “19” ins...

Noble Lords will be aware that the reforms to the debtor-initiated bankruptcy process being intro...

My Lords, we have read the amendments and recognised the points. Rather surprisingly, given the v...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

59A: Clause 78, page 75, line 40, after “63” inse...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

60AA: Clause 79, page 76, line 4, leave out “Sect...

My Lords, given that this is the last group of amendments in our Committee discussions, I would l...

My Lords, it is probably totally inappropriate for me—as I am probably the person who has been he...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, in the sunset of this Bill, for bringing up these issues, wh...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

60AB: Clause 79, page 76, line 4, at end insert “...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

60B: In the Title, line 7, after “directors;” ins...