Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

Perhaps I may respond to that. I was merely reiterating what is in the Companion; to the best of ...

My Lords, who gave the noble Lord, Lord Geddes, the individual right to shout from a sedentary po...

My Lords, this House is self-regulating, which also means that it conducts itself with self-restr...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

70A: Schedule 17, page 248, line 6, leave out par...

My Lords, government Amendment 70A corrects an error made in government Amendment 26P, tabled in ...

Moved by

Baroness Campbell of Surbiton

71: Clause 57, page 57, line 9, leave out para...

My Lords, the purpose of my amendment is to retain Section 3 of the Equality Act. It is of critic...

My Lords, I apologise for not being able to be present when this amendment was debated in Committ...

My Lords, I associate myself with what has been said by the noble Baronesses, Lady Campbell and L...

My Lords, in Committee I put down an amendment to this part of the Bill. I was overwhelmed by and...

My Lords, I, too, support the sentiments and comments made by all noble Lords who have spoken. I ...

My Lords, I, too, support the amendment. Section 3 represents more than a statement. It represent...

My Lords, I cannot begin to emulate the eloquence of the speech that we have just heard. I too re...

My Lords, I was not intending to speak and it is a misfortune for the House that I now do so, wit...

My Lords, I was dealing only with the arguments which the noble Lord advanced in Committee. I tho...

My Lords, in putting my name to the amendment, I would like to endorse the comments made by the n...

My Lords, I, too, support these amendments, and I congratulate my noble friend Lady Campbell of S...

My Lords, I shall intervene just briefly. I was in hospital when this was debated in Committee, b...

My Lords, I also intend to be brief. Having listened to all these speeches, which are so resonant...

My Lords, I begin by declaring an interest as the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commissi...

My Lords, I am greatly honoured to follow the lead offered by the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell, ...

My Lords, this has been an important debate and I am grateful to all noble Lords who have contrib...

My Lords, I thank all the supporters of my amendment because they have expanded the argument by b...

Moved by

Lord Harries of Pentregarth

73: After Clause 57, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, this amendment seeks to add the word “caste” into the Equality Act 2010 and I will very...

My Lords, I put my name to this amendment because it seems a very fundamental and simple question...

My Lords, I have seldom listened to a more powerful speech in this House. I agree with every sing...

My Lords, I want briefly to intervene in order to support the amendment that has been laid before...

My Lords, perhaps I may say a few words as the only person here to belong to a caste. As far as I...

Yes, there is. There is the noble Lord, Lord Dholakia.

I apologise to the noble Lord. We know very well what a terrible and shameful thing the caste sys...

My Lords, speaking from a Sikh perspective, I give my full support to the amendment. Guru Nanak, ...

The caste system was established very early in Hinduism. The Sanskrit for caste is “varna”, which...

I thank the noble Baroness for that. I repeat: caste in no way relates to underlying and upliftin...

My Lords, I fully support this amendment because it deals with a problem which ought not to disfi...

My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Harries, and others proposing ...

Perhaps I may follow especially what was said by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Clash...

I was trying to say—and perhaps my voice was not particularly helping—that it was more that we ha...

I am most grateful. Contrary to the impression that I might create, I am not simply a cold-hearte...

My Lords, I strongly support what has been said. As my noble friend Lord Deben, with whom I do no...

My Lords, it was with enormous pleasure and humility that I put my name to this amendment on beha...

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the debate and thankful to the Gover...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed to this very important debate. Le...

I understand that, but none of those things is fixed in the way in which caste is fixed. Those ar...

As I continue laying out the Government’s response, I will answer more directly the points that m...

Did my noble friend note the quotation I gave from the NIESR report which talked about the educat...

Who is going to educate whom? We have put down so many things under education that I should think...

I hope that, as I continue my remarks, I will be able to answer the points made by my noble frien...

Is the Minister aware that the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has calle...

My noble friend is familiar with the detail in this area. If that is so, I am not in a position t...

First, I thank very much all those who have spoken in support of this amendment for their deeply ...

Moved by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill

75: Clause 59, leave out Clause 59

My Lords, I was unable to take part in the debate on this issue on 14 January in Committee becaus...

My Lords, I support this amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Lester of Herne Hill. I do...

My Lords, I have no desire to add to the two very detailed contributions that have just been made...

My Lords, I was very happy to put my name to this amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Lester. He ...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords for their contributions today on this matter. I start ...

I would like clarification, although I am listening very carefully. Is it contemplated that the c...

To be absolutely clear, this is not about abolishing the opportunity for anybody to submit questi...

I am grateful to the Minister and to others who have taken part in the debate. I wish that there ...

Moved by

Baroness Thornton

76: After Clause 59, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, Amendment 76 concerns equality impact assessments and would reinstate statutory require...

My Lords, I, too, support this amendment, to which I have added my name, as it seems to me there ...

I hope that the Minister will not accept this amendment because it seems to me that this is a goo...

My Lords, having listened to all the debates today in your Lordships’ House, I am very conscious ...

My Lords, I support this amendment. I was reminded by the noble Lord, Lord Deben, of something th...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords and to the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, and my noble...

I have observer status; I am not a member of the working party.

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her clarification, and I am sorry if I misrepresented her...

My Lords, I thank my noble friends Lord Harrison and Lady Prosser, and the noble Baroness, Lady H...

Moved by

Baroness Prosser

77: After Clause 59, insert the following new Clause—