Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

My Lords, Amendment 80A stands also in the names of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hardie, and ...

I support Amendments 80A and 80B tabled by the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, to which I have added m...

My Lords, Amendment 81 stands in my name. At Second Reading and in Committee, I opposed this clau...

My Lords, I suggest to the Minister that there is a lifeline to the Government in this group of a...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendments 80A and 81. I was unable to speak at the proceedings...

My Lords, it is a privilege and a pleasure to follow the contribution of the noble and learned Lo...

My Lords, I rise to put the opposite opinion. I live in the world of small and medium-sized busin...

My Lords, I added my name to Amendment 81 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Turner, which w...

My Lords, I, too, support these amendments. For a number of years before the passing of the 1974 ...

As a quick correction, it was nothing to do with unfair dismissal, it was about the health and sa...

My Lords, if there is one lesson that your Lordships and the Government might draw from this deba...

My Lords, this has been an extensive and interesting debate. I think it would be helpful to set o...

My Lords, the Minister twice said that where companies had done nothing wrong, they could still b...

I thank my noble friend for that point, which is simply noted. It does not change the views that ...

Before the noble Viscount sits down, may I clarify what is being offered? I hope that I have not ...

All I am saying at this stage is that we are open to ideas so we can hear where further exclusion...

My Lords, I am bound to say that I found the Minister’s response profoundly disappointing. It was...

I am not arguing that one should not have health and safety regulations and that one should not d...

The noble Earl, like the Minister, has effectively conflated issues around strict liability with ...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

81A: Before Clause 63, insert the following ...

My Lords, this simple amendment in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, would make ...

My Lords, when we discussed this issue in Committee the Government gave four reasons for rejectin...

My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, on her determination to pursue thes...

The noble Baroness, Lady Howe of Idlicote, has indicated that at the present time there is an inc...

My Amendment 82 is in this group. I apologise to the House for not being able to raise these matt...

My Lords, I spoke on this in Grand Committee and I do not want to repeat either the points I made...

My Lords, I hope that the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, will forgive me if I do not follow h...

I will start at the back and deal first with Amendment 82, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Ca...

My Lords, Amendment 82, spoken to by the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, concerns sales of pro...

Before my noble friend goes on to discuss auctions, will he give some indication of how long it w...

My noble friend makes a very good point. I can reassure him that the Select Committee report is d...

My Lords, this amendment simply asks that letting agents should have to sign up to a redress sche...

Moved by

Baroness Gardner of Parkes

81B: Before Clause 63, insert the following new C...

My Lords, I shall speak to the group of amendments in my name, so that we do not have to keep com...

My Lords, not surprisingly we support these amendments. I have been working with ARMA on trying t...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Gardner for the thought and effort that she has p...

My Lords, I listened to the explanations from the Minister, some of which are quite unsatisfactor...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

83: After Clause 64, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, these amendments will simplify employment legislation for around 40,000 farm businesses...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

83A: After Clause 64, leave out lines 3 to 6 and insert—

“...

My Lords, my name is on this, as are the names of the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, the right reveren...

Hear, hear!

My Lords, what the Minister failed to mention is that the Government’s own best estimate, in the ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for his clear and eloquent statement on why it is ...

My Lords, I was pleased to add my name to this amendment. I congratulate the two previous speaker...

My Lords, I read carefully the recent debate on this subject in Grand Committee, and I am sorry t...

My Lords, I fully support the Government’s desire to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board. I decl...

My Lords, I was most grateful to hear what the noble Lord, Lord Curry of Kirkharle, has been tell...

My Lords, first, I declare an interest as a farmer. We have all received much evidence, both for ...

My Lords, in Committee we had a long discussion about whether the Agricultural Wages Board should...

My Lords, this has been an interesting and lively debate. I am very grateful to all noble Lords f...

What impact has the Minister’s department assessed there will be as a result of supermarkets forc...

I am glad that the noble Lord has brought up this point because I was about to move on to the iss...

Oh!

If I may be allowed to finish, prices paid to producers are determined by international markets, ...

My Lords, I wonder whether my noble friend could also answer the point that I raised earlier. Doe...

I thank my noble friend the Duke of Montrose for that question. It is best that I get back to him...

On the question of dairy prices, is the Minister aware that for many dairy farmers, many of whom ...

I thank my noble friend for his comment. I understand that the code adjudicator is called in in t...

My Lords, I thank the Minister and everyone who has participated in the debate, particularly thos...

My Lords, I gave statistics showing that the way farm workers were paid was overwhelmingly higher...

My Lords, nobody is disputing that, at present, after years of operation of the Agricultural Wage...

My Lords. I will be very brief. Three times the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, has referred to the rura...

My Lords, the right reverend Prelate said two things. First, the agriculture workforce is a small...