Succession to the Crown Bill
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Bills
House of Lords
Moved by
Lord True
1: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—
“Royal m...
My Lords, as this amendment was on the Marshalled List in Committee I can be brief, because I set...
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My Lords, my amendment has been grouped so that the first and last stand together. My noble frien...
My Lords, I broadly support my noble friend Lord True in his amendment. Indeed, at an earlier sta...
My Lords, I am afraid that I have not been able to play a part in the earlier consideration of th...
My Lords, this is an interesting discussion but, as the House will know, the Bill has three purpo...
My Lords, I thank my noble friends Lord True and Lord Elton for bringing forward these amendments...
Before my noble and learned friend sits down, perhaps he could clear up one thing in my mind. I c...
Without a lot of thought, I am not sure that I want to embrace that particular analogy. The point...
My Lords, I thank my noble and learned friend and all those who have contributed to this short de...
Moved by
Lord Berkeley
1A: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—
“Su...
My Lords, this amendment was tabled in Committee. My purpose in tabling it again today is gently ...
My Lords, we are deeply indebted to the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, for raising this important mat...
I support the principle underlying the amendment. It seems to me the logical extension of the pri...
My Lords, I, too, broadly support the principle behind the amendment, but I ask my noble and lear...
My Lords, as we said in Committee, the Duchy is about property, business, title and, indeed, mone...
My Lords, I immediately associate myself with those wishes of full recovery to Her Majesty. I als...
I am grateful to the Minister for his reply and to all noble Lords who have taken part in this sh...
Moved by
Lord Cormack
2: Clause 2, page 1, line 7, at end insert “, provided the stat...
My Lords, I introduced a similar amendment, but in different words, in Committee. We had an inter...
My Lords, somewhat surprisingly, I will speak to this amendment. This is my adopted country, and ...
My Lords, my contribution to the debate on the amendment in the name of my good friend the noble ...
My Lords, I oppose my noble friend’s amendment. I fully understand the Government’s decision not ...
My Lords, I find myself in something of a dilemma in speaking briefly to support this amendment. ...
My Lords, I sat through the debate in Committee and listened to the previous effort of my noble f...
My Lords, my intervention will be exceptionally brief. I speak as a lifelong member of the Method...
My Lords, like others, I am interested to see how much clarification emerges from consideration o...
My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment; it goes in the right direction. It may not be pe...
My Lords, I am not an Anglican; I am an Irish Presbyterian. Presbyterianism is the main religion ...
My Lords, I entirely agree with my noble friend in his attempt in the amendment to achieve clarit...
My Lords, I have not spoken before in this debate and I hope that noble Lords will forgive me for...
My Lords, I join others in thanking the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Guildford for the cl...
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Cormack for introducing this amendment and allowing the Ho...
Can the noble and learned Lord clarify one point concerning the relationship between this legisla...
My Lords, this is an agreement that has been reached with the other Commonwealth countries. This ...
My Lords, I am very grateful to everyone who has taken part in this short but fairly vigorous and...
Moved by
Lord Lang of Monkton
3: Clause 3, page 1, line 12, leave out “6” and insert ...
My Lords, in moving the amendment I return to a matter that troubled me both at Second Reading an...
My Lords, I have not contributed to this debate until now but was so moved by the oratory of my n...
My Lords, I, too, support the noble Lord, Lord Lang, with his intelligent and thoughtful amendmen...
My Lords, I have been somewhat controversial during this debate so I cannot claim the virginity o...
My noble friend has had even more ministerial experience than I have. Has he not observed that on...
There comes a point at which people think that there is some nobility about a figure that has bee...
Hear, hear.
We had a debate on caste recently. It was quite clear that the Government could have given way. I...
My Lords, I just wanted to ask a rather more general question of the Minister. At the moment civi...
My Lords, I am delighted to support my noble friend’s amendment. I start by saying to my noble fr...
My Lords, I have my name on this amendment, which I support strongly. When I intervened in Commit...
My Lords, I support this amendment very strongly. Briefly, my points follow closely those of my n...
My Lords, I, too, support this amendment. Twelve seems to me an eminently sensible and, indeed, a...
My Lords, I strongly support my noble friend. He made a splendid speech in Committee and again th...
I speak only to add weight to the perception that I hope that my noble and learned friend is gett...
I will live up to what the noble Lord, Lord True, expects and disappoint him. Not everyone was he...
My Lords, again, I thank my noble friends Lord Lang, Lord Hamilton and Lord True, who have signed...
The Minister referred earlier to a possible catastrophic but remote event. The fact of the matter...
My Lords, the point I made is that we need to provide a balance between militating against a pote...
My noble friend has moved on from the point that I wanted to pick up on. He is treating the neces...
I hear what my noble friend says, and he makes that point well. It is, indeed, as I and the noble...
Before my noble friend leaves that important point—and I accept what he says about civil partners...
My Lords, that is not what I am saying. It depends on the jurisdiction of the place where the mar...
May I ask a practical question? If this House took the view that 12 is preferable to six, how wou...
My Lords, when we come to a later amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Trefgarne, I will...
Are we simply saying that an exchange of e-mails would be quite adequate?
I am sure that if it was just that, it would be simpler. Certainly, the experience of reaching ag...
If we pass this amendment this evening, it will simply go to another place, which will give exten...
My Lords, I am most grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, in particular to ...
Moved by
Lord Trefgarne
5: Clause 5, page 2, line 29, leave out subsection (2) and in...
My Lords, we touched on this matter in Committee. Under the present provisions, the Bill can be b...
My Lords, my noble friend very succinctly makes his point about the commencement of the Bill. I f...
My Lords, my noble and learned friend has gone further than he went in Committee, which is reason...
Moved by
Lord James of Blackheath
6: Clause 5, page 2, line 31, at end insert—
...
My Lords, I came to Second Reading with one major concern in my mind. By Committee I had two and ...
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for setting out his concerns. I was grateful to him for taking ...
I thank the noble and learned Lord for that response. The first of my two amendments is, I agree,...
Moved by
Lord Trefgarne
8: Clause 5, leave out Clause 5 and insert the following new ...
My Lords, I am concerned—I think that there was reference to this in the letter that my noble and...
My Lords, my noble friend makes an important point about the simultaneous implementation of these...
Before my noble and learned friend sits down, has he any view as to the earliest possible point w...
No, my Lords, I do not, and I do not think that I would help the House if I tried to speculate.
My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble and learned friend. He has gone further than he did at t...
Just so there is no ambiguity or misunderstanding, I think I said that before introducing the com...
My Lords, that is all right. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.