Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

My Lords, the amendments in this group make consequential provisions on the clause that the House...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for introducing these amendments. We are broadly happy wi...

I thank the noble Lord for those questions. It is anticipated that the discussions that are going...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

2: Clause 5, page 4, line 9, leave out “its” and ...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

7: Clause 74, page 67, line 26, at end insert—

“(5) Prior ...

My Lords, I make no apologies for returning to this subject. We have left the Agricultural Wages ...

I thank the noble Lord for that. Unfortunately I had to wait for the lift and I got stuck getting...

I am sorry to say to my noble friend that her amendments were called and not moved, so I am afrai...

My Lords, I apologise to the noble Baroness. We almost missed this amendment as well so I quite u...

My Lords, I farm in Norfolk. The noble Lord, Lord Whitty, argues his case well, as he always does...

My Lords, it is extremely regrettable that the confusion about the failure to move Amendment 3 me...

My Lords, I have huge respect for the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, and I thoroughly enjoyed working w...

My Lords, I took part in the earlier discussions. I apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for...

My Lords, I apologise for having missed the first few words spoken by the noble Lord, Lord Whitty...

My Lords, the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, would require Ministers to publish and la...

No, my Lords, my assertion was that the Minister clearly did not agree with the independent resea...

My understanding was that the noble Lord was querying the letter that I wrote and I just want to ...

My Lords, with due respect to the Minister, it might have been better had a Defra Minister replie...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

8: Clause 78, page 68, line 17, at end insert “, ...

My Lords, I begin by thanking noble Lords for the constructive and positive debates we have had o...

My Lords, I thank the Minister. If anything, what he has just said demonstrates the complexity of...

My Lords, I add a slight note of dissent. I entirely agree with Amendment 9, which gives greater ...

My Lords, I echo the initial comments of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, on this. The Ministe...

My Lords, I will make a few brief comments. I thank those who have contributed to this short deba...

Moved by

Lord Howarth of Newport

10: Clause 79, page 69, line 25, at end insert—

My Lords, Amendments 10 and 11 in this group are intended to help refine the orphan works licensi...

My Lords, I am not unsympathetic to the first of the noble Lord’s amendments, Amendment 10, but o...

My Lords, briefly, I support Amendment 10, proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Howarth, although I s...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Howarth of Newport, for these two amendments, which are ve...

My Lords, I support both amendments, which were spoken to most ably by the noble Lord, Lord Howar...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Howarth, when introducing this amendment, mentioned that in Parlia...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Howarth, for his amendments. They raise important issues a...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Viscount but this is a crucial point. Will he go back over what...

The word I used was “consideration” rather than “consultation” but there is a fine line between t...

My Lords, it would be wrong of me to let the noble Viscount’s concluding remarks pass, particular...

My Lords, the last bars of the music are dying away, the curtain is falling, moving valedictory s...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

12: Clause 97, page 89, line 31, at end insert—