Local Audit and Accountability Bill [HL]

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 6. Amendment 5 requires that a transfer scheme must mak...

Baroness Hanham:

My Lords, I assure the noble Lord that it is the Government’s intention to...

I am grateful to the Minister for her reply. I am particularly grateful to her for referring to v...

Probably not within the terms of our deliberations on this. I am not certain whether it will be a...

I am grateful for that. I hope that in the other place they will at least have a chance to see so...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

7: Clause 2, page 2, line 9, after “regulations” inse...

My Lords, I shall speak also to the other two amendments in this group. Perhaps we may start with...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, went in reverse order, but I shall go straight to his Am...

My Lords, I took that reply to be yes to Amendments 7 and 8 with regard to consultation but not t...

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

10: Schedule 2, page 38, line 7, leave out “5” and insert “7...

My Lords, Amendment 10 is a minor and technical amendment. It does not affect the intended effect...

My Lords, we are happy with the amendment. I would like to tell the Minister that we had spotted ...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

11: Clause 3, page 2, line 34, at end insert “and sho...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 16. Amendment 11 amplifies the reference to the stateme...

I wonder whether it is necessary to have that provision here. By virtue of all the Acts that deal...

Will the noble Lord consider Clauses 19 and 20? Clause 19 deals with “General duties of auditors”...

My Lords, my only point is that the latter clauses deal with the general duties of auditors but t...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Palmer of Childs Hill, raises a question that I hope to answer—tha...

My Lords, I am grateful for that response. I would like to read the record about the explanation ...

My Lords, I think that I responded to that in my comments just now. This is directly a part of th...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

12: Clause 3, page 3, line 1, leave out paragraph (b)...

My Lords, this is another probing amendment. Clause 3 deals with the general requirements for acc...

My Lords, the amendment would remove a regulation-making power to lift or modify the duties impos...

I want to ask the Minister a question that I should perhaps have raised when speaking to the earl...

My Lords, the police authorities are included in terms of this clause. Does that answer the noble...

My Lords, that was a helpful explanation from the Minister and I am happy to withdraw the amendme...

Moved by

The Earl of Lytton

12A*: Clause 3, page 3, line 5, after “application” inser...

My Lords, as this is the first time on which I have spoken in Committee, I should declare my inte...

My Lords, the noble Lord has raised some important questions with these amendments. My Amendment ...

My Lords, this may take only a little time, partly because the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, and I hav...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for her extensive reply and for setting that out for...

I am grateful to the Minister for her response to the point that I raised under this group.

The question is that Clause 7 stand part of the Bill.

My Lords, if I may, I think that we agreed to draw stumps after Clause 6.

We did, my Lords, but in fact I can take us until the end of Clause 12 without need for further d...

We have tabled further amendments to Clause 7 and those beyond it. That was in the agreement.

In that case, that concludes the Committee’s business for today, so the Grand Committee stands ad...