Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Alli, is being very courteous in hesitating a while. If I interven...

My Lords, this amendment is about addressing an inequality in pensions in relation to survivor be...

My Lords, I speak with some sympathy for the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Alli. For once, th...

My Lords, treating a gay employee less favourably than a straight colleague under an occupational...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Ali. The best thing I can do is to endorse everything th...

My Lords, a very powerful case has been made. I simply want to draw attention to what the Joint C...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support this amendment. When the Civil Partnership Act went through, ...

My Lords, as my noble friend said, pensions might sound boring but, as the noble Baroness, Lady B...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Alli, and all others who contributed to this deba...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who spoke in support of this amendment, in particular the noble...

Moved by

Baroness Barker

46ZA: Schedule 5, page 40, line 6, after “full” insert “or i...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 46ZA I will also speak to the other amendments that are grouped wit...

My Lords, I put my name to these amendments, having initiated this debate at Second Reading, beca...

I, too, support these amendments. When I was a family judge, I tried a number of what for me were...

My Lords, I congratulate the Government on meeting two out of the three issues that the Bill has ...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Barker for introducing this group of amendments a...

I do not think the noble Baroness has actually addressed the issue of one spouse having the right...

I hoped that I had responded to that, because we are clear that one spouse is not vetoing somebod...

The point here is whether the effect of this is that the transperson cannot complete their transi...

Forgive me, but I think I am. I am saying that if someone wants to go ahead with gender reassignm...

I would like to ask the Minister about notification. Clearly, nothing can happen until the interi...

We are talking here about a balance of rights. I think that I would like guidance, which I would ...

I certainly accept the noble Baroness’s invitation to respond to her on that point either in a me...

My Lords, I thank everybody who has taken part in what has appeared at times to be a very technic...

Moved by

Baroness Deech

46A: Clause 14, page 12, line 6, at end insert—

“(1A) T...

My Lords, the co-signatory to this amendment, the noble Baroness, Lady O’Cathain, has asked me to...

In the absence of the noble Baroness, Lady O’Cathain, I will speak very briefly in support of thi...

My Lords, perhaps I may make two extremely short points. First, as the previous two speakers have...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Deech. Indeed, it wa...

I wonder whether the noble Lord and the noble Baroness would accept this point. I stand by those ...

Clearly, that was meant to be an intervention so obviously I will respond to the noble Lord. I sa...

My Lords, my understanding is that this amendment does not require the House to come to any view ...

My Lords, I too want to support the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, on this amendment and to thank he...

My Lords, it is surely not difficult to construe the meaning of Clause 14. As the noble Lord, Lor...

At the heart of this debate is the basic premise that, given that gay marriage will occur, we sho...

I, too, strongly support what the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, has said, and I supported the noble...

My Lords, nine years ago I took part in this debate, as did many others in your Lordships’ House....

Does the noble Baroness not accept that we are not suggesting that where these other relationship...

My Lords, if there is to be a relationship recognised as an extension of the concept of civil par...

I think that the noble Lord and the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, have misunderstood my point. Of ...

On that issue, the situation is surely this: there is no compulsion, and if any couple, be they c...

My Lords, around the Committee there is clear recognition of an injustice in inheritance tax term...

My Lords, I have always felt discomfort if not, indeed, some element of contempt for what is call...

My Lords, I shall not detain the Committee by repeating what I said nine years ago when we debate...

My Lords, I think that I should indicate that some aspects of this discussion will arise under my...

My Lords, I, too, support the amendment. I found the introduction given by the noble Baroness so ...

My Lords, I had not intended to speak and I am still absorbing the last comment of the noble Lord...

My Lords, we have had a very interesting and passionate debate about extending civil partnerships...

My Lords, this has been a very good debate and the issues have been thoroughly explored. I congra...

I think that my noble and learned friend may have misunderstood me. I quite realise that the Gove...

I apologise if I misunderstood the point being made by my noble friend. As I indicated last week,...

I am sorry but what I am really asking the Minister is whether the Government are saying that thi...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness: Given how specific the question is, I hope that there will be an answ...

My Lords, that was not quite the question. The question was how much these family partnerships sa...

My Lords, I apologise if I misunderstood the question asked by the noble Lord. If information ass...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord has just amused your Lordships about Irving Berlin, but what...

Having sisters of my own, I intervene to suggest that the noble Lord, Lord Pearson, has not seen ...

My Lords, I should perhaps just leave this on the reply of the noble Baroness, Lady Farrington. T...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for giving way. I was very intrigued by what he said about the Car...

That is the responsibility of a different department. I would be very brave to make that kind of ...

My Lords, before I forget, perhaps I may correct the Minister on the following point: it was Irvi...

I have been reflecting on what the noble Baroness has said about not understanding the civil part...

I am sorry, I say to the noble Lord, Lord Alli, but I really do not get it, because what I envisa...

My Lords, I regret intervening again, but I have seen cases in my life as a domestic abuse counse...

My suggestion was, of course, a free choice and under the definition I have given, they would hav...

Moved by

The Lord Bishop of Ripon and Leeds

46B: After Clause 14, insert the followin...

My Lords, this amendment is about education in church schools, mostly owned by the Church of Engl...

My Lords, I have also put my name to this amendment. My interests are in the Lords’ register. I a...

Can I ask the noble Baroness why she is not sufficiently reassured by the fact that the Education...

My Lords, the reason is that without this amendment, the Bill changes those particular elements i...

My Lords, I support this amendment, to which I have put my name.

It has already been said t...

My Lords—

It provides an accommodation of competing rights, no more, no less. I apologise to the noble Lord...

I was anxious that the noble Baroness should not get to the end before I could ask this question....

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for the question. Having read the previous guidance, most recent...

My Lords—

I am so sorry, but I want to ask the noble Baroness a question relevant to the one she had been a...

If I might just elucidate, I said that it was not always clear what the tenets of the religion ar...

The current guidance provides that schools are entitled to take their religious beliefs into acco...

My Lords, this amendment sounds eminently reasonable until you try to imagine yourself a child wi...

My Lords—

My Lords, I think it is probably the noble Lord’s turn.

I was just trying to be polite; I know that the noble Baroness likes that. If I recall correctly,...

My Lords, I want to put another point to the Committee, particularly following what the noble Lor...

My Lords, as I said before, the Human Rights Act 1998 expressly incorporates into our legal syste...

My Lords, I wish to address a point made by the noble Lord, Lord Lester. In the debate in the Hou...

My Lords, I, too, think that this amendment is unnecessary and inappropriate. The amendment is co...

My Lords, I want to follow up what the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, has just said and to add just on...

The noble Lord, Lord Pannick, covered the fact that no one in your Lordships’ Chamber would want ...

I am sorry but I have no recollection of mentioning any Secretary of State whatever. All I am anx...

I apologise if I gave that impression. I cannot think of any specific, written, recorded examples...

Would the noble Baroness agree that those who moved this amendment are seeking not to instil fear...

I accept that, but it is on the back of a general reference to teachers being afraid of coercion....

My Lords, to take the point that the noble Baroness just raised, I do not know whether she sugges...

Can I raise a point which I think is relevant to my noble friend’s reply and also to what the nob...

My Lords it is not a question of European law but of UK law. The Human Rights Act requires our ju...

My Lords, in that case they still have to go to the Supreme Court. They have to go to the top of ...

My Lords, the purpose of the Committee stage, as I understand it, is to scrutinise draft Bills, t...

My Lords, I did not intend to speak in this debate but I have been referred to a few times, due o...

My Lords, a number of noble Lords have said that this amendment is not necessary. The noble Lord,...

My Lords, I am here as somebody who celebrates marriage and values the ethos of church schools, b...

My Lords, this has been a wide-ranging debate. I am very grateful to the right reverend Prelate t...

Will the Minister confirm whether the Government agree with my view about the Human Rights Act an...

I think that I have been clear in my response. I have just said that we are not convinced of a ne...

My Lords, I am grateful to all the noble Lords who have contributed to this debate, which was muc...