Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill

I rise to support these amendments. This section of the Bill is yet more evidence of the oppositi...

My Lords, I declare an interest in that I have been a member of the GMB for 40 years this year an...

My Lords, I should like to pick up from where my noble friend Lord Whitty left off. The more that...

My Lords, I do not want to repeat points which have already been made by other noble Lords, but t...

My Lords, my noble friend asked at the beginning of her speech whether the Committee thought that...

I support my noble friends Lord Monks and Lord Stevenson. Trade unions are a very important part ...

My Lords, I start, as I did at Second Reading, by declaring my interest as a member of a union. I...

My Lords, my first point is that I do not wish to make any reference to reports that I read in th...

Will the Minister address the point made by many of us about the report of the business advisory ...

I was about to attempt to answer the many questions that were put to me. However, before I come t...

I thank the Minister for giving way. Is it not quite incredulous to use the cost in that way, bre...

These are the figures that I have presented, and it is fairly natural to break it down on a per-h...

My Lords, I am grateful to those who have taken part in what has been a wide-ranging debate, at l...

Moved by

Lord Monks

118E: Clause 37, page 40, line 9, at end insert—

“(c) to ha...

I shall speak also to the other amendments in this group. They deal with confidentiality and admi...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Monks has made a sophisticated case to the Government for making t...

My Lords, I support the amendment moved by my noble friend. One point struck me particularly, fro...

My Lords, I add my support for the amendment. Orwell has been mentioned, and I have mentioned Kaf...

My Lords, I have to confess that my experience of the unions is obviously much less extensive tha...

My Lords, I think that at Committee stage I can make a point. I think that the noble Lord, Lord T...

I think the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, presaged his remarks with , “before the noble Lord sits down...

My Lords, I do not want to prolong this but the noble Lord said that this Bill was about Parliame...

That was interesting. What have we learnt? We have made two rather important steps forward down t...

My Lords, I will now respond to the group of amendments tabled to Clause 37, focusing on the role...

I want to ask the noble Viscount two questions. He has been slightly more explicit about the role...

In answer to the noble Lord’s first question, I went some way forward in attempting to define wha...

We have had a very clear statement from the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, about what he thought this Bi...

I intend to stick exactly to what I have said.

I apologise to my noble friend for quoting at such length the comments in the summer of the leade...

I thank the Minister for that disappointing reply and the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, for introducing...

Moved by

Lord Monks

144: Clause 38, page 43, line 18, leave out from “union” to first...

My Lords, this group of amendments covers similar territory to the previous debate, so I shall no...

My Lords, I have four amendments in this group that relate to roughly the same territory—Amendmen...

Will my noble friend comment on the dangers of blacklisting? An investigation carried out in Scot...

Indeed, my Lords. The Scottish Affairs Committee in another place have performed a very good task...

Perhaps I may mention in this connection the comment of the Royal College of Nursing—a union that...

My Lords, this group of amendments is different from the others we have considered this evening b...

My Lords, at the outset I want to address the issue of blacklisting that was raised by the noble ...

Will the Minister respond to what many of on this side have been driving at? Both in the retail s...

I assume that that was a specific question relating to contractors. I hope I have got that right....

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who took part in the debate. As the Minister gave his assurance...