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

My Lords, we have Amendment 166A in this group. Before I come to it, I have a great deal of sympa...

I am sorry to stop the noble Lord in full flow, but we have all had many conversations with chari...

My Lords, they are innumerable: NCVO, Bond and a whole number of organisations have said to us th...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hardie, and my noble friend Lord Tyler have fought thi...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 167A and 167B. The Government have indicated quite clearly ...

I ask the noble and right reverend Lord to give us his view about the last part of the amendment ...

I have listened with great attention to what the noble Baroness has said, as I did on Monday when...

My Lords, I put my name also to Amendments 167A and 167B on which the noble and right reverend Lo...

My Lords, I have not been part of the commission, but I support what the noble Baroness, Lady Mal...

My Lords, I support Amendments 167A and 167B. I have two questions for the Government that have n...

My Lords, noble Lords from across the House have made it abundantly clear that the Government’s d...

My Lords, I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hardie, for introducing these amendments. It h...

I was going to bring this up in our stand part debate, because it is important. With the permissi...

I hear what the noble Baroness says. I am sure, as she recognises, that it is difficult to be cri...

That Act covered publications, which are quite clearly and easily defined as this. The worry abou...

My Lords, it is not a subjective test—we made that very clear. The Labour Party did not put a sub...

In the light of what the noble and learned Lord is saying, could he clarify what the position wou...

I think I addressed that point in our debate on Monday, and I quoted from the Electoral Commissio...

Will the Minister, during the reflective period, focus on the idea of something that suddenly bec...

We had a very thorough debate on this subject on Monday; I do not want to go over again everythin...

Will my noble and learned friend make one point absolutely clear to the Committee? If, as has bee...

My noble friend anticipates what I was about to say. However, he is right, subject to the caveat ...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords in all parts of the House for speaking in this debate. The...

Moved by

Lord Hardie

169: Clause 27, page 15, line 1, leave out subsection (2)

My Lords, Amendment 169B also stands in my name.

The issues here are similar to those raise...

My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendment 169A. I would like to ask the Minister what the rationale ...

I wonder if I may ask the noble and right reverend Lord a question. He and his commission have ju...

The commission is keen to emphasise that every aspect of the Bill is integrated with every other....

I intervene briefly to support the Government and oppose the amendments put forward from the Cros...

I hope that the noble Lord is not suggesting that the Hope not Hate campaign unduly influenced th...

I would not want its work to be hindered but there should not be undue influence in any particula...

My Lords, I rise very briefly indeed to support the proposal contained in the commission’s amendm...

My Lords, I wish briefly to draw attention to what the Joint Committee on Human Rights said about...

My Lords, it will probably come as no surprise that the Labour Party supports reducing the cost o...

My Lords, again we are grateful to the noble and leaned Lord, Lord Hardie, for introducing this p...

Will the Minister not acknowledge, in relation to the spending by the Green Party, that of course...

The noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Harries, makes a fair point that, as a party, the staff c...

I have been listening to the debate in as objective a fashion as I can manage. The noble and lear...

My Lords, I think I indicated that even with the reduced limits, on the list I have before me the...

I am grateful to noble Lords on all sides of the Committee for participating in the debate. I hea...

My Lords, we gave notice of our intention to oppose the Question in order to say some of the thin...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for raising these issues once again. The Government accept t...

Moved by

Lord Tyler

170A: Clause 28, page 16, line 22, leave out from “if” to end of ...

My Lords, I should apologise to Members who were anticipating that by now we might be moving on t...

My Lords, I take seriously what the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, has said and what earlier on the nobl...

My Lords, I, too, intend to oppose the Question that Clause 28 stand part of the Bill. I shall be...

Should I interpret the noble Baroness’s remarks that she is supporting the very carefully targete...

That would certainly be a much better step than what is included at present. I would say that it ...

My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness about the way in which this clause has been written. I ...

I feel I ought to point out something that the commission made quite clear at the beginning of it...

I understand what the noble and right reverend Lord is saying and I accept that. None the less, I...

I know that the noble Lord speaks in a personal capacity but he has also the very important, prac...

I hear what my noble friend says and I think he will also recognise that the Electoral Commission...

My Lords, because constituency-based limits seem to be even more inappropriate than some of the o...

My Lords, I rise as a fairly junior judge, and I also have pious hopes about the future of the Bi...

My Lords, we have talked about taking money out of politics. If I heard the noble Lord, Lord Hora...

My Lords, it was clear from many of our previous debates that the issue of constituency limits ha...

Will my noble friend confirm that that applies to the post-Dissolution period in a constituency a...

My noble friend is absolutely right, but it is important that we do not lose sight of that provis...

I did not say that. I was not anticipating 650 enforcement officers. I was suggesting that if the...

I accept that clarification and apologise if I misrepresented the noble and learned Lord. As I th...

We are professionals in a party. It is our job to run elections. That is the whole point that we ...

I hear what the noble Baroness says, but if we are dealing with a situation where an organisation...

My Lords, I will respond very briefly to the debate. I think my noble friend the Minister will ac...

My Lords, perhaps I may point out that it has already been through the other place and it was not...

The very fact that it has come to us is making the point for me. I think that the other place wou...