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Consumer Rights Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 1 July 2014, in the House of Lords, led by Viscount Younger of Leckie. The answering member was Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town.
Lords second reading. Agreed to on question. Bill committed to a Grand Committee.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
754 cc1644-1693 
Session
2014-15
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Consumer Rights Bill 2013-14 to 2014-15. Brought from the Commons.
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Bills
House of Lords
Deposited Paper DEP2014-1032
Monday, 14 July 2014
Deposited papers
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Viscount Younger of Leckie | 754 cc1645-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, let me begin this debate by setting out how important the Government’s consumer law ref...

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 754 cc1649-1652 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for the clarity of his introduction and, indeed, for his willingne...


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Lord Stoneham of Droxford | 754 cc1651-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am pleased to support this Bill, which has been led by my colleagues Vince Cable, Jen...

Baroness Heyhoe Flint | 754 cc1653-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I fully support the general principles of the Bill. It will improve the rights of consu...

Lord Wills | 754 cc1655-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, like other speakers, I welcome much of this Bill and I congratulate the Minister on his...

Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville | 754 cc1657-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this is a good Bill. It covers many issues that have previously been of concern to cons...

Lord Alton of Liverpool | 754 cc1659-1663 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, like other noble Lords, I too support and welcome this Bill on consumer rights. It intr...

Lord Borwick | 754 cc1661-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this is an important piece of legislation. The way that consumers buy products, the ven...

Baroness Crawley | 754 cc1665-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, from time to time a Bill comes along which gets the pulse racing and the heart thumping...

Lord Clement-Jones | 754 cc1667-1670 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I very much welcome the Bill and pay tribute to the work of my honourable friends Jenny...

Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes | 754 cc1670-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have no doubt in saying that the Bill before your Lordships today is the most importa...

Baroness Drake | 754 cc1673-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the focus on updating and strengthening consumer law certainly is to be welcomed. I agr...

Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 754 cc1675-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am very pleased to be speaking in this important debate. Like other noble Lords, I fi...

Baroness King of Bow | 754 cc1677-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I welcome the Bill but I must repeat what several noble Lords have said, notably my nob...

Lord Whitty | 754 cc1679-1680 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I apologise to the House for speaking in the gap. I thought that I had put name down, b...

Lord Howe of Aberavon | 754 cc1680-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am glad to take this opportunity to say something that I said quite recently and iden...

Baroness Jolly | 754 c1681 (Link to this contribution)

I remind the noble and learned Lord that, in speaking in the gap, he is restricted to four minute...

Lord Howe of Aberavon | 754 c1681 (Link to this contribution)

Four minutes? I have five seconds left. Disregard the Government’s rejection of my argument in th...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 754 cc1681-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all speakers for contributing to the debate this afternoon. It has been a very ...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 754 cc1686-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I believe that there is still time to get hearts racing. We have an excellent opportuni...

Lord Wills | 754 c1688 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. On the specific point about consultation, can he un...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 754 cc1688-9 (Link to this contribution)

I am very happy indeed to write to the noble Lord to provide some precise timetable information o...

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 754 c1689 (Link to this contribution)

The Commons made a welcome amendment to the Bill to make letting agents put up their table of fee...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 754 cc1689-1692 (Link to this contribution)

We still want to make a distinction between consumers and businesses. We think that if we were to...

Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes | 754 c1692 (Link to this contribution)

I apologise but I must interrupt my noble friend. That is not true. Clearly, at the end of a BT b...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 754 c1692 (Link to this contribution)

I know that this is probably going to lead to some more discussions offline about this issue. My ...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 754 cc1692-3 (Link to this contribution)

It sounds to me as if she has done so. We must also remember that many hard-pressed households we...

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