Deregulation Bill

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Brabazon, I praise the golden words to be found in paragraph ...

My Lords, I speak from the Back Benches because we have two excellent Front-Benchers who are conc...

My Lords, I was very pleased that, in introducing the Bill, the Minister reminded us that one of ...

The noble Lord gives an excellent example. About six months ago, I did a shopping survey in the t...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for that comment, which is reinforced by surveys that show exactl...

My Lords, I want to address the provisions relating to taxis and private hire vehicles. We choose...

My Lords, this is an extraordinary Bill, covering almost every aspect of life. I shall concentrat...

My Lords, by my calculation, I am the 25th cab on the rank today—licensed or unlicensed, I am not...

My Lords, I think I start from that point. I have a whole range of comments on the Bill, which st...

My Lords, I shall not be tempted to follow the noble Lords, Lord Davies of Oldham and Lord Rooker...

My Lords, I hope to persuade the Government to consider an amendment to the Deregulation Bill. I ...

My Lords, I start prepared in principle to cheer on its way any Bill labelled a Deregulation Bill...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Cope of Berkeley. He will not ne...

My Lords, having seen successive deregulation units created and then relabelled within government...

My Lords, I will speak on housing and, like my noble friends, against the folly of Clause 1 and i...

My Lords, with the leave of the House, I will flag up a couple of points in the gap which will ne...

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate, which—a bit like this Christmas tree of a Bill—has...

My Lords, I start by declaring an interest of which the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, in his openin...

The Minister referred to 12 weeks earlier. We are going to have at least 12 weeks between Second ...

That is a very constructive suggestion. I will take it away and we will discuss it.

On shor...

That was not the main purpose of most of the comments, which was to allow for a discussion of the...

I am told that the Government are currently committed to putting the terms of reference to both H...