Consumer Rights Bill

My Lords, I simply wish to add my support to my noble friend’s amendment. We know that there are ...

My Lords, I, too, welcome the new Minister. I know what she will go through for a while, sitting ...

My Lords, I join the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, in thanking my noble friend Lady Wilcox and my ...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, and my noble friend Lady Crawley for contributing to thi...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

3: Clause 3, page 3, line 1, at end insert—

My Lords, in moving Amendment 3 I shall speak also to Amendments 5, 10 and 56. Few people will no...

My Lords, I turn first to Amendment 10. The Government agree that it is important that when a con...

I thank the Minister for her comments. On the first point, about the third party, I take her poin...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

4: Clause 3, page 3, line 12, leave out “contract for...

I am pleased to say that this Bill benefited from useful scrutiny in the other place. As part of ...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

6: Clause 9, page 5, line 28, after “goods” ...

Being Welsh, I would not intervene on an issue on which the Scots felt strongly.

Under the ...

My Lords, claims made about the outcomes that goods will achieve can be vital in a consumer’s dec...

I am slightly confused. If outcomes are covered by a combination of the Bill and the regulations,...

To give a quick response, the Bill applies to “relevant circumstances”; my team has underlined “r...

I feel a new amendment coming up. Maybe we will return to this on Report. We will certainly give ...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

8: Clause 11, page 6, line 24, at end insert...

I am sorry that noble Lords are hearing a lot from me today, but there will be other days that wi...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Hayter on Amendment 8 to Clause 11. As we all know, cons...

I am sure that noble Lords will be happy to know that, under the Consumer Contracts (Information,...

I thank my noble friend Lady Drake for her help on this. I cannot believe that she has ever falle...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

9: Clause 11, page 6, line 36, at end insert...

In moving Amendment 9, I wish to speak also to Amendments 13 and 25 in this group, which all stan...

My Lords, I should start by saying that it is extremely important to the Government that the impl...

I think I heard the Minister say that she would ask the implementation group to look at the regul...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

11: Clause 19, page 10, line 6, at end inser...

Amendment 11 seeks to protect the consumer if a faulty installation puts them at risk by giving t...

Of course, my Lords, consumers must have appropriate remedies if goods are not installed correctl...

I thank the Minister. She has not actually answered the point that going for damages means going ...

The point I was trying to make is that there is the option of taking the whole thing to court, bu...

But that is the right to a refund. All we are saying is that that should be a right. I think that...

Moved by

Baroness Jolly

12: Clause 19, page 10, line 42, leave out “Chapter” and inse...

My Lords, I am very grateful to Professor Hugh Beale, an eminent legal academic, for his view tha...

I thank the Minister for introducing these very technical amendments. We have no objection to the...