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Moved by
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
7: Clause 13, page 9, line 38, leave out subsect...
My Lords, this amendment probes the changes to Section 10 of the Outer Space Act 1986, which requ...
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My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his amendment and his questions. The United Kingdom’s space ...
I thank the Minister for a very full response and for answering two of the questions. The third o...
Moved by
Baroness Thornton
8: Clause 15, page 10, line 25, leave out subsection (1)
My Lords, I rise to speak to this amendment in place of my noble friend Lady Worthington. It conc...
My Lords, the purpose of this clause is to correct an oversight in the Energy Act 2008. Sections ...
I thank the Minister for his answer, which has indeed satisfied me. I beg leave to withdraw my am...
Moved by
Lord Grantchester
9: Clause 16, page 10, line 38, leave out subsection (1)
My Lords, the relevant clause before us amends Part 3 of the Clean Air Act 1993; these provisions...
My Lords, the Clean Air Act, which was first introduced to combat the smogs of the 1950s, designa...
My Lords, before the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, does that, and of course he will, perhaps I m...
My Lords, the answer to that is that the inclusion in the published list will be information that...
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for giving me those assurances and for his comprehensive ...
Moved by
Baroness Thornton
10: Clause 17, page 11, line 41, leave out subsection (1)<...
My Lords, I know that this is the amendment that everyone has been waiting for. This is in the Bi...
My Lords, I entirely share the noble Baroness’s celebration of the deregulatory activity of our f...
I thank the Minister. If the Red Tape Challenge ran the consultation on this, and if it was anyth...
Moved by
Lord Borwick
11: After Clause 17, insert the following new Clause—
“Fu...
My Lords, we know that the Sunday Trading Act 1994 means that any shop with more than 3,000 squar...
My Lords, my only interest in garden centres is as a customer; I have no other concern. I oppose ...
My Lords, I have not participated in any of the stages of the Bill until now. Nevertheless, with ...
My Lords, I have no axe to grind on this but I am not clear about why six hours is not sufficient...
My Lords, I, too, have concerns about this amendment. I thought that the speech of the noble Lord...
My Lords, I do not know whether any of the Committee realise that they are looking at the face of...
My Lords, I was in the happy position, as a humble Back-Bencher, of listening to my noble friend ...
My Lords, this has been an interesting debate. One of the things that strikes me forcefully is th...
My Lords, this has been a very good and interesting debate. It proves that we were wrong to bank ...
My Lords, my noble friend’s amendment would relax restrictions on garden centres by adding them t...
Perhaps I may be allowed to interrupt my noble friend briefly. During the Olympics, there were of...
I am sure that my noble friend has a point and that there were complex factors in several directi...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contribution. I wonder whether technology is stressin...
Moved by
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
12: Clause 18, page 12, leave out line 18
My Lords, I move Amendment 12 but also give notice that I will oppose the Question that Clause 18...
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, for moving her amendment
My Lords, having listened to the Minister, I should like to raise a couple of minor issues. Befor...
My Lords, to take up some of the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, the Joint Committee ...
My Lords, I say first to the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, that I did not mention that the provision h...
My Lords, perhaps I should mention—though it is not an interest, being from so long ago—that I wa...
Moved by
Lord Grantchester
13: Before Clause 21, insert the following new Clause—
...My Lords, public right-of-way legislation is complex, often archaic and certainly plentiful. Look...
My Lords, before I start, like the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, I should declare an interest in...
I thank the Minister for certain of those clarifications but I should like to press him on the fu...
I think that I have explained that the stakeholder working group is quite broadly constituted in ...
I thank the Minister for his further clarifications. While it is a complex and controversial area...
Moved by
Lord Skelmersdale
14: After Clause 23, insert the following new Clause—
<...My Lords, in moving this amendment, I will also speak to my other amendments and most of those of...
My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to speak to my amendments, which are linked with that propose...
My Lords, we did not spend a lot of time in the Joint Committee on this because we were not addin...
My Lords, I apologise for not being able to attend Second Reading. I had to go to a school event ...
My Lords, I support these amendments but first I must declare an interest as a farmer and landown...
My Lords, I support these amendments, particularly the ones in the name of my noble friend Lady B...
My Lords, I am a countryman, a farmer and someone who has much experience in the centre of Englan...
My Lords, this is the first time that I have spoken in Grand Committee and I need to declare my i...
My Lords, like other noble Lords, I have interests to declare as a landowner with rights of way o...
My Lords, I draw the Committee’s attention to the fact that I am a patron of Friends of the Lake ...
I very much endorse the remarks made by the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, that this group of cl...
My Lords, this has been a full and interesting debate and I am grateful to my noble friends who h...
My Lords, before my noble friend leaves that point, can he explain why the right to apply automat...
My Lords, I was some way from leaving that point. I will get there in a moment. There is also the...
Before my noble friend responds to the Minister, I wonder if I might raise two issues with him. I...
My Lords, I am sorry if I was not clear. With great respect to my noble friend, I ask her, once s...
I wonder if the gist of that discussion could be circulated to the rest of us. I am not wholly op...
If it is helpful to your Lordships, the point that I was trying to make was that the stakeholder ...
My Lords, I am extremely grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate and of co...
I am sure that my noble friend the Minister can speak for himself, but it is not often that he an...
Does my noble friend want to comment? No? Anyway, they have spoken with one voice, whether accide...
I put it more kindly than that.
Okay. My noble friend Lord Greaves questioned my comment that there was no right to make a claim....
My Lords, would that all local authorities always followed the excellent example of Pendle Boroug...
I do not think that I have to answer that, thank goodness. For once, I am not the Minister.
Moved by
Baroness Byford
19: Schedule 7, page 104, line 4, at end insert—
“(c) ...
My Lords, I want to make clear that this is where the stakeholder working group and my amendments...
My Lords, I support Amendment 19 concerning the time limit. We live in a very crowded island and ...
My Lords, the proposals in the Bill will make great progress on many aspects and procedures cover...
My Lords, my noble friend’s Amendments 19 to 22 seek to introduce measures that reflect the valid...
Could my noble friend explain why it is reasonable for documentary evidence, unaccompanied by usa...
My Lords, I said that there will be both user evidence and historical documentary evidence. Let m...
My Lords, I thank my noble friends for their contributions to this debate, the noble Lord, Lord C...
Moved by
The Earl of Clancarty
23: Clause 28, leave out Clause 28 and insert the foll...
My Lords, I have tabled this amendment because the responsibility that the Government have had fo...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, for raising this issue. He makes a goo...
My Lords, the purpose of Clause 28 is to remove the current requirement on persons seeking to ere...
I thank the Minister very much for that reply. I think it is useful to open discussion on this is...
Moved by
Lord Bradshaw
24: After Clause 28, insert the following new Clause—
“M...
My Lords, I declare my interest as the president of the Friends of the Ridgeway and as a member o...
My Lords, I declare four different interests as regards this matter. First, I have farming and la...
My Lords, I am conscious that this is a very interesting debate, but I am also conscious that by ...
My Lords, I speak briefly in support of this amendment. Like many noble Lords, I must declare an ...
My Lords, I thank most warmly the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, for having introduced this amendment...
Can the Minister, in his closing remarks, answer a question that I think will be of interest to a...
My Lords, I actually put my name down to support this amendment but, unfortunately, too late to g...
My Lords, I will be very brief. I support my noble friend Lord Bradshaw’s very comprehensive outl...
My Lords, the problems arising from recreational motor vehicles—4x4s and motorbikes—using green l...
My Lords, in what is an understandably contentious and partly ideological debate about the recrea...
I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. If he is advocating the working group approach, in ...
I was just coming to the noble Lord’s earlier question on timing in a moment.
My noble frie...
I thank my noble friend very much. The Minister’s offer of further discussion is very pertinent