Consumer Rights Bill

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Taverne, raised some interesting issues. However, I am slightly di...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Taverne, makes a persuasive argument, to which I listened with gre...

My Lords, I start by reassuring noble Lords that a statutory framework for the use of units of me...

My Lords, I welcome the suggestion by the noble Lord, Lord Harris, that one might look at broader...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

55A: Clause 62, page 36, line 24, at end ins...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 55A, which is in the name of my noble friend Lord Stevenson and mys...

My Lords, I support Amendments 56FA and 56FB. These amendments are not about extending consumer r...

My Lords, this is the first amendment to Part 2 of the Bill covering unfair terms, so allow me to...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that response. As she says, this is the first time that we hav...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

56ZA: Schedule 2, page 56, line 21, at end i...

My Lords, Amendment 56ZA, which stands in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Stevenson, dea...

My Lords, these amendments also relate to Schedule 2 covering the grey list, containing terms whi...

I am not certain about the flexibility point, because both amendments use the words “without a va...

Moved by

Baroness Thornton

56B: Schedule 2, page 57, line 2, at end insert—

“20...

My Lords, this is an amendment to Part 1 of Schedule 2 which seeks to add three sub-paragraphs. T...

My Lords, I hope that the Minister will listen to this very carefully. I will repeat for her inte...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 56B. I was approached by the Internet Telephony Servi...

Briefly, I lend my support to this amendment. Most of the points have already been made but where...

The noble Lord, Lord Deben, says that this is a tricky issue and he is clearly right. One of the ...

I thank the Minister and the noble Lords, Lord Deben and Lord Best, for their remarks.

I wa...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

56C: Schedule 2, page 57, line 2, at end ins...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 56C, I shall speak also to Amendment 56FD, both of which also stand...

Perhaps I may reassure noble Lords that where conflict of interest is an issue in particular sect...

I thank the Minister for her reply. I have worked on referral fees a lot and of course this is no...

Moved by

Baroness King of Bow

56FC: Clause 64, page 38, line 20, at end insert “, tak...

My Lords, Amendments 56FC and 56G are in my name and those of my noble friends Lady Hayter and Lo...

My Lords, let me take each of these amendments in turn. First, on Amendment 56FC, the Government ...

The Minister points out as a concern with Amendment 56FC that it might cause the trader problems ...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

57: Schedule 3, page 61, line 9, leave out sub-paragr...

My Lords, this amendment was recommended by the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee ...

Moved by

Lord Stoneham of Droxford

57A: After Clause 76, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, I speak on behalf of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones, who has commitments in China t...

My Lords, I was aware that the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, was abroad because I have been in ...

I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones for tabling these amendments and to my other ...

Is my noble friend saying that in recognising the issue, the department is prepared to initiate s...

Yes, there was a meeting and the outcome was agreement from the creative industries to provide ev...

I am sorry, that is a separate issue. That is on parasitic brands. I am sorry to confuse my noble...

I will drop my noble friend a line. I am sorry, that has thrown me. I was given this and told exa...

Just to pick that up and endorse it, in my researches for today I just happened to check back in ...

We can clarify this. The noble Viscount, Lord Younger, had a meeting to discuss this and we have ...

I thank my noble friend for her comments. I apologise for interrupting, but I am grateful for the...

Moved by

Baroness Jolly

58: Schedule 5, page 72, line 8, at end insert—

“sectio...

My Lords, I want the requirement for letting agents to publicise their fees to come into effect i...

I rise to say “well done”. I should warn the Minister that we will have other amendments on letti...

Before the noble Lady sits down, perhaps I can say thank you to her.

Moved by

Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

60: Schedule 5, page 80, line 11,...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 60, 61, 62, 63 and 63ZA. As noble Lords know, my noble frien...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her interesting description of going out with local auth...

I am slightly confused by this. If I am completely honest, among friends and just within these fo...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Bakewell for her very interesting comments and good exampl...

I thank my noble friend for her comments and I am slightly reassured. I am grateful for the reass...

Moved by

Lord Best

62A: Schedule 5, page 80, line 14, leave out sub-paragraphs (3) to...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a vice-president of the Trading Standards Institute, a post I ...

My Lords, I rise to support the amendment in the names of my noble friend Lady Hayter and the nob...

My Lords, I repeat my declaration of interest as chair of National Trading Standards. Will the Mi...

My Lords, at Second Reading and at the start of this Committee I said that this was not a bad Bil...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Best, for provoking a wide-ranging and thoughtful debate. ...

I am sorry to interrupt her, but can the Minister tell us why it is more costly for a business to...

If the noble Lord would bear with me, I have an example which we can debate.

While we share...

It is then reasonable for a local authority to invoke that grounds of reasonable suspicion if, fo...

In my opinion, that is reasonable if there is a suspicion—for example, if trading standards offic...

The noble Baroness mentioned that when it comes to a new business, there would be a power for tra...

It means observing as though the officer was a member of the public, but obviously a test purchas...

Perhaps I may press this point a little because it is important and getting to the root of the is...

As my noble friend the Chief Whip has just mentioned, you must have some sense of proportionality...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness, but perhaps I may give a specific example. There is a...

I can reassure the noble Lord on that point. There is of course another exemption on the grounds ...

Even for 200 shops.

The officers would be looking for a faulty electrical product that might be in circulation in an ...

The noble Baroness said that the balance is between civil liberties and business. Unfortunately, ...

I thank the noble Baroness. Perhaps she will also read Hansard on these points. We carried out an...

My Lords, that was a powerful exchange all round. Clearly, this is an issue of great interest and...

Moved by

Baroness King of Bow

63ZAA: Clause 79, page 42, line 39, at end insert—

My Lords, I finally rise to speak to Amendment 63ZAA, in the names of my noble friends Lady Hayte...

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment and her very important call for a government revi...

My Lords, this is probably a helpful amendment from my noble friend. The reason I say “probably” ...

My Lords, on behalf of the team I thank the noble Baroness, Lady King of Bow, for her kind words ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her reply and other noble Lords who have taken part in this sh...

You were lucky!

I was very lucky. He said I got two of the questions right; perhaps a 66% ranking is not too bad....

Moved by

Baroness King of Bow

63AA: After Clause 79, insert the following new Clause—...

In moving Amendment 63AA, I shall speak also to Amendment 105J in the names of my noble friends L...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for highlighting both the work that we are doing on the impl...

My Lords, if this implementation group is to take on so many of the issues that we have raised in...