Consumer Rights Bill

My Lords, Amendment 63B in this group is in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Best, and of myself,...

My Lords, I remind noble Lords of my trading standards entry in the register of interests. I supp...

My Lords, our debate on enhanced consumer measures has been really interesting. As noble Lords ha...

Perhaps I may ask the Minister a question on one bit of that—two now. I think she will accept tha...

My Lords, on the number of cases per year, those which I quoted were actually civil cases, but th...

My Lords, on the first question, the Minister has made my point: there are far more criminal case...

I have been advised that the criminal system and the civil system are significantly different. Pr...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Hayter for her remarks and the Minister for her responses....

Moved by

Baroness King of Bow

63C: Clause 80, page 43, line 4, at end insert—

“...

My Lords, Amendment 63C calls on the Government to review how the new powers for collective legal...

My Lords, with this amendment we turn our attention to Schedule 8 of the Bill and focus on compet...

I thank the Minister for her reply. Obviously, we all agree that effective competition is good fo...

Before the noble Baroness withdraws the amendment, I think that my noble friend Lady Jolly has al...

I thank the Minister for those remarks. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Noakes

64: Schedule 8, page 112, leave out lines 18 to 20

My Lords, at the request of my noble friend Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts and with the leave of ...

My Lords, I too am speaking on this Bill for the first time. However, many years ago I tangled wi...

My Lords, I start by declaring my interest as a partner for some time in the global commercial la...

My Lords, this has been an interesting part of the Bill. The heart would be taken out of the Bill...

My Lords, I hate to interrupt the noble Baroness in full flow, but I suspect that she might be go...

My Lords, I think the point that I was making was partly that we did not live in America and part...

My Lords, I am delighted to welcome my noble friend Lady Noakes to the Committee and commend the ...

I have read the draft rules; I brought them with me. I do not think it is all that easy, if you h...

I thank my noble friend for his clarification. He is right to say that the draft rules were const...

Perhaps I may intervene on my noble friend on that one point. As I understand it, the CAT does no...

I thank my noble friend. She is absolutely right to say that we need to get this right. We will r...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this brief debate on these very importan...

Moved by

Lord Phillips of Sudbury

70: Schedule 8, page 113, line 30, after “may” inse...

My Lords, I will speak also to Amendments 76 and 79 in this group. I declare an interest as presi...

My Lords, I support this group of amendments. I am pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Phillip...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Phillips for his support for this part of the Bil...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, for what she has said. I will willingly...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

71: Schedule 8, page 113, line 35, at end insert “so ...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

73: Schedule 8, page 113, line 38, at end insert—

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

75: Schedule 8, page 124, line 15, leave out “47C(6)”...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

77: Schedule 8, page 128, line 40, at end insert—

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

80: After Schedule 8, insert the following new Schedu...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

81B: Before Clause 81, insert the following ...

My Lords, it is good to rise today to move this amendment in what is National Consumer Week—as I ...

We stand adjourned for 10 minutes. I am sorry about that.

5.54 pm

My Lords, Amendment 81D would require letting agents to have appropriate client money protection ...

My Lords, I will talk to Amendment 81D and in doing so I declare an interest as a director of the...

My Lords, I repeat my declaration of interests as chair of the National Trading Standards Board. ...

My Lords, I remind the Committee that we have also tabled amendments to put the enforcement provi...

Before the noble Baroness leaves that point, I think she said that if you move towards a system o...

The noble Lord makes the fair point that a precedent exists. However, if you are going to introdu...

When I took up a position in this industry on an advisory board, the question I asked immediately...

I thank my noble friend for his intervention, and perhaps I may return to the mandatory client mo...

My Lords, I regret that answer, particularly on client money protection. The only case made again...

As I have said, I will reflect on the points that have been raised this afternoon, particularly o...

They are, because there is an agreement for a half-charge but the buyers still cannot choose betw...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

82: Clause 81, page 43, line 29, leave out “Secretary...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

83: Clause 82, page 44, line 2, leave out “Secretary ...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

85: Clause 83, page 44, line 12, leave out “in Englan...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

88: Clause 84, page 44, line 27, leave out “in Englan...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

91: After Clause 84, insert the following new Clause—...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

92: Clause 86, page 46, line 15, at end insert—