Consumer Rights Bill

I rise on behalf of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones, who has a conflicting commitment this aft...

My Lords, I am sure that I saw the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, only a few moments ago, asking...

My Lords, a requirement for the switching of communications providers to be receiving provider-le...

My Lords, I am encouraged by the news of Ofcom’s consultation nearing completion. I should point ...

Moved by

Baroness Howe of Idlicote

104: After Clause 86, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, I am pleased to move Amendment 104, which requires internet service providers and mobil...

My Lords, in the very best parliamentary traditions, my noble friend has been persistent, dogged,...

My Lords, I support the amendment and am grateful to the noble Baroness for providing a comprehen...

My Lords, I commend the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, for coming back to this matter and for bringin...

My Lords, the Government clearly believe that default-on internet filtering is the best approach ...

My Lords, I reassure the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, that the Government remain committed to impro...

The Minister will recall that I asked her specifically how many people are not currently covered ...

I have many answers here to the noble Lord’s questions. It is vital to understand the full implic...

I was just about to ask the noble Baroness that very thing. If she would be good enough to write ...

That is a fair point. However, the noble Lord is suggesting that more than 10% of ISPs are opposi...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who participated in the debate, particularly the Minister for h...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

105: After Clause 86, insert the following n...

My Lords, Amendment 105, in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, woul...

My Lords, higher education in this country rightly enjoys an excellent reputation, and we want to...

I hope that those words are as warm as my colleague is suggesting they are. We were, I think, hop...

I confirm to the noble Baroness that my words are extremely warm. We will obviously return to thi...

I think that I will take my jacket off because of the heat in here. With those words of reassuran...

Moved by

The Lord Bishop of Truro

105C: After Clause 86, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, Amendment 105C is in my name and those of the noble Lord, Lord Mitchell, and the noble ...

My Lords, I support this amendment. It is true that we have already complained about this constan...

My Lords, there are far too many of us in this Room who have been through this issue. I look acro...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Bakewell is unable to be here today, but I am sure that she would ...

My Lords, I support these amendments. I very much agree with the comments of the right reverend P...

My Lords, most of the other amendments in this group are in my name and that of my noble friend L...

My Lords, I am very glad that we have been joined by the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Tru...

I ask the Minister to check that quote. I checked with the chair of that organisation, which did ...

I thank the noble Baroness and, of course, we will check on it. I suppose that the general point ...

While we are talking of trying to find reasons not to take action about victims of domestic viole...

Perhaps I could try harder; we will have to return to it if I cannot persuade the noble Baroness....

I am grateful to the Minister for her response, and I thank all noble Lords who took part in the ...

Moved by

Lord Kennedy of Southwark

105D: After Clause 86, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, I will not detain the Committee too long in moving my amendment today. There are a numb...

I endorse what my noble friend Lord Kennedy has said on this matter. These are new examples of th...

I will just add a word at this stage. I am very interested to hear what the Minister says about w...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, for raising the issue of payday lenders’ advertise...

I first raised the issue of payday lending in 2010, soon after I entered the House, in a Question...

Moved by

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

105E: After Clause 86, insert the following new ...

My Lords, many of us are nervous of flying; imagine how nervous of flying you would be if you had...

My Lords, I promise that this is my last intervention but I could not resist this one. Some years...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, on introducing this amendment and on h...

My Lords, I, too, am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, for raising this issue and for...

I thank all noble Lords who have spoken today, particularly the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, for ...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

105K: After Clause 86, insert the following new ...

My Lords, I declare my interest as the retiring chair of StepChange, a debt charity which is the ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for raising such an interesting and critical point on this aspec...

I thank the Minister for her very considerate response. It is a very complicated area, one that i...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

105L: After Clause 86, insert the following ...

My Lords, this House has done much important work in tackling high cost and exploitative credit, ...

My Lords, I hope that I shall be able to shed some light on this. Again, we share the noble Baron...

I think that the Minister has completely misunderstood. This is not about a loan—this is about cr...

I apologise for the misunderstanding. I think that we will probably need to have a conversation f...

That will be helpful. It is called “rent to buy”. You rent the item and own it only at the end, w...

Moved by

Baroness Howe of Idlicote

105N: After Clause 86, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, there cannot be a more basic aspect of consumer rights than protecting British consumer...

My Lords, we should all pay tribute to the amazingly long and trenchant campaign that has been wa...

I thank the noble Baroness for the amendment. We have met before on this issue, and her involveme...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister and the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, who spoke so elo...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

105S: After Clause 86, insert the following ...

My Lords, Amendment 105S, which stands in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Stevenson, see...

The noble Baroness’s amendment seeks to deal with the problem of retaliatory eviction. This occur...

I thank the Minister for that response. It seems rather disappointing, perhaps, that something co...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

106: Clause 87, page 47, line 28, leave out “or revok...

My Lords, as this Committee draws to a close, I will move some technical amendments, beginning wi...

My Lords, the Minister says these amendments are technical. I have 74 questions here about them w...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

107: Clause 87, page 47, line 32, leave out “or revok...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

108: Clause 88, page 48, line 4, at end insert “other...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

109: Clause 90, page 48, line 14, at end insert—

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

110: Clause 91, page 48, line 18, leave out “This Cha...