Consumer Rights Bill

Moved by

Lord Moynihan

13: After Clause 32, insert the following new Clause—

“S...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for the time that she has devoted to this issue. She shar...

My Lords, once again, I return to the subject I raised at Second Reading and in Committee by spea...

My Lords, as the third signatory to the amendment and as someone who tabled amendments in Grand C...

My Lords, I declare a total lack of interest in the sense that I neither buy through the internet...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord but I want to point out two things. First, the noble Lord ...

There may be regulations which, when people did not do it, you need. I think that if the Daily Te...

My Lords, in supporting the Government on this amendment I feel a bit like Pietersen, the cricket...

My Lords, I agree with much of what the noble Lord, Lord Stoneham, has said. I was unable to be p...

My Lords, it is such a shame when a fan of sports, or theatre, or music, has their enthusiasm exp...

I rise briefly to prove that we on this side of the House can also have fun and go to concerts an...

I support the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan. I have a number of interests in sport, which are declare...

My Lords, I will start with a couple of apologies. The first is for arriving a few seconds into t...

My Lords, this has been a marvellous debate. I have heard so many wonderful, emotional things, an...

My Lords, I declare an interest as an occasional West End producer who tries to flog a few ticket...

My Lords, I echo the words of those noble Lords who have said that this has been a very good deba...

My Lords, many of us love British sport and our creative industries. This love unites most of us ...

Can the Minister help us in this way? She has put forward a number of changes that she intends to...

I thank my noble friend Lord Deben. I think I have made a number of commitments. I have set them ...

My Lords, one again I thank my noble friend the Minister for the time she has taken on this issue...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

14: After Clause 32, insert the following ne...

If we are allowed to have a small word of congratulation, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Moy...

My Lords, the Government share the noble Baroness’s concerns about the risk of consumer detriment...

Before the Minister sits down, could she address the point about the requirement to purchase an i...

My Lords, the information that I have regarding insurance is that the FCA makes clear rules about...

I thank the Minister for that and indeed for the letter from her colleague the noble Baroness, La...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

15: After Clause 32, insert the following ne...

My Lords, this amendment is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Stevenson. It addresses a...

My Lords, about a year ago, in my capacity as chair of the National Trading Standards Board, I ha...

My Lords, protecting consumers from serious injury and property damage caused by unsafe appliance...

I genuinely thank the Minister for using this opportunity to announce that today. I also thank my...

My Lords, the noble Baroness makes a good point, and I will certainly take it away and suggest th...

My Lords, that is very good news and I think that it will be welcomed by consumers as well as by ...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

16: Clause 33, page 21, line 40, at end insert—<...

My Lords, Amendment 16 stands in my name and in the name of my noble friend Lady Hayter of Kentis...

My Lords, I am not sure whether the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, will thank me for making an even ...

My Lords, the Bill brings in clear quality rights for consumers of digital content for the first ...

I thank the Minister for her full reply. I would like to come back on one or two of the points th...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

17*: Clause 34, page 22, line 29, at end insert—

“(...

My Lords, my noble friend was kind enough to quote me in her previous response, so I hope that sh...

I did not say it was inaccurate; I just said that it was not the complete phrase as recorded. The...

Logically, one thing follows another. That is exactly the purpose of this amendment. Indeed, I sh...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for setting out his stall, and I will set out mine. The new qua...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend. She may be quite surprised to hear this, but I thought that wa...

Moved by

Baroness Jolly

20: Clause 40, page 25, line 37, at end insert—

“(1A) S...

My Lords, this amendment reflects the dynamic nature of digital content. We all recognise that di...

My Lords, I welcome the Minister’s comments. She is right to have responded to the discussions we...

I am happy to offer a full explanation to the noble Lord by letter, but I understand that the unf...

Moved by

Baroness Jolly

21: Clause 40, page 25, line 39, leave out “those sections as...

Moved by

Baroness Jolly

22: Clause 47, page 29, line 36, at end insert “or”

During the debate on digital content that we had in Committee, I noted a number of concerns raise...

My Lords, I am becoming a single-trick pony, as I think it is called. I am going to ask again abo...

I, too, am the digital person for the evening, so rather than trying to put something together he...

Moved by

Baroness Jolly

23: Clause 47, page 29, line 37, leave out from “content)” to...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

26: Clause 49, page 30, line 36, at end inse...

My Lords, I move Amendment 26 on behalf of my noble friend Lord Stevenson of Balmacara and myself...

My Lords, I support Amendment 26. The question of fiduciary duty and the strengthening of the dut...

My Lords, before I turn to the amendment in detail, I shall take a step back and look at the amen...

First, I thank my noble friend Lady Drake for her support on this. Actually, she said it all—igno...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

27: Clause 55, page 33, line 4, at end inser...

My Lords, this is a different sort of amendment, which stands in the names of my noble friend Lor...

My Lords, the noble Baroness missed one sort of case. The plumbers, electricians or whoever they ...

My Lords, this Bill sets out for the first time in statute what remedies consumers are entitled t...

That is not what I said. I said that they charge to come in the first place—not to carry out the ...

I thank my noble friend for that explanation but I think that I will have to drop her a note to c...

My Lords, the Minister said that not all traders are rogues. She obviously meets a different lot ...

But not all.

Some of them are. However, the Bill throughout is very much about the ones who are not good. If a...

Moved by

Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes

28: After Clause 58, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, Amendment 28 concerns point of sale information. I do not want to bore noble Lords who ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 28 and I emerge once again from my long and deep perusal o...

If I have understood the noble Baroness, Lady Oppenheim-Barnes, correctly, it was probably the no...

I thank my noble friend for his intervention. I knew that he laid those regulations under the EU ...

I am sorry to interrupt my noble friend, but the Minister has not replied to her amendment at thi...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Oppenheim-Barnes, for her contribution today and in Gra...

I am grateful to my noble friend for going into so much detail and care. I will not say that “liv...