Consumer Rights Bill

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, we support an open internet, and it is in that...

My Lords, the debate on this important issue in Committee was a very good one, as my noble friend...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for that reasonably comprehensive response. Although I do not a...

Moved by

Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes

30: After Clause 77, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 30. I think it would be helpful if I read it out at this early ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 30, which has been moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Oppenheim-Barn...

My Lords, I start by applauding the contribution made by my noble friend Lady Oppenheim-Barnes in...

I thank my noble friend for that very detailed reply. I wish I felt comforted, because I know she...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

31: Schedule 5, page 81, line 14, leave out ...

My Lords, Amendment 31 stands in my name and those of the noble Lord, Lord Best, and my noble fri...

I have to inform the House that if this amendment is agreed to I cannot call Amendments 32 to 40....

My Lords, I support the amendment that has just been spoken to. I declare in interest in that I a...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Borrie. I, too, am a vice-president of th...

My Lords, the Government certainly share the objective of an effective enforcement regime to prot...

Before my noble friend leaves that point, I wish—possibly—to help her. Is she aware that EU autho...

I am grateful to my noble friend for that factoid, of which I was not aware. Of course, our propo...

In the Minister’s amendment, the only definition given is that it is not one of those things that...

We felt that it helped to clarify that there was not a gap. In Committee, we went through a numbe...

I thank the Minister and do not wish to detain the House, but does she not agree that a clear lac...

I thank the noble Baroness for her intervention. We believe that the amendment put forward clearl...

I think the House knows that at the moment, no notice is needed in writing 48 hours before. The G...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

32: Schedule 5, page 81, line 14, at beginning insert...

Moved by

Lord Taverne

40A: After Clause 78, insert the following new Clause—

“P...

My Lords, I start with an apology to the noble Lord, Lord Harris of Haringey. In Committee I said...

My Lords, in Suffolk it took us a very long time to get used to getting rid of the word “coomb”, ...

My Lords, I start by thanking my noble friend Lord Taverne for his well considered speech and the...

My Lords, my Amendment 40B might possibly have unintended consequences and I was not going to mov...

Moved by

Baroness Jolly

41: After Clause 79, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, when you donate to a charity using a five or six digit short text code, or call directo...

Moved by

Lord Hope of Craighead

41B: After Clause 80, insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, the amendment raises a short but important point about the appointment of judges to sit...

My Lords, Amendment 41CA is in the same group as the amendment moved by my noble and learned frie...

My Lords, I was not sufficiently fast on my feet, but when he comes to reply to this debate, perh...

My Lords, I will reply to that very briefly. I thought that I made it clear that the amendment is...

My Lords, I am grateful to the distinguished noble and learned Lords, Lord Hope of Craighead and ...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the Minister for her encouraging and constructive reply. I a...

Moved by

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

41C: After Clause 80, insert the following ne...

My Lords, Amendment 41C also seeks to insert a new clause after Clause 80, but does so with a rat...

My Lords, I put my name to the amendment and I will make a brief addition to what my noble friend...

My Lords, I am delighted to see my noble friend Lord Hodgson back with us. We missed him on the d...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to my noble friend for her response. Of course I would like the...

Moved by

Viscount Eccles

41D: Schedule 8, page 113, line 3, at end insert—

“( )...

The purpose of this group of amendments is to try to ensure that we begin as we mean to go on. It...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a partner for the last 45 years in the global commercial law f...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Eccles for his perceptive analysis, and for the discussion...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for having met some of the underlying issues in her ...

Moved by

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

41L: Schedule 8, page 114, line 25, leave out...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 41M and 41N. We are still concerned with the implicati...

My Lords, I strongly support my noble friend for all the reasons I outlined a little earlier. His...

My Lords, Amendments 41L, 41M and 41N place certain restrictions on the amount of legal costs tha...

My Lords, there is no half a loaf on this lot, that is for sure. This is not even a small slice. ...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

42: Schedule 8, page 120, line 38, at end insert—

My Lords, with this amendment we turn our attention to Schedule 8 and focus on some other aspects...

My Lords, we support the intention of this amendment. I know that it has been brought to the atte...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness. I was aware that Which? had expressed some concern...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

43: Schedule 8, page 120, line 40, at end insert—

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

44: Before Clause 81, insert the following n...

Amendment 44 stands in the name of my noble friend Lord Stevenson and myself and is about client ...

My Lords, I listened carefully to the debate we had on this issue in Committee, and to the points...

The Minister clearly did not hear what I said: tenants cannot choose the letting agent. They cann...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

44ZA: Before Clause 81, insert the following...

My Lords, Amendment 44ZA seeks to bring some trust into the overheated housing market and to ensu...

My Lords, I will confine my remarks to Amendment 50E:

“Protection of tenants against retali...

My Lords, I will speak in support of Amendment 44D. Like others before me, I have recently been e...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, for her comments and to my noble frie...

If the Government are in support of this Private Member’s Bill in the Commons, which may or may n...

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention and I will come to that point.

Perhaps I may pi...

The Minister has been very positive about the Private Member’s Bill and therefore it should be qu...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, for his—

Helpful intervention.

What I was going to say is that the wash-up is a little above my pay grade. However, I note the p...

My Lords, my noble friend has made a good suggestion but it seems to me that the response could h...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

44A: Clause 81, page 43, line 28, at end insert—

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

45: After Clause 86, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, I would like to end by thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, for retabling this imp...

My Lords, it is a genuine pleasure to thank the Minister for responding to the amendment that we ...