Consumer Rights Bill

My Lords, in returning to this issue, which I spoke to at Second Reading and in Committee, I firs...

I am looking in vain for some reference to the watershed to which the right reverend Prelate refe...

The issue that the noble Lord rightly raises would be covered in the regulations to be laid befor...

I am very much in favour of the amendment, but the right reverend Prelate referred to the watersh...

It is certainly true that it could appear in an instrument or regulations. However, subsection (1...

My Lords, two years ago, the payday loan sector in this country was completely unregulated. Payda...

Does my noble friend agree that Wonga’s policy of sponsoring my beloved Newcastle United, with th...

I absolutely agree, my Lords, but one step at a time. Not just Newcastle United but Blackpool hav...

My Lords—

I should say to the noble Lord that this is Report. He has spoken twice already. He needs the per...

I understand the point that the noble Lord is making but hope that the House will agree that whil...

Hear, hear.

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My Lords, I have not spoken previously on the Bill, but I spoke at considerable length on the ban...

My Lords, I support what my noble friend Lord Higgins has been saying on the precise nature of th...

My Lords, I support Amendment 47. The findings of the different charitable organisations about th...

My Lords, I rise very briefly to support the amendment, as in the past I have spoken in support o...

My Lords, I spoke on this subject in Committee. I will briefly speak to support the amendment bef...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for speaking in the debate, and give special thanks to the righ...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for raising the important issue of the payday lending indu...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness and I apologise for interrupting. If Wonga and other payday l...

I am not sure that those ads are attractive solely to children. The point is that they perhaps at...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, not least because of the discussion that some of u...

My Lords, I do not dispute for one minute that we would all like to see this problem go away. Reg...

But you are a Minister.

I am, indeed, a Minister. However, there are things to which this lowly Minister will not commit....

My Lords, I am grateful for the full, well informed and passionate debate that we have had on thi...

Moved by

The Lord Bishop of Birmingham

48: After Clause 86, insert the following new ...

My Lords, I move Amendment 48 in the borrowed shoes of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of T...

My Lords, I second the amendment and support the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Birmingham ...

My Lords, if noble Lords in this House are already quite fed up with these calls, how much more s...

My Lords, I am looking for one small piece of clarification on this. I fully support these amendm...

My Lords, I thank the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Birmingham for presenting the right re...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her remarks, and particularly for obtaining agreement from the...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

49: After Clause 86, insert the following new Clause—

This amendment, which was Amendment 103 in Grand Committee, received solid support from both side...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly in support of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones. As I said in Co...

My Lords, Amendment 49, which we support, would amend Section 3 of the Communications Act 2003, r...

My Lords, as someone who has switched provider recently, I have seen at first hand how important ...

I thank my noble friend for that reply. The one thing that I suppose I really should be grateful ...

My Lords, before my noble friend sits down, I am happy to say that I will write.

I thank my noble friend for that undertaking. I hope that, at the same time, she will include a p...

Moved by

Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes

50: After Clause 86, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, I beg to move the amendment standing in my name on the Order Paper, which I will read b...

My Lords, when this amendment was discussed in Grand Committee, I raised the question of the univ...

My Lords, I have considerable sympathy for my noble friend’s amendment and also for what was said...

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment. I have heard what has been said about people who...

My Lords, I, too, support my noble friend in this. I cannot understand why the utilities feel tha...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness in her attempt to get equal rights for consumers who want ...

My Lords, may I interject a word on this amendment, on which I have spoken before, by way of an O...

My Lords, I beg the indulgence of the House first to thank the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe...

My Lords, we are living in a digital age, and many of us welcome the convenience of receiving and...

I wonder if I could make a helpful suggestion. Perhaps the Minister could suggest to the utility ...

I thank my noble friend for his intervention and indeed for that suggestion. The whole business o...

The figures my noble friend gave us about the cost savings of doing it online in