Modern Slavery Bill
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
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Wednesday, 5 November 2014
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Moved by
Lord Warner
66: Clause 41, page 31, line 2, leave out subsections (1) and (2...
My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 66 and speak to Amendment 68 in this group. I am pleased to se...
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If this amendment is agreed to, Amendments 66A to 67ZAA cannot be called by reason of pre-emption...
My Lords, I shall speak to the group of amendments that stand in my name, starting with Amendment...
My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 67, 72, 73, 74, 77 and 105, which seek to incorporate int...
My Lords, I support Amendment 66, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Warner, partly because I wa...
My Lords, I will speak to the amendments in my name and the name of my noble friend Lord Rosser. ...
My Lords, I have Amendment 67F in this group but, before I discuss it, I should say how much I ag...
My Lords, I rise in support of these amendments aimed at strengthening and broadening the remit o...
My Lords, I support the principle contained in Amendments 66, 67ZA and 67ZAA, but also most, if n...
My Lords, I declare an interest as chairman of a company which, in working with companies on thei...
My Lords, I have just a few remarks to make on Amendment 67AA, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Ros...
My Lords, we all recognise that the work and functions of the commissioner are of paramount impor...
My Lords, I rise to speak in support of Amendments 72, 73 and 74 in the name of the noble Barones...
My Lords, I have listened to the debate on this group of amendments, and I agree very much with t...
My Lords, it would be inconceivable to move forward with this legislation without an internationa...
My Lords, I ask the Minister to listen to some of the views in your Lordships’ House in respect o...
My Lords, it is a privilege to be able to respond to this extraordinarily high-quality debate. It...
In terms of independence, the point was made very forcefully by the noble Lord, Lord Deben, and o...
When the Minister replies to my noble friend, could he say how what he said about Kevin Hyland’s ...
I certainly would not want to do that. I agree that there should be a meeting. I would be very ha...
I want to press this point with the Minister as we are in Committee. Is he saying then that other...
On that point, one of the things I was coming to in my rather conciliatory wind-up at the end—but...
My Lords, the last part of the Minister’s remarks was, I think, the most helpful. We have heard s...
Moved by
Baroness Garden of Frognal
69: Clause 41, page 31, line 38, after “Ministers...
My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 70, 71, 75 and 76 in this group. I suspect that this g...
Moved by
Baroness Garden of Frognal
70: Clause 41, page 32, line 5, leave out “or pro...
Moved by
Lord Warner
72ZZA: Clause 42, page 32, line 20, after first “a” insert “thre...
My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 72D, 73B, 74AA, 74CA and 74DA in my name. These amendm...
My Lords, I have Amendments 73ZA and 74ZA in this group and it would be very odd if I did not agr...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Warner, and my noble friend Lady Hamwee for tabling their ...
My Lords, I accept the emollient way in which the noble Lord has responded. We seem to be making ...
Moved by
Lord Bates
75: Clause 42, page 33, line 39, leave out “or prosecution”
Moved by
Lord Bates
76: Clause 42, page 33, line 40, at end insert—
“( ) The Lo...
Moved by
Baroness Hamwee
76A: Clause 43, page 34, line 10, leave out subsection (4)
My Lords, I have two short amendments in this group. I will come back, outside the Chamber, to ju...
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for moving this amendment and I will try to deal with ...
My Lords, I will, of course, do so. I felt that the response to Amendment 76A was more about “the...
Moved by
Baroness Garden of Frognal
78: Clause 45, page 34, line 32, at end insert—
My Lords, in moving government Amendment 78, I wish to speak also to government Amendments 79 to ...
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 80A and 82A.
I very much welcome the Government inclu...
Our amendment proposes a new clause to the Bill providing for the Director of Public Prosecutions...
My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, I welcome the principal provisions, but I share ...
My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contributions to the debate, and I am grateful that they ...
Before the noble Baroness sits down, I referred in my contribution to the evidence from the Poppy...
The noble Lord is right in saying that the measures we have put in train should avoid that situat...
I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for the responses she gave to the noble Lord, Lord Rosse...
My Lords, we will, indeed, look at them very carefully because it is important to get this right....
Moved by
Baroness Garden of Frognal
79: Clause 45, page 34, line 33, leave out “the a...
Moved by
Baroness Garden of Frognal
81: Clause 45, page 34, line 39, leave out subsec...
Moved by
Baroness Garden of Frognal
82: Clause 45, page 35, line 5, at end insert—
Moved by
Baroness Garden of Frognal
83: Clause 45, page 35, line 6, at beginning inse...
Moved by
Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
83A: Clause 45, page 35, line 10, leave out subs...
In Schedule 3 there are very serious, violent crimes listed and it is understandable why they hav...
My Lords, I support the points made by the noble Baroness, who has pointed to unintended conseque...
My Lords, it is entirely understandable that Schedule 3 should be part of the Bill. It is importa...
My Lords, I, too, would like to raise one or two questions about Schedule 3, since my noble frien...
My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, I am puzzled by this. In Part 5, Clause 45(1) seems c...
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, for tabling Amendment 83A and for asking whet...
My Lords, I ask the following question seriously and not frivolously: if this has been the subjec...
No, I do not think for a moment that there are examples of victims having committed all those off...
Looking at paragraph 33 of Schedule 3, I think that the last three offences seem improbable for s...
My Lords, I think, perhaps, that we will need to discuss this further before Report, because, as ...
I thank the noble Baroness for her reply and the way in which she has responded. I hope she will ...
Moved by
Lord Bates
84: Clause 45, page 35, line 10, leave out “Subsection (1) does” ...
Moved by
Baroness Garden of Frognal
85: After Clause 46, insert the following new Cla...
My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 102. The Government recognise the importance of providi...
I congratulate the Government on that; I think it is splendid.
I add my congratulations to that of my noble and learned friend. The Government have listened to ...
Following those congratulations, it appears to me that Amendment 85 is, on the face of it, desira...
They are indeed very important and relevant questions. We shall be coming on to this issue in a l...
Moved by
Lord Patel
85A: Clause 47, page 35, line 27, after “advocates” insert “and s...
I add my congratulations on the previous amendment, which was brought by the Government. There ar...
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 86H, 103 and 104. Along with colleagues from all parties, I...
My Lords, I have put my name in support of these amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord M...
I support Amendment 85A in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Patel, to which I was pleased to add ...
My Lords, I support these amendments, including the amendment in the names of the noble Lord, Lor...
My Lords, clearly things have moved on a little since we debated the Immigration Bill on 7 April....
My Lords, trying to give protection to trafficked children is such an important part of this Bill...
My Lords, I am pleased to speak in support of Amendment 86H in the name of the noble Lord, Lord M...
My Lords, the determination of those who have pursued this cause is admirable. The noble Lord and...
My Lords, in recent years three children took their own lives after spending a night in a police ...
My Lords, I rise to support Amendments 103 and 104 and to speak to Amendments 86 and 86H, to whic...
My Lords, on that last point, the remarks on Northern Ireland of the noble Baroness, Lady Royall,...
My Lords, rather in parenthesis, a few moments ago the Minister introduced a new component into t...
I think that what I am getting at there is self-evident. If you extend the service of child traff...
My Lords, I pay tribute to my friend, the noble Lord, Lord McColl, and to the noble and learned B...
Moved by
Baroness Hamwee
86J: After Clause 47, insert the following new Clause—
My Lords, I have Amendments 86J, 86K and 86L in this group. Amendment 86J seeks to insert a new c...
My Lords, I am pleased to introduce Amendment 86M in my name, that of the noble Baroness, Lady Ho...
My Lords, I am very pleased to speak in support of Amendment 86M, in the name of the noble Lord, ...
My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 102B and 102C as probing amendments in order to return to...
My Lords, Amendment 86M, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord McColl, is important in its own right and...
My Lords, I would like to be associated with the remarks from my noble friend Lady Cox concerning...
My Lords, I support Amendment 86M. The focus of the amendment is on improving the provision of su...
My Lords, I am struck in these amendments by how prescient contributors are of the arguments I am...
My Lords, I was looking to see if the noble Lord, Lord McColl, wanted to come in. I know that all...