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Modern Slavery Bill

Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bills on Monday, 8 December 2014, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Bates.
Lords committee stage third day. Clauses 41 to 48 agreed to, with clauses 41, 42 and 45 agreed to as amended. Schedule 3 agreed to.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
757 cc1610-1704 
Session
2014-15
Department
Home Office
Legislative stage
Committee stage
Procedure
New clauses
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Modern Slavery Bill 2014-15. Brought from the Commons.
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Bills
House of Lords
Legislative scrutiny: (1) Modern Slavery Bill and (2) Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill. Human Rights Joint Committee third report with formal minutes.
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
House of Commons
Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee. Tenth report.
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Lord Warner | 757 c1611 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Warner

66: Clause 41, page 31, line 2, leave out subsections (1) and (2...

Lord Warner | 757 cc1611-2 (Link to this contribution)

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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Baroness D'Souza | 757 c1612 (Link to this contribution)

If this amendment is agreed to, Amendments 66A to 67ZAA cannot be called by reason of pre-emption...

Lord Patel | 757 cc1613-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall speak to the group of amendments that stand in my name, starting with Amendment...

Baroness Cox | 757 cc1615-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 67, 72, 73, 74, 77 and 105, which seek to incorporate int...

Baroness Butler-Sloss | 757 cc1617-1621 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support Amendment 66, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Warner, partly because I wa...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 757 cc1621-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will speak to the amendments in my name and the name of my noble friend Lord Rosser. ...

Baroness Hamwee | 757 cc1623-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have Amendment 67F in this group but, before I discuss it, I should say how much I ag...

Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 757 cc1624-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise in support of these amendments aimed at strengthening and broadening the remit o...

Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 757 cc1626-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support the principle contained in Amendments 66, 67ZA and 67ZAA, but also most, if n...

Lord Deben | 757 cc1627-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare an interest as chairman of a company which, in working with companies on thei...

Lord Browne of Belmont | 757 cc1629-1630 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have just a few remarks to make on Amendment 67AA, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Ros...

Baroness Hodgson of Abinger | 757 cc1630-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we all recognise that the work and functions of the commissioner are of paramount impor...

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley | 757 cc1631-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise to speak in support of Amendments 72, 73 and 74 in the name of the noble Barones...

Lord Hylton | 757 cc1632-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have listened to the debate on this group of amendments, and I agree very much with t...

Lord Judd | 757 c1633 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it would be inconceivable to move forward with this legislation without an internationa...

Baroness Newlove | 757 cc1633-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I ask the Minister to listen to some of the views in your Lordships’ House in respect o...

Lord Bates | 757 cc1634-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is a privilege to be able to respond to this extraordinarily high-quality debate. It...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 757 c1636 (Link to this contribution)

In terms of independence, the point was made very forcefully by the noble Lord, Lord Deben, and o...

Lord Warner | 757 c1636 (Link to this contribution)

When the Minister replies to my noble friend, could he say how what he said about Kevin Hyland’s ...

Lord Bates | 757 c1637 (Link to this contribution)

I certainly would not want to do that. I agree that there should be a meeting. I would be very ha...

Lord Warner | 757 c1637 (Link to this contribution)

I want to press this point with the Minister as we are in Committee. Is he saying then that other...

Lord Bates | 757 cc1637-1641 (Link to this contribution)

On that point, one of the things I was coming to in my rather conciliatory wind-up at the end—but...

Lord Warner | 757 c1638 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the last part of the Minister’s remarks was, I think, the most helpful. We have heard s...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 c1638 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Garden of Frognal

69: Clause 41, page 31, line 38, after “Ministers...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 cc1638-1642 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 70, 71, 75 and 76 in this group. I suspect that this g...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 c1642 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Garden of Frognal

70: Clause 41, page 32, line 5, leave out “or pro...

Lord Warner | 757 c1642 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Warner

72ZZA: Clause 42, page 32, line 20, after first “a” insert “thre...

Lord Warner | 757 cc1642-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 72D, 73B, 74AA, 74CA and 74DA in my name. These amendm...

Baroness Hamwee | 757 c1643 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have Amendments 73ZA and 74ZA in this group and it would be very odd if I did not agr...

Lord Bates | 757 cc1644-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Warner, and my noble friend Lady Hamwee for tabling their ...

Lord Warner | 757 c1646 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I accept the emollient way in which the noble Lord has responded. We seem to be making ...

Lord Bates | 757 c1646 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bates

75: Clause 42, page 33, line 39, leave out “or prosecution”

Lord Bates | 757 c1647 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bates

76: Clause 42, page 33, line 40, at end insert—

“( ) The Lo...

Baroness Hamwee | 757 c1647 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

76A: Clause 43, page 34, line 10, leave out subsection (4)

Baroness Hamwee | 757 c1647 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have two short amendments in this group. I will come back, outside the Chamber, to ju...

Lord Bates | 757 cc1647-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for moving this amendment and I will try to deal with ...

Baroness Hamwee | 757 cc1648-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will, of course, do so. I felt that the response to Amendment 76A was more about “the...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 c1649 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Garden of Frognal

78: Clause 45, page 34, line 32, at end insert—

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 cc1649-1650 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in moving government Amendment 78, I wish to speak also to government Amendments 79 to ...

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley | 757 cc1650-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 80A and 82A.

I very much welcome the Government inclu...

Lord Rosser | 757 cc1652-4 (Link to this contribution)

Our amendment proposes a new clause to the Bill providing for the Director of Public Prosecutions...

Baroness Hamwee | 757 c1653 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, I welcome the principal provisions, but I share ...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 cc1653-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contributions to the debate, and I am grateful that they ...

Lord Rosser | 757 c1656 (Link to this contribution)

Before the noble Baroness sits down, I referred in my contribution to the evidence from the Poppy...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 c1657 (Link to this contribution)

The noble Lord is right in saying that the measures we have put in train should avoid that situat...

Lord Alton of Liverpool | 757 c1657 (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for the responses she gave to the noble Lord, Lord Rosse...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 c1657 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we will, indeed, look at them very carefully because it is important to get this right....

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 c1657 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Garden of Frognal

79: Clause 45, page 34, line 33, leave out “the a...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 c1657 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Garden of Frognal

81: Clause 45, page 34, line 39, leave out subsec...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 c1657 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Garden of Frognal

82: Clause 45, page 35, line 5, at end insert—

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 c1658 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Garden of Frognal

83: Clause 45, page 35, line 6, at beginning inse...

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley | 757 c1658 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

83A: Clause 45, page 35, line 10, leave out subs...

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley | 757 cc1658-9 (Link to this contribution)

In Schedule 3 there are very serious, violent crimes listed and it is understandable why they hav...

Baroness Hamwee | 757 c1659 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support the points made by the noble Baroness, who has pointed to unintended conseque...

Baroness Butler-Sloss | 757 cc1659-1660 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is entirely understandable that Schedule 3 should be part of the Bill. It is importa...

Lord Rosser | 757 c1660 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I, too, would like to raise one or two questions about Schedule 3, since my noble frien...

Lord Alton of Liverpool | 757 c1660 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, I am puzzled by this. In Part 5, Clause 45(1) seems c...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 cc1661-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, for tabling Amendment 83A and for asking whet...

Lord Rosser | 757 c1662 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I ask the following question seriously and not frivolously: if this has been the subjec...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 c1662 (Link to this contribution)

No, I do not think for a moment that there are examples of victims having committed all those off...

Baroness Butler-Sloss | 757 c1662 (Link to this contribution)

Looking at paragraph 33 of Schedule 3, I think that the last three offences seem improbable for s...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 c1662 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I think, perhaps, that we will need to discuss this further before Report, because, as ...

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley | 757 c1662 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the noble Baroness for her reply and the way in which she has responded. I hope she will ...

Lord Bates | 757 c1663 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bates

84: Clause 45, page 35, line 10, leave out “Subsection (1) does” ...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 cc1663-4 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Garden of Frognal

85: After Clause 46, insert the following new Cla...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 c1664 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 102. The Government recognise the importance of providi...

Baroness Butler-Sloss | 757 c1664 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate the Government on that; I think it is splendid.

Lord Alton of Liverpool | 757 c1664 (Link to this contribution)

I add my congratulations to that of my noble and learned friend. The Government have listened to ...

Lord Hylton | 757 c1665 (Link to this contribution)

Following those congratulations, it appears to me that Amendment 85 is, on the face of it, desira...

Baroness Garden of Frognal | 757 c1665 (Link to this contribution)

They are indeed very important and relevant questions. We shall be coming on to this issue in a l...

Lord Patel | 757 c1665 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Patel

85A: Clause 47, page 35, line 27, after “advocates” insert “and s...

Lord Patel | 757 cc1665-7 (Link to this contribution)

I add my congratulations on the previous amendment, which was brought by the Government. There ar...

Lord McColl of Dulwich | 757 cc1667-1672 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 86H, 103 and 104. Along with colleagues from all parties, I...

Baroness Butler-Sloss | 757 cc1669-1673 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have put my name in support of these amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord M...

Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 757 cc1673-4 (Link to this contribution)

I support Amendment 85A in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Patel, to which I was pleased to add ...

Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 757 cc1674-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support these amendments, including the amendment in the names of the noble Lord, Lor...

Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 757 cc1675-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, clearly things have moved on a little since we debated the Immigration Bill on 7 April....

Baroness Hodgson of Abinger | 757 cc1676-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, trying to give protection to trafficked children is such an important part of this Bill...

Lord Browne of Belmont | 757 cc1677-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am pleased to speak in support of Amendment 86H in the name of the noble Lord, Lord M...

Baroness Hamwee | 757 c1678 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the determination of those who have pursued this cause is admirable. The noble Lord and...

Earl of Listowel | 757 cc1678-1680 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in recent years three children took their own lives after spending a night in a police ...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 757 cc1680-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise to support Amendments 103 and 104 and to speak to Amendments 86 and 86H, to whic...

Lord Bates | 757 cc1681-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, on that last point, the remarks on Northern Ireland of the noble Baroness, Lady Royall,...

Lord Alton of Liverpool | 757 c1684 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, rather in parenthesis, a few moments ago the Minister introduced a new component into t...

Lord Bates | 757 cc1684-6 (Link to this contribution)

I think that what I am getting at there is self-evident. If you extend the service of child traff...

Lord Patel | 757 c1686 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I pay tribute to my friend, the noble Lord, Lord McColl, and to the noble and learned B...

Baroness Hamwee | 757 c1687 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

86J: After Clause 47, insert the following new Clause—

Baroness Hamwee | 757 cc1687-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have Amendments 86J, 86K and 86L in this group. Amendment 86J seeks to insert a new c...

Lord McColl of Dulwich | 757 cc1688-1692 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am pleased to introduce Amendment 86M in my name, that of the noble Baroness, Lady Ho...

Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 757 cc1692-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am very pleased to speak in support of Amendment 86M, in the name of the noble Lord, ...

Baroness Cox | 757 cc1693-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 102B and 102C as probing amendments in order to return to...

Lord Hylton | 757 c1696 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Amendment 86M, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord McColl, is important in its own right and...

Lord Alton of Liverpool | 757 cc1696-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I would like to be associated with the remarks from my noble friend Lady Cox concerning...

Lord Browne of Belmont | 757 cc1698-1700 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support Amendment 86M. The focus of the amendment is on improving the provision of su...

Lord Bates | 757 cc1700-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am struck in these amendments by how prescient contributors are of the arguments I am...

Baroness Hamwee | 757 cc1701-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I was looking to see if the noble Lord, Lord McColl, wanted to come in. I know that all...

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