Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 35K and 35S. These amend Clause 38, which currently pr...

My Lords, I have two amendments in this group. I completely endorse what my noble friend has said...

My Lords, my Amendment 35X draws attention to the importance of the Localism Act and the Public S...

My Lords, I carry the heavy burden of having your Lordships in this Room this afternoon, but I th...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, and to the noble Lords, Lord Mendelsohn...

My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, for her detailed response. ...

Perhaps I may say a few things. First, the noble Lord asked why we could not accept the amendment...

I am grateful for that. In closing, perhaps I should thank my noble friend Lord Whitty for his co...

Moved by

Lord Mendelsohn

35F: Clause 38, page 35, line 40, at end insert—

“( ) ...

I thank the Minister for her comments at the beginning of the Committee. I think will have a very...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendment. As the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, said, implementat...

I thank the noble Lord for this amendment. As we discussed on previous days in Committee, prompt ...

I thank the Minister for that reply. I also thank the noble Lord, Lord Cotter, for his support. I...

Moved by

Lord Mendelsohn

35G: Clause 38, page 36, line 2, at end insert—

“( ) d...

My Lords, this group of amendments builds on the good base that already exists in the Bill, and I...

Perhaps I can assist the noble Lord over some of the difficulties that he sees in this particular...

My Lords, I would first like to say how pleased many of us are at the changes that the noble Lord...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, said, there is a good deal of common ground here, a...

I thank the Minister for her comprehensive reply. I sometimes feel that she does not realise that...

Moved by

Lord Young of Norwood Green

35L: Clause 38, page 36, line 8, at end insert—<...

My Lords, first, I apologise for not being here for the earlier part of this debate but I was det...

I am pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Young, as I have done on a number of occasions. This ...

I do not wish to waste any time in the Committee, but I very much support what my colleague, my n...

My Lords, I share the wish of the noble Lord, Lord Young, to encourage vocational education. It i...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his amendments. I am delighted to see him joining us in the ...

I thank the Minister for her response and all those who have participated in this debate. To addr...

Moved by

Lord Mendelsohn

35Q: Clause 38, page 36, line 11, leave out “may” and insert...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 35R. I will be mercifully brief on this group. In tryin...

My Lords, it is the very width of the potential of these two enabling clauses that worries me. In...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords for their amendments. I shall start by commenting on t...

My Lords, I thank the noble Viscount, Lord Eccles, for his observations and I apologise if I was ...

Moved by

Lord Mendelsohn

35V: Clause 39, page 37, line 19, at end insert—

“(9) ...

This is a probing amendment, which seeks to ask the Government to set out more clearly how this c...

I am pleased that the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, welcomes the mystery shopper service. It plays...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for describing me as his friend—perhaps mistakenly. I hop...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

35AA: Clause 72, page 53, line 6, at end insert...

My Lords, this amendment seeks to explore in more detail with the Government their plans to exten...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for her amendment in relation to Clause 72 and ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response. We understand the advantages of removing the bur...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

35Y: After Clause 73, insert the following new ...

My Lords, Amendments 35Y and 35Z place in the Bill the current permitted staff:child ratios for c...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her Amendments 35Y and 35Z relating to staff:child ratio...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for his response. He said that there were no plans to a...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

35AB: Clause 74, page 54, line 8, at end insert...

My Lords, this amendment follows on from our earlier amendment on the proposed expansion of child...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Jones and Lady King, for their amendment in relation...

I thank the Minister for that response. I was with him when he started because I thought he said ...

I hope that I can clarify the situation. We are talking about adding additional premises to an ex...

I can see that this might be something that takes a longer discussion, which we may have outside ...

The answer to the question is, yes.

In that case, I am very happy to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

35AC: After Clause 74, insert the following new...

My Lords, one of the lessons we are taking from the increasing body of evidence on early years in...

My Lords, I am sympathetic to the aims of these amendments. It is essential that health services ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response. As he said, there is no legal impediment. That i...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

35AD: After Clause 74, insert the following new...

My Lords, Amendment 35AD has been tabled in my name and that of my noble friend Lady King of Bow....

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Jones and Lady King, for their amendment an...

I thank the noble Lord for his comments. Interestingly, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says tha...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

35AE: After Clause 74, insert the following new...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 35AE, tabled in my name and that of my noble friend Lady K...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Jones and Lady King, for Amendment 35AE, wh...

I thank the noble Lord for those comments. Likewise, we on this side do not need any lessons on e...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

36: Schedule 2, page 151, line 34, after “fine.” inse...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

36ZA: After Clause 77, insert the following new...

My Lords, this amendment seeks to address the continuing widespread concern about the operation o...

I very much agree with the thrust of what the noble Baroness has just outlined but I think that o...

May I briefly say that I share the thoughts of the noble Lord, Lord Freeman, and can extend them ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Jones and Lady King, for this amendment and...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister and to the other noble Lords opposite who contributed to ...