Deregulation Bill

My Lords, it is important to place on the record and clarify some of the misunderstandings that t...

My Lords, it is very noticeable that when people such as those from the Federation of Small Busin...

My Lords, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 transformed the safety landscape for all pe...

My Lords, I should declare an interest as being the chairman of the United Kingdom Accreditation ...

My Lords, this clause has emerged out of a series of consultations during the past four years. As...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who contributed to this short debate. My noble friend Lady Donaghy ...

I should point out that the first consultation did not provide much support for the noble Lord’s ...

I am not sure that the noble Lord’s assertion about the first consultation not supporting our pos...

I only had a chance to read the consultation document on Friday and we are at a very early stage ...

I am grateful for that—and I meant Third Reading, of course, not Report. Is the noble Lord saying...

My Lords, of course I am very happy to discuss this between now and Third Reading. I am not in a ...

My Lords, I am not quite sure why the Government are so pressed on this matter because that consu...

I recognise what the noble Lord is asking me to do. At this stage, I am afraid I cannot give him ...

The Minister is not making it easy. I know it is not his job to make it easy. We are trying to se...

My Lords, the clerks are nodding. That suggests it would entirely open after consultation for the...

I am grateful to the Minister and to the clerks for nodding, in which case I beg leave to withdra...

Moved by

Lord Low of Dalston

3: Clause 2, page 2, leave out lines 15 to 21 and insert...

My Lords, I shall move Amendment 3—which is in my name and the names of the noble Lords, Lord Les...

My Lords, I declare my interest as vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Equalities ...

My Lords, first, I endorse very warmly the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Low, and suppo...

My Lords, it is very nice to be back discussing equalities matters opposite the noble Lord, Lord ...

My Lords, the Minister is not going to take this amendment away and come back. It is a very kind ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his reply and I am grateful to all those who have spo...

Moved by

Baroness Thornton

4: Clause 11, page 8, line 22, at end insert—

“(e) t...

My Lords, these two amendments are both modest and simple. They concern consumer rights and custo...

My Lords, it is in the knowledge of this House that I very often find myself on the same side as ...

My Lords, I do not think that the noble Lord lives in the same world that I do, where many people...

My Lords, I regret that the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, has not split this amendment into two ...

Breckland.

Breckland, I apologise: the west, shall we say.

On occasions, I use taxis. I ring up—someti...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Deben, in his stirring defence of the market and its role as a sol...

I entirely agree with the noble Lord. The point I am trying to make is that the very issue he is ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, in his intervention, has made precisely the point I wanted to go into—t...

My Lords, I have great sympathy with what the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, said about the need ...

My Lords, I understand the good sense of legislation taking account of the modern digital world i...

My Lords—

For a moment, I thought your Lordships would have a very enjoyable debate with no opportunity for...

Can I just ask the Minister an honest question of clarification? In this age of technology, why c...

Let me move on to exactly that issue because it refers to the first part of Amendment 4. We looke...

The noble Baroness keeps saying that there is no problem here. Why then, for example, do the stud...

I point out to the noble Baroness that she is describing a situation that exists today. I cannot ...

These student unions are concerned about the safety of their students—that is their issue. The no...

I absolutely accept that safety has to be the primary issue. I make the argument that you could s...

Before the noble Baroness sits down, can she just explain to the House clearly why the Government...

I thought that I had explained that, but I will repeat it very quickly. Obviously, we are working...

So the Government have the Law Commission’s report at this stage?

I am sorry, but I feel as if I am constantly bobbing up and down. Yes—we are preparing our respon...

I thank noble Lords for this debate and for all their contributions. I agree with the noble Lord,...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

6: Clause 17, page 12, leave out line 6

My Lords, the Government’s new partial authorisation for insolvency practitioners would split the...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for tabling this amendment. We have debated this ma...

I thank the noble and learned Lord for that response and for the meeting with representatives of ...

Moved by

Baroness Byford

7: After Clause 23, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, I should remind noble Lords of my farming interests, that I am a member of the CLA, and...

My Lords, as my noble friend Lady Byford said, my Amendment 12 has been grouped with her Amendmen...

My Lords, I spoke in Committee in support of the amendments in the name of my noble friend and I ...

My Lords, legislation on public rights of way is complex, often archaic and certainly plentiful. ...

My Lords, like my noble friend Lady Byford and the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, I declare an in...

I thank the Minister for giving way. The problem with this is that we have been hearing it for 40...

I understand my noble friend’s point, but I hope he would be prepared to give the provisions in t...

Will my noble friend give way? I thought, or at least I hoped, that I had made it quite clear tha...

My noble friend makes a fair point.

It has been clear throughout the Bill’s passage that Pa...

My Lords, although I am grateful to my noble friend for his full response to my Amendment 7 and f...

Moved by

Lord De Mauley

8: Clause 25, page 22, line 32, leave out “or (3)(b)” and ins...

My Lords, Government Amendments 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15 in this group are minor and technical...

My Lords, the problem we are trying to deal with is the unauthorised use of green lanes by 4x4 ve...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 17. I declare an interest as a farmer in Somerset wit...

My Lords, I understand the rationale behind what the two noble Lords have said on the amendment b...

My Lords, I very strongly support Amendment 17. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, for puttin...

My Lords, I will add a few words on this amendment, because it is at the very heart of enjoyment ...

My Lords, would my noble friend accept another thought? As she said, she is a farmer but not a fa...

Indeed. I am so sorry I did not include quad bikes; they are a normal sort of motor vehicle that ...

My Lords, the stakeholder working group is to be commended on finding and building consensus arou...

My Lords, in what is an understandably contentious debate about the recreational use of motor veh...

I thank the Minister for what he has said, but what was missing was the question of what happens—...

My Lords, it is my noble friend Lord De Mauley’s amendment that leads this group, so I rather thi...

Moved by

Lord De Mauley

9: Schedule 7, page 118, line 38, leave out from beginning to...

Moved by

Lord De Mauley

13: Schedule 7, page 138, line 19, leave out “modifications” ...

Moved by

Lord De Mauley

15: Schedule 7, page 138, line 42, at end insert—

“( ) ...

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

18: Clause 44, page 37, leave out lines 28 and 29

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 19 and in doing so remind the House that I am co-presid...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Hanham very strongly and very warmly. I have no particul...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Tope, I do not have any current London government interests t...

My Lords, I can be brief because of the powerful arguments made this evening by the noble Barones...

My Lords, I believe that there is broad political consensus that Clause 44 is needed to introduce...

Can the Minister tell us how many instances of the cases he has described have led to action unde...

I am quite happy to do that. If I cannot do so during this debate, I will let the noble Lord know...

Is the Minister able to answer the question that the noble Lord, Lord Harris, put to him about th...

My Lords, I originally put the question to my noble friend of whether he would be prepared to mee...

Moved by

Baroness Thornton

20: After Clause 52, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, as we know, with this Bill we move from waste to education to farms to taxis and now to...

My Lords, the Government have been, and continue to be, supportive of the broad aims of partnersh...

Why does adding provident societies to the sort of business forms that schools can have in legisl...

My Lords, we have been open to discussion and we are still open to continuing discussion on what ...

Would the Minister like to tell me exactly where in the legislation creating academies it says th...

My Lords, I take the point that the legislation does not specifically say that. I was in the proc...

I thank the Minister. I know that he is sympathetic. Indeed, we shop at the same Co-operative sto...