Deregulation Bill

My Lords, I support the amendment, and in doing so I draw attention to my various media interests...

I rise to give my wholehearted support to this amendment and very much endorse the views that hav...

I rise to support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and declare an interest as...

My Lords, I also rise to support the amendment, and in so doing declare a very particular interes...

My Lords, I am the first to agree with my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones that this review is, if...

My Lords, I very much support the amendment. There is a clear case for removing a superfluous pie...

My Lords, I, too, support the amendment. I echo the comments of the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, th...

My Lords, I, too, support the amendment. With the UK now the second largest exporter of televisio...

My Lords, there could hardly be a more learned, well informed set of people than those of your Lo...

My Lords, once again, we have had a very good discussion about this topic. Although much stress w...

My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend for his amendment. We certainly missed him in Com...

My Lords, first, I thank noble Lords all around the House for their very strong support for this ...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

29: After Clause 64, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, it is just the stroke of fate that means the House must hear another amendment from me ...

My Lords, I certainly support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, to repeal this...

My Lords, there have been moments during the debates on this Deregulation Bill when I have been f...

It is really unfortunate to have drawn the straw following that contribution. The noble Lord has ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for his amendment because it has precipitated a most enjoyable ...

I do not know whether my noble friend will understand this, but it is often difficult to know the...

That is extremely helpful of my noble friend as it allows me to reinforce the efforts of the exce...

My Lords, we have had quite an interesting jam session on busking deregulation. I thank all speak...

Moved by

Lord Mancroft

29A: After Clause 64, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, society lotteries constitute the smallest sector of the gambling industry. They predate...

My Lords, I wish to address three areas of concern regarding the noble Lord’s proposals: the impa...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for tabling these amendments. He is certainly tenacious in thes...

My Lords, I am not in a position of having to thank many noble Lords for taking part in this enor...

Moved by

Baroness Janke

30: Before Clause 72, insert the following new Clause—

...

My Lords, in speaking to Amendment 30, I declare my interest as a member of Bristol City Council....

My Lords, we have a good deal of sympathy with the amendment, which, as the noble Baroness said, ...

My Lords, in preparing for the amendment I realised that I do not fully understand the evolution ...

Does the Minister not accept that the parliamentary component of this could be the acceptance of ...

I accept that if there were very strong feeling in both Houses, that would be possible, but it is...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, for his sympathetic response but am rather d...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

31: Schedule 19, page 202, line 30, at end insert—<...

My Lords, the amendments in this group are minor and technical. Schedule 19 makes significant ame...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that very lucid explanation of these two slightly different ch...

My Lords, I apologise profusely for the failure and I assure the noble Lord that we will remedy i...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

32: Schedule 19, page 207, line 7, after “make” ins...

Moved by

Baroness Meacher

32A: Clause 75, page 64, line 14, at end insert—

“(3)...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Nash, the Minister, for finding time for two meetings to d...

My Lords, this amendment is about child protection and ensuring appropriate government responsibi...

My Lords, those of us who were involved in the early discussions about the possible privatisation...

My Lords, I support the arguments made this afternoon by the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, and my...

My Lords, I suppose that I should declare an interest: my son has lived and worked in the United ...

I thank the Minister for giving way. I understand that a number of local authorities are being in...

I am informed that it is not correct. I certainly have no knowledge of it, but my noble friend Lo...

I have a very small point on accountability, which I proffer to the Minister more in an advisory ...

My Lords, I recognise that the noble Lord speaks with a good deal of experience, and probably som...

The Minister and indeed the Government are clearly set on this path, but one of the requests in t...

My Lords, the Government will naturally review the relatively recent arrangements that have been ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply. I thank my colleagues, my noble friends Lady Donagh...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

33: Clause 78, page 66, line 37, at end insert—

moved Amendment No. 33A:

33A: After Clause 79, insert the following new Clause—

“Info...

My Lords, I am pleased to move this amendment on behalf of my noble friend Lady Scott of Needham ...

My Lords, the Government are delighted by the discovery by the noble Baroness, Lady Scott, of an ...

Moved by

Lord Stoneham of Droxford

33B: After Clause 79, insert the following new Cla...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

34: After Clause 83, insert the following ne...

My Lords, Amendments 34 to 40 are tabled to help the Government, the Legal Services Board and the...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness. On this Bill, she wins first prize for length, techn...

Provided that the Minister does not expect me to read through the whole of his new amendments in ...

Moved by

Lord Sharkey

41: Clause 87, page 70, line 19, at end insert—

“(2) Subj...

My Lords, I note briefly that Amendments 67 and 72 are essentially technical and consequential.