Modern Slavery Bill

My Lords, first, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for her support on my Amendment 7. I ra...

Bizarrely, my Lords, I support government Amendment 4 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Bates; ...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, for her welcome for the amendment which I shall move lat...

May I take the Minister back to what he said in answer to the arguments made by the noble Barones...

It is difficult to know how to respond to that, although I obviously welcome the noble Lord’s cla...

My Lords, I wholeheartedly agree with the Government’s determination to see more perpetrators of ...

I apologise for interrupting my noble friend but the Minister has made a winding-up speech on thi...

My Lords, the noble Baroness may not be entirely right as the Minister was putting forward the go...

My Lords, I understand that my noble friend was responding to Amendment 4, in which case I apolog...

I have been concerned by the evidence I have heard about the limited use of the equivalent existi...

My Lords, I wish I had thought of “exogenous” and “endogenous”. I will resist changing the term “...

Moved by

Lord Bates

4: Clause 1, page 2, line 4, at end insert—

“(b) to any wor...

Moved by

Baroness Doocey

5: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—

“O...

My Lords, the amendment would introduce a separate offence of child exploitation. I acknowledge t...

My Lords, I rise to support the noble Baroness, Lady Doocey, in her Amendment 5. As I mentioned i...

My Lords, I agree with everything that the noble Baroness has just said. It is a particular privi...

My Lords, I rise to support the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Doocey. I have added ...

My Lords, I am the first person not to support the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Do...

I am very grateful to the noble and learned Baroness for giving way. Does she not recognise, firs...

I certainly hope that the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, is right about that. However, with the govern...

My Lords, I am somewhat bemused about where we are in this debate. My view has always been quite ...

Rarely.

I have huge respect for him, but I really do think that this is a question of practice and of tra...

My Lords, I rise because I have been quoted both in judgments and in evidence that I have given, ...

My Lords, no one could possibly fault my noble friend for lack of persistence or focus, and no on...

My Lords, having listened to all the various learned speeches on the matter, I should like to tac...

Perhaps I might ask the noble Lord about the other point that I made on confusion. What does he h...

I thank the noble and learned Baroness very much. We are talking about semantics and about circum...

My Lords, my Amendment 6 is in the same group. I suspect that the followers of Amendment 5 are no...

My Lords, there is guidance as to the length of time noble Lords should address the House on Repo...

I can very easily move to the end. I quoted that last example because it indicates how, in the wo...

My Lords, it might be helpful at this point if I first speak briefly to my noble friend’s Amendme...

My Lords, I am a bit disappointed that the Minister did not answer the question I asked him. I as...

I am happy to put some additional words on the record on this point while I await further inspira...

My Lords, the Minister was crystal clear in his letter to me, for which I am very grateful. While...

I am very happy to give that undertaking. It should be something of which the DPP is aware. She w...

That is very helpful. I thank the Minister very much. Nobody will be happier than me if all my wo...

Tabled by

Lord James of Blackheath

6: After Clause 4, insert the following new Clause...

I thank the Minister for his response to my points, but may I just put two questions to him? I wi...

Has the question been put?

I am sorry, that was my first of two questions to the Minister. He stood up, so I thought he was ...

Let me just say to my noble friend that we will continue this dialogue. That is absolutely certai...

I thank the noble Lord for that, but I must point out that they all had court orders last time. M...

My Lords, one does have some respect for the Companion. Is there a question before the House? Has...

I apologise to the noble Lord if I caused offence, but I thought the situation was that you could...

The Minister has already replied and the question has now been put to my noble friend. We are req...