Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

My Lords, I support this amendment and will take the illustration of the insurance industry. Ther...

My Lords, I rise to speak against these amendments. I must first declare an interest because I ru...

My Lords, I start by coming back at what the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, has just mentioned. I ...

My Lords, I support the thinking of both the previous speakers because there is a problem with la...

My Lords, I also have doubts about the terms of the amendment, both for the reasons that my noble...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, for his amendments on the important matter of ...

I thank the Minister for her extensive response to these amendments. I shall go through a few iss...

Moved by

Lord Mendelsohn

3: After Clause 3, insert the following new Clause—

“C...

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendment 4. Our amendments deal with an entirely connected elemen...

My Lords, “pay to stay” and retrospective terms are examples of thuggish behaviour which large co...

I thank noble Lords for tabling these amendments on unfair practices and the noble Lord, Lord Men...

I thank the Minister for that reply, although I have to say that I remain extremely concerned abo...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

5: After Clause 3, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, Amendment 5 is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Mendelsohn. I declare an int...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for this amendment and for providing the opportunity for us to l...

I am very grateful to the Minister for that response. I agree with her that the issue is the busi...

Moved by

Lord Mitchell

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

“Sma...

My Lords, I have addressed your Lordships’ House many times to take the Government to task for th...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Mitchell, has said, we have debated access to finance and all t...

My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Mitchell, and will be very surprised if...

My Lords, as has been said, we have discussed finance for SMEs at length and it will continue to ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Mitchell, for proposing the new clause, for his s...

I thank the Minister for her reply. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Cope, for his insightful additio...

Moved by

Lord Newby

7: Clause 13, page 13, line 18, leave out from second “instrument...

My Lords, Amendments 7 to 19 and 84 make two technical but essential changes to the