Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

My Lords, I shall add a few words about this because we are talking about the products and servic...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his amendment about treating small and micro-businesses as c...

I am sorry to intervene, but that suggests that the Minister is referring to things which are int...

I thank the noble Baroness for her clarification. The problem is that both the items she has desc...

My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lady Hayter for her intervention. As always, she ...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

26: Clause 35, page 32, line 23, at end inse...

My Lords, Amendment 26 stands in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Stevenson of Balmacara....

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her amendment and for providing the opportunity...

I mean it sincerely when I thank the Minister, but I think she has fundamentally misunderstood. S...

Moved by

Lord Mendelsohn

27: Clause 39, page 36, line 6, at end insert—

“( ) Th...

My Lords, I shall also speak to Amendment 31. Amendment 27 ensures that the principles of localis...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for his amendment and for the opportunity to return to ...

I thank the Minister for that reply. I do not wish to sound churlish, but I hope she will forgive...

Before the noble Lord withdraws the amendment, I say that I am very happy to reflect further on t...

After such a fantastic response, how is it possible for me to say anything other than “I beg leav...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

28: Clause 39, page 36, line 10, leave out from “auth...

My Lords, I shall be brief in speaking to these relatively minor but important amendments, and I ...

My Lords, there is an error in the Marshalled List and the proposed amendment should read as foll...

Moved by

Lord Young of Norwood Green

29: Clause 39, page 36, line 42, at end insert—<...

My Lords, at the end of a long day I will endeavour to be as succinct and to the point as possibl...

My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Young. In my heart, I am with him 100%. The...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Young, for his amendments and for allowing us to debate th...

I thank the Minister for her response. Like my noble friend Lord Mendelsohn, I do not want to app...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

32: Clause 39, page 37, line 4, leave out “negative” ...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

33: Clause 40, page 37, line 31, at end insert “or