Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

My Lords, we have tabled this amendment to add another property dimension to the register of pers...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for tabling the amendment and am grateful to him for providing t...

My Lords, there is certain irony in a Government who used the company wrapper on the purchase of ...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

35: Schedule 3, page 163, line 30, at end insert “, a...

My Lords, this group of amendments responds to recommendations of the Delegated Powers and Regula...

My Lords, I offer my support to the Government on Amendments 35 and 42; I very much welcome both....

My Lords, I simply want to add a little to the comments of my noble friend Lord Watson. In his ty...

I thank noble Lords. I am especially grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Watson, for his support tod...

Moved by

Lord Watson of Invergowrie

36: Schedule 3, page 163, line 30, at end insert—...

My Lords, I begin by again stressing my strong support for the introduction of a register of peop...

My Lords, my name stands with that of my noble friend Lord Watson of Invergowrie on these amendme...

Another lawyer.

Yes, another lawyer. However, it is very striking because that was in the mid-1960s. In fact, the...

My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend for giving way. I confess that I have not followe...

I think that we need a short debate to answer the question that my noble friend poses. However, I...

Can my noble friend honestly say that it will not affect small businesses? “Small business” is in...

I did not say that it would not affect them at all; I said that it would affect very few of them ...

I am sorry to interrupt my noble friend again. He may have been a lawyer periodically dealing wit...

I would not deny for a minute that they know better than the description the noble Lord gave of m...

My Lords, we touched on this previously. Four million small companies are going to be affected, a...

I have a huge amount of sympathy with the noble Lord pointing out the hypercomplexity of this. I ...

My Lords, I will speak briefly against this amendment. Of course, no one could dispute the intent...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I do not think that he will find in that impact a...

The noble Lord is absolutely right, because this is not the Government’s proposal—which is why I ...

I am most grateful to the noble Lord for giving way a second time, and I promise not to intervene...

I am not sure which bit the noble Lord was saying was not so. He may very well be right in his as...

My Lords—

My Lords, this is Report and we prefer not to take further interventions.

I believe that interventions seeking information are allowed once on Report, so I will give way t...

My noble friend might mention the cost of business rates, which are a huge burden to every busine...

Indeed, but my noble friend must not tempt me to get away from the amendment and from this Bill. ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I always listen to the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, ...

My response to that is that it is a fair cop. He is absolutely right that I should have made this...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Watson, and my noble friend Lord Phillips for these amendme...

Given the size and scope of the register, can my noble friend say how exactly Companies House wil...

My Lords, the point I was making about reporting is that we would extend the annual report, in an...

As I understand my noble friend’s argument, she is saying that her department and other departmen...

My Lords, agencies such as Companies House have long-term plans to look at the duties coming down...

My Lords, this has been a longer and more vigorous debate than had been anticipated. I feel like ...

Moved by

Lord Flight

39: Schedule 3, page 166, leave out line 3

My Lords, I suggest that measures like this and other anti money-laundering measures are much mor...

My Lords, there is a very significant difference between privacy and secrecy. There could be lots...

My Lords, I, too, pay tribute to my noble friend on the Front Bench. I thank her for arranging th...

My Lords, I oppose the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Flight. Frankly, they are q...

My suggestion was that we fell in with the new arrangements, which are not complete but which use...

Yes, but defining what is a proper purpose is simply not achievable. People will ask for informat...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Flight and Lord Borwick, for their amendments. I...

I apologise for being somewhat behind the curve, but I was trying to think of an example of what ...

My Lords, on the face of it, the first part of the noble Lord’s presumption is correct, but I thi...

My Lords, before my noble friend sits down, will she clarify the point about the impending EU law...

My Lords, we hope that the directive will be agreed in Brussels in the next few months. It is a d...

My Lords, I suggest that what will happen is that the EU directive will come forth and we will be...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

42: Schedule 3, page 166, line 31, leave out from “us...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

44: Schedule 3, page 168, line 24, at end insert—

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

54: Clause 87, page 61, line 22, leave out “negative”...

Moved by

Lord Mendelsohn

56A: After Clause 103, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the register of interests, which shows that I have a pr...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord. As I outlined in Committee, the Government have overseen a numb...

I thank the Minister for that reply. I was busily writing notes and wondering how I might be able...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

57: Clause 106, page 86, line 5, leave out from “inst...