Scotland Bill

My Lords, in moving Amendment 41, I shall speak also to Amendments 42, 43 and 44. I express my ap...

My Lords, I can understand where my noble friend Lord Faulkner is coming from. Along with the det...

The whole thing is a gesture.

However, let me deal with those who are. Earlier, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace of Tan...

My Lords, I will briefly speak to Amendments 41 and 42. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Faulkner of ...

My Lords, the noble Lord is developing a very interesting point. I wonder whether, in doing so, h...

Indeed, I am familiar with the no-detriment principle, which is that policy changes on either sid...

My Lords, I would like to speak to Amendments 41 and 42, and then move to Amendment 44 standing i...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Faulkner and Lord Empey, for speaking to these a...

My Lords, paragraph 67 of the Smith commission report states:

“The functions of the British...

Of course there is also the complicating factor that part of the budget of the British Transport ...

The noble Lord is absolutely right, and we aired these concerns when this was debated in Committe...

I think that we would all be very interested to hear the view of the noble and learned Lord on th...

My Lords, one of the problems is that the no-detriment principle has so far tended to be looked a...

My Lords, in my view the words used by the Smith commission on this subject do not imply the brea...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Faulkner’s Amendments 41 and 42. I certainly will not re...

Surely, under the no-detriment principle, what was previously being paid by the transport operato...

I entirely agree with the noble Lord: that is the way it should be done. The operators in England...

I particularly thank the noble Lord, Lord Faulkner. He always speaks on railway matters with such...

I very much hope that the Scottish Conservatives will win more seats at the election but I am not...

I can assure my noble friend that I will not turn myself into Mystic Meg tonight and make a predi...

If I understood the Minister correctly, does he seriously believe that even after efforts have be...

I will repeat what I said: it is entirely possible to put in place the necessary arrangements to ...

My Lords, this has been an extraordinary debate. The hour approaches midnight and we have been de...

My Lords, as it appears that fewer than 30 Lords have voted, in accordance with Standing Order No...