European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

Just before my noble friend leaves Amendment 53, I will say that I have followed her almost entir...

It is standard legal terminology, and I thank my noble friend for his question. It would mean hav...

My Lords, I support Amendment 29 and the supporting amendments. My noble friend Lady Hamwee has p...

As a family judge, I regularly tried international family cases, so I entirely agree with the nob...

My Lords, I support Amendment 29 and will speak briefly to Amendment 336, to which my name is att...

My Lords, I rise to support my noble friend Lady Sherlock in this group of amendments. I apprecia...

My Lords, I apologise that this is the first time I have spoken during the passage of the Bill: I...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way; I was anxious to ask him this before he sat down. I respec...

I thank the noble Baroness for her intervention. I believe it will be better in the long run. We ...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way. He really needs to answer the question posed by the noble ...

I thank the most reverend Primate for his intervention. There is a requirement that our courts, a...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way, but I have some doubts about his repeated asserti...

Am I going to be able to make my speech? I thank the noble Lord for that intervention. I will be ...

This is not my area of expertise, but it seems to me that the noble Lord, in his very detailed sp...

I thank the noble Lord for another intervention. They are a matter of negotiation and finding the...

My Lords, I am sorry that I was not here at the beginning of the discussion on this amendment. My...

I thank the noble Baroness for her intervention. Perhaps I can speak to her afterwards concerning...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, is rightly respected for his expertise on a number of subj...

My Lords, I very much welcome the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lady Sherlock, and the...

My Lords, I hoped that I would get an opportunity to intervene, as the person who first presented...

May I ask the Minister a few questions, because I suspect that his response is going to proceed o...

My Lords, I am obliged. “Reciprocity” was the term used and emphasised by the noble Baroness, Lad...

I thank the Minister for giving way. Of course discussions are taking place between officials in ...

I cannot say that agreements are being reached at this time because we are only setting out on th...

In his lengthy reply, the Minister appears to perpetuate some of the misunderstanding that underl...

With respect, neither I nor the Prime Minister misunderstood any of that. With great respect, I w...

I entirely understand the response the noble and learned Lord gave to the effect that you can, of...

I am happy to repeat the observation I made earlier: these difficult cases are resolved, for exam...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed and the Minister for his reply. When I tab...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

30: After Clause 4, insert the following new C...

My Lords, this very amendment has been debated in the other House and was voted down by 18 votes....

My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness—I am sure we will have another ...

The noble Baroness is making a very compelling argument about the agricultural and livestock issu...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for that point. He is much more familiar with Northern Ireland an...

My Lords, I too find the word “phytosanitary”—the Brussels term—a bit of a nuisance. “Biosecurity...

I am most grateful to the noble Baroness and I think she confirmed the need for physical checks. ...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, on Amendment 30, to which I ha...

My Lords, I have my name to Amendment 30, which I will address in a moment, but before doing so I...

I am sure the noble Lord is aware that there is only one vet in an abattoir who is not a national...

Absolutely—I accept that entirely. I was painting the picture that had been depicted by the noble...

My Lords, I declare an interest as the owner of a few Red Poll cattle, which are the local cows o...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, on introducing the amendment very clearl...

The noble Lord is repeating a point he made last week about American agriculture. I let it pass t...

I will come to the relevance to EU withdrawal in a moment. I will just say that I feel that I hav...

My Lords, noble Lords will be pleased to know that I will be brief. I put on record my support fo...

My Lords, I add my support to this important amendment, which has received widespread support fro...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Bakewell was absolutely right to talk about Britain as a country o...

My Lords, I wish to speak to my own amendment in this group, as well as supporting the other amen...

Does my noble friend agree that the excuse that the Government cannot accept this amendment becau...

That is our position: we should have this amendment now but work on it in the longer term. I am s...

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate and I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to i...

My noble friend has said that the reason we are not including that part of the article which is e...

Because we do not think that Article 13 works in the context of UK law; it applies only to EU law...

The Minister emphasised that he hoped this would be brought forward by Report. If it is not, woul...

I do not want to give the noble Lord an exact commitment but, as I have said, we hope to have it ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response and all noble Lords who have contributed to the d...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

31: Clause 5, page 3, line 11, leave out subsections (1) to (3)...

My Lords, Amendments 31 and 33 arise again out of a report from your Lordships’ Constitution Comm...

My Lords, if Amendment 31 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendment 32 for reasons of pre-emption.