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Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations 2020

Debates on delegated legislation on Wednesday, 8 July 2020, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Vere of Norbiton. The answering member was Lord Rosser.
Lords motion to approve. Agreed to on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
804 cc1151-1168 
Session
2019-21
Procedure
Hybrid proceedings
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations
Monday, 15 June 2020
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons
Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee twentieth report.
Tuesday, 30 June 2020
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
Deposited Paper DEP2020-0488
Friday, 31 July 2020
Deposited papers
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Vere of Norbiton | 804 cc1151-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the Government are committed to ensuring the safety of passengers travelling on the tra...

Lord Blunkett | 804 c1153 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, obviously we are confirming reality but also reinforcing the importance of these regula...


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Baroness Jolly | 804 c1153 (Link to this contribution)

Public transport, particularly that serving crowded areas and centres of population where people ...

Lord Patel | 804 cc1153-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, while supporting these regulations, I feel their scope is very limited. Scientific evid...

Lord Sheikh | 804 c1154 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support and approve of the regulations requiring all passengers on public transport t...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 804 c1154 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have spent 17 weeks in this House arguing for mandatory masking. I now move on to the...

Baroness Barker | 804 c1154 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, will transport providers, local authorities and the police have the power to share info...

Baroness Watkins of Tavistock | 804 cc1154-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I fully support these recommendations but also the comments of other noble Lords. I am ...

Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 804 c1155 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I refer to my railway interests as declared on the register. I wholeheartedly support t...

Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall | 804 c1155 (Link to this contribution)

I have a couple of short questions for the Minister, of which I have given her notice. The first ...

Lord Rennard | 804 cc1155-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, face coverings have been mandatory on public transport since 15 June, but since then I ...

Lord Duncan of Springbank | 804 c1156 (Link to this contribution)

The next speaker is the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay of Llandaff. No? We may return to her later i...

Baroness Altmann | 804 c1156 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I accept the need for face coverings, but do the Government have plans to ensure that p...

Lord Clark of Windermere | 804 c1156 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I wholeheartedly support the wearing of face masks on public transport and, indeed, mor...

Lord Roberts of Llandudno | 804 cc1156-7 (Link to this contribution)

It is mandatory to wear a face mask on a bus or train in Scotland and in England, but not in Wale...

Lord Holmes of Richmond | 804 c1157 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I wholly support the wearing of face masks on public transport. I have two questions fo...

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 804 c1157 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, mask wearing must accompany ongoing respect of social distance. Many people emerging fr...

Baroness Primarolo | 804 c1157 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I associate myself with the comments that other noble Lords have made regarding the imp...

Baroness Bull | 804 cc1157-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Regulation 4 provides a list of reasonable excuses for exemption, including physical or...

Lord Wei | 804 c1158 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Government for this measure, which is welcome, but I wonder whether this is...

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 804 cc1158-9 (Link to this contribution)

As the noble Lord, Lord Wei, has just said, the Government’s message on face masks has been one o...

Earl of Clancarty | 804 c1159 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I welcome these regulations, but they do not go far enough. In view of the WHO’s acknow...

Lord Snape | 804 c1159 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we are debating these regulations today as a result of a reference by the Scrutiny Comm...

Baroness Uddin | 804 cc1159-1160 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, conflicting messages have been extremely unhelpful. I ask the Government to make face c...

Lord Liddle | 804 c1160 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I want to follow up my noble friend Lord Snape’s point about process, as a member of yo...

Lord Hussain | 804 c1160 (Link to this contribution)

Although I support this legislation, I agree with those who say that it does not go far enough. I...

Lord Triesman | 804 cc1160-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, these regulations plainly do not go far enough. Two days ago, when intending to board a...

Baroness Wheatcroft | 804 c1161 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, earlier this week the Minister told me that 86% of travellers on public transport are n...

Lord Balfe | 804 c1161 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in the beginning it was very simple: stay at home and save lives. However, as time has ...

Lord Hendy | 804 c1161 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support the regulations, which make it mandatory to make a wear a form of personal pr...

Baroness Meacher | 804 cc1161-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I welcome these regulations, except of course that they focus exclusively on public tra...

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb | 804 c1162 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am just as annoyed as some other noble Lords about the way that we are being governed...

Viscount Trenchard | 804 c1162 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, for the first time, perhaps, I find myself in full agreement with the noble Baroness, L...

Baroness Randerson | 804 cc1162-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this SI is the outcome of a long saga about the efficacy of wearing masks. Early in the...

Lord Rosser | 804 cc1164-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will try to avoid repeating too many of the questions that have already been asked.

Baroness Vere of Norbiton | 804 cc1165-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate today, and particularly those...

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