Trade Bill

My Lords, we are having some technical difficulties online. A number of our colleagues who are pa...

My Lords, the Grand Committee is resumed. We now resume debate on Amendment 17. I apologise to th...

No apologies are needed. It is a pleasure to speak to Amendment 17 and open the batting on a grou...

My Lords, the Covid-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on unacceptable working conditions, especia...

My Lords, I am pleased to speak on Amendment 17, to which I have added my name.

While the h...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 43 and 44, which again deal with dispute resolution. In a wa...

My Lords, I offer a gentle reminder that all mics in the Grand Committee are live at all times. I...

My Lords, in the light of the way we have spent much of the past hour, I begin by recording my th...

My Lords, I am rather pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, since it gives me a...

My Lords, I am sorry to stop the noble Lord, but I understand that there are still some problems ...

I was making the point that in amendments last week, I was trying to help the Committee. The obje...

My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord again, but there has been a request that he star...

Since I have no text, it will not be the same speech, so if you will forgive me, I will not do th...

My Lords, we are indeed fortunate to have had someone with the huge experience, not least interna...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Judd. I will speak in particular to Amend...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, has withdrawn, so I now call the nobl...

My Lords, first, I thank my noble friend the Minister for the correspondence that we have had sin...

My Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Earl, because of his dogged approach on this issu...

My Lords, I thank all the speakers in this debate. I also echo the thanks from the noble Baroness...

My Lords, it has certainly been an erudite and extraordinarily interesting debate, and I congratu...

I have received a request from the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, to speak after the Minister.

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his comprehensive response to the debate on this group of amen...

The noble Lord raises two good points. On the first point, I will, if I may, write to him setting...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for his response and to my noble friends Lord Hain, ...

My Lords, we will now resume the Committee. I call on the noble Lord, Lord Hendy, to complete his...

My Lords, I will make two final points in respect of the Minister’s speech. My second point is th...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 20. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Lord Grantchester

20: Clause 2, page 2, line 23, at end insert—

“( ) R...

Amendment 20 is in my name and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett of Manor Castle, for addi...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 23 in particular. All the amendments in this group have very ...

My Lords, I have added my name to several of these amendments, but I shall stick to dealing with ...

I remind noble Lords to switch off devices while we are in Grand Committee. It is quite disturbin...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, for introducing this group of amendments. I ...

I am speaking to Amendments 20, 23, 24 and 25. It is a great pleasure, as ever, to follow the nob...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Henig, who gave a comprehensive prese...

I call the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb.

One day, I am going to send round a notice about how to say my name—but it does mean that I start...

I will not be following the same line of argument as the noble Baroness, Lady Jones. I remind nob...

My Lords, I plan to say a few words on Amendment 20, moved by the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester. ...

My Lords, I am pleased to speak to these amendments because I believe that each and every one of ...

My Lords, I am glad of the opportunity to speak very briefly in support of the amendments that ad...

My Lords, much of what I wanted to say has already been said in this useful debate. I am supporti...

I call Lord Judd. We appear to be unable to reach the noble Lord, Lord Judd, so I call the noble ...

I am sorry about that. I had problems unmuting, and I was slightly taken by surprise because I th...

I now call the noble Lord, Lord Beith. As we seem to be unable to reach the noble Lord, Lord Beit...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady McIntosh of Pickering has already intimated that she expects that ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Viscount. I agree with one point he made in his sp...

My Lords, no one listening to this debate today could be in any doubt about the importance that n...

My Lords, I have had a request to speak after the Minister from the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh...

My noble friend Lord Grimstone has just confirmed my worst fears about this interchange of termin...

My Lords, of course I apologise if I caused any confusion in my remarks —but I stand by them. It ...

I thank all noble Lords who contributed on this group of amendments and reflected on the provisio...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 26. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

26: Clause 2, page 2, line 33, at end insert—