United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

My Lords, my purpose in moving Amendment 7, which would exclude imported goods, is to emphasise, ...

My Lords, at this stage of the Bill, Amendment 8, like Amendment 7, is a probing amendment, but I...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, and the noble Lord, Lord Rook...

My Lords, Amendment 21 in my name is effectively consequential on the changes I have already prop...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 21 to which the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, has spok...

My Lords, I would like to remind the Committee of two things about this Bill. First, the Bill is ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 7 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, and Amendment 21 ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord and to agree with the thrust of h...

The noble Lord, Lord Naseby, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Inglewood.

My Lords, this is been an interesting debate. These amendments are important, focusing as they do...

The noble and learned Lord, Lord Morris of Aberavon, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Lord, Lor...

My Lords, this is a very interesting debate to join. It is a pleasure to welcome the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, this has been a relatively short debate in terms of the Bill so far, but it has raised ...

I strongly endorse what has been said by the noble Lord, Lord Fox. This is an incredibly importan...

I thank everybody who has contributed to what has been, as always in this House, a fascinating de...

I have had a request to speak after the Minister from the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed.

The Minister did not explain why services from the Isle of Man to the rest of the United Kingdom ...

I understand the point the noble Lord is making, but I think we are talking at cross purposes. It...

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

My Lords, I am struggling to understand the Minister’s reply on Amendments 26 and 45. I am partic...

No, it does not mean that the requirement is to be treated as though it never had any legal effec...

My Lords, I think I am Baroness Hayter of Confused. I did not understand that last reply. I thank...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 9. I again remind noble Lords that anyone wishi...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

9: Clause 3, page 2, line 21, leave out “any” and insert “a pa...

I apologise in advance if noble Lords are in for more technical explanations. We will take togeth...

My Lords, I am interested to know why the Minister felt that these amendments needed to be moved ...

I have no wish to add to the general confusion.

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for clearing this up, because any confusion beforehand ma...

My Lords, I have mainly technical, minor drafting points, which do not require much discussion. T...

My Lords, I apologise to noble Lords for hesitating in my answer earlier. There is a danger of th...

I have received a request from the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, to speak after the...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

10: Clause 3, page 2, line 28, after first “requirement” inser...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 12. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Lord Fox

12: Clause 3, page 3, line 25, leave out subsection (8)

Membe...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 12, I will also speak to Amendments 27, 38, 46, 72, 97 and 160 in m...

My Lords, the amendments in my name in this group are for the most part identical to those of the...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews. I am not a member of the D...

The noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, has withdrawn, so I now call the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gres...

My Lords, the House of Lords is coming to a watershed. When we threw out the statutory instrument...

My Lords, I welcome this opportunity to agree with what has been said by previous speakers, and p...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, and t...

My Lords, we have heard many excellent speeches in this short debate, and I agree in particular w...

My Lords, there is little to add to what my noble friend Lady Andrews and other members of the ha...

My Lords, I have a sense of déjà vu about this debate. The noble Lord, Lord Liddle, will well rem...

My Lords, as I suspected, the speakers who came after me made a far more powerful case for these ...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 14. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

14: Clause 3, page 3, line 27, leave out subs...

My Lords, I am grateful to have this opportunity to speak to these amendments, which in large mea...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, and the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, have both...

My Lords, as colleagues know, I had the privilege of being Deputy Speaker in the House of Commons...

The noble Lord, Lord Liddle, has withdrawn so I call the noble Lord, Lord Judd.

My Lords, I want to put on record my admiration for the consistent, valiant work done by the nobl...

My Lords, it is always a delight to follow the noble Lord, Lord Judd, who always helps us with hi...

My Lords, I join the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, in thanking the Scottish Law Commission...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for tabling her amendments, which relate, as she explained to t...

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

My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s comments on Amendment 25. It was a question linked to ...

My Lords, I note and hear what the noble Lord has said, but I think he would allow me not to ente...

I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I was grateful for the opportunity to pro...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 15. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Lord German

15: Clause 3, page 3, line 30, leave out “consult” and insert “o...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, is detained in another part of your Lordships’ House. ...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord German, just said, it would be far better if we did not have th...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord German, and the noble and learned Lord,...

My Lords, I am delighted to speak to a number of amendments in my name but also to lend my suppor...

My Lords, I concur with the comments of my noble friend Lord German, the noble and learned Lord, ...

My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles, on transparency, and I look forward to co...

My Lords, as so often, my noble friend Lord Wigley has spoken for the wide consensus on this ques...

We seem to have lost connection with the noble Lord, Lord Hain, so I call the noble and learned L...

My Lords, I have not tabled many amendments to the Bill—although there are many things on which I...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Hain, lost his connection, so we shall try him again now. It seems...

I thank my noble and learned friend Lord Mackay. He certainly has a very practical sense of the l...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to take part in this fascinating debate, which is very much legal in c...

My Lords, I am told that we have the noble Lord, Lord Hain, again.

Thank you, my Lords. I suddenly expired by unilateral mute for reasons that neither the broadcast...

My Lords, there have been many excellent speeches in this debate and I doubt that I have anything...

My Lords, I am very glad to follow the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, because, not for the first time, ...

My Lords, I declare an interest because I am half English and half Scottish, and proud of it. I a...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Judd. I agree with him. Reflecting on t...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, always worries me when he starts talking about Henry VIII...

My Lords, I am grateful to all those who have spoken in what has been a thoughtful debate absolut...

This has been a very thoughtful debate. I think that it has got to the heart of the problem, whic...

Moved by

Lord True

18: Clause 4, page 3, line 38, after first “a” insert “particular”...

Moved by

Lord True

23: Clause 4, page 4, line 12, leave out from “have” to “place” an...

We now come to Amendment 32. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to speak after the Minister...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

32: Clause 7, page 5, line 41, leave out “act...

My Lords, I perhaps need to correct something. I may have mis-spoken when I spoke to Amendments 1...

My Lords, I cannot presume to know what my noble friend on the Front Bench is going to define as ...

The noble Lord, Lord Liddle, has scratched, so I now call the noble Lord, Lord Fox.

My Lords, this is a short and vaguely surreal debate. I caught my mind wandering to the “League o...

My Lords, we are obviously in competition to make the shortest speech of the evening; I cannot im...

My Lords, I understand that the purpose of this amendment from my noble friend Lady McIntosh is t...

I am grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed to this little debate, which I hope wins th...

My Lords, we now resume Committee stage and come to the group beginning with Amendment 33. I remi...

Moved by

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

33: Clause 8, page 6, line 21, leave out paragra...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord German, for introducing the previous group in my ...

My Lords, I have put my name to Amendments 35 and 51, which have a number of near relatives in th...

My Lords, I have listened to the vast majority of the debates today and I have actually been shoc...

My Lords, Amendments 39A, 47A and 52A are in my name and those of the noble Baroness, Lady Northo...

My Lords, I am in sympathy with the words just uttered by the noble Lord, Lord Young of Cookham, ...

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this interesting debate on these particular amendme...

My Lords, I added my name to Amendment 37, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh. However, ...

My Lords, I wish to draw the Committee’s attention to the risk to future public health policy as ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Faulkner of Worcester, who, along with ...

My Lords, I declare my interest as chair of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Nature Partner...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Teverson. I thank him and the nob...

My Lords, as noble Lords who have attended this Committee to date know, my role is occasionally t...

My Lords, I shall address Amendment 54 in my name. As the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, said in mo...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 174 in this group. I wish to speak to that and other ...

My Lords, I wish to speak in support of Amendments 35 and 58, in the name of my noble friend Lord...

My Lords, I add my support in particular to Amendment 52, in the names of the noble Baronesses, L...

My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, I originally put my name down to speak on this g...

My Lords, what a powerful team at the end of this very interesting debate. It was great to hear t...

My Lords, my name is on Amendments 33, 34, 50, 55, 56, 60, 80 and 95 but, to be honest, all these...

My Lords, this has been a very good and wide-ranging debate—one of the best we have had so far on...

I thank everyone who has spoken in what has been another excellent debate. Most of the points hav...

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

I sometimes wonder whether the Minister sustains himself through the long periods of Committee by...

I thought my comments might provoke a reaction from the noble Lord. Of course, there are EU commo...

My Lords, this has been an extraordinary debate. At this late hour I cannot possibly do credit to...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 66. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

66: Clause 14, page 9, line 13, leave out sub...

My Lords, I am grateful for this opportunity to speak also to Amendment 67. I am grateful to the ...

The noble Lord, Lord Liddle, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed.

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, for putting down this ...

I am obliged to the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, for raising these points. There i...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contributions to this short debate. There were a lot of q...

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

I am grateful for how the Minister responded. I think that the last point she made was really imp...

I remember the noble Lord asking that question earlier in the debate. I am more than happy to wri...

I am not complaining, but the Minister did not try to answer any of my questions, so I would like...

Having looked at that question, I would rather write to the noble and learned Lord giving a full ...

My Lords, I am grateful to have had this little debate. I am particularly grateful to the noble L...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 68. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

68: Before Clause 16, insert the following n...

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 68 but also to speak to Amendments 89, 96 and 102 in my name. ...

My Lords, the hour is late, and I will shorten what I was going to say. Amendment 78 is intended ...

The noble Lord, Lord German, is not taking part in this group, so I call the next speaker, the no...

I will speak briefly to several amendments in this group. Regarding Amendment 70, again I raise t...

My Lords, I want to speak to this group of amendments for two simple reasons. First, services are...

Both the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, and the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, have withdrawn from this g...

My Lords, the Minister will no doubt be pleased to hear that I will not ask questions about whisk...

It may be helpful to the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, who I know is interested, if I return to a ques...

I have received one request to speak after the Minister from the noble and learned Lord, Lord Fal...

I go back to the very interesting answer that the Minister gave on the coal example. Let us assum...

I do not think the noble and learned Lord is correct in his assumption, but it is a detailed lega...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have contributed to the debate, which poses more questions than...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 79. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

79: Page 51, line 23, at end insert—

...

My Lords, I beg leave to move Amendment 79, and also to speak to Amendment 106, both of which app...

The noble Lord, Lord Liddle, has withdrawn from this group, so I call the noble Lord, Lord German...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, for raising this issue. It is of significance...

As the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, makes clear, there is really no reason why the teaching prof...

My Lords, these amendments seek to exclude teaching services and the teaching profession from the...

I have received a request to speak after the Minister. I call the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Twee...

My Lords, I wish to obtain absolute clarity from the Minister on the exemption in Schedule 2 with...

I am not going to give the noble Lord a definitive answer now but I will write to him to make sur...

I thank noble Lords who have contributed to the debate and the Minister for her response. The nob...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 82. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

82: Clause 19, page 13, line 27, leave out “, and section 20,”...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 82, I shall speak also to Amendments 83 and 85 to 88 in my name.