United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 110 in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Noakes. My nob...

My Lords, I have given notice of my intention to oppose Clauses 29, 30 and 41 standing part. This...

My Lords, I have added my name to my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe’s amendment. Like her, I am ...

My Lords, my purpose in speaking today is to support Amendment 111, which I have signed, and the ...

The noble Lord, Lord Liddle, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Naseby.

My Lords, when I first read through the Bill, I had some reservations about the CMA, not least be...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles, referred to a letter to the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, f...

The noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, had it.

I think all speakers in these debates ought to get them. Unless, of course, it is a very private ...

My Lords, I thank everyone who has participated in this group. I will seek to take forward the su...

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

My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s response. In her speech, the noble Baroness, Lady Bowl...

Hear, hear.

I see the request has the enthusiastic endorsement of the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes. Therefore, as...

My Lords, this has been a good debate on an important group of amendments. We are not all agreed,...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 114. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing t...

Moved by

Lord Mackay of Clashfern (Con)

114: Clause 30, page 23, line 15, at end inse...

My Lords, the United Kingdom Parliament has a legislative competence to regulate the United Kingd...

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

The noble Lord, Lord Liddle, has withdrawn so I call the noble Baroness, Lady Humphreys.

My Lords, when I read the Bill and the amendments to it that have been tabled, I asked myself, “W...

My Lords, I support Amendment 114, moved by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay. It is right ...

My Lords, I support my noble and learned friend Lord Mackay of Clashfern on this group of amendme...

My Lords, I am grateful for the quality of this relatively short debate on a really important iss...

These are important amendments that reveal yet another problem in the Bill. First, they deal with...

My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to seek to reply to this extremely interesting debate. I agr...

I have received requests to speak after the Minister from the noble Lords, Lord Fox and Lord Purv...

I appreciate the Minister’s reply on the important points put forward. Whether the amendments of ...

My Lords, I strongly agree on the principle of trust between all parties in a negotiation. It is ...

My Lords, can the Minister confirm that the discussions of the intergovernmental review, the conc...

My Lords, I believe I heard my noble friend Lord Callanan addressing this point in the previous g...

My Lords, I am grateful for the general support for my proposal to require co-operation between t...

We now come to the group beginning with the question that Clause 30 stand part of the Bill. I rem...

My Lords, for the general reasons that I elaborated in the earlier group, I do not consider the C...

My Lords, I will speak to the amendments in this group to which I have added my name: Amendments ...

As the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, has very carefully explained the purpose of these amendmen...

My Lords, I speak in support of Amendments 116, 127 and 130, to which I have added my name. I agr...

My Lords, as other noble Lords have explained, the aim of these amendments is to ensure that not ...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay of Llandaff. As she has made s...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, and all previous speakers in th...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, and the noble Lords, ...

My Lords, I listened carefully to noble Lords who spoke before me. The devolved Administrations a...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Hain, has said, much of the debate on this group has coincided ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Empey. I support Amendments 117 and 125...

My Lords, I also offer my support to these two amendments. It is a privilege to be able to follow...

My Lords, it is always interesting to hear the reflections of the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, and I...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Judd, and so many other noble Lords. I ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, and other noble Lords in t...

My Lords, this is a characteristically interesting and deep group, and it is a pleasure to follow...

My Lords, I rather regret that, early on in this debate, the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, ment...

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

My Lords, I apologise for detaining the Committee; I know I spoke at length on this group. Can th...

I will certainly check that, and of course I will respond to the noble Lord if that proves incorr...

My Lords, we have had an extensive and thoughtful debate, and I thank all noble Lords who have ta...

Perhaps the noble Baroness cannot feel the mood of the Committee, which is that she should now wi...

I am sorry; I had basically come to a close anyway. There is much more that needs to be done. I d...

Does the Minister wish to add anything?

Not if the noble Baroness has withdrawn her opposition.

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 115. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing t...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

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

My Lords, I move Amendment 115 and speak to Amendment 131. They need to be taken together. We hav...

My Lords, the noble Lords, Lord Hain, Lord Cormack and Lord Empey, have all withdrawn their names...

My Lords, I listened with interest to the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson. The separate grouping of th...

I call the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb.

My Lords, the Government are certainly getting a lot of advice during the passage of this Bill. A...

I apologise to the Committee and very personally to the noble Lord, Lord Judd, whom I omitted to ...

Thank you. My Lords, I will be brief. I just want to say how much I commend the amendments from m...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, for introducing these two amendments a...

My Lords, so far there have been four groups of amendments dealing with the CMA and the OIM, and ...

My Lords, I appreciate the comments made in the debate and I appreciate that these amendments see...

My Lords, I have had no request to speak after the Minister, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Steve...

My Lords, I thank those who have spoken in support of the amendments, particularly the noble Baro...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

132: After Schedule 3, insert the following new ...

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendments 167 and 168, which are also in my name. I am grateful t...

My Lords, I apologise; I should have reminded noble Lords that anyone wishing to speak after the ...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, for explaining the place of th...

The Bill appears to invite a clutch of ironic metaphors. In moving the Bill at Second Reading in ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bruce of Bennachie, and my noble and le...

My Lords, I join the previous three speakers in giving notice of my intention to oppose the quest...

My Lords, I tabled Amendment 166, which would amend Clause 48. I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady...

My Lords, it is a real pleasure to support Amendment 166 from the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, w...

My Lords, when the debate on this group of amendments started, it seemed that it would be another...

My Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 166, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott. I...

My Lords, I oppose the Question that Clause 48 stand part of the Bill. I thank the noble and lear...

It is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Dunlop, and to echo many of the points he has jus...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord German. I would like to build on some o...

My Lords, this is a very important group of amendments because they deal with another recentralis...

My Lords, I shall not now speak to the group starting with Amendment 134, in the name of the nobl...

My Lords, I thank those who assisted me in getting the chance to speak after the accidental omiss...

My Lords, I will focus on whether Clause 48 should stand part, as my noble friends have done on t...

My Lords, this Government are determined to deliver on the commitments upon which they were elect...

My Lords, I have received one request to speak after the Minister, so I now call the noble Lord, ...

Does the Minister not agree that shared prosperity requires an attitude of sharing—in other words...

My Lords, all I can say to the noble Lord is that the attitude and approach of this Government is...

My Lords, I thank all those who have contributed to this wide-ranging debate, which was conducted...

My Lords, we come to the group beginning with Amendment 134. I remind noble Lords that anyone wis...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

134: Clause 31, page 23, line 18, leave out “...

My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to move this amendment and speak to the others in my name. I...

My Lords, I am pleased to speak in this group on my own amendments. I recognise that the noble Ba...

The noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, has withdrawn, so I now call the noble and learned Lord, ...

I can be very brief in speaking to Amendments 151 and 152, which stand in my name. They relate to...

My Lords, like the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas, I will be very brief. I have added my nam...

My Lords, I am pleased to be able to contribute to this stage of the debate, and to offer my supp...

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

My Lords, I will be brief, unlike many earlier speakers in this Committee, who clearly were revel...

The noble Lord, Lord Judd, has withdrawn, so I now call the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter of Kentis...

My Lords, we have said it before, so I will repeat only briefly: these amendments would never hav...

I thank noble Lords who have taken part. They have asked for a lot of information on the various ...

My Lords, I am grateful to all those noble Lords who have contributed to the debate. I did rather...

We come now to the group beginning with Amendment 136. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing t...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

136: Clause 31, page 23, line 19, after “ope...

My Lords, I shall speak also to the other amendments in this group that are tabled in my name. I ...

My Lords, I do not need to say a lot in this group because I have already made it clear that I co...

My Lords, the noble Baronesses, Lady Noakes, Lady Jones and Lady Neville-Rolfe, and the noble Lor...

I start by trying to reassure the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, that we do not wish to see monopol...

I thank the Minister for that reply and particularly for her last few words about ongoing conside...

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 143. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

143: After Clause 31, insert the following new C...

My Lords, Amendment 143 is to some extent a coda to our recent discussions on the role of the off...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Morris of Aberavon, has withdrawn, so I call Lord Fox....

My Lords, my name is on this amendment, and I am pleased to support it and to follow the very cle...

My Lords, it will be interesting to hear how the Minister responds to this request, which has bee...

I thank those hardy souls who have stayed for this brief debate. Amendment 143, tabled by the nob...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for recognising the staying power of some noble Lords, be...