United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

My Lords, in this group I wish to speak in particular to Amendment 1, which my noble and learned ...

My Lords, I very much support these amendments. It has been my privilege to often lead the noble ...

My Lords, I apologise to the House that I was unable to participate in Committee, but I spoke at ...

My Lords, it is a delight to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bourne, with whom I served in the Nation...

It is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, and a real privilege and honour to follow...

My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow all the speeches so far, which have so compellingly m...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace of Tankerness and I s...

My Lords, I will speak briefly in support of the amendment in the name of the noble and learned L...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews, and I would like to congra...

My Lords, I am one of no fewer than seven members of the Common Frameworks Scrutiny Committee, in...

My Lords, it is always a privilege to follow the noble Lord, particularly in his plea that we par...

My Lords, I reflect from the debate so far that the leadership of the main political parties at W...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, and his fellow signatories on the...

It is a very great privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, and the many other nob...

My Lords, without the new clause proposed by the noble and learned lord, Lord Hope of Craighead, ...

My Lords, speaking after so many distinguished noble Lords, I will try to avoid repeating what ha...

My Lords, this has been a remarkable afternoon. I agreed emphatically with my friend the noble Lo...

My Lords, first of all I say how much I agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, has said ab...

My Lords, I start by saying how much I agree with what a number of noble Lords have said about th...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, is right: I found cause to agree with her opening stat...

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate, despite the fact that it is decidedly one-sided—alth...

My Lords, in preamble, I say again that I agree with those who would like to see our old proceedi...

I have received only a single request to speak after the Minister, so I am going to call the nobl...

The Minister cast doubt on warnings about the impact on devolution. Has he looked at opinion poll...

My Lords, I am not sure that is directly relevant to the subject matter of the Bill. I thought I ...

[Inaudible.]—perspectives have offered support to what these amendments seek to do. Picking up a ...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 2. I remind noble Lords that Members ...

Moved by

Baroness Andrews

2: Clause 3, page 3, line 25, leave out subsections (8) to ...

My Lords, I shall speak also to the other amendments in this group which stand in my name and tho...

My Lords, I speak in strong support of the amendments tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews,...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the speeches by the noble Baronesses, Lady Andrews and Lady ...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew. I congratulate the no...

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

My Lords, apart from the interesting diversion by the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, into wider issu...

My Lords, as I have said before, the women in the House always get a bit nervous when we talk abo...

I thank everybody who has spoken in the debate so far. Just before we start, let me give my perso...

My Lords, I have received a request to ask a short question of elucidation from the noble Lord, L...

My Lords, at a time when the role and, indeed, the very existence of this House is under increasi...

I agree with the noble Lord, actually. If you look at the degree of scrutiny with which this Hous...

I am very grateful indeed to everyone who has taken part in this debate, particularly those noble...

My Lords, Amendment 3 has been pre-empted, so the debate on the group beginning with Amendment 3 ...

We move swiftly on to Amendment 6, and I remind noble Lords that Members other than the mover and...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

6: Clause 5, page 4, line 29, after “part” in...

My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to speak to and move Amendment 6, which I hope is self-expla...

My Lords, I speak in support of both amendments in this group. The noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh ...

My Lords, I am delighted to speak in support of Amendment 6, moved so well by the indefatigable n...

My Lords, I too wish to speak to Amendment 24, so ably addressed by my noble friend Lady Ritchie ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 24 in the name of the noble Baronesses, Lady Ritchie of Down...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett. She makes very many import...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, and my noble friend Lord Foulkes have made the case ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate.

Amendment 6, in the ...

I call the Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering.

My Lords, I am grateful to those who have spoken in support of this amendment—

My Lords, I believe that a noble Lord gave notice that he wanted to speak after the Minister.

I am so sorry; I did not get the message. Who wanted to speak after the Minister?

I believe it was the noble Lord, Lord Fox.

I am sorry. I call the noble Lord, Lord Fox.

My Lords, I apologise for creating such a fuss, and I thank the Whip for intervening on my behalf...

In short, I addressed the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Suttie. No, I do not believe tha...

I have just received a message that the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, would like to speak briefly...

My Lords, I would like to ask the Minister a further question. In my submission, and the submissi...

The noble Baroness also asked me if I would receive a letter, and I said that I would do so. That...

I think that I am now safe to call the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering.

My Lords, once again I thank all those who have spoken in this debate, in particular my noble fri...

Moved by

Baroness Andrews

7: Clause 6, page 5, line 23, leave out subsections (5) to ...

I should inform the House that, if Amendment 7 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendment 8. Does the ...

My Lords, I have spoken to this in an earlier group, and I anticipated that I would be pressing t...

My Lords, Amendment 8 has been pre-empted.

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 9. I remind noble Lords that Members other than...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

9: Clause 6, page 5, line 29, at end insert—<...

My Lords, I am grateful to have this opportunity to move the amendment standing in my name and th...

My Lords, I am very pleased once again to support the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh. I want to sp...

My Lords, I speak to this group of amendments in the name of my noble friend Lady McIntosh of Pic...

My Lords, given my five years in the Chair in the other place, noble Lords will not be surprised ...

My Lords, in answer to the noble Lord, Lord Naseby, the fact that the super-affirmative powers ha...

My Lords, this debate raises an important and much wider issue about how statutory instruments ar...

My Lords, I am grateful to those who have spoken in the debate, which I will try to sum up briefl...

My Lords, I am grateful to all those who have spoken, particularly the noble Lords, Lord Foulkes ...

I remind noble Lords that Members other than the mover and the Minister may speak only once and t...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

10: Clause 8, page 6, line 47, at end insert—