United Kingdom Internal Market Bill

My Lords, during the Bill’s progress through Parliament, we have engaged extensively to ensure th...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for some of the considerations on which he elaborated around some ...

My Lords, I am delighted that my noble friend has listened to many of the concerns raised in Comm...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 62A, proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles. We ...

My Lords, I very much welcome the opening statement from the noble Lord, Lord Callanan. I think h...

The next speaker on the list, the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, has withdrawn. I call the n...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord. Like him, I was surprised at the level of the ...

My Lords, I support the government amendments in this group, but I put my name down to speak in o...

My Lords, I should declare an interest in that I have a partnership with my wife to look after 40...

My Lords, I have to declare an interest, in the sense that, due to my IT incompetence, my name ap...

My Lords, the next speaker on the list, the noble Lord, Lord Flight, has withdrawn, so I call the...

My Lords, many noble Lords have railed against the virtual process, but the serendipitous arrival...

My Lords, partly for the reasons that the noble Lord, Lord Fox, has given, this has been an inter...

I thank all noble Lords for their interventions on this subject; I understand the sincerity with ...

My Lords, I have received no request to ask the Minister a short question. I shall therefore put ...

Moved by

Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted

62A: Clause 40, page 32, line 7, at end inser...

In moving this amendment, I am sorry that the Minister is not prepared to negotiate further about...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

63: Clause 40, page 32, line 19, after “CMA,” insert—

“(...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 64. I remind noble Lords that Members other tha...

Moved by

Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd

64: Clause 42, leave out Clause 42

Member’s ex...

My Lords, I rise to move this amendment to remove Clause 42 of the Bill. This amendment and Amend...

I should inform the House that if Amendment 64 is agreed to, Amendments 66 and 67 cannot be calle...

My Lords, it is a genuine pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord. I admire how thoroughly ...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, who has repeated...

My Lords, I am pleased to support Amendment 64, moved by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas ...

My Lords, I preface my remarks by saying that what will replace the European structural funds is ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 64, which seeks to remove Clause 42 from the Bill. I thank the nobl...

My Lords, I will speak first to government Amendment 66, on how the power in Section 42 will be u...

My Lords, in his very clear and crisp outline of the reasons for his Amendment 64, the noble and ...

My Lords, I support Clause 42 and Amendment 66, but I do not support the various other amendments...

My Lords, I again partly apologise to noble Lords because I intended to speak on later amendments...

My Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, but I could not disagree with ...

My Lords, once again, this has been a very widespread and high-quality debate. To the Minister, w...

My Lords, I am going to say much the same things as the noble Lord, Lord Fox, but I will focus a ...

My Lords, I begin by reminding noble Lords of the purpose of this part of the Bill. The power to ...

My Lords, I have received requests to ask a short question from the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, the ...

My Lords, I strongly support the Government’s levelling-up agenda but, having listened to the nob...

I am not sure that the noble Lord’s first questions cover points that we have not covered in this...

The noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, said to be careful what you wish for. She intimated that, in the...

My Lords, I do not think that I can go any further than what has been announced in the spending r...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for attempting to answer my final question but I fear that she may...

The noble Lord will probably be unsurprised to know that the advice I have received has not chang...

The Minister gave a number of examples of how the UK Government are currently able, under their p...

The Government are seeking the power under this Bill to spend across the whole of the United King...

I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this interesting debate. I apologise to the noble Baro...

My Lords, Amendments 66 and 67 have been pre-empted.

Moved by

Lord Purvis of Tweed

68: Clause 43, leave out Clause 43

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 68A. I remind noble Lords that Members other tha...

Moved by

Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted

68A: After Clause 43, insert the following ne...

My Lords, the amendment in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, borrows much from ...

I support this amendment, the remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles, on these matters, and t...

The noble Lord, Lord Flight, does not appear to be present in the Chamber and the noble Baroness,...

My Lords, I cannot support this amendment. We had a considerable debate on the OIM in Committee. ...

My Lords, as the Minister knows, I am a strong supporter of the Bill and believe that it is impor...

My Lords, I support the main thrust of the amendment, as I explained in Committee when leading a ...

My Lords, I now call the noble Lord, Lord Flight.

My Lords, I apologise for having to move my timing, but I had to get something urgently for my wi...

My Lords, I regret that I do not believe that the noble Lord, Lord Flight, was here for the start...

I apologise. The noble Lord, Lord Flight, told me that he was here at the start of the debate, bu...

I am certain I was.

My Lords, the debate on this amendment has been relatively short, but the Minister should not con...

I am going to disappoint the noble Lord, Lord Fox, as I will not go through my arguments at lengt...

I thank noble Lords who participated in the debate, particularly for their brevity. This is, I su...

My Lords, I thank all those who have participated in this short debate. Some very telling points ...

My Lords, we now come to Amendment 69. I remind noble Lords that Members other than the mover and...

Moved by

Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd

69: Clause 44, leave out Clause 44

Member’s ex...

My Lords, in a way this issue is much simpler because Clause 44 has been put in with one purpose ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, for putting forwa...

My Lords, I speak in support of this amendment, elegantly explained by my noble and learned frien...

Clause 44 says it unequivocally: the UK Government, also parading as the English Government in th...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend, with the very great experience and kn...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, I agree with the case that has been made so well by t...

I thank noble Lords who have contributed to another admirably brief debate. We are making good pr...

My Lords, I have received one request to ask the Minister a short question for elucidation, from ...

Can the Minister reflect a bit more on what he has just said about treating this issue as a matte...

I am not sure whether that was a question or a speech in the wrong place—but I take the noble Lor...

I will be brief, as obviously it would be very unfair if the Welsh were totally to outnumber ever...

Moved by

Lord Judge

70: Clause 46, page 37, line 2, leave out subsection (1) and inse...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 73. I remind noble Lords that Members...

Moved by

Lord Mackay of Clashfern

73: After Clause 46, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, I am happy to move Amendment 73. It is the same sort of amendment that I moved in Commi...

It is a pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord and we are grateful that he is more reliabl...

My Lords, I put my name to my noble and learned friend Lord Mackay of Clashfern’s amendment out o...

It is a pleasure to follow Lord Cormack, who has neatly demonstrated in this last group on Report...

My Lords, I am glad to have the opportunity to speak in this group of amendments and to follow th...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Wigley. I endorse everything that my nobl...

My Lords, I am speaking in support of Amendment 75, and I recognise the constructive intentions b...

My Lords, my noble and learned friend Lord Mackay of Clashfern made some powerful arguments on th...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Trenchard, who has contributed so much ...

My Lords, this has again been a high-quality debate. It is an honour to follow the noble Duke, th...

My Lords, like others, I congratulate the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay, on his campaign. T...

My Lords, I must say that any computer that tries to silence my noble and learned friend Lord Mac...

I have received no requests to speak after the Minister. I now call the noble and learned Lord, L...

My Lords, I am glad to be able to speak to noble Lords, although I cannot now see them. I appreci...

Moved by

Lord Fox

75: Clause 50, page 39, line 5, at end insert “, subject to subsect...

My Lords, it has been very helpful to hear the Minister. His description of the intergovernmental...

Moved by

Lord Judge

77: Clause 50, page 39, line 6, leave out subsection (4)

Me...

That concludes the Bill. We will now go straight on to the next session, so I ask the Ministers t...