Trade Bill

My Lords, in moving Amendment 1 I shall also speak to Amendments 4 and 5. The purpose of these am...

My Lords, I rise primarily to support the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, as I did in Committee, in hi...

My Lords, I join the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, and the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, in ut...

My Lords, on the substance of this amendment, I have very little to add to the excellent speeches...

My Lords, I turn to Amendments 1, 4 and 5, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley. I acknowledge...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who spoke and to the noble Baronesses, Lady Nevil...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 2. I remind noble Lords that Members other than...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

2: Clause 2, page 2, line 18, at end insert “...

My Lords, I am delighted to speak on Report and, in particular, to speak to and move Amendment 2 ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure, as always, to follow the noble Baroness. I have a great deal of sympa...

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

My Lords, I turn to Amendments 2 and 3, tabled by my noble friend Lady McIntosh of Pickering, whi...

I am most grateful to my noble friend Lord Younger of Leckie. With the reassurance he has given m...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 6. I remind noble Lords that Members other than...

Moved by

Lord Purvis of Tweed

6: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—

I rise to move Amendment 6, and I look forward to hearing the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, on Amendm...

My Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, who set out the arguments for...

My Lords, I support Amendment 6 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, and the revi...

My Lords, it is a privilege to add my name to Amendment 6 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Pur...

My Lords, I am delighted to support Amendment 6 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, and t...

My Lords, I am happy to follow the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, and his underlining of the importance...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register.

I rise to support Amendment 6 ...

My Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 6 in the name of my noble friend Lord Purvis of Tweed. ...

My Lords, these two amendments have much to commend them and dovetail neatly with parts of my Ame...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering. I support th...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie. I agree with everything th...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, althou...

My Lords, I also find Amendment 6 rather severe: not only is it asking for accountability to Parl...

I call the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay. No? Then I call the noble Earl, Lord Caithness.

My Lords, I am sorry that the noble Baroness was unable to give us the benefit of her wisdom.

My Lords, I am sorry that technical difficulties meant that I could not come in just now. I suppo...

My Lords, we have had a good and wide-ranging debate today. I want to pick up on the speeches of ...

I would like to thank noble Lords for the courteous way in which this debate has been conducted. ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for a very thorough response; he will find out how persua...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 7. I remind noble Lords that Members other than...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

7: After Clause 2, insert the following new C...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 7 I will speak also to Amendment 44 and to the government amendment...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, for her introduction to this group of amendments on th...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester. I will speak briefly to A...

My Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville....

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Henig, and to hear not only her ver...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb. I am a signat...

My Lords, I wish to speak primarily on Amendment 7 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady McInto...

My Lords, I had very much hoped to give three loud cheers to the Government for putting down this...

My Lords, as always, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Earl, Lord Caithness. I greatly a...

My Lords, my interests are as recorded in the register. It is a great honour and privilege to fol...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord. It is clear that the government amendments t...

My Lords, this group consists of government amendments, together with amendments from my noble fr...

I have received a request to ask a short question from the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, so I ca...

I thank the Minister for his extensive explanations behind his amendments, although, obviously, I...

I thank the noble Lord for that question. Pragmatically, the most likely circumstance would be if...

My Lords, I am grateful to all who have spoken in this debate and in particular to the Minister f...

Is the noble Baroness withdrawing her amendment? I cannot hear a response.

I am so sorry. I am seeking clarification as to whether it is the Government’s intention to withd...

Perhaps I can help my noble friend. The Minister is happy with what he has said, and I urge my no...

I wish to press my amendment.

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 8. I remind noble Lords that Members ...

Moved by

Lord Collins of Highbury

8: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, and the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Al...

My Lords, the Government may be concerned to see noble Lords return from that intermission invigo...

My Lords, I rise to speak in support of Amendment 8 and my own Amendments 10 and 45—that is 10 an...

I call the next speaker, the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, who will be followed by the noble Lo...

I thank noble Lords for putting down these amendments, which I wish to support. Noble Lords who h...

The noble Baroness, Lady Falkner of Margravine, has withdrawn, so I now call the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, I fully endorse the wise comments of the noble Lords, Lord Collins, Lord Alton and Lord...

My Lords, I will speak in support of Amendment 8; I also support Amendment 10 in the name of the ...

The noble Baroness, Lady Blackstone, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh o...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Collins, on so eloquently moving his amendment. He ...

My Lords, my first point on these amendments is that I am fundamentally in favour of trade. It is...

My Lords, I support Amendment 8. We have been privileged to belong to the European Union and foll...

My Lords, I support Amendment 8. Unlike the noble Earl, Lord Sandwich, I also support Amendment 9...

My Lords, I declare my position as co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hong Kong, wh...

My Lords, I am glad to have an opportunity to contribute to this important debate. I thank the no...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord. I remember very clearly the debate that he l...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Collins of Highbury, for his Amendment 8. It touches on an...

I thank the Minister for his response. I also thank all noble Lords who contributed to this debat...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 9. I remind noble Lords that Members ...

Moved by

Lord Alton of Liverpool

9: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, the House has already heard some of the arguments explored in the preceding group of am...

My Lords, it is with great pride that I support this amendment. As the noble Lord, Lord Alton, ha...

My Lords, it is a very great pleasure to support this amendment, following the excellent speech o...

I call the next speaker, the noble Baroness, Lady Falkner, and I will then call the noble Barones...

My Lords, it is a real pleasure, as the fourth person to have put my name to the amendment, to sp...

I thank the noble Lords who have brought forward this amendment. The House has heard the passion,...

My Lords, I echo the final words of the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, and implore my noble frie...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, and his very moving speech. I ...

The noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, and the noble Baroness, Lady Blackstone, have both withdrawn fro...

My Lords, I am very pleased to endorse this amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Alton o...

My Lords, I am sorry that I was not able to vote for the previous amendment, although I am very m...

My Lords, I would like to congratulate the noble Lords, Lord Alton and Lord Forsyth, and the nobl...

My Lords, in this long dialogue with the Government, notably led in this House by the noble Lord,...

My Lords, at this very late hour I will be as brief as I can, so that other Members waiting to sp...

The noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of Newnh...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, referred to the genocide in Rwanda. When that happened, I...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the powerful speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of New...

Contrary to my intention, I must intervene to correct what I regard as a mischaracterisation of m...

My Lords, I applaud my noble friend Lord Alton for tabling Amendment 9 and for all the work he do...

My Lords, I rise to speak in favour of Amendment 9. In doing so, I return to an issue that I have...

My Lords, it is an honour to follow so many powerful speeches supporting this ground-breaking ame...

I pay tribute to the movers of this amendment, in particular my noble friend Lord Alton—for he is...

My Lords, this has been a powerful debate and rightly so, given the seriousness of the issue. Thi...

My Lords, I will not detain the House for too long because I made my comments in the previous deb...

My Lords, we have had a very long debate, and it is now my job to address the amendment in the na...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Viscount for his response to the debate. He would not expect...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 11. I remind noble Lords that Members...

Moved by

Baroness Thornton

11: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—