Professional Qualifications Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend for his introduction to his amendment and for spe...

My Lords, I too support Amendment 1. I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, who has urged...

My Lords, I add my thanks to the Minister for having met with me and for having, as I know, consu...

My Lords, I first apologise for arriving a tad late; I was at the Economic Affairs Select Committ...

My Lords, I first thank the Minister for his kind wishes on my birthday. Where else would I want ...

My Lords, it is even more of a pleasure to do this Report with the debate having started in such ...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

3: Clause 1, page 2, line 27, at end insert—...

My Lords, we have moved faster than I anticipated. I rise to move Amendment 3 but give notice tha...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness on her amendment and on her appointment as chair of t...

My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, having co-signed three—and I ...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Bruce of Bennachie—if I have got ...

I do.

Oh! I will see the noble Baroness later; I thank her for drawing my attention to that.

I wh...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, has drawn attention to the fact that I have not put my na...

My Lords, I hope noble Lords will forgive me, but I want to intervene briefly in the debate. I am...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Bruce in his questions. As other noble Lords have indica...

My Lords, the Opposition have been clear through the passage of the Bill that regulators need sta...

South of the river?

Yes, absolutely. But if he cannot, I know that he knows it is a wonderful place and I enjoyed his...

My Lords, I will speak first to the amendment in my name on consulting with regulators, and then ...

Before my noble friend sits down, will he permit me to pursue the issue raised in a more general ...

My Lords, I am absolutely happy to give that assurance to my noble friend. Legal services are a v...

I thank the Minister for his reply, and my noble friends Lord Foulkes and Lord Kennedy, the noble...

I believe the reason why we are not consulting on Clause 2 is that it has no regulation-making po...

The noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, would be looking at me now and saying, “Any good barrister...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

5: Clause 2, page 2, line 39, leave out “without unreasonable d...

This group has two amendments, which do indeed relate to Clause 2, in my name and, for Amendment ...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, said, I have added my name to the second of the amendm...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness and to agree very substantially with what...

My Lords, I am conscious of the time, so I will not speak for long. A number of important points ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Lansley for his amendments, which would alter the unmet de...

On that last point, I am interested to know, if the appropriate national authority has determined...

I think these are both looked at from different perspectives, so I do not think it is a question ...

Who makes the decision?

I think, on immigration matters, the Home Office is the primary decision-maker.

I believe t...

My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend and to the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, and other...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

10: Clause 7, page 5, line 1, at end insert—<...

My Lords, in a brief meeting with my noble friend Lord Grimstone earlier this week, he made a ver...

My Lords, I wish to intervene, as I am sure the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, will, and he m...

My Lords, I put my name to this amendment because it is crucial that the arrangements that are ma...

My Lords, I do not normally intervene where devolved matters are concerned but I was so surprised...

My Lords, the noble Baroness put her finger on it when she referred to the bad feeling engendered...

My Lords, I start by saying a personal thank you to my noble friend Lady Hayter for her wonderful...

My Lords, before I start, I will thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope of Craighead, for th...

I am very interested in what the Minister said, and the House will welcome his initiative. In ord...

I thank the noble Lord for his welcome. Let me consider that: I am not prepared to agree to that ...

I am grateful to my noble friend for his response and to all those who have spoken. I am a little...

My Lords, I beg leave to answer one of the points made by my noble friend Lady McIntosh. If she w...