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Moved by
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
20A: Clause 2, page 1, line 11, at end insert...
My Lords, since nobody else is speaking and I had prepared a response to the noble Viscount, Lord...
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My Lords, in the absence of my noble friend Lord Stansgate, I should say a couple of words about ...
My Lords, I will be brief and will refer particularly to Amendment 26A. I repeat that I am a memb...
My Lords, my hope for ARIA was that it would look a bit like ARPA. ARPA is not a blue-sky, high-r...
My Lords, I speak as an American citizen, although luckily I do not earn enough money for it to b...
My Lords, first, I apologise for being late. I do not know whether amendments can be moved by Tha...
Perhaps I might say to the noble Viscount that it is customary, if a noble Lord is not here for t...
I found the noble Baroness’s comments in our last session very helpful and I learned a great deal...
We discussed this with the Table and it was agreed that, because they are the noble Viscount’s am...
I will be very brief. I take it that we are talking about the climate-change provision, on which ...
My Lords, I thank the noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate, for tabling these amendments and for the di...
I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.
Moved by
Baroness Chapman of Darlington
24: Clause 2, page 2, line 15, at end insert—...
I want to talk about the issue of FoI. We all knew that this was coming in our discussions; it ca...
My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Chapman and shall speak also to Amendment 32A, which, ir...
My Lords, I spoke on this at Second Reading and quoted Tony Blair. Just to remind the Committee, ...
My Lords, I speak to Amendment 39 in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones. It i...
My Lords, I will make two points. The first is in response to a point made by the noble Baroness,...
I would like to respond to that, which I find very interesting. I would like to know whether ARPA...
My Lords, my noble friend Lord Fox, in his amendment, and other noble Lords in theirs have pointe...
I start with Amendment 24 from the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman, Amendment 32A from the noble Vis...
My Lords, if I may have the privilege of intervening—a wonderful feeling, having been under diffe...
Because it is a fairly new and exciting agency doing new things. I suppose we will have to disagr...
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I invite him to reread what he said at Se...
I can assure the noble Lord that people need no invitation from me to table FoI requests to my de...
I thank the Minister for responding to my amendment and speaking to Amendment 42, which I did not...
Moved by
Lord Browne of Ladyton
30: Clause 4, page 2, line 26, at end insert—
“...
My Lords, Amendment 30 seeks to ensure that any grant made by ARIA is subject to the condition th...
My Lords, I am not as opposed to foreign takeovers as the noble Lord, Lord Browne, but I accept t...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Browne, for raising this very interesting issue. Without r...
My Lords, I very much appreciate that the noble Lord, Lord Browne, has brought forward his Amendm...
My Lords, I rise to give the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Browne, the very strongest s...
My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendment 31 in my name. It is a probing amendment to find whet...
My Lords, I rise briefly to support my noble friends Lady Chapman and Lord Browne. Amendment 31A ...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Browne, for his comments on Amendment 30. I recognise that...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response and particularly for engaging with the reasons be...
Tabled by
Viscount Stansgate
31A: Clause 5, page 2, line 33, at end insert—
“(4...
I will move the amendment, but I am about to withdraw it. In withdrawing it, could I say to the M...
I think the noble Viscount is trying to say that he is not moving Amendment 31A. Am I correct?
Moved by
Lord Fox
32: Clause 6, page 2, line 40, at end insert—
“(2A) ARIA must...
My Lords, this amendment is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones. I will try...
My Lords, I rise briefly to support the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Fox. It seems entirel...
This has been such a short debate that it is barely worth winding up. I will just reinforce the p...
I rise briefly to emphasise the points made by both Front Benches and to say that the Government ...
Well, it may surprise the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman, to know that I largely agree with what sh...
I thank the Minister for his response and noble Lords for their contributions. I shall read close...
Moved by
Lord Callanan
35: Clause 8, page 3, line 35, leave out from “any” to end of ...
My Lords, the Government have brought forward Amendments 35, 36, 44, 45, 46 and 48 in response to...
I draw your Lordships’ attention to the fact that, in this group, government Amendments 44, 45, 4...
My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s comments. Without sounding whiny, this would have bene...
It is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Fox. I have a lot of sympathy with what he has to...
I can be very brief, because I do not have a lot to add to what I said earlier, beyond acknowledg...
I have to respond because of the mocking tone of the Minister. He said I should not be asking how...
Certainly I apologise to the noble Baroness if she interpreted my remarks as mocking: I was not a...
Moved by
Baroness Noakes
36A: After Clause 8, insert the following new Clause—
...
My Lords, at the request of my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe and with the agreement of the Comm...
I just want to make a quick observation about this. Obviously, we have argued to have climate as ...
My Lords, I took the time to discuss this amendment with the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, ...
I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, for her comments and for stepping so ably into the breac...
My Lords, let me thank all noble Lords who have spoken. I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Cha...
Moved by
Lord Callanan
37: Schedule 3, page 13, leave out lines 1 to 14
Member’...
My Lords, the Bill as introduced to the House added ARIA to the lists of reserved bodies within t...
My noble friend referred to the agreement having been shared with us, but I am not aware of havin...
My noble friend also sent a letter to me following last week’s Committee; that was shared only wi...
My apologies—we shared it with those who had contributed to the debate on the subject previously....
It was my intention to contribute to this debate briefly. Since the Minister has referred to the ...
My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Lord, because he shares some of my concerns. I thank t...
It was slightly surprising to get this agreement so late in the day. Although I have seen that it...
My Lords, I rise to be genuinely helpful to the Minister. It appears that I am the most privilege...
My Lords, this has obviously been an unsatisfactory semi-debate. That dissatisfaction has rung ou...
I thank noble Lords for their comments. First, on the agreement, the text has been agreed by Mini...
Moved by
Lord Callanan
38: Schedule 3, page 13, line 14, at end insert—
“Income...
Amendments 38, 41 and 43 are consequential on the omission of Clause 10 from the Bill and the nar...
My Lords, there is a splendid irony in what the Minister has just said as he trotted through the ...
I thank the noble Lord for his explanation, which I find rather more digestible than the Minister...
Moved by
Lord Callanan
40: Schedule 3, page 13, leave out lines 15 to 30
Member...
Moved by
Lord Callanan
43: Schedule 3, page 14, line 3, at end insert—
“UK GDPR...
Moved by
Lord Callanan
44: Clause 11, page 4, line 29, leave out “any of the followin...
Moved by
Lord Callanan
46: Clause 12, page 5, leave out lines 4 to 8
Member’s e...
Moved by
Lord Fox
47: Clause 14, page 5, line 23, at end insert—
“(1A) Before r...
My Lords, this is the last group of amendments in Committee, and it is probably just as well, bec...
If ARIA does not exist until the Act is commenced, how can there be a framework agreement that in...
My Lords, I do not need to do very much more. My noble friend is finishing this symphony of a Bil...
My Lords, I support Amendment 47, tabled by the noble Lords, Lord Fox and Lord Clement-Jones. I f...
Committees go in cycles: they can get very serious, but we are now getting towards the end, where...
I remind the Minister that, not so long ago, he secured Amendments 37 and 40 on the basis of the ...
I thank Members who have contributed to this brief debate. I am disappointed that the noble Lord,...
I have a couple of questions before the Minister sits down—or rather, I will now respond. The Min...
Moved by
Lord Callanan
48: Clause 14, page 5, line 28, leave out “10” and insert “11”...