Subsidy Control Bill

My Lords, I have tabled this amendment, to which the noble Baroness, Lady Hoey, has added her nam...

My Lords, I was pleased to add my name to the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Dodds...

My Lords, the issue of state aid goes beyond even the points that have already been made, because...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord. I was thinking that it is not usual for us t...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, and his detailed analysis, espe...

My Lords, without endorsing what the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, said, I think this is a very import...

My Lords, let me first thank the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, and the noble Baroness, Lady Hoey, for t...

Before the noble Lord sits down, the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, said that this is a probing amendmen...

I understand the point the noble Lord is making but, to return to the words I used, there must be...

I have the text of the Command Paper in front of me. I heard the Minister say that the Government...

We are seeking to have a single regime—the regime we are discussing now—that applies across the w...

My Lords, I thank the Minister very much for his response to the debate and all noble Lords who h...

Moved by

Baroness Randerson

52: After Clause 51, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I decided to table Amendment 52 having read the detailed concerns expressed by the Wels...

My Lords, I am very happy to support my noble friend on this amendment, to which I have added my ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, for moving this amendment. I am de...

My Lords, I add my voice to the concern about how agriculture is being treated under this Bill. O...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Whitty. I agree with all his comments. ...

My father spent half his working life milking other people’s cows and the other half milking cows...

My Lords, I wish to ask the specific question of how, if this Bill includes all agricultural supp...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Randerson, and the noble Lord, Lord Bruce of Bennachie, for tabl...

I am grateful to the Minister for her response on the points that I raised, but does she accept t...

While I absolutely accept that the agriculture industry is completely different from others that ...

Less favoured area status was mentioned by my noble friend. In Scotland, 86% of the land has less...

I register those concerns. Consultation with the devolved Administrations continues, but I repeat...

I do not think the Minister addressed the point regarding the interaction with the UK internal ma...

I reassure the noble Lord that the CMA has an advisory function; the tribunal will be the body th...

We have to read this debate in the context of the previous debates. As the Minister has previousl...

The public authorities can devise their own schemes according to their own policy priorities, as ...

Let me give a specific example. Herefordshire County Council decides, within the seven principles...

I think a lot of this overlaps with the internal market Act, which we will debate at length on a ...

This has been an interesting debate. The noble Lord, Lord Wigley, will understand my point when I...

There are a couple of points I would like to address now, and obviously I will cover the other po...

I thank the Minister for that. I fear that she makes my point for me in terms of Clause 41. My ar...

Moved by

Baroness Blake of Leeds

54: Clause 55, page 30, line 40, after “State” inser...

My Lords, in moving the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord McNicol, I am grateful to t...

My Lords, I am very pleased to have added my name to this group of important amendments. We are p...

My Lords, just as the noble Baroness, Lady Blake, suggested, I shall speak to Amendments 55, 57 a...

My Lords, I cannot allow this debate to go without intervening very briefly. We have had argument...

I was expecting more interventions before my reply—I offer my apologies.

These amendments r...

If the Secretary of State has acted as Minister for England and a devolved Government want to get...

The noble Baroness is approaching this issue in completely the wrong way. First, this is a UK-wid...

The case that the Minister makes is a case against what he took through in the internal market Ac...

The internal market Act, which we debated at great length, reserved the application of a subsidy ...

I do not think that is relevant, because no one had any doubt about the fact that the internal ma...

I think the noble Lord is getting confused between the subsidy advice unit and the Competition Ap...

I am talking about a call-in that is exactly the same as in Section 36 of the internal market Act...

It is because the responsibilities are different. They might all rest within different parts of t...

I am glad that those conversations are taking place, but is not the danger that if the devolved A...

We are not denying the right to request, which is why we are currently in discussions with the de...

I am sure that it does not fall to me to remind the Minister that the Secretary of State might be...

Moved by

Lord Lamont of Lerwick

55A: Clause 55, page 30, line 40, after “State” inser...

My Lords, I shall also speak to Amendments 57A, 57B and 60A. The purpose of this group of amendme...

My Lords, I warmly support the noble Lord, Lord Lamont, in this amendment. Earlier this afternoon...

My Lords, it is always a genuine pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord in his analysis of...

My Lords, I think we will have a hard stop at 7.45 pm, so I will try to be brief. Even then, thou...

I am grateful to noble Lords. I know that time is getting on; hopefully I will have a chance to g...

My Lords, rather than rush through, let us finish here. I am sure there are some issues that we w...

Do we have time to finish?

I think we are comfortable starting again on Wednesday and giving this proper time.

The noble Lord, Lord Lamont, has yet to respond as well. It will not take long on Wednesday.

So shall we finish at this point and start again on Wednesday. Is my noble friend Lord Lamont ava...

Yes.