Subsidy Control Bill

My Lords, in moving Amendment 66 I shall speak also to Amendments 72 and 78. In so doing, I thank...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 72, which I think is linked with this amendment. It refers t...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, for tabling these amendments. At Second R...

My Lords, this is an interesting debate. I originally set out, as Committee stages are wont to do...

First, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Purvis and Lord Fox, for their amendments. They seek to prob...

I have been following the Minister’s line of argument, but I do not think that it comes to the sa...

The United Kingdom Internal Market Act applies only to certain regulatory provisions, and a subsi...

With respect, we are in Committee on a Bill and we are making law, and simply to say that this is...

The reason why I made that point clear to the noble Lord—and I understand the point that he is ma...

I am grateful to the Minister for his reply, but I am also grateful to my noble friend Lord Fox, ...

Moved by

Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd

67: Clause 70, page 39, line 33, after “decision” in...

My Lords, I rise to deal with an amendment in relation to what I would call the broad powers of m...

Would the noble and learned Lord make it clear that he envisages, through this mechanism—or route...

Yes, indeed; that was my third point. The noble Lord has made it most eloquently in one sentence ...

My Lords, I have added my name to this amendment, which was so powerfully and eloquently moved. I...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 71 in my name. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lamont, and th...

My Lords, one problem that legislators always face is the inability to look with complete clarity...

We welcome the tabling of these two amendments, which move us on from the composition and core in...

I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas, and my noble friend Lord Lamont for tabling Amen...

Is the reason for that not that the EU insisted on it, and that is why the Bill is being brought ...

This legislation was predicated in the TCA, as my noble friend points out. We are of course meeti...

That is because those systems are fundamentally different. The EU state aid system was a pre-auth...

I said that it was a different regime but was pointing out the number of times that subsidy has b...

I have one question for the Minister on the hard economics of recovery of damages. Will there be ...

Yes, of course, they would be able to recover damages if a party had suffered a loss. I do not th...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who has taken part in this debate. If we are embarking on a new...

Moved by

Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd

69: Clause 70, page 40, line 16, at end insert “, th...

I am going to be very brief about this. The point emerged in the earlier remarks of the noble Lor...

My Lords, I will be equally brief. The omission of Ministers of the devolved Governments at this ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to my Amendment 79, which neatly follows the questions of the noble and...

My Lords, I am delighted to support the amendment put forward by the noble and learned Lord, Lord...

My Lords, I put my name to Amendment 69 as well, and I support exactly what my noble and learned ...

I have very little to add; it has been covered comprehensively. I was happy and pleased to add my...

My Lords, before I speak to the detail of these amendments, this is perhaps a good opportunity to...

I am grateful for that “no progress” update from the Minister. With regard to the current situati...

The legislation is UK-wide so it will apply in Northern Ireland but, clearly, the absence of the ...

I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this short debate; I do not want to lengthen it with a...

Tabled by

Lord McNicol of West Kilbride

70: Clause 71, page 40, line 37, leave out “o...

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 70 in the name of my noble friend Lord McNicol. I am sure that...

My Lords, I will speak briefly in support of the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Mc...

My Lords, I am pleased to speak in support of this modest amendment. As the noble Baroness said, ...

I rise briefly to add my support to the concerns expressed by other noble Lords that a one-month ...

I intervene briefly to strongly support my noble friend’s amendment and other noble Lords’ commen...

My Lords, I thank the noble lord, Lord McNicol for this amendment, and the noble Baroness, Lady B...

If the argument is that we are only giving one month to raise a complaint or to look into this, w...

As the noble Lord, Lord McNicol suggested, we explored this point fully last week. There are good...

I am interested in this concept of a chilling effect. What evidence is there for that, and what c...

I think that is the first time the Liberal Democrats have proposed giving the Government more sec...

I thank the Minister for those final comments, which I think are a measure of the contributions w...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

73: Clause 78, page 45, line 15, leave out from second “of” to...

My Lords, I rise to speak to two amendments that have a relationship I shall endeavour to explain...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to talk after the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas of Cwmgie...

My Lords, I was delighted to hear the speech of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas, who rais...

My Lords, I rise to speak briefly to my Amendment 80, which is a probing amendment. It is grouped...

My Lords, I think we have a hard stop in 20 minutes, so I will be very brief. I am grateful to no...

My Lords, I am pleased to say that we are now on the final group of amendments. I have made it th...

Hear, hear!

I have had some expert advice from the Whips here. I thank the noble Lords for Amendments 73A, 74...

Such as opening something?

It’s interesting stuff, this. I suspect that the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, is not going to get a...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

76: Clause 79, page 46, line 13, at end insert—

“(7) The...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

77: Clause 82, page 47, line 35, at end insert—

“(e) pro...