Procurement Bill [HL]

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 180. It seems a long time since we were in Grand Commit...

My Lords, I rise as a cipher for my noble friend Lord Wallace, who has tabled a number of amendme...

My Lords, I, too, welcome my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe to her new position. As she knows, s...

My Lords, I rise with great pleasure, following the noble Lords, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath and Lor...

My Lords, I also start by welcoming the Minister to her new role. I thank her and her officials f...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their kind welcome on my appointment as Minister of State a...

During that spirited defence of the need to keep things open for international companies to be ab...

If I may, I will think about the answer, make some progress, and come back to that on a future oc...

It is surprising that the Minister cannot answer that.

Well, I think that “value for money” is a clear term, but I am listening seriously to the point t...

Oh!

I try to wake up early, as noble Lords know. Value for money is not defined in Clause 11(1)(a), t...

I thank the Minister, but the question I was rather clumsily trying to ask was whether we extract...

I think we have made a bit of progress; I will not go down that rabbit hole or we will not make e...

A moment ago my noble friend said, in respect of the amendment by the noble Lord, Lord Fox, that ...

I thank my noble friend for her further comments, which I will consider carefully. I myself feel ...

I thank the Minister for her response. The notion of, in a sense, using professional misconduct a...

We have to get the right result but we also have to avoid a chilling effect. That is my basic app...

A chilling effect on corruption?

A chilling effect on corruption is obviously positive but a chilling effect on people being prepa...

I too welcome the Minister to her position. My question relates to a later group in which I have ...

As the noble Lord said, we will come on to discuss those aspects, and I will try to answer that q...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister. I particularly welcomed her comments on SMEs and tr...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

178: Clause 30, page 19, line 26, at end insert “or”<...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

181: Clause 30, page 19, line 32, leave out “supplier...

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

185: After Clause 30, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, in a sense, this amendment is very different from my first two. None the less, we are s...

My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, in what was...

My Lords, I am a co-signatory on this amendment and, from the Lib Dem Benches, we strongly suppor...

My Lords, I apologise; I will see how long my voice lasts—not long, I imagine some people hope, b...

My Lords, Amendment 185 would require the Minister to publish in regulations a list of countries ...

My Lords, I was talking about the international angle and the importance of doing things internat...

I apologise to the noble Baroness; I got trapped in the Chamber when the doors were locked at the...

I look forward to getting delayed in the Lobby in the next Division.

I am aware of the conc...

I would be grateful if the Minister could clarify a little her argument as to why organ trafficki...

I will need to take the noble Lord’s first point away and look at it. His explicit point is that ...

I would be grateful if the Minister were willing to consider this. It is not about the ethical po...

Clearly, I have learned during this debate. I will obviously have to learn a little more about ho...

My Lords, this has been a very interesting debate. I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Alton, t...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

188: Clause 31, page 20, line 2, leave out “tende...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

192: Clause 32, page 21, line 3, leave out “tende...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

199: Clause 33, page 21, line 22, leave out “tend...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

209: Clause 34, page 22, line 8, leave out from “...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

210: Clause 34, page 22, line 10, leave out “a pa...

My Lords, we have a change of horse. By way of a health warning, my remarks do include mention of...

My Lords, as I was saying, Amendments 223 to 227, 229 to 231 and 233 are tidying-up amendments. A...

My Lords, as the noble Viscount set out so speedily, this new concept of dynamic markets is so ne...

I had not intended to intervene but I am getting a bit confused here. In the Public Contracts Reg...

I think it is.

I hope it is but it does not say so, whereas the 2015 regulations make it clear that it is. I won...

I shall be extremely brief as the noble Lord, Lord Fox, has already covered a lot of the concerns...

My Lords, I appreciate the comments made by the three Peers who have spoken. It might be appropri...

Hear, hear!

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

211: Clause 34, page 22, line 11, leave out first...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

223: Clause 35, page 22, line 32, leave out “(a “...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

229: Clause 35, page 23, line 5, after “Act” inse...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

233: Clause 35, page 23, line 20, leave out subse...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

234: Clause 36, page 23, line 29, at end insert—<...

Moved by

Viscount Younger of Leckie

235: Clause 39, page 25, line 6, after “authority...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

235ZA: Clause 40, page 25, line 16, at end insert—

...

My Lords, I would be very happy if the Minister introduced my amendment, but in moving it I will ...

My Lords, I have Amendment 236 in this group. It probes the relationship between direct contract ...

My Lords, I rise to speak briefly on Amendment 240 in particular, to which I would have attached ...

My Lords, I have a few amendments in this group. The first is Amendment 235A, which was brought f...

My Lords, as we have heard, Clause 41 covers the very important issue of direct awards that may b...

My Lords, this is a rather confusing group, so I will start by speaking to the two government ame...

My Lords, before the Minister finishes, I have two points. On the big question, I asked whether s...

Perhaps I might add that what the Minister said makes a lot of sense and is helpful, but one of t...

I think our intention is to try to get rid of the VIP lanes. I will take the point away but there...

My Lords, I remind the Committee that, where amendments are grouped, only the first amendment is ...

My Lords, it falls to me as the mover of the lead amendment to respond to the Minister. Clearly, ...

Certainly. We have discussed SMEs before; we have gone away to have a look at that issue. I recen...

My Lords, I think it partly depends on the market that is covered by particular SMEs. I could pro...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

237: Schedule 5, page 89, line 27, leave out paragrap...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

244: Clause 42, page 26, line 28, after “satisfy” ins...

Moved by

Lord Aberdare

245A: Clause 44, page 27, line 14, leave out subsection (2) an...

My Lords, I start by joining the chorus of welcome to the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, in ...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendments 247, 248 and 249 in this group. This is my first chance t...

I apologise to the Committee for being late; I have literally just got off an aeroplane. Like oth...

My Lords, we are getting into some detail now. That is the purpose of Committee and it is very co...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Aberdare and Lord Scriven, and my noble friend Lord Lansl...

The Minister did make some progress though.

I agree with the objective behind the noble Lord’s Amendment 245A. There is a need for this Bill ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her response. I am encouraged that she agrees with the o...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

246: Clause 44, page 27, line 18, at end insert—

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

250: Clause 44, page 28, line 6, leave out “under an ...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

252: Clause 45, page 28, line 24, leave out “a framew...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

256: Clause 46, page 28, line 42, leave out “supplier...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

258: Clause 47, page 29, line 12, at end insert “(but...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

261: Clause 48, page 30, line 10, after “competitive”...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

263: Clause 49, page 30, line 31, after second “the” ...

My Lords, this group deals with Parts 9 and 10 of the Bill. Providing suppliers with an effective...

My Lords, I have several amendments in this group. The first is Amendment 264, a probing amendmen...

My Lords, I speak in place of my noble friend Lord Wallace on Amendments 349A, 349B and 353A, all...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 477A and 486A in my name. I thank my noble friend Lady Haym...

My Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, on the issues that she raises. W...

My Lords, this has been another interesting debate. This group is on oversight and remedies. If y...

I thank noble Lords for an interesting debate on these non-government amendments. I do not think ...

My Lords—

I will have a little more to say about this later on, so why not let me finish? If I do not answe...

Can the Minister clarify whether it is the Government’s intention that the PRU will be an appropr...

Following on from that, if the Secretary of State can give and the Secretary of State can take aw...

I might as well intervene now too, because the question I would really like to ask the Minister—a...

Following on from what the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, has said, and from what the Minister sa...

We do have a social value Act; I think the answer is—subject to correction—that social value feat...

I am grateful for that response. To be clear, will the panel be the investigating body?

No. The PRU, a Civil Service unit, will be the investigating body, which will consist of experien...

I am grateful, but Clause 96 says the “appropriate authority may investigate”. The Minister has b...

We have put together this whole new system of procurement, which includes various checks and bala...

The Minister will have got the message that there is deep disquiet about how this will be structu...

Of course, I will write setting out how this will work. I ask the Committee to look at it constru...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

265: Clause 49, page 31, line 2, after “period” inser...