Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

My Lords, I begin by taking this opportunity to extend the condolences of these Benches—and I am ...

Moved by

Baroness Altmann

My Lords, I would like to add my support to the remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman, and ...

My Lords, it may assist the House to know that we from these Benches can confirm our support for ...

My Lords, I apologise to the House for being unable to speak at Second Reading. I put my name dow...

My Lords, the effect of these amendments, whether one agrees with their precise wording, is to gi...

My Lords, I hope that I will not embarrass the noble Lord, Lord Howard, by saying that I agree wi...

My Lords, I express my support for the observations of the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman, and the ...

My Lords, I too will be brief. I have heard nothing in the preceding speeches with which I disagr...

My Lords, I speak with a sense of something approaching elation from yesterday. We have a new Pri...

My Lords, I speak as one who lives in Northern Ireland and experiences on a regular basis the imp...

My Lords, I rise to support both these amendments and to pay tribute to our colleague Baroness Ma...

My Lords, I spoke at Second Reading and made clear my opposition to Bill. I will not repeat any o...

I will not begin by following my noble friend with an autobiographical diversion, but I want to s...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, has done such fantastic work on pensions and much mor...

Just to correct what the noble Baroness said about my contribution, I did not say that the Bill w...

I wrote it down and I will check. It was said that if there were not substantial alterations to t...

Has the noble Baroness seen the latest opinion poll, which shows that, when you exclude “Don’t kn...

I am always delighted when people think that opinion polls and what is said on Twitter are democr...

My Lords, I am sure the House would not expect me to, or hope that I would, follow that contribut...

My Lords, I rise to speak with some trepidation as, apart from the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, this...

Can I ask the noble Lord whether he thinks that the Government’s intention to call a Northern Ire...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady O’Loan, very much for that question. The short answer is that I ...

That is what noble Lords have been saying.

The negotiation with the European Union is proceeding apace anyway. This is of no relevance —I ke...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Bew, for giving way. While I was not at BIPA, my clear understanding...

I thank the noble Baroness for her intervention. Of course I take the point, but I was saying tha...

Does not the noble Lord think that it is slightly odd that his justification in law for supportin...

The noble Lord has a point—but not as deep a point as he might imagine, because the Government ha...

I am grateful to the noble Lord; he knows that I like and respect him. I am trying to follow the ...

We are in political negotiations. Here is our problem; I have already explained it. When I tried ...

My Lords, in all this discussion, not enough is said about the horror of what was experienced in ...

My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Bew, because he has at least made the effort to p...

It is a little more than just “a need to”, which is definitely there. I can see perfectly clearly...

I bow to the noble Lord, who has immeasurably more knowledge and experience of Northern Ireland t...

My Lords, I had not intended to take part in this debate because I had not realised that it would...

My Lords—

The noble Lord, Lord Clarke, has already spoken. I want to get on and not delay the House any lon...

I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord. I have every respect for him; we have been together in...

I am grateful for the opportunity that the noble Lord gives me to clarify that point. If he looks...

My Lords, first I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate. As I was rising, I lo...

My Lords, that the Government have said they will publish the draft regulations is very welcome, ...

One of my introducing Peers was my noble friend Lord Howard. He often said to me, “Tariq, when no...

My Lords, I shall not detain the House. We have had a very good debate. I thank my noble friend f...

I start by thanking the Minister for the tone of his response to this debate. I did not anticipat...

Moved by

Baroness Chapman of Darlington

1: Clause 1, page 1, line 15, at end insert—<...

I am grateful and will try not to repeat myself and go over the discussion we have just had. The ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 2 and 6 in my name and support those in the name of the n...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman, and the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, for their pr...

My Lords, I would like to make a suggestion. It seems to me that we are not going to achieve a gr...

My Lords, we heard two views earlier in the debate, which was longer than any of us expected, on ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions. I will go straight to the amendments. ...

Could the Minister clarify the sequencing of talks with the EU, Article 16 and the regulations un...

What I said, and I have said it before, and without prejudice to our position on other mechanisms...

Can the Minister explain how the doctrine of necessity can be satisfied when the Government thems...

I am sure we will return to the principle of the doctrine of necessity in later amendments. The u...

I thank the Minister for giving way. I welcome very much his willingness, expressed to the noble ...

My Lords, I hear what the noble Lord says; of course, he is a real veteran of diplomacy. When I r...

I am grateful. I read that paper, but that was prior to Michael Ellis, the Paymaster-General, whe...

My Lords, in any negotiation, parties will consider their position as discussions continue. What ...

I appreciate that there cannot be day-to-day updates on negotiations; that would be nonsense. I a...

The noble Baroness is right. The point of contention for us in any discussion has remained the ab...

These have not yet been moved.

My apologies; I have covered Amendments 2 and 43, which are the ones in this group. Without repea...

I am grateful to the Minister. I note again his rather charming tone, but I am afraid he cannot d...

Does the noble Baroness accept the principle that the noble Baroness, Lady Hoey, asked me to clar...

I have been very clear about that. I am surprised by the Minister’s intervention on that point, b...

Moved by

Baroness Ludford

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 15, at end insert—

“(e) req...

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 3 and speak to Amendment 67. If the Government are so confiden...

My Lords—oh, I give way to the noble and learned Lord.

Thank you very much. Just so that we are not met with the argument that we never show legal advic...

My Lords, I thought my days of trying to beat the gun had left me behind a long time ago. I apolo...

My Lords, I very much agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Campbell, said about this being a cont...

My Lords, I would like first to take up my noble friend Lord Pannick’s point about the Government...

Would the noble Lord give way on that point? I am just wishing to test that a little further with...

Both the EU and the UK Government said at a number of points—three at least—that this agreement i...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. Is there not a possible remedy here? If ther...

We are in a situation now where in Dublin it is accepted by those involved in the negotiation tha...

My Lords, with all due respect to the noble Lord, Lord Bew, and in due deference to the noble and...

My Lords, this debate illustrates one of the issues deeply affecting Northern Ireland politics: t...

I understand that my noble friend—if I can call him that—has been lied to repeatedly, but he was ...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness, and I understand what she is saying, but the issues that wer...

I entirely understand the noble Lord’s political grievance, but the fact is that Article 16 is pa...

I always find it very interesting to follow the noble Lord. As I said before, I have been trying ...

Do not worry, I will not be arguing that passionately for any Bill that could end up being withdr...

As the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, said, there is a difference between recognising that there are m...

Not any more.

I hear he has changed. The former Paymaster-General, who is now the former Attorney-General, was ...

Perhaps I might provide a lifeline to the Advocate-General for Scotland, because I am a Scotsman ...

My Lords, very briefly, I have been trying to say that the legal advice is a little more complica...

For my part, and I am sure it is true of others who have spoken in this debate, I am not asking t...

My Lords, I turn to Amendments 3 and 67 in the names of the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, and the...

Yes, you did.

I am grateful to my noble friend. I was left by some of the strictures and anticipations of my po...

The Advocate-General has just given the totally conventional response about the Government not pu...

My Lords, the Government set out their position at the outset to assuage, hopefully, the concerns...

Or contributed.

Or contributed. Where I and the Government differ from the noble Lord is in this regard: we signe...

I am very grateful and I apologise for speaking so often, but this is Committee. If the Governmen...

To pick up the noble Lord’s point about the CJEU, the Belfast/Good Friday agreement is based, as ...

I listened very carefully to what my noble and learned friend said, but the situation remains the...

My Lords, I beg respectfully to differ from my noble friend. The situation is not the same, becau...

I have noticed the emphasis that the Minister has placed twice now on the word “implementation”, ...

I am referring to implementation in terms of the manner in which these problems have arisen: the ...

I was muttering to myself, actually. Those are not problems of implementation of the protocol, th...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her intervention, and I hope I will be able to,...

The noble and learned Lord has just told the Committee that the problem is with the implementatio...

My Lords, the problems with which we are grappling lie in the implementation of the protocol: I t...

Is this the noble and learned Lord correcting the record now from his Second Reading speech? I am...

The noble Lord promised at the very outset of Committee, when he opened the earlier debate, that ...

Could I ask my noble and learned friend to amplify what it is in the way that the protocol is wor...

My Lords, the diversion of trade and the effects upon the confidence of the unionist community in...

On that point, would the Minister be able to cite any other agreement the UK has signed where the...

My Lords, that question brings me on to dealing with the terms of the argument in relation to Art...

I must confess that I am very troubled and puzzled. If the Government have decided that this is w...

My Lords, as your Lordships have heard from my noble friend Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon and the noble...

I will refer to this in the next group, but the Minister might want to add a little extra with re...

My Lords, in any case, there will be parties that are disappointed to a greater extent than other...

My Lords, the Minister said that the four-page document we saw in July was designed to assuage ou...

This is a little simpler than our discussion, which has reached a rather convoluted shape. The Go...

I will not prolong the debate as we all want something to eat. I simply disagree with the noble L...