Seafarers’ Wages Bill [HL]

My Lords, I declare an interest as a director of J&J Denholm, which has shipping and port service...

My Lords, I have a lot of sympathy with what my noble friend Lord Forsyth has said. We have set o...

My Lords, I very much endorse what the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, just said. I am very concerned a...

My Lords, I want to start by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, for his usual attention to d...

My Lords, I support both my noble friend Lord Berkeley’s amendments. They make it more likely tha...

My Lords, to make some general comments, we welcome the Bill. I think everybody has been shocked ...

My Lords, I am very grateful for all contributions on this first group. I appreciate the support ...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this short debate and to the Mi...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

2: Clause 3, page 2, line 15, leave out “120” and insert “52”<...

I would like to test the opinion of the House on Amendment 2.

Moved by

Baroness Vere of Norbiton

3: Clause 3, page 2, line 17, leave out paragraph ...

My Lords, the thrust of the amendments in this group is to consider the delegated powers in the B...

My Lords, I stand to speak to the amendments in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Scott: A...

My Lords, I tabled Amendment 10, which is designed to do exactly the same thing as the amendments...

My Lords, as a member of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, I support all thes...

I thank the Minister for Amendment 3. Moving on to Amendments 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, I am more sympat...

I will indeed take option A from the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe. I accept that we do not want o...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Needham Market

4: Clause 9, leave out Clause 9 and insert ...

My Lords, in Committee we sought to deal with a number of operational issues that have been givin...

My Lords, I support this amendment for the reasons put forward by the noble Baroness. In the Mini...

My Lords, there is quite a good case for the noble Baroness’s amendment, but I accept that the Go...

My Lords, the amendment in this group in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Scott of Needham Ma...

I am grateful to the Minister but I have a quick question. She said in reply to the noble Barones...

The noble Lord is absolutely right. It would be costly to the ports and disruptive to passengers....

I thank the noble Baroness for that reply, which was not wholly unexpected. I happen to think tha...

Moved by

Lord Tunnicliffe

5: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, P&O’s behaviour shocked all sides of the House. Until that happened, I suspect—I cannot...

My Lords, I added my name to this amendment because the concerns that we have raised in this Hous...

My Lords, this amendment is needed to put the seafarers’ charter in the Bill. There is no doubt a...

My Lords, I have added my name to this amendment, which goes some way to implementing one of the ...

My Lords, I will say a couple of words. This clause is a typical “Let’s have a review” clause. In...

My Lords, this final group contains one amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe...

I almost feel that the noble Baroness totally agrees with me but not quite enough. The amendment ...