Procurement Bill [HL]
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
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I advise the Grand Committee that, if there is a Division in the Chamber while we are sitting, wh...
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Lord Lansley
268: Clause 50, page 31, line 6, leave out from “publish” to en...
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My Lords, this is quite a large group, led by Amendment 268, and it encompasses a number of issue...
My Lords, my speech is a good way of following the excellent introduction to this group of amendm...
My Lords, I have tabled Amendment 271 in this group. At the request of my noble friend Lord Moyla...
I shall speak to Amendment 272 in the name of my noble friend Lord Wallace, to which I have added...
My Lords, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted by the Division Bell, the concept of...
My Lords, Amendments 370ZA and 370ZB are tabled my name and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Haym...
My Lords, this is my first opportunity to welcome the Minister back to her place and to say what ...
My Lords, after that introduction I am not sure that I need to say much at all, but I will speak ...
My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, pointed out, this is a wide range of varying amendm...
My Lords, this has been an interesting debate that I hope has been helpful to the Minister. I hav...
My Lords, I am glad to be debating this group, which deals with prompt payment of suppliers throu...
Amendment 392 makes it clear that the power to change the percentage thresholds in Clause 70 appl...
I am confused by that answer; I do not understand, in practice, what the Minister has just said. ...
I was trying to make sure that the noble Lord knew that I had listened to his point. There is a p...
I have just two things to say very briefly. First, I did say that I thought the noble Baroness wo...
I will certainly look at the figures, which I am very interested in, but this Bill obviously repr...
I feel obliged to pursue this issue just a little further. When I spoke to the amendment, I refer...
I thank my noble friend for her intervention. I agree that we need to try to get at the issue of ...
I listened very carefully to what the Minister said to our noble friend and to her response to my...
I will certainly look carefully at Hansard. I think my noble friend was basically talking about a...
Five per cent, plus the three-month review.
And a three-month review. The point about inflation is that if you build it in—this is a wider ec...
Thank you. That was a long group so the reply was necessarily substantial, and we are most gratef...
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Baroness Neville-Rolfe
277: Clause 51, page 31, line 24, leave out “awarded ...
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288: Clause 52, page 33, line 6, at end insert—
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291: Clause 54, page 34, line 2, leave out “supplier”...
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294: Clause 54, page 34, line 5, leave out second “su...
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296: Clause 54, page 34, line 10, leave out “supplier...
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299: Clause 54, page 34, line 13, leave out second “s...
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302: Clause 54, page 34, line 19, leave out first “se...
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303: Schedule 6, page 91, line 14, at end insert “, o...
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309: Schedule 6, page 93, line 1, leave out paragraph...
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311: Schedule 6, page 94, line 15, leave out “a tax a...
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316: Schedule 6, page 95, line 1, leave out paragraph...
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324: Schedule 7, page 99, line 38, leave out “the sup...
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334: Clause 55, page 34, line 27, leave out second “s...
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336: Clause 55, page 34, line 30, leave out second “s...
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339: Clause 55, page 35, line 5, leave out paragraph ...
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341: Clause 56, page 35, line 15, leave out “procurem...
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352: Clause 59, page 38, line 34, leave out “a Northe...
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354: Clause 63, page 41, line 13, at end insert—
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355: Clause 64, page 41, line 30, leave out “An appro...
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357: Clause 65, page 42, line 1, leave out “An approp...
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360: Clause 66, page 42, line 32, leave out “remedy t...
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361: Clause 68, page 43, line 37, leave out “subsecti...
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362: Clause 68, page 44, line 2, leave out “the whole...
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365: Clause 69, page 44, line 25, leave out from begi...
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371: Schedule 8, page 104, line 36, after “assignment...
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372: Clause 70, page 45, line 19, at end insert—
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380: Clause 70, page 45, line 37, leave out “or a tra...
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383: Clause 70, page 45, line 39, at end insert “or a...
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389: Clause 70, page 46, line 3, leave out subsection...
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392A: After Clause 70, divide Clause 70 into two clau...
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393: Clause 71, page 46, line 12, after “period” inse...
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395: Clause 72, page 46, line 24, leave out “supplier...
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398: Clause 72, page 46, line 30, leave out “ 28(1)” ...
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401: Clause 72, page 47, line 22, leave out “8” and i...
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402: After Clause 72, insert the following new Clause...
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403: Clause 73, page 47, line 37, at end insert “, or...
Finally, we come to Amendment 404.
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Clause 74: Conflicts of interest: duty to identify
Amendment...
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Lord Scriven
404: Clause 74, page 47, line 41, leave out “reasonable”
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My Lords, I have never heard such a reception before speaking. I congratulate the Deputy Chairman...
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Scriven. I have signed Amendment 423, b...
My Lords, I have Amendments 415 and 419 in this group. In addition, I will speak to Amendment 417...
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, and congratulate her ...
My Lords, I will be relatively brief, because I sense that some of the drive and energy has gone ...
Noble Lords have more energy than me, then.
Having said that, we are discussing incredibly ...
My Lords, we come to Part 5 of the Bill on conflicts of interest, where the Government have sough...
I am grateful to the Minister for allowing me to intervene. I absolutely accept the point about t...
Before the Minister answers that, a number of times in my intervention I highlighted that there m...
I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, and the noble Lord, Lord Scriven. I will not continue w...
To take us back 30 seconds, to Amendment 413, about political donations over £7,500, I take the M...
I will start by trying to answer the point that the Civil Service has rules and this Bill is far ...
But this is the whole point of the Boardman review. By not having clear legislation and rules whi...
To come back to how you do it, you can do things in guidance as well as in the Bill. I take the n...
Could my noble friend help me on the legal effect of the Civil Service management rules? It is my...
My Lords, if I might try to assist, employment tribunals in the private sector have taken the vie...
I will look into the point about the Civil Service, but certainly people are very careful about t...
I thank the Minister. The Committee will have to give her 10 out of 10 for trying to explain, but...
Clearly, trust is important and we are trying to do the right thing here. We are also trying to h...
I hope the Minister has heard what I said; this is about getting the balance right. Certain thing...
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414: Clause 75, page 48, line 34, leave out from “mus...
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427: Clause 78, page 50, line 20, leave out “Where” a...
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429: Clause 79, page 51, line 5, leave out “where” an...
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431: Clause 80, page 52, line 8, leave out “the whole...
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Lord Lansley
436: Clause 81, page 52, line 40, at end insert—
“(3A) Re...
The lead Amendment 436 in this small group is in my name. These three clauses are about putting i...
My Lords, I support the noble Lord’s endeavours. He and I have debated with Ministers on many occ...
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 443A, in my name, to Clause 83. The amendment is, very simply...
My Lords, being aware of the hour, I will be extremely brief, but I just want to express support ...
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 436, from the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, and to my noble frien...
My Lords, I shall be very brief, as time is ticking away. I start by saying that we completely su...
My Lords, this group seeks to deal with amendments relating to treaty state suppliers. There are ...
I am grateful for that response. I struggle with the first part of what the Minister said because...
The noble Lord’s question was why social considerations are not in the Japan agreement but they a...
That is what the Government are doing. All the other requirements in the Bill are not in the trad...
The honest truth is that we seem to have a bit of a disagreement on this; maybe a bilateral discu...
I am very grateful for that offer. I am very happy for it to be multilateral rather than bilatera...
That would be helpful. We can certainly look at Hansard and write a letter, but we should get tog...
Can the Minister clarify the question around Schedule 7 or will we perhaps discuss that when we g...
I think the greatest brains behind me have not managed to answer the noble Baroness’s question—sh...
My Lords, only 110 amendments to go, so, with the benefit of that promise of further discussions,...
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438: Clause 81, page 53, line 17, leave out “or servi...
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440: Clause 82, page 53, line 37, at end insert—
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442: Clause 82, page 53, line 42, leave out “virtue o...
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446: Clause 84, page 54, line 35, leave out “An appro...
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457: After Clause 88, insert the following new Clause...
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461: Clause 89, page 56, line 32, at end insert—
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464: Clause 90, page 57, line 11, after “if” insert “...
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469: Clause 91, page 57, line 33, leave out “entering...
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470: Clause 95, page 60, line 1, at end insert—
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481: Clause 96, page 61, line 12, at end insert—
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483: Clause 98, page 62, line 14, after “to” insert “...
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Lord Wigley
491: Clause 99, page 62, line 41, after “wholly” insert “or main...
I congratulate the Deputy Chairman of Committees on that “Just a Minute” miracle. I will speak to...
My Lords, these are different subjects, and before we turn to how regulations are to be agreed, I...
I will speak reasonably briefly to Amendment 491 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, to w...
Coming from Herefordshire as I do, I comment on matters Welsh with great trepidation. I commend t...
I will be brief. First, let me say that we absolutely support Amendment 491, tabled by the noble ...
My Lords, I should say at the outset that it appears from the debate and earlier conversations we...
My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for her response to this debate. I am sure that my L...
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496: Clause 100, page 63, line 28, leave out “in” and...
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501: Clause 101, page 64, line 5, at end insert “or 9...
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510: Clause 102, page 65, line 28, after “framework” ...
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518: Clause 103, page 66, line 6, leave out “section”...
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520: Schedule 10, page 108, line 6, leave out “the pa...
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533: Clause 110, page 70, line 10, leave out “Part 2”...
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536: Clause 111, page 70, line 35, leave out “payable...
My Lords, this final group deals with amendments on VAT. The Government’s Amendment 536 simply br...
My gift to the Committee is not to make an extended speech on the subject of value added tax. I k...
I am very grateful to my noble friend Lady Noakes, who, as usual, has come to the rescue. She rai...
I would just like to congratulate the Minister on the smooth transition from Back-Bench jabs to F...
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539: Clause 112, page 71, line 3, leave out “supplier...
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541: Clause 112, page 71, line 25, leave out “35” and...
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544: Clause 112, page 72, line 11, at end insert—
...My Lords, that concludes the Committee’s proceedings on the Bill.