Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill

Moved by

Lord Mann

29: Clause 1, page 3, line 13, at end insert—

“(ca) an expla...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 29 I shall speak to the three amendments in my name; they are ident...

My Lords, first, I want to refer to the remarks of the Minister to clarify something; I have not ...

I am absolutely categorical that the drowning out and breaking up of a meeting would not be accep...

I think the noble Lord does not quite appreciate how qualified Article 10 rights are under the Eu...

My Lords, I will be brief. In his remarks, the noble Lord, Lord Mann, gave some extremely signifi...

My Lords, I take great pleasure in speaking immediately after the noble Lord, Lord Mann, and othe...

Might I ask a question of the noble Lord? He spoke about how he was anxious to have the duties un...

My Lords, that is not the intention. The use of “particular” arises because universities, both as...

I will speak to Amendment 35, to which I have put my name; it relates to amending the Equality Ac...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 69 from the noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst. The Committee will no...

My Lords, I am grateful for the support that has already been given to Amendment 69 by the noble ...

My Lords, on this occasion I speak as myself—I do not think I have to go quite as far as the nobl...

My Lords, I remind the Committee of my declaration of interest as master of Pembroke College, Cam...

My Lords, I think the difficulty here—this goes back to our earlier discussions—is around what th...

I think we are entering dangerous territory if we seek to argue that one bit of law is more impor...

I think the noble Lord slightly missed the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley....

I would not fundamentally disagree with either the noble Lord or the noble Baroness about the fre...

My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, as Amendmen...

This has been a really informative debate. Fundamentally, the noble Baroness, Lady Falkner, has s...

My Lords, as we have heard, this group brings together a series of amendments that seek to clarif...

I thank the Minister but, to clarify, the case I cited was not stopped by Prevent. Prevent was in...

I was making the point that the case he used to illustrate the issue would have been likely to en...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Moylan

31: Clause 1, page 3, leave out lines 32 to 36 and insert “have ...

My Lords, I rise to continue my minute and curious search for means by which the Bill might achie...

My Lords, I should notify the Committee that, if this amendment is agreed to, I will be unable to...

My Lords, perhaps this is the moment at which I might intervene on Amendments 33 and Amendments 5...

My Lords, I will briefly probe the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, and probe the Minist...

I am not sure the noble Baroness was in the Committee when I covered that very point quite near t...

My Lords, I am very much in favour of Amendment 31. To put a different emphasis on it from what t...

My Lords, I hesitate to intervene in this debate as I am not an academic. I look on the wording o...

My Lords, from these Benches we have relatively little to add. I strongly support what the noble ...

Briefly, the debate we have just had shows why the amendments are necessary. They do not change t...

My Lords, I forgot to declare my interests as a visiting professor of practice at the LSE and in ...

My Lords, I am not going to say very much because this debate has covered most of the ground that...

My Lords, I will be very brief. On the point made a moment ago by the noble Baroness, one of the ...

My Lords, this group of amendments relates to duties and powers to promote freedom of speech unde...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I hope they will forgi...

I congratulate the noble Lord, if I may—he congratulated his noble friend in what became an absol...

I have to say that I am sinking in sympathy on the general principle in this Committee, which is ...

My Lords, surely there is a difference between something that is appropriate as guidance, where r...

It is absolutely clear that of course there is a difference between guidance and Henry VIII power...

Tabled by

Lord Willetts

33: Clause 1, page 3, line 36, at end insert “, having due re...

My Lords, I would like briefly to—

I should point out to the noble Lord that if he wishes to speak again on his amendment then I wil...

I will resist. I shall not move the amendment, and I look forward to further exchanges.

Moved by

Lord Moylan

34: Clause 1, page 3, line 36, at end insert—

“A4 Duty to ...

My Lords, I struggle on, looking for the prospect of meaningful change. In this case, unlike the ...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, on this. He mentioned mon...

My Lords, I can probably do this quite briefly. These are very helpful amendments, which illustra...

My Lords, I realise that people have been declaring interests at various points during proceeding...

My Lords, I should take the noble Baroness’s prompt and declare my interest as an honorary fellow...

My Lords, I really welcome the contributions of the noble Lords, Lord Sikka and Lord Moylan, on t...

My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of Newnham, I would be grateful for guidance from s...

For clarification, it seems that it is once for the Committee stage rather than each time we spea...

I am grateful to the Deputy Chairman. I hope the Committee will forgive my ignorance; I hope that...

My Lords, on this occasion, I declare my interest as chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commi...

My Lords, I will briefly make three comments on this debate; I realise that I will not occupy the...

Does the noble Baroness not wish to speak?

I think I have said everything that needed to be said from these Benches.

I was tempted to declare my own interest as an assistant general secretary of a trade union that ...

Copyright? Intellectual property?

Yes. Then we get into a much bigger question, which for me is the most important political questi...

My Lords, this group of amendments relates to impartial research funding. Amendment 34 in the nam...

My Lords, given the hour, I will be brief on this occasion. I am grateful to my noble friend the ...

I did not say from these Benches that it was too big to be included. I suggested that there needs...

I am very grateful for that clarification, which I take as an encouragement to myself and the nob...

My Lords, if I may respond to some of the points—

For the convenience of the Committee, the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, has already withdrawn his amen...

Moved by

Baroness Garden of Frognal

47: Clause 3, leave out Clause 3 and insert the f...

My Lords, I will also speak to the Clause 7 stand part notice in my name and that of my noble fri...

My Lords, this is probably the only appropriate place to raise this point. There was a debate ear...

My Lords, I thought long and hard about how to approach this debate because I support the autonom...

My Lords, I should probably have declared an interest when I spoke earlier, not just as the maste...

My Lords, my main regret about this debate is that my noble friend Lord Triesman did not mention ...

My Lords, Amendment 47 in the names of the noble Baroness, Lady Garden of Frognal, and her collea...

I need some clarification from the noble Earl. I suspect that most of the things that have caused...

I take the noble Baroness’s point. Those societies will be expected to abide by a code of practic...

To be very clear, I have no difficulty at all with the concept that people in student unions who ...

They might find out in the newspapers.

I would hope that a rugby club would not be responsible for inviting somebody to talk about gende...

The Minister is completely wrong about that. It is highly likely that they would, because there i...

I bow to the noble Lord’s superior knowledge on this. If noble Lords will allow, I will conclude....

I thank the Minister very much for his reply and all those who have spoken in this short debate. ...