Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill

My Lords, the premise of the amendment moved by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, is a p...

My Lords, I speak to Amendments 49, 50 and 52, which are premised upon Clause 4 surviving—I start...

My Lords, I agree with the powerful speech of the noble Lord, Lord Grabiner, with the possible ex...

My Lords, I hesitate to intervene in this debate as I am not a lawyer. We have heard four very po...

My Lords, I declare my registered interest in the universities sector. Like the noble Lord, Lord ...

My Lords, I strongly sympathise with the Government’s intention in pressing Clause 4, which is pr...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly in following the noble Lord, Lord Macdonald of River Glaven. I ve...

My Lords, I rise to support my noble friend Lord Willetts, who seeks to prevent the creation of a...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Johnson. Like so many other people in t...

My Lords, I have a huge amount of sympathy with the fears about the chilling effect of Clause 4 a...

My Lords, I first declare my interest as a former chairman of King’s College London. In that posi...

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow so many contributions from noble and learned Lords across t...

I hope the Committee will accept my apologies for failing to mention my interest as a member of t...

My Lords, I intend to intervene very briefly. I declare an interest as chair of the Equality and ...

My Lords, we on these Benches share the view that we do not need the Bill, as held by the noble L...

My Lords, I start by saying that this has been an excellent debate. One of the excellent things a...

My Lords, as noble Lords have indicated, today and at Second Reading, the issue of the proposed n...

Does the Minister think it appropriate that there should be left in place two possible routes for...

My Lords, I hope the noble Lord will accept from me that I am not impervious to the points made b...

I apologise: it is probably my fault because I did not convey the point of the noble and learned ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. I shall reflect on that point and write to him, if he will allow...

A number of noble Lords referred to the chilling effect and the Minister did not really cover tha...

The point the noble Lord, Lord Collins, makes goes hand in hand with the point that I would like ...

My Lords, perhaps I might ask the Minister to consider this. He mentioned earlier in his remarks ...

I take that point absolutely. I was not seeking to say that someone well funded by a pressure gro...

I am very grateful to the Minister for dealing with the range of issues that have arisen. So far ...

Moved by

Lord Willetts

58: Clause 8, page 10, line 20, leave out “may” and insert “mu...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendments 58 and 59 in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lor...

My Lords, Amendment 60 follows on from what my noble friend Lord Willetts has said. We all seem t...

My Lords, I rise to speak to my Amendment 62. I can help the Minister by saying that it is probab...

My Lords, without wishing to repeat points that I made on earlier amendments, I will refer briefl...

My Lords, I have a couple of brief points. Following that helpful contribution on Amendment 59, I...

My Lords, I rise to speak to my noble friend Lord Wallace of Saltaire’s contention that Clause 8 ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 61 in the names of my noble friends Lord Collins and Lord Bl...

My Lords, I shall now address the group of amendments that relate to the complaints scheme to be ...

I thank the Minister for that response to a brief but very illuminating debate. I certainly learn...

Moved by

Lord Johnson of Marylebone

63: Clause 9, page 12, line 39, at end insert—