Procurement Bill [HL]

Moved by

Baroness Noakes

9: Schedule 2, page 80, line 9, at end insert—

“(3) Su...

My Lords, Amendment 9 amends Schedule 2 in relation to exempted contracts. Specifically, it seeks...

My Lords, I am pleased to have added my name to this amendment in the name of the noble Baroness,...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly. I have just a couple of points to make before I speak to Ame...

My Lords, I rise because I was named by my noble friend Lord Moylan, and because this is a subjec...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, for her introduction to her amendment which wa...

My Lords, Amendment 9 tabled by the noble friends Lady Noakes and Lord Moylan—whom I am very glad...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this short debate and those noble Lords ...

Moved by

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist

10: Schedule 2, page 84, line 2, leav...

My Lords, the next group covers a number of government amendments concerning our agreeing to impl...

My Lords, we should all be grateful to the DPRRC for its vigilance and thoroughness in scrutinisi...

My Lords, I agree with much of what the noble Lord, Lord Fox, has just said. The Delegated Powers...

It remains for me to thank both noble Lords for their support for these government amendments and...

I am sorry to interrupt. I want to say that the noble Baroness, Lady Goldie, was particularly hel...

I will make sure that those thanks are passed on.

Moved by

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist

11: Schedule 2, page 86, line 35, at ...

My Lords, this next group refers to utilities. Amendments 11, 13, 14, 17, 20, 21, 22, 169, 174, 1...

My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend, not least because she referred to Amendment 169 ...

My Lords, I thank the Government for tabling a lot of the amendments, which have helped to bring ...

My Lords, I have indeed listened carefully throughout the passage of the Bill and in our discussi...

Moved by

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist

12: Schedule 2, page 86, line 40, lea...

Moved by

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist

13: Clause 5, page 4, line 2, leave o...

Moved by

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist

18: Schedule 4, page 90, line 24, aft...

Moved by

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist

22: Schedule 4, page 92, line 3, at e...

Moved by

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist

24: Clause 9, page 7, line 10, after ...

Moved by

Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist

29: Clause 10, page 8, line 4, after ...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

33: After Clause 10, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, I have a number of amendments in this group. First, Amendment 33 refers back to the pri...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 42 in my name in this group and in support of Amendments 46 a...

My Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington. I signed her Amendment 42 and...

My Lords, I draw attention to my interests as set out in the register. I am co-owner of a company...

My Lords, I will offer a few general observations. I do not have any amendments in this group, an...

My Lords, I must make this point. Had we taken climate change and biodiversity loss seriously 30 ...

My Lords, I add my support to the noble Baroness, Lady Worthington. There is disunity in Horsham ...

My Lords—

I remind the House that noble Lords may speak only once on Report.

I will be very brief, as I do not want to prolong the discussion. In Committee, the Government ma...

My Lords, much has been made of the importance of social and environmental goals in public procur...

My Lords, in speaking to Amendments 58 and 82 in my name, I reiterate my support for the opportun...

My Lords, this is a very important group of amendments. We have had many speakers, so I will be c...

My Lords, we have had an extremely interesting debate—a shorter one than I was expecting—and I am...

The noble Baroness is right that the public sector equality duty is in the Equality Act, but the ...

My attitude to this is clear, and I have offered to engage on the subsidiary detail of the transf...

My Lords, I must say that I am pretty disappointed with the Minister’s response to my amendments,...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

34: Clause 11, page 8, line 32, after first “a” inser...

My Lords, earlier today, we discussed government Amendment 34 on covered procurement, and, as pro...

If that is the argument, why will the national procurement policy statement be applied to all pro...

As we have discussed, the national procurement policy statement is wide-ranging. In the Bill, we ...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

37: Clause 11, page 8, line 38, at end insert...

My Lords, it gives me pleasure to speak to Amendments 37 and 53 in this group. Before I address t...

My Lords, it may aid the House if I set out the government amendments in this group. I thank my n...

I rise to speak to Amendments 41 and 123, which are amendments to government amendments. We welco...

My Lords, my principal interest in the Bill has been whether it would achieve its stated objectiv...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for taking up the issue of SMEs, following not least the points...

My Lords, I support government Amendment 40. This is very worthwhile. I am also very sympathetic ...

My Lords, I have Amendment 164 in this group, to which my noble friend Lord Moylan has added his ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 162A, which rather neatly follows the noble Baroness, Lady...

My Lords, I rise to speak on Amendment 73 as my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones is detained in Gr...

My Lords, I have just a few brief remarks on this group. Before I come on to the main point that ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, is right that the challenge is to make the shift to SMEs a...

I am extremely grateful, particularly to the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, for saying that the way for...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

39: Clause 11, page 8, line 39, after first “a” inser...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

40: Clause 11, page 8, line 43, at end insert—

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I beg to move.

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

46: Clause 12, page 9, line 8, at end insert—

I would like to test the opinion of the House on Amendment 46.

Moved by

Lord Lansley

47: Clause 12, page 9, line 11, at end insert—

“(3A) The ...

My Lords, Amendment 46 does not in any sense pre-empt Amendment 47, since Amendment 47 adds speci...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

49: Clause 12, page 9, line 33, leave out “any” and i...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

51: Clause 13, page 10, line 22, after “to” insert “p...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

55: Clause 20, page 14, line 32, leave out from begin...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

57: Clause 21, page 15, line 2, at end insert—

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Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

59: Clause 28, page 18, line 35, leave out from first...

My Lords, I rise to introduce a number of government amendments. These include several technical ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 89 in my name. I feel that the time pressure has lifted, s...

My Lords, my Amendment 91A follows the theme of my earlier Amendment 162A. The thrust of this ame...

My Lords, this has been a short debate, but this group contains some very important amendments th...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Fox, for Amendment 89 on financial and economic misconduct...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

60: Clause 28, page 19, line 3, at end insert—

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Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

61: Clause 29, page 19, line 6, leave out “a procurem...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

62: Clause 29, page 19, line 8, leave out “of a publi...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

63: Clause 30, page 20, line 2, after second “a” inse...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

69: Clause 34, page 23, line 18, leave out “public”