Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell, for tabling her amendments in this ...

My Lords, I am grateful to those who have tabled these amendments. Before I reply to them, may I ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Bennett and Lady Hayman of Ullock, and my noble frie...

Moved by

Lord Rooker

42: Clause 17, page 11, line 35, leave out “may” and insert “mus...

My Lords, I will again use the 19th report of the Delegated Powers Committee. Paragraphs 15, 16 a...

My Lords, it is wonderful to see my noble friend Lord Rooker when he is angry. When he is really ...

My Lords, I do not know whether the rules of the House allow me to intervene briefly to say that ...

My Lords, I do not intend to detain the Committee for long on this group of amendments, except to...

My Lords, I am grateful once again to my noble friends Lord Rooker and Lord Winston for their ame...

My Lords, I hesitate to speak immediately before the Minister, but I am rather moved by a nostalg...

The difference is that, when I came into this House, I went to the Home Office. I had four depart...

I think “must” is clearly in line with every other sort of legislation in this respect. Indeed, w...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, for raising an issue with Clause 17 because it giv...

As I have already apologised for being a pest in the past, I will do this probably for the last t...

I hear what the noble Lord says and will reflect on it. This comes under a number of issues which...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Harlech

49: Clause 21, page 14, line 38, leave out “relevant” and inser...

My Lords, I will speak now to the minor and technical amendments to the Bill that the Government ...

We are grateful to the noble Lord for bringing forward these three straightforward amendments, wh...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

56: After Clause 25, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, I have two amendments that make up this group. First, I will look at Amendment 56. Clau...

I rise to support both amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman. She asked the M...

My Lords, I want to follow up very briefly on the two noble Baronesses’ excellent contributions. ...

My Lords, the amendment proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, is similar to amendments put...

Before the noble Lord sits down, he very kindly responded to our question about when the EPPS sho...

All I can say at this stage is that it will be as soon as possible.

I thank the noble Lord for ploughing through that. I want to make the same kind of point the nobl...

Moved by

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

57: Clause 26, page 16, line 31, leave out ...

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendments 58 and 59, which are also in my name, and very briefly ...

My Lords, Amendment 60 in this group is in my name; I will speak to it relatively briefly.

...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, for allowing me to ask a brief question. The noble Baroness,...

I thoroughly endorse that question. This is probably not the night to go into that area, but the ...

My Lords, much has been said during our debates about the strength of the food and public health ...

I am grateful to noble Lords and I will start by answering some of the points that were raised. F...

I am reluctant to intervene, but there is something I want to ask. Would the Minister agree to pr...

I have something to add to that, very briefly. I hear the Minister when he says that there is a s...

The noble Baroness is absolutely right. I was referring to the capacity of the FSA to have the ri...

I want to follow up on that point. We will come to it in a moment when we discuss labelling, beca...

I was uncertain about the point that the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, was making, but I take the nobl...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response and everyone who has taken part, in what is getti...

Moved by

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

61: After Clause 26, insert the following n...

My Lords, Amendment 61 is in my name and those of the noble Baronesses, Lady Jones of Whitchurch ...

My Lords, I think it would be helpful for me to introduce my Amendment 62 at this point. We know ...

My Lords, after much thought, I am afraid I am a reluctant opposer of these amendments. I underst...

My Lords, I can assure noble Lords that this is not some sort of Cross-Bench conspiracy, but I am...

I do not want this to become one side versus the other, but I am happy to follow the two noble Lo...

I will speak very briefly. I have added my name to Amendment 62 in the name of the noble Baroness...

My Lords, I know that labelling was raised as a concern at Second Reading, and I would like to ad...

Contrary to the implication that I made at Second Reading, I am with the noble Lords, Lord Krebs ...

I can assure noble Lords that I always trust experts over politicians. I was in Defra at the time...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response and all the noble Lords who have contributed to t...

Does the company claim that it can tell whether that single base pair change was produced by geno...

I am sorry; I cannot speak for that company. What I can refer to, because I was just talking abou...

Moved by

Lord Benyon

64: Clause 29, page 20, line 6, leave out “relevant” and insert ...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

67: After Clause 38, insert the following new C...

My Lords, I am very conscious that I am in the graveyard slot, but I hope that noble Lords who re...

Moved by

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

68: After subsection (2), insert—

“(2...

My Lords, I apologise very sincerely apologise. I am well aware that amendments to amendments are...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitchurch, has tabled this group of amendments to se...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Jones of Whitchurch for introducing these amendments. We f...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for her considered and detailed proposal. As she says, th...

I am not going to make a substantive contribution at this point. I echo the Minister and say that...

I thank the Minister. I will read his comments in Hansard in detail, but I have to say that he di...

Moved by

Lord Benyon

81: Clause 44, page 29, line 2, at end insert “(but see section ...