Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

I make a very short but rather strong point. I speak as a former member of the Delegated Powers a...

My Lords, on the issue of timing, bearing in mind what the noble Lord, Lord Hamilton of Epsom, an...

My Lords, this is to correct myself. I referred to my noble friend’s Amendment 40 in error; it is...

My Lords, I fear we are in for quite a repetitive afternoon as we work through proposals to exclu...

Oh!

It is not in any way the Government’s intention to—

How do you know?

We know because the way that companies and employment rights are regulated cannot be changed over...

When the noble Lord made his transfer from diplomacy to contentious politics, did he expect that ...

Well, I had sat down. Nevertheless, of course, most of the time that I was a diplomat and civil s...

My Lords, it is quite extraordinary that the noble Lord says that Parliament has been given power...

My Lords, I was unable to be present at the Second Reading of this Bill because I was at the four...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord for letting me in. Does he not accept, though, that, when th...

My Lords, it seems the debate has started quite strongly already, as I think we expected. I am in...

Does the noble Lord agree that it took trade unions years, representing cases, to win a definitio...

I thank the noble Baroness for her intervention. To be brutally honest, it was her I was thinking...

I support the wise and well-expressed advice and views of my noble friend Lady Meacher. I was not...

My Lords, I support every word just spoken by the noble Lord, Lord Wilson of Dinton, and earlier ...

My Lords, this Bill is objectionable both in form and in content. As to form, I cannot possibly i...

My Lords, the reason these amendments and this debate are important is that one always explores t...

My Lords, this has been a very important and fascinating debate. I open by echoing the remarks of...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. Does he agree that all EU law was put into law wi...

The noble Lord may want to re-open the debate on the referendum and EU membership, but I do not. ...

My Lords, I thank everybody who has contributed. I suppose we had to have the debate in principle...

My Lords—

I will let the noble Lord come back in a moment, but let me make a little progress—I might answer...

My Lords—

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I am going to make this point and then I will allow the noble Lord to intervene.

Our high s...

I am afraid I can wait no longer. I am somewhat surprised that I still do not really understand w...

They are on the dashboard if they are retained EU law. I noticed that, in all the statements and ...

My Lords—

If the noble Lord will sit down, I will come to him in a second. I will make this point and then ...

I think I understand the noble Lord’s argument, and that he is therefore going to end by saying t...

As the noble Lord knows very well, that is not what I am saying. The reason that I am not saying ...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. It is a question of the sunset and whether o...

The noble and learned Lord knows I have tremendous respect for him and there is a great deal of s...

My Lords—

I will give way in a second; let me answer the previous point before the noble Baroness makes ano...

Would the noble Lord perhaps admit that the only way in which the timetable can be met is by not ...

“Yes” is the answer to the noble Baroness’s question. All new regulations will be subject to a pe...

My Lords, one reason we have such concerns about the timetable is that, as we have heard in excha...

I totally understand the point the noble Baroness is making. I have looked at this—indeed, I was ...

My Lords, perhaps the Minister will take on board that, when he says there is no need for carve-o...

We will get to that debate on those technical amendments later.

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I think it was the noble Lord, Lord Davies, who talked about the Financial Services and Markets B...

Can I ask a simple question on TUPE? My fear is that we are not getting straight answers. Does th...

I have already given the noble Lord examples of where UK worker standards and employment regulati...

In the context of some of the arguments advanced by my noble friend, has he considered extending ...

I totally understand the point my noble friend makes; I am a passionate believer in the rights of...

My Lords, before the Minister sits down, I should like to ask him one question. He has addressed ...

They certainly have the power to examine, repeal or change EU law within their specific areas of ...

The reason I raise this is because we are talking about the capacity of the Civil Service to do t...

I thought I had given the noble Baroness a serious response. Within the area of devolved competen...

My Lords, I am assuming the Minister has now sat down. He touched on the interpretive effects tha...

Moved by

Lord Fox

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 4, at beginning insert “Except for the Pa...

I move Amendment 2 in my name and those of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones, the noble Earl, Lo...

My Lords, my name is on Amendment 2, and I support the noble Lord, Lord Fox.

The reaction i...

My Lords, everybody in this House understands the real and clear evidence out there that women ar...

My Lords, across my whole career, I have worked with other women and admired the work of trade un...

My Lords, does the noble Baroness agree that they are bad to the extent that they never went thro...

I am afraid I absolutely do not agree with the noble Lord on that point. The fact that they came ...

My Lords, I shall be relatively brief. These two regulations were covered in my Amendment 40, so ...

I thank all those who have contributed. I listened with interest to my noble friend Lady Altmann ...

My Lords, I am struggling to understand my noble friend’s comments. If UK law is already stronger...

I am sorry that my noble friend does not seem able to understand this, but the Bill provides the ...

My Lords—

Let me make the point to my noble friend before I give way to her again. Many of these regulation...

I thank my noble friend. I am still not quite sure what we can say to women, who currently have h...

My noble friend asks what she can say to women. She can tell them that they have one of the highe...

My Lords, I believe I owe the Committee an apology. In withdrawing my previous amendment I said t...