Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

I apologise for my enthusiasm causing a truncation of the Minister’s response. Does he at least u...

Before the Minister replies, I add that what the Minister is saying now directly contradicts the ...

I just explained that point in my earlier answer. The noble Baroness can look at Hansard and come...

Does my noble friend accept that that is an argument against democracy? Evidently, because it is ...

I am afraid that the noble Lord is talking nonsense, as he often does, on this regulation.

Oh!

Let me explain the position. We are downgrading the status, if it needs to be changed through pri...

I think I understood from what the Minister said a few moments ago that I will not get an answer ...

For the purposes of clarification, I was merely repeating a similar point to the one made by my n...

I do not think the Minister referred to my Amendment 43. Can he do that before he sits down?

Can somebody remind me what Amendment 43 is, please? I thought it was in my notes.

Amendment 43 puts a safety net around measures that may be lost because they were not identified ...

I think I referred to that in an earlier part of my speech. I addressed Amendments 42 and 43, but...

One issue that I have not understood the Minister to have dealt with is the issue raised by the n...

I think the noble Lord, Lord Deben, and I had a political difference on that point. He seems to t...

Order!

I think I have already taken two interventions from the noble Lord, Lord Fox, but I will take one...

I thank the Minister; I appreciate it. I thought he dealt with the democracy issue, to some exten...

I do not think I ever used the word “inconvenient”, but reforming all this by primary legislation...

My Lords—

I have given the Government’s response to these amendments and, if noble Lords will forgive me, I...

Order!

I will take the intervention from the noble Lord, Lord Beith.

My Lords, if it would help the Committee, I understand that this is an extremely controversial Bi...

My Lords, I do not make lengthy or frequent interventions, but I welcome the Leader of the House ...

I listened to my noble friend Lord Benyon’s earlier statements and they are entirely in accordanc...

My Lords, I have one question before the Minister sits down. He said twice that Clause 1 is the b...

Let us wait to see what happens, but the Government are committed to the Bill. As I said, it had ...

My Lords, I am sad that the Government have chosen not to address the points made by this Committ...

With that one final intervention, let me say to my noble friend that he knows I greatly respect h...

I wonder if anybody else wants to make an intervention?

Well, tempers have got slightly fra...

Before my noble friend sits down, does he agree that those parts of the law that will lapse under...

Undoubtedly that is right, and that is why Amendment 32 specifically deals with that issue in par...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

41: Clause 1, page 2, line 4, leave out subsection (6)

M...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

45: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—

“Ex...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

51: Clause 2, page 2, line 9, leave out “Mini...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 51, I shall speak also to Amendments 53 and 56. I look forward to h...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 54 in my name, Amendments 51 and 53 in the name of the noble...

My Lords, I am pleased to follow my noble friend Lady McIntosh of Pickering and the noble Barones...

My Lords, I support my noble friend in her amendment. I take the view, as the Committee well know...

My Lords, I have Amendment 56A in this group. Noble Lords have probably gathered by now that I pr...

My Lords, I rise because neither the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, nor the noble Baroness, L...

My Lords, I support the amendment led by and spoken to by my noble friend Lady Humphreys. I also ...

He is behind you.

Oh, has he come back? I am not doing too well. I am getting tired; I expect we all are.

Ame...

My Lords, I support the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, but I am afraid that I ...

My Lords, in this Committee, as the Minister has constantly been reacting to, we seem to keep goi...

If the noble Lord, Lord Collins, will forgive me, I do not propose to go back over previous discu...

I appreciate that the noble Lord has been talking about the extension to 2026, but he has not exp...

If the noble Baroness has some patience, I will come on to those amendments shortly.

Turnin...

The Minister is very keen on timetables and dates. As we know, spring is movable. Can we have a f...

I am not sure I want to go on the public record saying that I have great faith in lawyers, given ...

I seek clarification about the amendments of the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, and the noble and...

I thought I had explained this in my earlier statements. I am saying that the power to extend res...

I think it is a fundamental question. If they have the power to maintain and amend, specifically ...

I do not agree with the noble Lord’s characterisation. If they wish, it is perfectly possible for...

I have to say that that is a little disappointing as a summing-up. I take responsibility for not ...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

52: Clause 2, page 2, line 9, after “section 1,” insert “so fa...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

59: Clause 3, page 2, line 23, leave out “the...

My Lords, this is obviously a long group of amendments. In moving Amendment 59, I will speak brie...

Your Lordships should know that, if Amendment 59 is agreed, I cannot call Amendments 61 or 67 for...

My Lords, I have three amendments in this group, Amendments 61A, 61B and 61C. I first apologise t...

My Lords, I would like to speak to Amendment 62, on which I welcome the support of the noble Lord...

My Lords, I have signed Amendment 62 from the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, and I take this oppor...

My Lords, this has been a very interesting debate so far. I want to speak to Clause 3 standing pa...

My Lords, I would like briefly to refer to this group of amendments, particularly to the aspects ...

My Lords, I will speak briefly in support of Amendment 76, as the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay of ...

My Lords, I will speak to the two amendments in my name. It is late, and I will try to keep this ...

It is quite clear from what the noble Lord said to the Committee that he is in favour of Amendmen...

Yes, absolutely. I made the point about Clause 3 missing out on the sunset laws. That is clearly ...

My Lords, also in the interests of brevity, I will just say that there is real fear and concern t...

I will make a short point about Amendment 61A, tabled by my noble friend Lord Whitty. In the amen...

My Lords, I thought the Bill was bad, but this debate has been quite shocking. I really do not th...

I am very happy to stay as long and late as the House requires. I was very happy to stay later th...

Not early!

There is no need for these sorts of insults; we have agreed times.

Hang on a second—I made that point because the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman, said that I was bein...

No!

Anyway, let us move on to the issues.

Let me first introduce government Amendments 65 and 6...

I am grateful to the Minister. Of course, if you are going to use those codification powers, you ...

As I said, the work is under way at the moment across all the rights codified in those sections. ...

I think I must have failed to get across, when I addressed the Committee earlier, that we are not...

I will talk to the lawyers and attempt to get the noble Lord an answer to his concerns.

The...

I apologise to the Minister, but that is not the point I was asking about. I am no expert on the ...

Case law is being retained. Case law is not being abolished, it will still exist, and courts will...

I think the Minister is departing from Clause 3. This sounds like small beer compared to some of ...

I have some more remarks on Clause 3. Let me come to the end of them and, if the noble Lord does ...

The Committee heard from a former Lord Chief Justice, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas of ...

I acknowledge the noble Lord’s point but I will get him a proper answer from the lawyers.

When the Minister gets us that proper answer, I would be grateful if he could explain—I do not un...

I would be happy to include it in the letter. I hesitate to give what I think is a legal definiti...

Can I just explain Justin’s comments? The Minister has provoked me. Clearly, the shadow Minister ...

I do not think he said that; he said that there has to be an end to EU supremacy in UK law. While...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister but that remark was gratuitous. The point is about legal cer...

That is fair enough; it was a slightly gratuitous point. I actually agree with the noble Baroness...

I think I failed to explain why I think that they are relevant. They are relevant because of the ...

I made the point earlier that, when departments are reviewing their legislation and any modificat...

The Minister has made a number of commitments about providing letters and further information to ...

I am not going to give an absolute commitment, but I will talk to the lawyers. On the famous lett...

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate. It reflects not least the concerns of the legal prac...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

65: Clause 4, page 3, line 2, leave out “183A and”

Membe...