Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

Moved by

Lord Callanan

77: Clause 6, page 5, line 7, at end insert—

““retained ...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

81: Clause 7, page 5, line 30, leave out “mus...

I thank my noble friend the Minister for the letter which we received during the course of this m...

My Lords, I agree with what has just been said by the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, and I speak ...

My Lords, I am going to speak briefly about Amendments 83, 84, 87, 87A and 87B. I do so as a jobb...

My Lords, as a result of the lack of time to address the amendments to Clause 7 last Thursday, th...

The Committee will be aware that I am not a fan of this Bill because it marginalises Parliament. ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 85 and 88, as a co-signatory of both those amendments, led ...

And his notes, by the look of it.

And his notes, indeed, although any use I make of them is entirely down to me.

I want to st...

I am listening carefully to what the noble Baroness is saying, but it has nothing to do with “pre...

I trust the courts; clearly, the noble Lord does not. I believe that the courts do know what they...

The noble Baroness is entirely right about the leap into the unknown. Does this not emphasise the...

The noble Viscount is absolutely right, and I agreed with every word of his earlier contribution....

My Lords, your Lordships may have noticed that there is a rather cruder amendment in my name towa...

My Lords, I have no legal training, so I going to rely on noble and learned Lords to tell me whet...

My Lords, I have been looking forward to this group of amendments because I thought that this mig...

I thank all noble Lords who have tabled amendments in this group. I will start with some general ...

It also clearly extends to statute-based law. Is that not a case for bringing the courts into exp...

My Lords, the courts are always astute. They sort of intuitively know where they have to stop and...

I think I understand the Minister’s argument about “proper” in new paragraph (c) in Clause 7(3), ...

As far as I know, this is not intended to be prejudicial, but it presupposes a case where there i...

I am looking at the same clause as the noble Lord, Lord Kerr. He asked about new subsection (5) (...

If I may say so to the noble Baroness, I think this is just a drafting point. The extent may well...

I was not referring to the proper development of domestic law on this occasion. At the top of pag...

I think I can take it not much further than the answer that I have just given—that the extent may...

But why are we asking courts to ask themselves that question?

The answer is that the courts will not raise these questions of their own motion. These points wi...

I think the Minister was about to sit down, but he kindly invited me to respond so I will. I thin...

Respectfully, as I said a moment ago, I do not accept that this will lead to a great deal of unce...

I have listened very carefully, and there is a fundamental flaw in my noble friend’s argument as ...

I thank my noble friend Lady McIntosh for that intervention, and I stand corrected. She is comple...

I apologise if I am interrupting the Minister before he has finished; I think he is replying to A...

I ask the noble Baroness to put her question to the Minister.

We are getting to it.

Yes, I am getting to it. I want an explanation. I said the Minister’s reply was “puzzling” but, i...

My Lords—

May I finish?

My Lords, at the previous stage I reminded the House, I thought courteously, of chapter 4.29 of t...

Before the Leader of the House sits down, perhaps he could just clarify that point. I have always...

I say to the noble Lord that the answer is precisely so; it is a conversation, but that conversat...

If I may be permitted to finish, I have now had three interventions from the Government Front Ben...

My Lords, the Government’s position is that this is not a straitjacket. The courts are required t...

My Lords, will the Minister please reply to the point I made? The situation may be such, as we kn...

That might raise the question of whether indeed it was relevant. You could say, “That’s not relev...

The Minister does not have to be sorry. The noble Viscount, Lord Hailsham, was only coughing.

I am sorry. I am rather nervous when noble Lords come at me from all directions, especially the n...

I am so sorry. I did not mean to interrupt.

That is quite all right.

This is the logic of the approach. It is a cross-UK approach and n...

Could the Minister speak louder?

I am sorry. I was saying that this is a structure that gives the UK law officers power in relatio...

I am very grateful to the Minister for the skill with which he is trying to explain to a layman l...

My Lords, fortunately, I think I was asked by the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, for only one example, an...

My Lords, it has been a lengthy and thorough debate, and I fear it has not gone quite as smoothly...

My Lords, I will move the Motion, in the name of my noble friend Lord Fox, that Clause 10 do not ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 104, 115, 116, 122, 124 and 125 in my name, and in support o...

Before my noble friend proceeds to the next amendment, she has gone on about the uncertainty crea...

I would agree with my noble friend if we knew which bits of REUL were being repealed, which were ...

My Lords, I will follow the words of the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford. I have added my name to th...

My Lords, it is an honour to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher; I agree with everything she...

Before the noble Baroness finishes her remarks, I would be grateful if she could answer my questi...

It is fairly straightforward. Those of us with extreme concerns about the Bill do not want a Bill...

My Lords, I have tried to follow and to listen to as much of the discussions on the Bill as possi...

I just wanted to say to the noble Baroness—and I probably will not go into lawmaking in the EU, a...

I appreciate that I have not been in the Chamber for all of that time, although I have been here ...

My Lords—

My Lords—

I have got more questions flying at me today.

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, for giving way for my question to the nob...

I am concerned about aspects of this Bill from a delegated powers point of view, as I have been o...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 129 and 131 in this group in my name and those of the noble ...

Will the noble Lord explain why the Government would want to compromise the health of the consumi...

That is an extremely good question and I thank the noble Lord for asking it. That is precisely wh...

My Lords, I will not detain the Committee for long. Obviously, my noble friend and the Front Benc...

My Lords, we have ensured that the Bill contains robust scrutiny mechanisms that will enable the ...

Before the Minister leaves the question of allowing Clause 10 to stand part, I am surprised at he...

Surely the thing that concerns businesses is how legislation is going to be amended, not whether ...

I thank the noble Lords for their interventions. I did say that I understood the concerns of the ...

To wind back a few sentences, the Minister quite rightly said that the Department of Health would...

I am sure the Ministers responsible at the Department of Health and in the devolved nations will ...

The noble Baroness should not therefore have a problem in saying that they will consult it. Can w...

As I said, I am sure that the Health Ministers will consult the Food Standards Agency. The food s...

I think the question my noble friend was asking was what the Government’s position is—that is the...

I have given my answer. I have been very clear about the importance we attach to food safety from...

We keep being told that there is not going to be consultation or legislative consent, and that th...

I understand. I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for trying to help to move things forward;...

As the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman, said, the Minister has turned down every single amendment in...

I think I said “decades” once. This is of course a bit different from the normal laws that we deb...

The Question is that Clause 10 stand part of the Bill.

I believe I have a right to reply; I have been corrected so many times today that I do not know w...

I apologise to the noble Baroness for what happened earlier.

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

102: Clause 12, page 16, line 4, at end inser...

My Lords, I am delighted that we have reached this group, which concerns restatement powers. The ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 103 and 106 in my name. My Amendment 103 is an amendment to ...