Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill

Moved by

Lord Hope of Craighead

2: At end, insert—

“(1B) Subsection (1) will on...

My Lords, I think it will start our debate if I speak to Amendment 2 at this stage. That amendmen...

The trigger point in the amendment is quite a narrow one: “substantial change”. Has the noble and...

My Lords, “substantial change” probably accommodates what the noble Lord was thinking about. I am...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 8. Before I do so, and in the interest of brevity, I entir...

My Lords, I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, for his kind reference to what I said in...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way, and I hate to cross swords with him on this matter, but th...

I absolutely agree and, as the noble Viscount has made clear, a number of things could be interpr...

My Lords, I ask noble Lords who support Amendment 2 how it is that they now wish to involve Parli...

My Lords, I want to make a single point. In his opening remarks, the Minister referred to the aff...

My Lords, I am sure that the House will approve Amendment 2. I am not sure that the noble Barones...

May I clarify something? In his initial remarks, the noble Lord suggested that the problems he be...

My Lords, in following on from what the noble Lord, Lord Pearson, said, let me say that we had th...

My Lords, I have one clarification for the noble Baroness. The point was made that this is not a ...

I apologise for interrupting the noble Baroness, but I remind the whole House that, as we are on ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. It is a measure of the speed with which the Bill has gone throug...

We have a list; there are 240.

I am out of date already. That is excellent; I am very grateful and withdraw my question. I am de...

My Lords, I shall speak to the amendments to which I have added my name, Amendments 2 and 4. Like...

I greatly enjoyed serving jointly with the noble Lord on the EU Select Committee. I point out tha...

I slightly wonder what effect they had on the statute book. The legislation went through, nothing...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hamilton, in what he said. My only pass...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendment 14 in my name, to which the noble Baronesses, Lady Ha...

My Lords, I have a very brief observation about Amendment 2, which I support and seems to have th...

My Lords, in case anyone is thinking of voting against Amendment 2—even the Minister—it is worth ...

My Lords, I put my name to this amendment from the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope. I will addr...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for explaining so fully his amendment to the Bill....

Oh!

I am sorry, my Lords, but it was clearly expressed, and it was expressed again in 2019. A mandate...

My Lords, I doubt very much whether the will of the people was to remove the rights of working pe...

My Lords, as a committed Brexiteer I was a strong supporter of this Bill, and it will not surpris...

My Lords, there are references—for example, in Clause 16—to a sunsetting date, so there are parts...

With the greatest respect to the noble and learned Lord, I think the main substance of sunsetting...

My Lords, it is not my intention to detain the House for long, because I think the House wants to...

My Lords, I will speak briefly in support of Amendment 16, tabled in my name alongside those of t...

My Lords, very briefly, I too added my name to Amendment 16, so well introduced by the noble Baro...

My Lords, I will speak—briefly, I hope—to the Government’s Amendment 1. I direct your Lordships b...

Oh!

I will have my say; plenty of people have had a say on the other side.

The disillusionment ...

My Lords, I will move the House away from the Bay of Biscay and back to this Bill. I tabled Amend...

Wednesday!

Is somebody correcting me?

We will discuss it on Wednesday.

I got a prompt from beneath me that we are discussing this on Wednesday. I will not go into furth...

My Lords, I am happy to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hacking, and I agree with both his points. I ...

My Lords, I very much welcome the changes that the Government have brought forward, but I also th...

My Lords, I would like to focus my probing on Amendment 1—

My Lords, the noble Baroness has spoken once in this debate, and the good book says that it is on...

Front Bench!

I think that I have been encouraged to go ahead. Is that appropriate?

No!

No, it is not appropriate.

My Lords, very briefly, the case for what we are doing was put best by the noble Lord, Lord King,...

My Lords, this has been a very extensive debate. The noble Lord, Lord Jackson, mentioned churlish...

My Lords, it has been a bit of a saga getting to where we are, but it is incredibly welcome that ...

I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate. I find myself standing here bathed i...

My Lords—

I do not require the noble Lord’s advice on this.

I will start with Amendment 2 from the no...

Before my noble friend sits down, will he respond to my question about sufficient consultation ti...

I have seen the letter from the Food Standards Agency to which my noble friend refers. The schedu...

Before the Minister sits down, I listened very carefully but I did not hear what he had to say ab...

Can the noble Baroness remind me what her Amendment 14 is about, please?

Water directives.

The directives she seeks an explanation on are not listed on the revocation schedule. Therefore, ...

My Lords, I have listened very carefully to what the Minister said. I have not seen the additiona...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 4, leave out “the e...

My Lords, this amendment relates to the remaining sunsetting clauses. It is important to state at...

My Lords, as the Minister will recognise, the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, has taken a close pa...

My Lords, I wish I could support my noble friend but I am afraid I cannot. She shows a total misu...

I welcome that 500 of the regulations will be dealt with on Wednesday with a view to them being r...

It is the Minister’s turn.

Thank you; I did not get up because I thought the Opposition Front Bench was going to speak. I re...

Before the Minister sits down, can he explain assimilated law? The present position—it is clearly...

The noble Lord is confusing two things. The schedule is the retained EU law that we are proposing...

How do we identify the assimilated law on our statute book?

The dashboard lists all the pieces of retained EU law that have been identified; the schedule lis...

My Lords, while I am extremely grateful to my noble friend, I think he has made a bit of an own g...

I have explained this, but I will do so again. The powers to modify, change or update the assimil...

My Lords, I am not sure that that is entirely clear, but I have pressed the point as much as I ca...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

5: Clause 1, page 1, line 10, leave out subsections (3) and (4...

Moved by

Baroness Chapman of Darlington

9: Leave out Clause 2

Member’s explanat...

Moved by

Lord Callanan

13: Leave out Clause 3

Member’s explanatory statement