Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [HL]

My Lords, I will briefly join this debate because I am interested in the question of the mutual r...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, explained that this is a probing amendment, so I ...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, I was unable to participate at Second Readin...

My Lords, I want to intervene at a late stage on this amendment. I, too, was unable to participat...

I greet noble Lords who have been kind enough to come back for another wonderful discussion on th...

I am grateful to Members who took part in this short debate. I like the Minister, and his enthusi...

I will do that and, on the other point, clarify where I think there may be a misunderstanding abo...

I am grateful for that—as we know, there are currently imports under both the WTO approach and th...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

1: Clause 3, page 2, line 7 leave out “wholly or mainly”

We come now to Amendment 1, which, strangely enough, is not the first amendment, but there we are...

My Lords, the Committee is in the debt of the noble Lord, Lord Lansley. He is rare among us in be...

My Lords, there is very little to add to the detailed probing question—and answers—from the noble...

My Lords, it is a constant pleasure to debate with such intellectual firepowers as the noble Lord...

I intervene just to pre-empt my subsequent remarks. We are in Committee and may not need to retur...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for his intervention. The principle here is ensuring that our pro...

I thank my noble friend. I sense that the Committee would be happy for us to take this away and l...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

8: Clause 4, page 3, line 13, leave out “established by use” an...

This is another technical amendment to a technical Bill. It seeks to understand why the language ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lansley. The Trade Marks Act 1994 at no point uses the phr...

As always, I am grateful to noble Lords for their points. Clearly, it is easy to confuse trademar...

I remain confused because, in Clause 4(3), “established by use” relates to the trademark and not ...

I apologise to my noble friend, but that is not how I read it. It is linked to designation—that i...

You are not—I would not dream of doing so—but I think the point made by the noble Lord is worth f...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. I hope that he does not feel that I have been tripped up by this...

I am grateful to my noble friend. I am very happy to proceed on the basis he proposes, but I say ...

Moved by

Lord Purvis of Tweed

8A: Clause 4, page 5, line 4, at end insert—

“(13...

My Lords, Amendment 8A builds on Amendment 8 to some extent because it also relates to geographic...

My Lords, Amendment 34 is in my name. I first have to repeat what I discover is true of quite a f...

I will say a brief word on Amendment 8A. Contrary to the habit of a lifetime, I played by the rul...

My Lords, unlike my noble friend Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, I am afraid that I was not present for ...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly. Like others, I will declare whether I spoke at Second Readin...

I take this opportunity to remind noble Lords of my registered interest as the UK co-chair of the...

My Lords, I entirely endorse what my noble friend Lord Lansley has just said. There is considerab...

My Lords, let us deal with this Second Reading issue. My understanding of the Companion is that t...

My Lords, apropos of the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Davies, it is important no...

I thank everyone who attended Second Reading. It seems a very few did; I do not know where everyo...

The Minister is quite correct. It is in a statement associated with the Act, but it applies only ...

I thank the noble Lord for that comment; I am happy to have a discussion with him and other noble...

I am grateful to the Minister for referring explicitly to the supply chain issue. It should form ...

I absolutely make myself available to have discussions outside this Committee on all points. I re...

I am grateful for the Minister’s helpful and interesting reply. My understanding is that Minister...

China is not a member of the CPTPP, so I absolutely do not understand the relevance of what the n...

I am fully aware that China is not a member—I do not think there is any doubt about that—but sure...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Purvis. Given what the Minister said a few moments ago...

I am grateful to my friend the noble Lord, Lord Alton, because he and I often think alike in many...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

9: Clause 5, page 6, line 6, at end insert—

“(3A) In sect...

My Lords, we come now to the question of performers’ rights. I will not dwell at length on the pu...

Can the noble Lord clarify that he would always want that done under the affirmative procedure so...

Some of them are under negative procedures. It is a judgment, not least in this House as our Dele...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, suggests that I should go into great detail explaining th...

My Lords, I have Amendment 10 in this group. It is a short, probing amendment, and I have a few q...

I again thank noble Lords for their input. The noble Lord, Lord Purvis, referred to my declaratio...

I am sorry, but although it will report early next year, that will be after we have concluded all...

That is true of the House of Lords process, but I assume that, by then, the Bill will be in the o...

I was not going to intervene, although I was tempted. The Minister is 100% right that this is inc...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for his understanding of the complexity of this. I hope I have be...

My noble friend has referred very well to all the issues relating to the definition of a qualifyi...

We have not legislated for a consultation—there is no mention of that in the Bill—but we made suc...

Is that an undertaking always to consult before making an order under Sections 206 or 208 of the ...

No, I am sorry—it is not an undertaking to consult on the artist performance rights every time ch...

Just to be clear, what my noble friend has said may satisfy the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath—i...

It is “Bath” with a short “a”.

Try to read that one in Hansard. However, my noble friend has not given me the assurance that I a...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. I am very happy to have conversations about this. Clearly, these...

No, I think it is good. Carry on.

The noble Lord, Lord McNicol, would like me to make off-the-cuff commitments on behalf of the Gov...

That reassurance affords me the opportunity to beg leave to withdraw my amendment.