Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]

If this amendment is agreed, I shall not be able to call Amendments 2 or 3 by reason of pre-empti...

My Lords, I support Amendment 133, to which the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, has just spoken and to w...

My Lords it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Anderson of Ipswich. I have an amendment...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to have the opportunity to speak in Committee. I begin by apologising ...

I thank noble Lords for their forbearance as I was rudely interrupted by democracy.

I was s...

My Lords, I welcome this landmark Bill, and I welcome my noble friend the Minister and the noble ...

I shall speak briefly to my Amendment 128. I begin, like others, by congratulating my noble frien...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Sharpe on his appointment. I support his Amendment ...

My Lords, I too was unable to be at Second Reading, so this is my first occasion to make comment....

My Lords, I join the cavalcade of congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, on his new role...

Is the noble Lord aware of the letter dated 28 October from the Minister, Justin Madders, of the ...

I am not a student of parliamentary history, so I do not know if it is an unprecedented letter, b...

I believe that the sentence that was just read out was in the report from the Government to the D...

My Lords, I feel that I am standing in the middle of a perfectly good debate between the noble Ba...

In the Division Lobby, perhaps.

If they find themselves in the same Division Lobby, but that is rather unlikely.

For this r...

My Lords, we have been here before. When the Schools Bill was in front of us, I was very happily ...

My Lords, I join noble Lords in congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, on his appointment. I...

I think the Minister is trying to have it both ways. On the one hand, this committee is so long-w...

I said earlier that we will look at this on a case-by-case basis. Some regulations will relate to...

My Lords, I beg your Lordships’ leave, and I apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, for takin...

I thank the noble Lord for that point. As I see it, it is the whole manufacturing of the product ...

I think we better had.

To conclude, I hope that I have been able to provide assurances on all these matters and I assure...

Before the noble Lord sits down, I am very much in favour of most of the Bill, but this bit is ve...

I thank the noble Lord for that. If it helps, I have gone through some of our 150-odd existing pr...

I do not want to labour the point, but it is either feast or famine. We are being told by the Gov...

I thank the noble Lord for that. I shall take it away and speak to officials about this, but the ...

My Lords, I do not really have very much to say. I am partially reassured by what the Minister ha...

Moved by

Lord Foster of Bath

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 4, after “marketing” insert “,...

My Lords, I begin by thanking the Minister for his willingness to engage with all noble Lords who...

My Lords, I begin by saying that, like others, I am grateful to the Minister for the time he gave...

My Lords, before I address Amendments 2 and 27 tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Foster, I need to m...

My Lords, I almost want to say that the Minister doth protest too much. We have been given a whol...

Moved by

Lord Fox

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 6, leave out “or effectively” and insert ...

My Lords, Amendment 3 is part of group 3, which focuses on the safety of marketed products; we ar...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Fox, was in full flow. He may resume on Amendment 3.

My Lords, I was not in full flight; I was merely jogging along the runway.

I have talked to...

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment and the amendment that is still to be debated by ...

My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath, and my noble friend’s a...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 10, in the name of my noble friend Lord Sharpe of Epsom, whic...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to respond to this particularly interesting debate. I, too, welcome th...

There is no dichotomy. We do think that the powers are too wide but part of what we want to do is...

I was hoping to assure the noble Lord that the way the Bill is constructed should give him comfor...

Just for absolute clarity, I did not say that the Bill was too discretionary; I said that the cur...

I am sorry if I misinterpreted what the noble Lord said, but I get his drift. We believe that the...

I apologise but I am not quite sure what the Minister’s concern about my amendment therefore is. ...

We do not think it is necessary.

Why?

If the noble Lord will let me explain, Clauses 1 and 11 grant powers to make regulations relating...

I am grateful for the Minister’s indulgence; I have a straightforward question regarding Amendmen...

Hear, hear!

My Lords, I think that is surprising support from the noble Lord, Lord Foster. This is an iterati...

My Lords, as a fox, I take the subject of wild animals somewhat to heart. To some extent the Mini...

Moved by

Lord Frost

4: Clause 1, page 1, line 9, leave out subsection (2)

Membe...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 4, I will also speak to my Amendments 6, 15, 36, 37 and 42. I thank...

My Lords, I will pick up where I left off. I was about to note that my six amendments in this gro...

My Lords, I must inform the Committee that, if Amendment 4 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendment ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 17 and 127 in my name. I also would like to congratulate the...

My Lords, I rise with no emotion in my voice—because, as noble Lords will appreciate, to be a Gov...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Kirkhope. Tempted as I am to follow his...

My Lords, I rise to support the amendment in my name and primarily that of my noble friend Lord F...

I shall quickly respond to the noble Lord. One of the reasons why I asked the Minister for some d...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his generous allocation of time the other day to discuss some ...

My Lords, with the explicit kind invitation of the noble Lord, Lord Russell, I rise to provide an...

As noble Lords can probably imagine, I have been looking forward to this group for ages, and I th...

For someone who is usually very astute, who listens to my views and is very kind in saying that t...

I may have misunderstood—I shall certainly look at Hansard afterwards. But it would be useful for...

May I clarify something? I specified that e-commerce was part of this study, in line with other d...

My Lords, before I start, I thank all noble Lords, who have been incredibly generous to me this a...

I thank noble Lords and the noble Baroness for their amendments in this group. Products in the sc...

My Lords, it has been a very interesting debate, even though it may have had a slightly retro fee...

Moved by

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

5: Clause 1, page 1, line 9, leave out subs...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 5 I will also speak to Amendments 28, 30, 50, 115 and 125, which ar...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly on Amendments 30, 115 and 125, which are in my name. As the n...

My Lords, I will be brief. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, for introducing this group. ...

My Lords, it has been an interesting mini debate and I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Be...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response and noble Lords who have taken part in this time-...

My Lords, I say at once that I pay due regard to the Civil Service and the advice I receive, but ...

My Lords, I reassure the noble Baroness that my fridge is more than 20 years old, and I have a ve...

I guess the noble Lord has chosen his products well and been extraordinarily lucky. I am afraid s...