Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]

My Lords, I always like the opportunity to hear my noble friend Lord Holmes because his amendment...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate, and to commend t...

My Lords, I shall be brief and start with Amendment 79. We could join in the chorus of approval a...

My Lords, before I start on these amendments, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Leong, for the generou...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, and I specifically thank the no...

I thank the Minister, but perhaps there is another of his letters here—for which I also thank him...

I totally agree with the noble Lord. I will ensure that officials in the department look into thi...

I thank all noble Lords who took part in this interesting debate, and the Minister for his respon...

Moved by

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

57: After Clause 2, insert the following ne...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 57, I will also speak to Amendments 58 and 59 in my name.

I f...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, for tabling these three amendments. I have a ...

My Lords, I was not planning to say very much about this, but I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Be...

My Lords, that was a very interesting debate, and I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady ...

The Minister worked on the medical devices Act, as indeed I did. That Act is mentioned here, and ...

I very much remember the debate because we worked closely on it. We will look into this and get b...

My Lords, I thank everyone for their kind words about my introductory speech. I thank the Ministe...

My Lords, we are still but just over five months in office. Clearly, we have to think very carefu...

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention. I think he perhaps misunderstood where I was going w...

My Lords, I apologise for interrupting and delaying the Committee, but I did say that we would us...

Proportionate is not precautionary principle. Anyway, I am not going to pick up that. I beg leave...

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

68: Clause 3, page 5, line 6, leave out subsection (9)<...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 68 and 90, which are in my name. These amendments address th...

My Lords, my amendments in this group—Amendments 69, 91 and 107—cover a somewhat wider area than ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to have the opportunity to contribute to your Lordships’ Committee. I ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their amendments in this group related to criminal offences. Th...

My Lords, the Minister has been very helpful in explaining about the affirmative process, and he ...

I thank the noble Baroness for the question. I will need to come back to her on it because I want...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who contributed to this brief discussion. The noble Lord, Lord ...

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

72: Clause 4, page 5, line 30, at end insert—

“(3...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 72 and 73, and I thank my noble friend Lord Trenchard for si...

My Lords, once again I thank the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, for his amendment. I begin by reaffirmi...

The Minister is making a powerful argument, but he raised the issue of Covid. He is aware, of cou...

I thank the noble Lord for that, and I am sure the officials will have taken notice as well.

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, for his question because it reminded me that when ...

My Lords, I really do not know the answer to that. Obviously I will find out and write to the nob...

I thank the Minister—I am grateful.

I am told that we were advised by counsel that this word is more flexible to use. I do not know w...

I again thank the noble Lord, Lord Leong, for his detailed explanation. However, the fact is that...

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

81: Clause 5, page 6, line 2, at end insert—

“(2A...

My Lords, Clause (5)(1) states the following:

“The Secretary of State may by regulations ma...

My Lords, I will be brief. The main point I wish to make initially is that the next time someone ...

My Lords, it falls to me to respond to this amendment. Unlike the noble Baroness, I think this is...

My Lords, I am delighted that the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, rejoices in the pint, as ...

Moved by

Baroness Brinton

82: Clause 5, page 6, line 8, at end insert—

“(3A) Re...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Fox, is unable to be in his place at this stage of the day because...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 103, 104 and 104B standing in my name. I want to take a mom...

My Lords, I support the amendments in the name of my noble friend Lord Sharpe, to which the noble...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords and noble Baronesses for their contributions in the debate on t...

I am grateful to the speakers in this debate and to the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, for his Amendmen...

Before the noble Baroness withdraws, I can confirm that, when we do the impact assessment, we tak...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Foster of Bath

106: Clause 7, page 8, line 15, at end insert—

“(d...

My Lords, I am extremely conscious that I will not excite your Lordships as much as our earlier d...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Foster, for introducing these two amendments...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Foster, for introducing the amendment from the noble Lord,...

My Lords, I am enormously grateful that the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, rather surprised me in seemi...

I can assure him of that.

I am not sure which it was: the letter or the Christmas card.

It will only be the letter, I am afraid.

Time is not on our side—but it would be very helpful if, in his response, he could look at the is...

I think I did say that we wanted to have a look at that and will come to him on it.

I am grateful for that, and hope that, too, will therefore be included in the letter. With those ...

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

110: Clause 9, page 9, line 19, leave out subsection (1...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 110, 111 and 112, standing in my name. Clause 9 is a skelet...

My Lords, briefly, I support this. It is important that we do not give the Minister powers to rep...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord and the noble Baroness, but I disagree with her. From t...

I am, obviously, grateful to the Minister for that reassurance because, as he acknowledged, the c...

Moved by

Lord Liddle

134: The Schedule, page 12, line 19, at end insert—

“7A Pr...

My Lords, it is not my intention to delay the conclusion of this very exhaustive and thorough Com...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Liddle for his amendment in this final group in the Commit...

My Lords, I am happy for Amendment 134 to be withdrawn. I am very grateful for the assurances the...