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European Union (Implications of Withdrawal) Bill [HL]

Debate on bills on Friday, 8 June 2007, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Pearson of Rannoch. The answering member was Lord Triesman.
European Union (Implications of Withdrawal) Bill (HL). Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

692 c1410-56 

Session

2006-07

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Private members' bills proceedings

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Related items

European Union (Implications of Withdrawal) Bill (HL)
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Bills
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Thursday, 21 June 2007
Written questions
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Vinson | 692 c1424-6, (corrigendum) 1582 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the noble Lord will give me time to finish my argument—he was not here earlier when I r...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 692 c1426-9, (corrigendum) 1582 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like other noble Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Pearson, on his persistence in...

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Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 692 c1410-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. I start by thanking all noble Lord...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 692 c1454-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thought the suggestion was that the Parliament should take over. We would not go along w...
Lord Dykes | 692 c1454 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think people would agree, in the sense that it is just sovereign member states working t...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 692 c1454 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before I start, I shall just mention the other question that I put to the Minister: where ...
Lord Triesman | 692 c1453-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, greater scrutiny by Parliament would unquestionably be a helpful reform.
Lord Triesman | 692 c1454 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not believe that it is about to become a single-state entity taking power from sovere...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 692 c1453 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that was not the question. The question was: does the Minister believe that the people of ...
Lord Triesman | 692 c1453 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think the answer is yes. I remember that as one of the most political and, in a funny wa...
Earl of Liverpool | 692 c1429 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join other noble Lords in thanking my noble friend Lord Pearson of Rannoch for giving us...
Earl of Liverpool | 692 c1429-31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I believe that this Bill is well worthy of support and has much to commend it. It is short...
Lord Vinson | 692 c1422-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a very timely debate. Day after day and week after week, changes are happening to ...
Lord Watson of Richmond | 692 c1424 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I am simply curious. If he believes t...
Baroness Noakes | 692 c1415-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Pearson, whom I still like to regard as my noble frien...
Lord Watson of Richmond | 692 c1418-21 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, having had the pleasure of listening to the noble Lord, Lord Pearson, many times in this H...
Lord Dykes | 692 c1440 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not want to be discourteous and I ought to give way, but if I do the time will go qui...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 692 c1440 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I understand that there will be time for Committee. I look forward to the noble Lord’s con...
Lord Dykes | 692 c1440 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I meant the crucial stage. My Bill went long ago to the Commons and is awaiting Second Rea...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 692 c1438 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord mentioned old-fashioned Tories being against membership of Europe. I remind...
Lord Dykes | 692 c1439 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I accept that entirely. I pay tribute to the way in which the noble Lord, as an independen...
Lord Moran | 692 c1436-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this House should seek as far as possible to be in tune with public opinion in the country...
Lord Dykes | 692 c1438 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in one sense, this has not been a debate in the balanced sense across the Benches of the H...
Lord Monson | 692 c1432-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Bill, for which the noble Lord, Lord Pearson, is to be thanked, ought to be welcomed w...
Lord Willoughby de Broke | 692 c1433-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend Lord Pearson for introducing the Bill at such a time...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 692 c1440 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is no reason why this Bill should not reach the Commons this Session.
Lord Dykes | 692 c1440-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the realities of the Commons are different from that very optimistic idea. Be that as it m...
Lord Vinson | 692 c1441 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the noble Lord give way?
Lord Dykes | 692 c1441 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was referring to the noble Lord, Lord Willoughby de Broke, so I would prefer not to.
Lord Vinson | 692 c1441 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to raise a point with the noble Lord about subsidiarity. We were promised, I think ...
Lord Dykes | 692 c1441-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall not deal with that because the noble Lord did not answer the points made by my nob...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 692 c1442 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, did I understand the noble Lord to say that he supported the Bill because he looks forward...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 692 c1443-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that most noble Lords, perhaps not all of us, have agreed that this debate has rai...
Lord Dykes | 692 c1444 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, may I assume that that suggestion is the agreed policy of the shadow Cabinet?
Lord Howell of Guildford | 692 c1446-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord is presuming a lot, and perhaps some of the people in those two Governments...
Lord Triesman | 692 c1447-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Pearson, for introducing this debate on the United King...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 692 c1444-6 (Link to this contribution) No, my Lords. The noble Lord should certainly not think that everything that Conservatives say is ag...
Lord Dykes | 692 c1446 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord referred to the Netherlands and to France. Of course, both Governments now ...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 692 c1450 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the noble Lord finishes extolling the wonders of the European single market, is he ...
Lord Triesman | 692 c1450-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is an entirely fair point. Of course I am not saying that. However, as you watch the ...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 692 c1449 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most obliged to the noble Lord for giving way. He mentioned aid, and he rightly claim...
Lord Triesman | 692 c1449-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am particularly unwilling to get into a contention with noble Lords on aid because I sus...
Lord Beaumont of Whitley | 692 c1421-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have always been a Euro-phile, if that term means someone who loves Europe and European ...
Lord Dykes | 692 c1440 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, did the noble Lord say ““next Session””?
Lord Vinson | 692 c1453 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I posed the specific problem that we have a condition of regulation without rectification:...
Lord Dykes | 692 c1442 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I suppose that I might say, cautiously and grudgingly, that I support it in the ““Denis Ma...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 692 c1454 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for that reply. I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken—perhaps esp...

Subjects

Inquiries
EU withdrawal
European Union
UK membership of EU

Legislation

European Union (Implications of Withdrawal) Bill (HL) 2006-07

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