Parliamentary search - European Union Bill

Reference

727 c1334-76

Session

2010-12

Proceeding contributions

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1354 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there are a growing number of us who know that the planet’s climate has been changing for ...

Baroness Williams of Crosby | 727 c1353-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support what my noble friend has said, and I promise to keep entirely within order. My s...

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Baroness Williams of Crosby | 727 c1354-5 (Link to this contribution) I will not be lured very far by the noble Lord, who is always very polite in the way that he attempt...

Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 727 c1355 (Link to this contribution) I understand exactly what the noble Baroness, Lady Williams, is saying and I can understand the reas...

Lord Lea of Crondall | 727 c1355 (Link to this contribution) Is the noble Lord not giving the game away that this is an exercise in trying to destroy the Lisbon ...

Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 727 c1355 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord has misunderstood what I am trying to say. The Lisbon treaty is in operation, and I a...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 727 c1356-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think we all understand that Clause 6 is at the heart of the Bill. We have spent conside...

Lord Triesman | 727 c1355-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to express very real appreciation for what the noble Lord, Lord Taverne, and the no...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 727 c1357 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not wish to get into a lengthy disquisition either of passerelle or of the coalition ...

Lord Liddle | 727 c1357 (Link to this contribution) The Minister mentioned the coalition agreement, which is obviously a compromise between parties that...

Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 727 c1357-8 (Link to this contribution) The Minister explained very patiently that the Bill was a compromise. He admits that it was not prov...

Lord Lea of Crondall | 727 c1350 (Link to this contribution) We need to get to the bottom of this. Is the noble Lord implying that that is an annual figure, beca...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1350 (Link to this contribution) As a matter of fact, it is real. We have £10 billion that are only loans at the moment; we have £10 ...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 727 c1349 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is, of course, correct. One trades the purity of complete sovereignty for the lack of...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1349-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have supported the amendment and to those who have be...

Lord Taverne | 727 c1351-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have taken part only occasionally in this debate. I have been fascinated by the display ...

Lord Tomlinson | 727 c1351 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendments 42, 43 and 44 have already been debated. I remind the Committee that the three ...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1350-1 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the British people would agree with the noble Lord, Lord Hannay, that the figu...

Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 727 c1350 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to intrude into the noble Lord’s game of tiddlywinks with statistics, which he has been p...

Lord Taverne | 727 c1352 (Link to this contribution) That is perfectly true, but it is not as if having a referendum suddenly changes the mood and makes ...

Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 727 c1352 (Link to this contribution) Before my noble friend leaves that point, is it not true, however, that Euroscepticism is increasing...

Lord Goodhart | 727 c1374-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have listened with considerable interest to what my noble friend Lord Howell has said, b...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 727 c1374 (Link to this contribution) I must hurry because time is running out, but I have in front of me a long list of countries both wh...

Lord Grenfell | 727 c1374 (Link to this contribution) Before my very good friend the Minister sits down, perhaps I may put one very quick question to him ...

Lord Goodhart | 727 c1371 (Link to this contribution) Does my noble friend agree, however, that a situation might arise in which it is desired to change f...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 727 c1368-71 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord used the word ““innocuous””. I do not believe that any of the matters in Schedule 1, ...

Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 727 c1372 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the Minister would not mind going back about one minute to what he was saying about advocate...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 727 c1371-2 (Link to this contribution) It becomes a matter of hypothesis and judgment. This is an area where, somehow, one has to have soli...

Lord Liddle | 727 c1366-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have heard many fine speeches in this short debate. I shall be brief and focus on what ...

Lord Dykes | 727 c1368 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for making a brief intervention, but is that not an extraordinary suggestion? Why then a...

Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 727 c1372 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister is winding. Obviously it is for noble Lords to intervene to ask a question, b...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 727 c1372-4 (Link to this contribution) I am longing to get on. I have taken too much time already and not met in sufficient detail some of ...

Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 727 c1361-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for giving way. I wonder whether he is conscious of two matters. Fi...

Lord Flight | 727 c1360-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Williamson, on his summing up of Schedule 1 from where...

Lord Williamson of Horton | 727 c1359-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have waited rather a long time to come into this debate. Having spent 16 years extremely...

Lord Goodhart | 727 c1358-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have now moved on from Clause 6 to Schedule 1. I am speaking to Amendments 45 and 47. I...

Lord Goodhart | 727 c1358 (Link to this contribution) 45: Schedule 1, page 13, leave out lines 12 and 13

Lord Tomlinson | 727 c1358 (Link to this contribution) I shall not oppose the clause standing part, but have one slight comment to the Minister. He referre...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 727 c1362-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have the greatest regard for the noble Baroness, but I think no one has spoken from this...

Baroness Williams of Crosby | 727 c1365-6 (Link to this contribution) I shall quickly follow the noble Lord, Lord Davies, but I shall not detain the Committee for more th...

Lord Flight | 727 c1362 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord for his, as ever, instructive intervention. The noble Lord, Lord Kerr, who is...

Baroness Williams of Crosby | 727 c1362 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to address briefly—

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1334 (Link to this contribution) 41: Clause 6, page 5, line 16, at end insert— ““( ) a decision under Article 311 of TEU which would ...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1334-5 (Link to this contribution) This amendment gives the British people a referendum on the economic cost of our EU membership. This...

Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 727 c1341 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Tomlinson, I welcome this modest amendment from the noble Lord, ...

Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne | 727 c1341-2 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful indeed to the noble Lord. It is most courteous and gallant of him to allow me to ...

Lord Willoughby de Broke | 727 c1339-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment. Perhaps I may disagree rather gently with the noble...

Lord Risby | 727 c1340-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise for arriving in your Lordships’ Chamber a few minutes late; I was unavoidably ...

Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne | 727 c1337-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am a little dazzled by the complexity of the millions and billions and almost trillions ...

Lord Tomlinson | 727 c1338-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the House should be grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Pearson. I want to congratulate him o...

Lord Lea of Crondall | 727 c1335 (Link to this contribution) I am going to the Faroe Islands in a couple of weeks’ time, and I point out that the issue with the ...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1335-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sure we could collaborate with other nations that control their own waters. What we do not want...

Lord Lea of Crondall | 727 c1335 (Link to this contribution) I am sure we are all fascinated, but is the noble Lord not in favour of any sort of conservation pol...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1335 (Link to this contribution) We were not robbed because we voluntarily signed our fishing away before we signed up to the 1972 Ac...

Lord Grenfell | 727 c1343 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for intervening at this point, but I think we have strayed rather far in the latter rema...

Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 727 c1342-3 (Link to this contribution) Yes, there is only one problem about that—he believed in a united Europe, but not including this cou...

Lord Grenfell | 727 c1343 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps we could finish on that point. It would be very interesting, if we made just a little more p...

Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 727 c1343 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord has raised a very important point. It would be very useful to know exactly in total h...

Lord Tomlinson | 727 c1344 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord referred yet again to this question of a cost-benefit analysis. How is he proposing t...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1343-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I could try to make it make sense for the noble Lord. There are some huge differen...

Lord Flight | 727 c1344 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this amendment is not the correct vehicle to address what desperately needs to be addresse...

Lord Triesman | 727 c1345-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, start by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Pearson of Rannoch. He has provided me with...

Lord Triesman | 727 c1346-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I entirely understand the difference. I truly had appreciated it. My point is that in a po...

Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 727 c1346 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord quotes California but the Californians had referendums about their internal taxation ...

Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 727 c1347 (Link to this contribution) After the apology the Minister has made for the late start and the Bill being put on again on Wednes...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 727 c1347 (Link to this contribution) If needed and if we are still discussing the Bill, there will of course be an adjournment. Some of u...

Lord Willoughby de Broke | 727 c1347 (Link to this contribution) Briefly, and on a point of order: will there be an adjournment for those Members who have been lucky...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 727 c1347 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start with an apology to the noble Lord, Lord Stoddart, and other noble Lords that we ha...

Lord Radice | 727 c1349 (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Lord confirm that the countries outside the EU that are contributing to the EU budget...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 727 c1348-9 (Link to this contribution) I recognise the familiar themes of the noble Lord’s argument. I will say just a little about the EU ...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1348 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps it would be helpful if I intervened. As I mentioned in my earlier remarks, there s...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 727 c1367-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to be brief, too, but I am not sure that I will succeed. This has been an immensely...

Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 727 c1372 (Link to this contribution) I will now await the answer.

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1344 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the noble Lord would be good enough to read my Bill, which is now top of the waiting li...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 727 c1347-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall resist going down that great sideline. We have a certain amount of time remaining ...