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European Union Bill

Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bills on Wednesday, 25 May 2011, in the House of Lords.
European Union Bill. Lords committee stage eighth day. New clause debated. Clause 22 agreed to. Bill reported without amendment.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

727 c1825-62 

Session

2010-12

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Legislative stage

Committee stage

Procedure

New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Related items

European Union Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 55-EN also published.
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Judd | 727 c1852-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I take that as general advice to the House, rather than as personal advice. There has been...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 727 c1852 (Link to this contribution) There seems to be a general will in your Lordships' House that we should complete this debate by 1.3...

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Lord Grenfell | 727 c1846 (Link to this contribution) Lord Grenfell: I support Amendments 61 to 63. I am sorry that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Howe,...
Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 727 c1844-6 (Link to this contribution) Baroness Falkner of Margravine: The noble Lord, Lord Hannay, does not particularly care for other pe...
Lord Taverne | 727 c1862 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, a number of very important points have been made on both sides in this Bill. I would like ...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 727 c1858-62 (Link to this contribution) What parties put in their manifestos is certainly not within my control or that of anyone else in Pa...
Lord Liddle | 727 c1854-6 (Link to this contribution) I think we should thank the noble Lord for that, so that we can get on to our quick lunch and then t...
Lord Dobbs | 727 c1854 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had intended to intervene for the very first time on the Bill to make a passionate denun...
Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 727 c1858 (Link to this contribution) Given the time, I am sure that the noble Lord is keen to get under way, and I will not intervene aga...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 727 c1856-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have participated in this debate, sometimes colourfully. There...
Viscount Trenchard | 727 c1850-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord for his intervention. Like him, I welcome the speech to be made by Mr Lidingt...
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 727 c1850 (Link to this contribution) Has the noble Lord noticed, as I have with approval, Mr Lidington’s plan to make a speech today at t...
Baroness Brinton | 727 c1853-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, although I oppose both Amendments 61 and 63 for attempting to kill the Bill before its eff...
Lord Taverne | 727 c1851 (Link to this contribution) Does the noble Lord not see that if, as a result of the Bill and the difficulties placed on our nego...
Viscount Trenchard | 727 c1851-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have spent some time in Brussels, Paris and the Netherlands, talking to regulators. It i...
Viscount Trenchard | 727 c1849-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hesitate to intervene at this late stage in the debate, especially as I was unable to pa...
Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 727 c1848-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak briefly in support of these amendments and I want to make two points that ha...
Baroness Quin | 727 c1847-8 (Link to this contribution) I will speak very briefly in support of the idea of a sunset clause, which is probably the best way ...
Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 727 c1843-4 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness and am most grateful to her for giving way. However, it i...
Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 727 c1843 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it was on this day last year, and with some trepidation, that I stood as the first Liberal...
Lord Howe of Aberavon | 727 c1841-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I notice that my name is attached to one of the amendments on the Marshalled List. I rise ...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 727 c1841 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful for that flattering comment from my noble friend Lord Radice. That is exactly th...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 727 c1841 (Link to this contribution) I was invited to comment before I sat down, so I shall. I am grateful for the Minister’s interventio...
Lord Williamson of Horton | 727 c1834 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the grouping includes quite different proposals relating to a possible sunset clause. Amen...
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne | 727 c1834-5 (Link to this contribution) I follow the noble Lord with further comment about the applicability of a sunset clause for this typ...
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 727 c1835 (Link to this contribution) As the noble Baroness continues to distinguish this Bill from other Bills, would she like to disting...
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne | 727 c1835 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord very much. Perhaps I may continue. The day a Government believe this Bill sho...
Lord Flight | 727 c1833-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise for not being present at the start of the debate as I had problems parking my ...
Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 727 c1836-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, would like to address the question of sunset clauses, but first I will pick up on ...
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 727 c1835 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the noble Baroness. Coming back to the Fixed-term Parliaments Bill, I hope she...
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne | 727 c1835-6 (Link to this contribution) The sunset clause is inappropriate because, as I have said, this Bill attempts to do something quite...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1836 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, would the noble Baroness care to comment on the Factortame case?
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne | 727 c1836 (Link to this contribution) I beg to continue, because although the noble Lord’s reasoning is always crystal clear—I often disag...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 727 c1838 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I put forward five simple propositions. Many of them will be regarded by noble Lords as en...
Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 727 c1839 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord for giving way. Is he suggesting to me that it is in the national interest th...
Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 727 c1837 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord has perhaps misunderstood the effect of the sunset clause. If it operated and nothing...
Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 727 c1837-8 (Link to this contribution) Of course—but the noble Lord will know well that the late Lord Hailsham described government as an e...
Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 727 c1837 (Link to this contribution) I imagine that since the noble Lord sees the Liberal Democrats behind attempts to tie anyone’s hands...
Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 727 c1837 (Link to this contribution) I was coming on to counterterrorism. Those sunset clauses were designed because the Government had t...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 727 c1840-1 (Link to this contribution) Noble Lords may laugh, but it is an absurd idea that the answer regarding the British interest is al...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 727 c1841 (Link to this contribution) Does the noble Lord accept that there is a clear distinction between changes in the rules of the EU ...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 727 c1839-40 (Link to this contribution) I am suggesting that sometimes it may be and sometimes it may not be. We need to be pragmatic about ...
Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 727 c1828 (Link to this contribution) Does the noble Lord not recognise that there is no Motion on the Order Paper in this Committee stage...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1828-9 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord may find my remarks inconvenient, perhaps because they are entirely on target. I am e...
Lord Taverne | 727 c1825-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a probing amendment. At the end of the Committee stage it is time to see where we ...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1827-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I suppose that these amendments, particularly Amendment 63, are the most brazen attempt ye...
Lord Richard | 727 c1829-30 (Link to this contribution) It is very bad for me to sit where I do, so full of good will and bonhomie. All the world is my frie...
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 727 c1830-1 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendments in the name of the noble Lords, Lord Taverne and Lord Richard, and in the n...
Baroness Williams of Crosby | 727 c1829 (Link to this contribution) Would the noble Lord acknowledge that American Presidents repeatedly, from President Eisenhower on, ...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1829 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, of course I am aware of that. I also remember Henry Kissinger saying that he rather liked ...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 727 c1831 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may refer the noble Lord to the Quentin Letts column in the Daily Mail and to co...
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 727 c1832-3 (Link to this contribution) I stand corrected and congratulate the noble Lord on his close reading of the Daily Mail. As you go ...
Lord Taverne | 727 c1825 (Link to this contribution) 61: After Clause 21, insert the following new Clause— ““Duration of Part 1 and Schedule 1 Part 1 and...
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon | 727 c1846-7 (Link to this contribution) Before I comment specifically on the sunset clauses—and notwithstanding the masterful innings of my ...

Subjects

EU law
European communities
Referendums
Sovereignty
Treaties
Treaty on European Union
UK membership of EU
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Treaty of Lisbon
Sunset clauses

Legislation

European Union Bill 2010-12

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