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European Union Bill

Debate on bills on Thursday, 23 June 2011, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Howell of Guildford. The answering member was Lord Lea of Crondall.
European Union Bill. Lords third reading debate agreed to on question. Bill passed and returned to the Commons, with amendments.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

728 c1392-403 

Session

2010-12

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Legislative stage

Third reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Related items

European Union Bill. As amended on report.
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Howell of Guildford | 728 c1403 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to enter into wider or controversial comments, because this is the stage of the Bill ...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 728 c1400-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that your Lordships noticed that my noble friends and I withdrew a number of amendm...

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Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 728 c1401 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that that intervention is entirely on target. I thought the noble Lord was going to be...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 728 c1401 (Link to this contribution) I remind the noble Lord that the Companion states that: "““The third reading of a Bill is normally c...
Baroness Williams of Crosby | 728 c1399 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, add my warm thanks to the Ministers for the extremely gracious and thoughtful way ...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 728 c1399-400 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are on the edge, between being in order or out of order. Perhaps I might repeat my nobl...
Lord Lea of Crondall | 728 c1400 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his reply. I will say for the record that I am taking it from what he has s...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 728 c1401-2 (Link to this contribution) I think that the noble Lord will find that I have cleared this intervention with the usual channels,...
Lord Richard | 728 c1402 (Link to this contribution) Is the noble Lord seriously suggesting that the usual channels have agreed that he should say what h...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 728 c1402 (Link to this contribution) If any noble Lord wishes to move that I be no longer heard, I am quite happy to debate that, but in ...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 728 c1403 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very strongly advised that the custom of this House is that ““the Bill do now pass”” ...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 728 c1403 (Link to this contribution) Will the noble Lord, Lord Howell, join those of us who think that the contribution that has been mad...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 728 c1403 (Link to this contribution) If the noble Lord will hold with me for another few seconds, I think that what I am saying is worth ...
Lord Brougham and Vaux | 728 c1402 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is stretching the rules of the House rather wide. If he carries on, I shall move the ...
Lord Richard | 728 c1402 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord says that he believes he cleared it. Is he not sure that he cleared it? If he is not ...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 728 c1402 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I started my intervention with the leave of the House. If the noble Lord wishes to remove ...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 728 c1394-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Lea of Crondall, for tabling the amendment. It seeks...
Lord Lea of Crondall | 728 c1393-4 (Link to this contribution) ‘I will not detain the House for more than a few minutes. This amendment is an addition to the words...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 728 c1395 (Link to this contribution) No, we have not. We are discussing the amendment. I hope that that is clear to the noble Lord. The ...
Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 728 c1395 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, have we moved on to debate the Question that this Bill do now pass, because I do not think...
Baroness Quin | 728 c1395 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, because it allows me to make an intervention that othe...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 728 c1395 (Link to this contribution) That is a very clear view from the noble Baroness, who, as a former Minister for Europe, knows about...
Baroness Williams of Crosby | 728 c1395 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my noble friend. I simply want to make it clear that my support for referenda is li...
Lord Davies of Stamford | 728 c1396 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord has been talking at great length about referenda and justifying the use of referenda ...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 728 c1396 (Link to this contribution) With great respect for the noble Lord, whose experience in European affairs is enormous, that is wid...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 728 c1396 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord has talked about the positive contribution that this Government have made as far as t...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 728 c1396 (Link to this contribution) That is a perfectly fair and sensible intervention by my noble friend. We would, of course, expect n...
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne | 728 c1397 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend for giving way. Does he agree that over the past 35 years or so member state...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 728 c1397 (Link to this contribution) First, I thank my noble friend for those words of thanks—I was going to say ““condolence””—for the e...
Lord Dykes | 728 c1397 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for intervening and shall be very brief. First, I genuinely thank my noble friends Lord ...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 728 c1396-7 (Link to this contribution) We have debated this at length. I have enjoyed some of the noble Lord’s interventions—not all of the...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 728 c1398 (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with my noble friend. I believe that the Bill is part of a jigsaw of processes to re...
Lord Liddle | 728 c1398-9 (Link to this contribution) I will not make any comments on the amendment of my noble friend Lord Lea, which the Minister dealt ...
Lord Williamson of Horton | 728 c1399 (Link to this contribution) I did not intervene earlier because I got the impression that this was not only Third Reading but pr...
Lord Dykes | 728 c1401 (Link to this contribution) In view of the importance of these matters, would the noble Lord also undertake to the House to work...

Subjects

EU law
EU enlargement
Legislation
European communities
Euro
Pensions
Referendums
Peers
Sovereignty
Treaties
UK membership of EU

Legislation

European Union Bill 2010-12

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