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London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill

Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Tuesday, 25 October 2011, in the House of Lords.
London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill. Lords committee stage. Clauses 1 to 10 agreed to, with clause 2 agreed to as amended. Bill reported with amendments (HL Bill 106). Grand Committee held in the Moses Room.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

731 c229-84GC 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Legislative stage

Committee stage

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee

Related items

London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill. As amended in Grand Committee.
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Bills
House of Lords
London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 95-EN also published.
Monday, 12 September 2011
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Doocey | 731 c254GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest. I am a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority. I chair its fin...
Lord Skelmersdale | 731 c254GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry to bite the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, off in his prime, but there is a Division ...

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Baroness Doocey | 731 c247GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I very much welcome the fact that LOCOG listened carefully to the concerns expressed by no...
Lord Rosser | 731 c229GC (Link to this contribution) 1: Clause 1, page 1, line 9, leave out subsections (3) and (4)
Baroness Grey-Thompson | 731 c281-2GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would like to support the words of the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Addington. I ap...
Baroness Doocey | 731 c275GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should like to take the opportunity to draw your Lordships’ attention to the good work d...
Lord Addington | 731 c279-80GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when it comes to the last amendment of this short Committee stage, I assure you that I wil...
Lord Coe | 731 c280-1GC (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord, Lord Addington, for his observations and couple that with my thanks to the n...
Lord Addington | 731 c284GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for her reply and other noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c282-4GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend Lord Addington for tabling this amendment, because I...
Baroness Grey-Thompson | 731 c274-5GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I believe that it is really important to keep track of the positive impact of the Games. L...
Baroness Ford | 731 c273-4GC (Link to this contribution) If the Minister will permit me, it may be more appropriate if I try to update the Committee on the c...
Lord Addington | 731 c272GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I tried to get my name down to this amendment, because this is a very important debate. I ...
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 731 c270-2GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, London's successful bid to host the Games was premised on a shared view across all the par...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c277-8GC (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my noble friend for those positive stories of what is going on across the coun...
Lord Coe | 731 c277GC (Link to this contribution) I do not really want to delay the Committee or your Lordships for long but I felt this was possibly ...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c275-7GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord for tabling this amendment on the important issue of the Olympic and...
Lord Addington | 731 c279GC (Link to this contribution) 13: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause— ““Disabled spectator access After section 36 of...
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 731 c278-9GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would like to thank those noble Lords who spoke in the debate. We got almost a full roun...
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 731 c270GC (Link to this contribution) 12: After Clause 9, insert the following new Clause— ““Delivery of an Olympic and Paralympic legacy ...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c268-70GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for raising these issues and the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson...
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 731 c270GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for those words. She has given us an insight into the thinki...
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 731 c267GC (Link to this contribution) This is a formal procedure in order to get into a discussion about the relaxation of licensing condi...
Baroness Grey-Thompson | 731 c267-8GC (Link to this contribution) Deleting Clause 9 would remove a provision added in the other place to permit last-minute changes to...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c265GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not sure that I can entirely answer the noble Lord and I will have to come back to hi...
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 731 c265-6GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank everyone who participated in this debate, particularly the noble Baroness, Lady Gr...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c262-5GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I appreciate that behind this amendment is a concern about minimising the impact of the Ol...
Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 731 c265GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I did not interrupt my noble friend the Minister during her speech because I did not want ...
Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 731 c261GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is the first time that I have spoken on this Bill. I did not speak on Second Reading ...
Lord Rosser | 731 c254GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had nearly concluded what I wanted to say in moving this amendment. I want to end with s...
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 731 c257-8GC (Link to this contribution) 11: Before Clause 4, insert the following new Clause— ““Operation of Olympic Route Network (1) Secti...
Lord Rosser | 731 c257GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response and the answers that she has given to the questions ...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c255-7GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for tabling this amendment. As the noble Baroness, Lady Bi...
Baroness Billingham | 731 c254-5GC (Link to this contribution) This is another example of things that looked fine on the night, but have subsequently gone seriousl...
Baroness Billingham | 731 c261GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree very much with what the noble Baroness has just said. Certainly the presentation b...
Baroness Doocey | 731 c260-1GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have reservations about the Olympic road network, but not the necessity to have one. I d...
Baroness Grey-Thompson | 731 c259-60GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest. I am a board member of Transport for London. Also, as an ex-athlete...
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 731 c258-9GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the traffic management provisions in the original Act cover the Olympic route network and ...
Lord Coe | 731 c248-9GC (Link to this contribution) Prompted by the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, I should have declared an interest in my previou...
Baroness Heyhoe Flint | 731 c249-50GC (Link to this contribution) In answer to the problems posed on the other side of this Room, perhaps I may say that I went to the...
Lord Higgins | 731 c249GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if I might intervene just for a moment, I think that we are all looking for a solution to ...
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 731 c251-2GC (Link to this contribution) I thank all noble Lords who took part in this useful and helpful debate. I am very grateful to the n...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c250-1GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to all noble Lords who have tabled amendments in this group and who hav...
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 731 c252GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my point—had I been able to make it—is this: what happens when the noble Lord, Lord Coe, r...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c252GC (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt, but I understand from my noble friend Lord Coe that telephone numbers are a...
Lord Rosser | 731 c252-3GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the purpose of Amendment 9 is to raise some questions about the police numbers required at...
Lord Rosser | 731 c252GC (Link to this contribution) 9: After Clause 3, insert the following new Clause— ““Police resources (1) Section 6 of the London O...
Lord Addington | 731 c246GC (Link to this contribution) There are three amendments in this group, and my amendment is the last of them—and may well be the l...
Lord Higgins | 731 c245-6GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it may be convenient if I speak first to the amendment that has just been proposed by the ...
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 731 c243-5GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 7, and to support Amendment 8 in the name of the noble Lord, ...
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 731 c243GC (Link to this contribution) 7: Clause 3, page 8, line 20, at end insert— ““( ) In section 31(1) of that Act, omit paragraph (b)....
Lord Rosser | 731 c242-3GC (Link to this contribution) In that case, I somewhat misunderstood the Minister’s reply, from which it appeared to me that there...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c242GC (Link to this contribution) If the noble Lord will allow me, those activities would certainly come under other forms of crime, w...
Lord Rosser | 731 c242GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will of course withdraw my amendment, but I am a little disappointed with the Minister’s...
Baroness Billingham | 731 c247-8GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I regret that my contribution today is going to be somewhat briefer than I would normally ...
Baroness Grey-Thompson | 731 c248GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest in that I sit on several sub-committees of the organising committee ...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c240-1GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for tabling this amendment, which gives your Lordships the op...
Lord Higgins | 731 c239GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I sought to intervene in the noble Lord’s speech because I thought that it might be conven...
Lord Coe | 731 c241GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if it may be helpful for the purpose of the Committee, on the point that my noble friend L...
Lord Higgins | 731 c241GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my concern is not so much on the issue of organised criminal gangs. I think that we all re...
Lord Higgins | 731 c238GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wonder whether the noble Lord—
Lord Rosser | 731 c239GC (Link to this contribution) There are also the people who do not appear on the streets or in the pubs selling tickets themselves...
Lord Skelmersdale | 731 c238GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it might be better if the noble Lord was able to move the amendment before questions arose...
Lord Higgins | 731 c241-2GC (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my noble friend. If at the last minute people find that they cannot use the ti...
Lord Coe | 731 c242GC (Link to this contribution) I cannot go that far, but I can say that the ticket resale portal will be available, and we will mak...
Lord Higgins | 731 c242GC (Link to this contribution) Again, I am grateful to my noble friend. Would it be all that difficult to have a system in which th...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c236GC (Link to this contribution) 4: Clause 2, page 7, leave out lines 35 to 41 and insert ““after subsection (2) insert— ““(2A) But i...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c236GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would be very happy to do that because this is an area where perhaps a little more clari...
Lord Rosser | 731 c236-8GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this amendment provides for the option of a custodial sentence where organised criminal ac...
Lord Rosser | 731 c236GC (Link to this contribution) 6: Clause 3, page 8, line 20, at end insert— ““( ) After section 31(6) of that Act insert— ““(6A) Wh...
Lord Rosser | 731 c233GC (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that response, and for responding to the questions that I raised. I am not ...
Lord Rosser | 731 c233GC (Link to this contribution) That is very helpful indeed. Once again, I thank the Minister for her response and I beg leave to wi...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c233GC (Link to this contribution) 3: Clause 2, page 7, line 22, leave out from ““regulations),”” to end of line 29 and insert ““after ...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c234-5GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in moving Amendment 3, I will also speak to Amendments 4 and 5 in this group. The amendmen...
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 731 c235-6GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing these amendments. There is obviously sense in having ...
Lord Rosser | 731 c229-31GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the purpose of Amendments 1 and 2 is to seek to explore the role of the Olympic Delivery A...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c231-3GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for tabling this amendment and allowing us to debate further the is...

Subjects

Access
Disability
Advertising
Costs
Licensing
Greater London
Fines
Freight
Police
Public transport
Newspaper press
Proof of identity
Marketing
Taxis
Schools
Training
Road traffic
Roads
Sports
Touting
Tickets
London 2012 Organising Committee
Olympic Delivery Authority
Olympic Games 2012
Paralympic Games 2012
Statutory instruments

Legislation

London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill 2010-12

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