Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill

I advise the Committee that if this amendment is agreed to I cannot call Amendment 2 due to pre-e...

My Lords, I rise to speak to my amendments in this group which seek to achieve the same aim as Am...

My Lords, I support Amendment 1, moved by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hardie—perhaps I shoul...

My Lords, unfortunately I was unable to attend the Second Reading of the Bill due to the fact tha...

I had to go abroad on the day of Second Reading and I very much regret that I was unable to make ...

My Lords, let me start by stressing that lobbying is a normal, valuable, regular aspect of any he...

The Minister talks about the system he has to use. Did he listen to the contribution from the nob...

My Lords, I take that on board. The question of designing a system that is easily accessible to e...

If wonder if I can help my noble friend, and the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours. There is a sp...

My Lords, we are more persuaded from other countries that have the light-touch system we are prop...

My Lords, before the Minister goes on to the detail of those, I think he has not answered the poi...

My Lords, there was considerable concern while the previous Government were in office that consul...

Does the Minister not accept that charities would be exempt in terms of the schedule because what...

I am not sure that I do accept that. I am a member of the National Trust. Yesterday I received an...

A little earlier, the noble Lord mentioned that the Government favoured a light touch. In case th...

That is, again, a fair point, which the Government will look at. We are extending regulation into...

I come back to my noble friend’s point about who would be included in the register. He gave the f...

My Lords, that stretches my expertise very considerably. I will have to consult and write to the ...

Is a consultant lobbyist somebody who has more than one client? Is that what constitutes a consul...

My Lords, that is a very fair intervention. That is one of the reasons why we hesitate to include...

My Lords, before the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hardie, responds, my noble friend has really no...

If I might add to that, particularly if there are only 350 registrations.

Organisations, I should have said.

I am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions to this short debate and to the Minister for...

Moved by

Lord Campbell-Savours

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 5, after “lobbying” insert “...

My Lords, my amendment would inject the words “of government” after the words in Clause 1(1):

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 24, which is in this group. In doing so, I wish also to spea...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 23, some of whose content has been covered, and 26. Before ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 25, which is in my name and that of my noble friend, and is a...

My Lords, I realise that the noble Lord is quoting from a book, but I point out that recent figur...

I am absolutely aware of what the noble Baroness has said, and I will come to that very point. Of...

Did I mishear the noble Lord when he said that adding hundreds to the list would lead to delay? S...

I referred specifically to the non-ministerial government departments, on which the noble Lord, L...

My Lords, I have amendments in the grouping as well. My amendments have similar aims to those of ...

My Lords, I support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, provided that “...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, I was a Permanent Secretary for some 10 years and, unli...

My Lords, I was a very junior Minister in Northern Ireland and, of course, was being lobbied all ...

My Lords, I have listened to the whole debate thus far this afternoon and I confess that I, too, ...

My Lords, if I understood the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, correctly, he feels that more restraint sho...

My Lords, I rise, with my very messy notes, to support Amendment 3 in the name of my noble friend...

My Lords, I will first answer some of the specific questions raised. I reassure the noble Lord, L...

I have never been criticised for being civil.

Both of those services were as opposed to the military service—and I am not sure that I would thi...

There is an organisation in the Civil Service that they all want to belong to—the Top 200. It is ...

I take that. I was about to say that the issue of proportionality—how far we go—is a really diffi...

As I was one the noble Lords who mentioned that point, surely it is those civil servants who are ...

Perhaps we need to discuss between Committee and Report which definition of senior civil servants...

My Lords, I do not understand my noble friend’s point about numbers. It is irrelevant in the sens...

The register is of lobbyists. If we wish to include in the register every single Member of Parlia...

My Lords, we have had a very wide-ranging debate which has fully revealed the flaws and inadequac...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

5: Clause 1, page 1, line 6, at end insert “...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 5, tabled in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Royall, I sha...

My Lords, Amendment 78, tabled in my name and those of my noble friends, attacks—if that is the a...

My Lords, the Opposition’s proposed amendment would prohibit lobbying unless the person had signe...

I fear that that reply was written before I made my speech. I made it very clear that I do not wa...

Moved by

Lord Rooker

10: Clause 2, page 1, line 12, leave out “and in return for paym...

My Lords, I have a few probing amendments in this group: Amendments 10, 12, 15, 30 and 51. I am n...

I have pondered this myself. I wonder what interest it really is anyhow of anybody what a lobbyis...

The point behind this is that the Bill is addressing an issue that does not really arise. The vas...

My Lords, I apologise to my noble friend if I misunderstood slightly what he was driving at. But ...

My Lords, I read with interest Amendment 12, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, because there...

I support these probing amendments from my noble friends Lord Rooker and Lord Campbell-Savours, a...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords, in particular, the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, for the detail of the ...

My Lords, that is very welcome but would that include our officials who are working in Brussels?<...

Let me take that back and be absolutely sure. We are all conscious that, as has been said, Brusse...

I am grateful for what the Minister says. The other point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Royall...

My Lords, in answering these amendments I set out to avoid reading out any of the note prepared b...

The question is of how policy develops in response to a development in the negotiation. Policy is...

My Lords, the political process flows through a whole series of meetings. Capturing every single ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister very much for his response. What the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, said i...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

54: Schedule 2, page 54, line 31, at end ins...

My Lords, Amendments 54 and 74 are in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Royall. We support...

My Lords, the principle in Amendment 74 of the registrar reporting is important. In my view, thou...

My Lords, my Amendment 63 comes within this group. It is an extremely important amendment and one...

My Lords, I support what my noble friend just said. It seems rather silly to have done what is re...

My Lords, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay. M...

It seems to me that there is a bridge between the contribution of the noble Lord, Lord Norton of ...

I support this amendment, and I hope that the Minister will see his way to coming forward with an...

My Lords, I am slightly worried about the speed which is being talked about by the noble Lords, L...

I think I should make it clear that I suggested monthly. The present arrangement is three-monthly...

I could live with that.

I add my support to my noble friend’s amendment, but it does not go far enough. Partly for the re...

My Lords, I am fascinated to hear this great outbreak of revolution in transparency. We thought t...

When the Minister responded to the amendment of my noble friend Lady Hayter of Kentish Town, I he...

My Lords, I am not going to give that commitment now because there are larger questions about how...

My Lords, this has turned into a more interesting and wide-ranging debate than we had anticipated...

From time to time Parliament does change the structure and the nomenclature of its committees. I ...

The words “relevant select committee” could be used.

On that point, legislation does write in the name of committees or the equivalent, so it is quite...

Not only does the noble Lord, Lord Norton, supply me with his wonderful Hull students to help me ...