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

My Lords, I will speak briefly, simply because my Amendment 136 is grouped with the other two in ...

My Lords, I want to speak for less than a minute; I spoke at some length on this matter in Commit...

My Lords, I also support Amendments 1 and 11. I hope that I will not also have to support the ame...

My Lords, the amendment moved by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hardie, and supported by the op...

We have said throughout that the definition used by the professional organisations—which would ab...

My Lords, it is fair enough to say that, but it is not what the House is being asked to vote on t...

If the professionals have designed a system which includes them, why can that not be in the conse...

Because, my Lords, there have as I understand it been many attempts made to pin down and define w...

There are two issues. The first is that there are some enormously large employers and we do not k...

My Lords, we shall come on to the second point made by the noble Baroness. I think it is the subj...

Just on the example the noble and learned Lord was giving of the Scotch Whisky Association, if it...

If the Scotch Whisky Association was lobbying itself, then the important thing is that if the Sco...

The Minister will recall that at every previous stage of the Bill I have pressed that the Governm...

I am very grateful to my noble friend and I recognise his long-standing interest in this, not jus...

If I put a scenario to the Minister, perhaps he will be able to give me the answer. If an in-hous...

My Lords, if a lobbyist meets a Minister or the Permanent Secretary, there will be a scheme of pu...

Perhaps I may ask my noble and learned friend for further clarification about meetings. When I wa...

I am grateful to my noble friend for asking that question. I have not said that we will publish t...

Can the Minister help me in the following regard? He relies upon the fact that a system of record...

My Lords, I hear the point that the noble and learned Lord is making. As I think my noble friend ...

I am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions to this short debate and to those who have s...

The noble and learned Lord asks a fair question. The answer is that that is not the scheme that t...

I take the noble and learned Lord’s point but it is not an alternative: it is not either disclosu...

Moved by

Lord Hardie

2: Clause 2, page 2, line 6, leave out “or permanent secretary” ...

My Lords, this amendment reflects a similar amendment to that which was debated in Committee, alo...

My Lords, Amendment 3, in my name and that of my noble friend, is grouped with the amendment just...

My Lords, briefly I support the comments of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hardie, and those of...

My Lords, I strongly support my noble friend’s amendment and that put forward so effectively by t...

Could I ask for the noble Baroness’s assistance from her great experience on whether she sees any...

My impression is that there is not any real difference between the two. It is possible that some ...

My Lords, I, too, support the amendment put forward by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hardie. I...

My Lords, as a former Permanent Secretary, I rise still bathing in the warmth of the comments fro...

My Lords, I spoke in Committee on this matter, so I shall be brief today. My concern is that spec...

My Lords, this is the first time I have got involved in this Bill.

The current structure is...

I rise to speak to Amendment 2 in the name of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hardie, my noble f...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hardie, has moved an amendment that would extend the s...

On that point, I raise the question of whether the three most senior classes of the Civil Service...

My Lords, I accept that it would be more proportionate, but I really am not in a position to say....

I should like to raise two issues. First, nobody is suggesting that all meetings with all civil s...

My Lords, the noble Baroness says that they are not asking to include all civil servants’ meeting...

I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord. The point that I am seeking to make in this amendmen...

I think I understand the point that the noble and learned Lord is making about the requirement to...

The Minister has not responded to the very narrow point that was made by my noble friend Lady Roy...

My Lords, until I became Deputy Leader of your Lordships’ House I did not have a special adviser....

I am grateful to my noble and learned friend, who is very good to take points from us all. I symp...

My Lords, I know that my noble friend knows me well enough and I hope that I have made enough app...

Can my noble and learned friend clarify what he has said? If a consultant lobbyist lobbies a Mini...

On the second point, I was responding to the amendment as it is tabled, which does not narrow it ...

I am grateful to noble Lords on all sides of the House for their support for the amendment. I rea...

Moved by

Lord Tyler

3: Clause 2, page 2, line 7, after “secretary” insert “or special...

I beg to move, and to test the opinion of the House.

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

4: Clause 2, page 2, line 18, leave out “the Mini...

My Lords, the amendments in this group are a number of technical amendments in the name of my nob...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

5: Clause 2, page 2, line 19, leave out “the comm...

Moved by

Lord Hardie

7: Schedule 1, page 53, line 1, leave out paragraph 3

My Lords, in moving this amendment, I declare an interest. As I explained in Committee, I am a me...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hardie, has moved an amendment which would delete para...

I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord for putting those remarks on the record and, in the c...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

8: Schedule 1, page 53, line 16, at end insert—