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

My Lords, I apologise that I arrived in the Chamber slightly late due to the crush of noble Lords...

My Lords, I should explain for the benefit of your Lordships’ House that it is the Government’s i...

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Lord Wallace of Tankerness

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Lord Wallace of Tankerness

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Lord Tyler

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My Lords, this amendment seeks simply to tidy up an anomaly created by the government amendments ...

My Lords, I recognise the strength of feeling with which my noble friend Lord Tyler moved his ame...

The noble Lord, Lord Tyler, made clear in his contribution that the Electoral Commission was conc...

Perhaps I may add to the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours. The amendment of my...

Both interventions raise the same point. I say to the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, that I t...

My Lords, I apologise for having misread the grouping of my amendment as scheduled. I will now ma...

My Lords, it may be helpful if I respond to the points made by the noble and learned Lord. I had ...

I am most grateful to the Minister for his help. I shall not press Amendment 26.

If I may return to Amendment 9, my noble and learned friend made the very fair comment that this ...

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Lord Wallace of Tankerness

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Lord Harries of Pentregarth

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My Lords, I recognise the great importance of constituency limits, and believe that there should ...

My Lords, my name is also on the two amendments in this group. I start by very briefly saying tha...

My Lords, I shall not detain the House for more than a few moments. I put my name to the amendmen...

Does the noble Lord envisage the third party groups being registered charities? Does he see any i...

I suppose that the answer to that question, which is a perfectly reasonable one for the noble Lor...

My Lords, in respect of the comments made a few moments ago by my noble friend Lord Cormack about...

The noble Lord knows that I value simplicity even more than he does. Would he not agree that it w...

My Lords, in response to that, I certainly agree that the Bill is greatly improved and I pay trib...

My Lords, I intervene briefly in this debate because I am struck time and again in the exchanges ...

My Lords, I come in briefly, having listened to the arguments surrounding this amendment. The nob...

My Lords, first, I endorse the words of the noble Baroness, Lady Williams, about the work of what...

My Lords, I thank the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Harries, for this amendment and for the...

I would be most grateful if the Minister would reflect on one suggestion. I think that he would a...

Before the Minister finishes his speech, may I, too, ask him a question, to which I would be grat...

My Lords, it was probably at one of the consultation meetings that my noble friend Lord Wallace o...

Before I focus on what the Minister has said about the amendment, may I thank him, and the noble ...

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Lord Harries of Pentregarth

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Lord Wallace of Tankerness

13: Clause 30, page 21, line 1, leave out from “p...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

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Lord Wallace of Tankerness

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