Defence Reform Bill

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe, for raising a number of questions to which I ...

The noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe, has raised in a variety of ways the issue of the independence o...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their comments at the beginning of this fourth day in Committee...

While I commend the noble Baroness on her anticipation of my speech, I wonder whether, where she ...

My Lords, I am sorry that I have not answered specific questions. I should have flagged up as man...

Moved by

Lord Tunnicliffe

18J: Clause 14, page 10, line 22, at end insert “provided t...

My Lords, I am sorry that I did not make a closing speech because the idea of HMT having performa...

My Lords, I will consider Amendments 18J and 18K together and then move to the clause stand part ...

I take it that that was an offer to write to me with the one-and-a-half-page response.

I am more than happy to read it to the noble Lord. Would that help?

It might help, because the noble Baroness will probably have to put it into the record anyway, on...

The framework provides for a range of reports to be specified in the single-source contract regul...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for that response. We have used different terms but I think ...

Moved by

Lord Tunnicliffe

18L: Clause 18, page 13, leave out line 19 and insert—

My Lords, in moving Amendment 18L, I will also speak to Amendments 18M and 18N. I find myself in ...

My Lords, we are considering in this group of amendments three related changes to the power under...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response, which I will study with great care. I am sure th...

Moved by

Lord Tunnicliffe

18P: Clause 19, page 13, leave out line 32 and insert—

My Lords, in moving Amendment 18P I will speak to the rest of the amendments in this group. The p...

My Lords, I, too, am worried about these words. I shall not repeat what the noble Lord, Lord Tunn...

My Lords, I, too, was surprised to read these words. I had looked in the draft regulations to see...

My Lords, Amendment 18P would have the effect of directing the Secretary of State for Defence to ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate. I congratulate the Minister...

My Lords, I will speak to Clause 21 and to Amendment 23C. I must emphasise that our opposition to...

My Lords, this is a crucial element of the Bill because it protects the taxpayer against contract...

Moved by

Lord Tunnicliffe

18R: Clause 26, page 18, line 40, leave out from beginning ...

My Lords, Amendments 18R, 18S and 18T are prompted by industry, which seeks to argue that there s...

My Lords, one of the flaws in the current Yellow Book framework is that it provides little transp...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response, which I will read with great care in Hansard. Ot...

Moved by

Baroness Jolly

19: Clause 33, page 24, leave out line 21 and insert “single ...

This group of amendments relates to the regulations that are to be made by statutory instrument u...

My Lords, I welcome the Government’s amendments to these various clauses. They are a very full re...

My Lords, at this point I have no objection to the government amendments, but that may be partly ...

I thank the noble Lord for his comments and I am sure that I will get my pen out and start writin...

Moved by

Lord Astor of Hever

20: Clause 33, page 24, line 34, leave out subsection (6...

Moved by

Lord Astor of Hever

22: Clause 39, page 26, line 38, leave out “regulations ...

Moved by

Lord Astor of Hever

23: Clause 42, page 27, line 33, leave out subsection (4...

Moved by

Lord Astor of Hever

24: Clause 49, page 31, line 35, at end insert—

“(...