Water Bill

My Lords, here we come to two much more specific and modest proposals to address the potential th...

Page 141, line 32, at the end insert the words as printed on the Marshalled List, with the provis...

My Lords, I declare an interest for the purposes of Report, in that I am a farmer with abstractio...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Selborne has tabled Amendments 30 and 37, which would amend provis...

I am grateful to my noble friend for those observations. I am pleased that he at least agrees wit...

Moved by

Baroness Northover

38: Schedule 5, page 171, line 42, at end insert—

“...

My Lords, I beg to move government Amendment 38 and will speak also to Amendments 39, 73, 75 to 7...

Moved by

Baroness Northover

39: Schedule 5, page 172, line 11, at end insert—

“...

Moved by

Lord Moynihan

40: After Clause 7, insert the following new Clause—

“Fa...

My Lords, I seek to assist the House, first by defining the concept of exit that my amendment aim...

I am grateful to my noble friend for giving way and for the kind things that he has just said abo...

I am very grateful to my noble friend for those comments. Indeed, I hope that through his interve...

My Lords, I, too, have an amendment in this group which argues for retail exit, but adds a few pr...

My Lords, perhaps I might intervene.

I think I might be able to help the House. When it is my turn to speak, I will explain that the G...

I am grateful. I intervene as a domestic consumer of the services of Scottish Water in Scotland m...

My Lords, that is a helpful intervention.

I thank my noble friend Lord Moynihan and the nob...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, and his colleagues for their support for the serie...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

41: After Clause 7, insert the following new Clause—

“Abst...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 41 I will also comment on the government amendments in this group. ...

My Lords, along with a number of colleagues around the House, I raised serious concerns in Commit...

My Lords, I want to probe a little on the timing. I agree with everything that the noble Baroness...

My Lords, this has been another important debate on abstraction reform. It gives me an opportunit...

My Lords, I have to confess that this is a part of the Bill that I have not followed particularly...

I think the noble Lord is out of order. We are on Report, the Minister has spoken, and we are wai...

Thank you. The clarification that I seek is whether the Minister would be willing, when he brings...

My Lords, it is difficult for me to respond to that point without knowing the strengthening that ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his very comprehensive description of the position and I reite...

Moved by

Lord De Mauley

42: Clause 8, page 9, line 25, at end insert “, in particular...

Moved by

Lord De Mauley

53: Clause 12, page 46, line 9, at end insert—

“(aa) pr...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

55: After Clause 15, insert the following new Clause—

“Nat...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 55 I will also refer to Amendment 56 in this group.

The Bill ...

My Lords, I am sure that we are all sympathetic to the proposal of the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, t...

My Lords, my noble friend has beaten me to the point that I wish to raise. Over the years, during...

My Lords, I fully support affordability schemes but regret that I do not believe that they should...

My Lords, affordability is clearly a key issue and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for raisi...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for explaining his amendments and I thank all nobl...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that, and I thank everybody else who has taken part in this de...

Moved by

Lord De Mauley

57: Clause 16, page 52, line 33, at end insert—

“(6ZA) ...

Moved by

Baroness Northover

61: Clause 22, page 63, line 20, after “promoting” insert...

My Lords, in moving government Amendment 61 I shall also speak to the other amendments in this gr...

My Lords, I thank the Government, after some considerable debate about the issue, for the alacrit...

My Lords, I, too, thank the Government for listening so assiduously to the concerns that I and co...

My Lords, I, too, welcome all the government amendments in this group. However, I do not understa...

My Lords, I apologise that I was not able to play a large enough part in Committee. However, I wo...

Did the noble Baroness mean to say, “Before the noble Lord sits down”?

I am sorry; I did not think that that was necessary at this stage—I hope I am correct. That is my...

I am not sure of the procedure at this point, so I will not reply now.

My Lords, I contributed to the Bill in Committee but that was all on the Flood Re insurance aspec...

My Lords, perhaps I can be of assistance to the House, particularly the noble Lord, Lord Whitty. ...

I am not sure whether the leave of the House is divisible business. With the leave of the House, ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friends Lord Redesdale, Lady Parminter and Lord Shipley and the noble ...

Moved by

Baroness Northover

62: Clause 22, page 63, line 21, after “and” insert “(ii)...

Tabled by

Lord Whitty

64: After Clause 22, insert the following new Clause—

“Pr...

My Lords, in view of the response from the Minister and the fact that it may be returned to in th...

Moved by

Baroness Northover

65: Clause 24, page 64, line 15, leave out “and”

66...

Moved by

Lord Grantchester

71: After Clause 24, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, the issue of bad debt, particularly in the private rented sector, was debated in Commit...

My Lords, we all agree that bad debt in this sector must be tackled effectively. However, we beli...

I thank the Minister for her comments. We were perhaps talking at cross purposes on the amount of...

Moved by

Lord Harrison

72: After Clause 29, insert the following new Clause—

“D...

My Lords, I must apologise to the House and to my own Front Bench for bringing this matter before...

My Lords, I am so grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Harrison, for tabling the amendment and bringi...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful for that reply, the clarification that the Minister has offered...

Moved by

Lord De Mauley

73: Clause 37, page 87, line 19, at end insert—

“( ) In...

Moved by

Lord Oxburgh

74: After Clause 38, insert the following new Clause—

“Re...

My Lords, I begin by declaring an interest in a company that designs and manufactures smart meter...

My Lords, in supporting my noble friend Lord Oxburgh I realise that we are swimming against an ov...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, for raising this issue, which I, along with other colleague...

My Lords, I think those on the Conservative Benches should support the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, for laying this amendment, and I think I thank th...

My Lords, I thank the Government for their constructive response, and indeed for the clarificatio...

Moved by

Lord De Mauley

75: Clause 39, page 91, line 31, leave out from “section” to ...

Moved by

Lord Whitty

78: After Clause 44, insert the following new Clause—

“Dut...

My Lords, I think this is the last business of tonight for us. Amendment 78 deals with an area wh...

My Lords, I support the amendment of my noble friend Lord Whitty. The privatisation of the UK wat...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for moving his amendment. We have heard about aski...

My Lords, I did not really expect the Government to fall over themselves to accept this amendment...

Moved by

Lord De Mauley

79: Schedule 7, page 175, line 20, leave out sub-paragraph (2...

Moved by

Lord De Mauley

87: Before Clause 45, insert the following new Clause—

...

Moved by

Lord De Mauley

88: Clause 49, page 107, line 18, leave out subsection (12) a...