Deregulation Bill

Moved by

Lord Gardiner of Kimble

44: Schedule 8, page 129, line 15, after first “area...

Moved by

Lord Gardiner of Kimble

46: After Schedule 8, insert the following new Sched...

I have a question about this new schedule. As noble Lords, including Ministers, will recognise, i...

My Lords, the amendments are designed to ensure that the definitions of “ambulance” and the way i...

I notice, reading the amendment rather more carefully thanks to the questions of the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, I understand that in practice this relates to a call which would be from an NHS ambulan...

The noble Lord has certainly clarified the matter. I only hope that if vehicles are brought into ...

Moved by

Lord Gardiner of Kimble

47: Schedule 9, page 132, leave out lines 14 and 15 ...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 47, I wish to speak to the other government amendments in this grou...

My Lords, this is a long schedule. The Minister will be relieved to hear that we are in broad agr...

My Lords, first, I thank the noble Lord for his broad agreement on Part 7. I agree that we are de...

My Lords, before the noble Lord, Lord Davies, decides what to do with this amendment—indeed he do...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to my noble friend. His experience is invaluable and I will cer...

As ever, the noble Lord, Lord Skelmersdale, is to be congratulated on his eagle eye. We shall see...

Moved by

Lord Gardiner of Kimble

48: Schedule 9, page 132, leave out lines 20 to 23 a...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

61C: Clause 38, page 30, line 21, leave out from “giv...

My Lords, in moving this amendment, I will also speak to our other amendments in this group—Amend...

I believe that these provisions are ill thought through and extremely damaging to local governmen...

My Lords, I follow my noble friend and, in deference to my other noble friend sitting on the othe...

My Lords, I have been mentioned a couple of times by my noble friend beside me, and I am very gra...

Unlike the noble Lord, Lord Tope, I am not an ex-councillor. I am not sure that it is a misfortun...

My Lords, I apologise for being a minute late. I thought that we wanted freedom for local authori...

My Lords, irrespective of the arguments made on my right and behind me, I have a slightly differe...

My Lords, I first thank the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, for his amendment, and all who spoke in th...

I should be grateful if my noble friend would look into it. With deference to my noble friend the...

My Lords, I am fast becoming aware of that. I do not want to be provoke my noble friends, but sin...

What is the difference between getting a ticket through the post as a result of camera activity t...

The noble Lord, Lord Rooker, used the word “whizzing”. I am not sure that anyone could start plac...

Does this not give my noble friend the opportunity to go back to the department to explain why th...

My noble friend is always extremely persuasive. Clearly, the record of these discussions will go ...

Will the Minister remind me what the criteria are for an equality impact assessment?

I think that I might need a little assistance on that, but I will return to it.

The noble L...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I shall first pick up some poin...

I am sorry to interrupt. There is a woeful lack of solid evidence to support what the Government ...

My Lords, I do not at all dispute the adjudication figures. I probably used the same briefing as ...

I do not think the noble Lord has quite withdrawn his amendment yet. Before he does so, I could p...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for his support on that particular amendment. I do not believe we...

Moved by

Lord Tope

61H: After Clause 38, insert the following new Clause—

“Proh...

My Lords, I put my name to this amendment, although it is not shown here. Unfortunately, the nobl...

My Lords, I feel sorry for the Minister. The previous speaker, having earlier fought hard for loc...

My Lords, I do not want to argue with my noble friend about which of us is the greater localist. ...

My Lords, I do not intend to have any dialogue at all, but I would just point out that it is the ...

I think we may be about to have a dialogue. I used to be a councillor in Cambridge and we spent a...

My Lords, I support the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Low, and already spoken to. I fe...

My Lords, this is an important amendment, and we should thank the noble Lord, Lord Tope, for movi...

My Lords, I first thank the noble Lord, Lord Tope, for speaking to the amendment; I am most grate...

My Lords, as we are in Grand Committee, the rules ensure that I have no choice but to withdraw my...

Would the noble Lord not agree that it is pretty clear in the Highway Code that you do not park o...

It is certainly in the Highway Code and is certainly good practice, but it is not illegal outside...

Moved by

Lord Rooker

62: Clause 40, page 31, line 15, leave out paragraphs (a) and (b...

My Lords, having noticed that my noble friend Lord Prescott is in his place I shall make my speec...

First, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Rooker on his usual diligence and research, looking in...

My Lords, those two powerful speeches have made the case that we wish to make from the Front Benc...

My Lords, under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, the Secretary of State is obliged to reopen a for...

It was the reinquiry.

Yes, it was the reopening of the inquiry, and it happened 20 or so years after the accident.

On that point, I thank the Minister for his explanation. The Marine Accident Investigation Branch...

I think that I may need some advice from behind on that. While I am receiving that, I should ment...

I thank the Minister very much for giving a response to the last point—I could not expect him to ...

Is the Minister going to get back up with the advice he has got?

The advice is not on that particular matter but on another one.

My Lords, I sincerely thank the Minister for his response. This is not an area I have any detaile...

As long as it was a Jag.

I did not mean to raise that. My driver always chose the car; but I was allowed to choose the col...

: My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of Richmond, is not in his place at the moment. He enjoin...

My Lords, I might agree with a number of points that the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, made, but I ...

Moved by

Lord Tope

62A: Clause 43, leave out Clause 43 and insert the following new C...

I rise to move Amendment 62A and will speak more generally to oppose the clause—indeed, the first...

My Lords, I tried to get my name attached to the clause stand part debate but somehow I failed; I...

My Lords, if the Committee will indulge me for a moment, I have kind of wandered in off the stree...

My Lords, living in one local authority area during the week and in another at the weekend, I am ...

Can the Minister explain something to me? Subsection (1) of new Section 46B of the Environmental ...

I thank the noble Baroness. At this point I may be better off writing to her to explain in detail...

My Lords, I am of course, as always, grateful to my noble friend Lady Hanham. I was going to say ...

My Lords, I move this amendment on behalf of my noble friend Lord Grantchester, and with his perm...

My Lords, I support the amendment. Air pollution in the UK is pretty serious and getting worse. W...

My Lords, I think there are some limits to how far we would necessarily take this as a general mo...

I thank the Minister for that. As on the previous occasion, I have no option but to withdraw it. ...