Deregulation Bill

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for that speech and I am glad that he has so much enjoyed readin...

Will the Minister be kind enough to comment on the parliamentary involvement?

I had better write to the noble Lord on that. However, I understand exactly what he is asking and...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that response. I will read it in Hansard with great care and c...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

63: Schedule 13, page 155, line 26, leave out “ “Ch...

My Lords, I wish to move this largely technical amendment briefly. It does not alter practice ver...

My Lords, we do not oppose those amendments, which, as the Minister rightly said, are technical a...

Perhaps I may respond. A number of people over the age of 25 have indeed been through the apprent...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

64: Schedule 13, page 155, line 27, leave out “subs...

Moved by

Lord Young of Norwood Green

69A: Schedule 14, page 161, line 30, leave out p...

Before I call the noble Lord, Lord Young, it is agreed that there has been a mistake in the Marsh...

I welcome that clarification and apologise to the Committee for any confusion caused.

My Lo...

My Lords, I hesitate to contradict anything said by the noble Lord, Lord Young, because I know th...

I ought to clarify that, as I thought I had made clear in my contribution, this is obviously a pr...

My Lords, some noble Lords know that I spent 33 years at the University of London Institute of Ed...

Hear, hear!

The thought had not crossed the minds of any of us on this side of the Room that we might possibl...

The Minister’s contribution was worth while. I will read Hansard and look at what the Institute o...

Moved by

Baroness Thornton

69B: After Clause 51, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for giving me time to get here from the Chamber, where we had an ex...

My Lords, I was slightly shocked to discover, when I asked for a list of how many co-operative sc...

More are coming.

I look forward to talking to the noble Baroness about what else Bradford claims, but I am sorry t...

This amendment is about allowing co-operative schools to have the business form that makes them c...

My Lords, the fact that there are now some 700 co-operative schools suggest that they are not suf...

Of course I will withdraw the amendment, and I thank the Minister for the offer to continue these...

Moved by

Baroness Thornton

69C: After Clause 51, insert the following new Clause—

This amendment concerns nursery schools. The case for the change is that nursery schools would be...

My Lords, I rise to support my noble friend Lady Thornton. I declare an interest: I am president ...

My Lords, I have returned to the issue of nursery schools myself as my grandchildren have reached...

I thank the Minister for that reply, and I do indeed think that we need to meet to discuss this. ...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

70: Schedule 15, page 165, line 3, leave out paragraph 3<...

My Lords, tourism is a vital component of the UK economy, and is predicted to be a key part of ou...

My Lords, I shall defend paragraph 3(3) for many reasons. First, it is only right that maintained...

My Lords, I shall take the opportunity of this amendment to ask two other questions. What was the...

My Lords, I am conscious that the issue of school term times and summer holidays is particularly ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for his reply. What happened to evidence-based policy-making? I...

There is no plot to reduce the length of the summer holiday. I fear that the noble Lord is sugges...

I thank my noble friend for that peroration. It was very helpful. I think I have kicked the tyres...

Moved by

Baroness Smith of Basildon

70A: Before Clause 52, insert the following new C...

My Lords, there are six amendments in my name in this group; in moving Amendment 70A I will speak...

I read this amendment as also covering taxi licensing, scrap metal dealers—the whole caboodle of ...

On my reading of the amendment that is not its intention. If the noble Lord wants to carry out a ...

My Lords, perhaps I should not use the expression “happy hour” in this context, but we have spent...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Smith on Amendment 70A. I will not comment on Amendment ...

My Lords, the LGA published Rewiring Public Services: Rewiring Licensing in 2014, calling for a m...

When the Minister intervened on me previously, it was because he thought that my amendment was si...

I suspect that it is about a much wider issue; we are in that sense at cross-purposes. I thought ...

I apologise; I am intervening rather than making my final remarks. I think that the Minister addr...

It is probably better if I write to the noble Baroness to make sure that I am absolutely clear ab...

That is helpful. That point needs clarification if we are to achieve what the Government say they...

I shall speak also to Amendments 71 to 75 to Schedule 16 to the Bill which are tabled in my name....

My Lords, whenever I listen to my noble friend Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe speak on these issues, ...

My Lords, I am very glad that the noble Lord, Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe, was able to get back fr...

I accept the noble Lord’s point that, taken event by event, or even instance by instance, we are ...

My Lords, the concept of having my hair cut and being offered a whisky at the same time had not o...

The noble Lord, Lord Mackie, would not have required a licence to offer a friend a glass of whisk...

I will take both points back and see how much this opens a door wider than intended. If it is pos...

Are you going to mention the ancillary sellers?

Certainly, because, again, the measure is intended for small providers of accommodation, so that ...

The answer to that is no. The great danger of these debates is that we pick out a particular inst...

I think that I can now give the noble Lord some further reassurance. I am told that, in the other...

My Lords, this is a genuinely deregulatory measure. It will repeal Section 148 of the Licensing A...

My Lords, as ever, my noble friend Lord Brooke has given us food for thought on this issue. I was...

My Lords, this debate has ranged a good deal wider than liqueur chocolate. I stress that the amou...

If the Minister were to check the notes that go with the Bill, he will see that the only people w...

I will certainly check that. I recognise that the wider issues that the noble Lord has raised abo...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Brooke raised a serious point. The Minister just said he was quite...

Certainly, I am very happy to do so. My understanding was that this was very much part of the Red...

The noble Lord may be aware that Mars bars have reduced in size considerably in the past couple o...

I think I last ate a Mars bar about 40 years ago, so I had not noticed the shrinkage. The maximum...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for saying that he will write to us with some of the evidence. On...

There is a deterrent effect.

I can only say that that surprises me. I think that the demand for liqueur chocolate remains smal...

The important point I am trying to make is that, while there are not many prosecutions, it is a d...

I understand that that is the thrust of the noble Lord’s argument. It is a much wider point, but ...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

76: After Clause 57, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, we come to a set of government amendments—Amendments 76 to 78, 97 and 98—which we are i...

My Lords, I support the amendments in this group, in particular those that transfer powers to Sco...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, for his useful contribution to our debates. He cer...

I thank both noble Lords for those interventions. I am particularly grateful to my noble friend L...

The Minister is trying to have it both ways. He said that it would be for small-scale events, not...

I accept that. I can assure the noble Lord that I will check that and write to him to reassure hi...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

77: After Clause 57, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, I think it might be an appropriate moment for the Committee to adjourn.