Wales Bill

My Lords, I am delighted to speak in support of Amendments 1 and 2, which I and my colleagues hav...

My Lords, I am delighted to support the amendment as far as it goes. Of course we had amendments ...

My Lords, I think I avoided being placed among the die-hards by the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, when ...

My Lords, in the debate a couple of weeks ago I indicated my worries and concerns. I do not want ...

My Lords, I add my voice to that of my noble friend Lord Tyler in congratulating my noble friend ...

My Lords, I rise briefly to ask a simple question. Could the Minister remind us how many 16 and 1...

My Lords, in joining this debate, I congratulate the Minister on how she has handled us and steer...

My Lords, perhaps I may ask the Minister a severely practical question or two. What was the turno...

My Lords, I intervene very briefly and with a note of apology. I was ill, which no doubt saved yo...

My Lords, I rise on account of two matters about which I have strong feelings. One is the Act of ...

My Lords, following the decision to reduce the voting age in the referendum in Scotland, young pe...

Can the noble Lord suggest any example of constitutional change since 1997 that has not been piec...

I participated in a process that was anything but haphazard. It took two years to work out our se...

My Lords, we welcome the Government’s amendment, which would give powers to the Welsh Assembly to...

As this is our final opportunity to discuss the Bill, I would like to thank the Minister for her ...

My Lords, I assume that we have already dealt with the amendment and are now dealing with the tot...

I am sorry. The noble Lord should speak only once in this debate and we have not dealt with the a...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, and indeed throughout the numer...

On that point, clearly local authorities are subject to considerable constraints. To be “well awa...

I did not say to the noble Lord that this would be possible without taking on additional staff. I...

The Minister is absolutely right. The National Assembly has resources in the Assembly Commission ...

The noble Lord brings information from the front line, if I can put it that way, in far more deta...

Can the Minister tell us how many 16 and 17 year-olds there are?

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I will have to write to the noble Lord on that issue because if I were to venture a figure, I fea...

I was trying to point out to the Minister that there is cross-party support for the amendment, wh...

I wholeheartedly recognise that there is cross-party support but repeat that this is a government...

Moved by

Baroness Randerson

2: Schedule 1, page 33, leave out lines 5 to 10 and inser...

Moved by

Baroness Randerson

My Lords, I beg to move that the Bill do now pass.

My Lords, perhaps I may say how much I appreciated the tenor of the Minister’s remarks a few mome...

My Lords—

My Lords, perhaps I may invite the government Front Bench to point out the protocol for the Motio...

As I understand it, it is not normally debated but it is quite in order to do so.

My Lords, it is not my intention to detain the House, despite this interruption, for more than a ...

My Lords, I have no wish to detain the House but I want to place on the record on behalf of my no...

My Lords, I have been talking about devolution and independence with the noble Lord, Lord Elystan...

My Lords, I shall respond briefly to the salient points that have been made in this, our last deb...

The noble Baroness touched on Silk 2 and the fact that, in Wales, we had a remarkable cross-party...

It does not, of course, lie in my hands whether there is compromise. It is an issue for the four ...