Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Bill [HL]

My Lords, I will resume what I was attempting to say. Before we broke for the vote, I drew attent...

My Lords, let me start by echoing what my noble friend Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts said. We al...

I will certainly take up that offer. I want to make only a couple of comments. I thank noble Lord...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

3: After Clause 2, insert the following new ...

My Lords, this is in a way part of the same issue—it is about where we put responsibility. In mov...

My Lords, I was slightly surprised to see that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope of Craighead...

My Lords, I say to the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, that I do not think anyone in this House feel...

I have a point to make on the wording of the amendment, although it is not quite the same as the ...

I shall add a thought. I think that we are talking about charities that are deliberately set up t...

My Lords, I think I had an invitation to speak on this from my noble and learned friend Lord Hope...

My Lords, following what the noble Baroness, Lady Hayter, said in response to the last amendment,...

I have a question, which does not have to be answered today. The Minister refers to the fact that...

My noble friend makes a very good point about the information exchange between agencies across go...

I thank the Minister, particularly on that second point. The reassurance that action for collecti...

The noble Baroness has used the word “complacent”. She has used the phrase “red tape”. Nobody is ...

The noble Lord is absolutely right. Are we doing it properly? Representatives of abused people ar...

I want to make this one point to the noble Baroness. I asked the commission what its communicatio...

That is helpful. Having been reassured about the ability to take action where there is a collecti...

I wonder if the noble Baroness could help me with one point. If a scholarship is set up for a par...

If they are the trustees of the school they have that responsibility now.

They are not trustees of the school; they are trustees of the charitable trust that is funding th...

The wording may not be right, but we are talking about where, basically, they are running an esta...

Moved by

Lord Hope of Craighead

4: Clause 3, page 2, line 39, leave out “privy to” an...

I shall speak also to Amendment 9 which is in my name and is grouped with Amendment 4. The amendm...

I entirely support the amendments proposed by my noble and learned friend Lord Hope for the reaso...

My Lords, as a member of the committee, I want to support the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope. ...

My Lords, I start by saying that the Opposition support these amendments as well. One of the issu...

My Lords, I stand with some trepidation to debate with the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, on ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for his very helpful reply. I take the point that we...

Moved by

Baroness Barker

5: Clause 3, page 3, leave out lines 3 to 6

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 10. I hesitate to suggest this, but these are perhaps t...

My Lords, I was sorry not to be able to take part in the Second Reading debate on the Bill, parti...

My Lords, I just add a word to what the noble Baroness, Lady Warwick of Undercliffe, said by draw...

My Lords, having served on the pre-legislative scrutiny committee, I understand the concerns abou...

My Lords, we think this clause in its generality provides an important addition to the powers of ...

My Lords, this has been a very stimulating debate and I pay tribute to the noble Baroness, Lady B...

Before the Minister moves on, the point that I made about Russia is that it is entirely possible ...

I thank the noble Baroness for that point. The power would be discretionary and on a case-by-case...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his comprehensive and considered response. I say to other nobl...