Psychoactive Substances Bill [HL]

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Howarth, on both those amendments. We talked a lot about...

My Lords, I support these amendments. However, I have some concerns. The first is, as has been pr...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support the amendments proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Howarth, and ...

My Lords, there are effectively three amendments here. One is Amendment 11, whose essence is guid...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Howarth, for his explanation on these amendments. Before I ...

The Minister referred to testing centres possibly having the opposite effect to that intended. In...

I will certainly take that forward. However, with regard to testing centres, the Dutch model sits...

There is more common ground than the Minister allows. I can see her aversion to saying that there...

I thank the noble Lord for that, but there is a well-established system for issuing a national al...

I agree with what was said by the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe—you start from the basis that it i...

I thank my noble friend Lord Norton for that. That is probably covered by FRANK, which is an elem...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, the noble Lords, Lord Paddick and Lo...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord when he is in full flow, but I think he might be coming to...

The noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, makes a very important point, and I think that it was strongly s...

Moved by

Lord Howarth of Newport

13: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—...

I apologise that the Committee has to put up with an inordinate amount of talk from me, but I wil...

I am not deliberately trying to oppose every amendment that the noble Lord, Lord Howarth of Newpo...

My Lords, I support very strongly the idea behind the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord How...

My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, I have added my name to the amendment because I ...

Can I make a short intervention to support Amendment 13 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Howar...

My noble friend Lord Tunnicliffe and I have tabled the second amendment in this group. The first ...

My Lords, I agree with so much of what has been said and will endeavour not to repeat it, other t...

I was getting nervous at that point for the noble Baroness, but was it speed as velocity?

It was, and the police were a bit too fast to prosecute, in my view.

My Lords, I am grateful as these are important amendments and I pay tribute to the noble Lord for...

My Lords, when the Minister takes part in the Lord Speaker’s outreach programme, does he wear a s...

That is mandatory, is it not, at least for the male Members? I would certainly not dream of turni...

The Minister is very solicitous of the questions thrown at him. I understand that there is a diff...

The noble Lord is a very experienced parliamentarian, and tempts me to speak about matters of fin...

In that response, is the Minister ruling out any reference in the Bill to education, training and...

I understand where the noble Lord is coming from, and we will look at this. The Bill is primarily...

My Lords, the debate produced a very beautiful meeting of minds between the noble Baroness, Lady ...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

14: Clause 3, page 2, line 8, at end insert—

“( ) add ...

My noble friend and I also have in this group Amendments 19 and 22. This takes us to the exemptio...

My Lords, in speaking to Amendment 16 I will also support Amendments 14, 17, 18 and 19. Amendment...

My Lords, I want to speak to Amendments 17 and 18, which I have tabled rather impertinently as am...

I just wanted some clarification. One thing that worries me is whether, in the end, the direction...

I hope that I can offer some reassurance to the right reverend Prelate, if he will follow me in t...

At the invitation of the noble Lord, Lord Howarth, I will tell him why we disagree with him. He i...

My Lords, I do not know whether I missed it, but the response seemed to be almost entirely to the...

I feel awful intervening at this time of night. We all need to go home. I just want to raise the ...

I apologise to the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee. She drew attention to Clause 3(3) which states: