Childcare Bill [HL]

My Lords, I apologise for detaining the House prior to Committee but I had given notice to the Go...

My Lords, further to the comments and concerns expressed by the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of Bas...

I want to reinforce the points that have been made by my noble friend the Leader of the Oppositio...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for this announcement. Having worked with him on the children Bill...

My Lords, I find it very surprising that today the Opposition have decided that the Statement on ...

Would the noble Baroness like to explain to the House the relevance of the point she has just mad...

My Lords, the Minister has already made clear that the concerns of the House were to be brought b...

Perhaps the noble Baroness can explain why it is in the interests of either this House or the nat...

My Lords, I feel that I have made my point firmly.

My Lords, I served as a member of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee and want t...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his statement and am very pleased to hear that the noble Lord,...

My Lords, I raised this matter on Second Reading. I was critical of my noble friend on the Front ...

My Lords, the Minister’s statement has been described as unusual. I welcome unusual statements, e...

My Lords, the noble Lord described the Delegated Powers Committee’s report as vigorous. That is p...

My Lords, I hope that the House and the Minister will forgive me if I intervene briefly as the ch...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords across the House for expressing their support for this ext...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

1: Before Clause 1, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, these are crucial amendments that seek to take forward our concerns, which have just be...

My Lords, I am very new to this process of scrutinising legislation. All the detailed procedures ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 29, and first declare my interest as a newly appointed vic...

My Lords, I believe we are in a much better place now than we were during Second Reading and I th...

I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Listowel for mentioning that we were going to speak togethe...

My Lords, I have a few comments. First, Amendment 1 raises a lot of the issues that we began to t...

First, I thank the Minister for his letter, which raised a number of issues in my mind but which ...

First, I apologise to your Lordships for not being able to speak at Second Reading. I will speak ...

My Lords, this is very much a debate on Amendment 1, and I welcome it—it must not be another Seco...

My Lords, in this group, I will speak to Amendments 1, 27, 40, 41 and 42, tabled by the noble Bar...

My Lords, I welcome the proposals of the noble Lord, Lord Sutherland, and the noble Earl, Lord Li...

My Lords, before the amendment is withdrawn—I apologise for being slow off the mark—may I make a ...

Moved by

Baroness Massey of Darwen

2: Before Clause 1, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 2, I shall not go through each point but there are other important ...

My Lords, Amendment 4 in this group would insert “high-quality” into Clause 1(1). Amendment 6, wh...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 20 in my name. However, before doing so, I want briefly to l...

I wish to speak to an amendment that I have in this group. I follow entirely the comment of the n...

My Lords, I will be, as I usually am, brief. I am not going to make the speech that I was going t...

My Lords, I want to focus briefly on one word in the amendment proposed by my noble friend Lady M...

My Lords, I support what the noble Lord, Lord Sutherland, has said. As the noble Baroness, Lady M...

My Lords, the Minister and I have something in common: we are both in celebration mode. I believe...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 4, 7, 15, 20 and 33 regarding the quality of childcare and ...

My Lords, this has proved to be a very important and stimulating discussion on these amendments. ...

I apologise for being slow to my feet this evening. Before the noble Baroness withdraws the amend...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 3, leave out “The Sec...

My Lords, at Second Reading several questions were asked of the Minister as to why it was necessa...

I shall speak to Amendment 31 in my name. Before I do so, I declare my interest—since it is perti...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 3 and 31, regarding the model of delivery for the additiona...

Can I ask the noble Lord something that is slightly puzzling me? I understand that, under Section...

I will have to write to the noble Baroness with a more detailed answer, but that is certainly som...

My Lords, as a local authority leader I am obviously grateful for the way that my noble friend re...

I thank noble Lords —we have had a good short debate. I understand the point of the noble Lord, L...

Moved by

The Earl of Listowel

5: Clause 1, page 1, line 4, after “working” insert “or...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 5, and to Amendments 8 and 9.

I want to include home...

My Lords, I want to propose Amendment 11 on the definition of a working parent, which adds our su...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendment 25. I support the amendments in this group, which lo...

At Second Reading, I raised considerable concerns about the lack of a definition of working paren...

My Lords, I have a very straightforward and simple question for the Minister. When I first read t...

My Lords, the noble Baroness makes a very interesting point. I will intervene on a slightly diffe...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 5, 8, 9, 11, 25, 26 and 33. This group covers a range of ame...

Can I ask a very simple question? The Minister did not specifically refer to the very telling com...

I apologise, because I know that everyone wants to get to supper, but I have a clarification poin...

They would have to be working.

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his careful reply and his kind offer of a meeting to discuss h...