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Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Bill [HL]

Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Monday, 6 July 2015, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Bridges of Headley.
Lords committee stage fourth day. clauses 13 and 14 agreed to. Clause 15 agreed to as amended. Bill, as amended, ordered to be printed (HL Bill 55).

About these Parliamentary proceedings

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Session

2015-16

Department

Cabinet Office

Legislative stage

Committee stage

Procedure

New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee

Proceeding contributions

Lord Haskel | 764 c1GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, if there is a Division in the Chamber while we are sitting, this Committee will adjourn...

Lord Watson of Invergowrie | 764 c1GC (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Watson of Invergowrie

20B: Clause 13, page 17, line 23, leave out “from...


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Lord Watson of Invergowrie | 764 cc1-2GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Amendments 20B and 22ZA are complementary and seek simply to bring some rigour to the d...

Baroness Barker | 764 cc2-3GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it may be useful if I speak to Amendments 21 and 22. Like the noble Lord, Lord Watson o...

Baroness Pitkeathley | 764 c3GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support all these amendments because they encourage trustees to focus more attention ...

Lord Bridges of Headley | 764 cc3-5GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for tabling these amendments, which raise interesting points, and I...

Lord Watson of Invergowrie | 764 cc4-6GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that response. I welcome the fact that he joined the noble Bar...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 764 c6GC (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

22A: Clause 13, page 17, line 38, at end inse...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 764 cc6-9GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in our meeting last week, following on from the group headed by Amendment 16, which was...

Baroness Barker | 764 c8GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Kramer was one of that small band of people banging away during th...

Lord Watson of Invergowrie | 764 cc8-10GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this amendment would enable charities to market social investments to individual invest...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 764 c10GC (Link to this contribution)

It is perfectly possible, although it is exceptionally expensive, to have a financial promotion i...

Lord Watson of Invergowrie | 764 cc10-1GC (Link to this contribution)

I thank the noble Lord for that clarification. However, again, are we to constrain the developmen...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 764 c11GC (Link to this contribution)

By some alchemy of draftsmanship, “may” equals “shall” in drafting legislation. Do not ask me how...

Lord Watson of Invergowrie | 764 c11GC (Link to this contribution)

Alchemy, the noble Lord says. I am not a chemist, but that still seems rather opaque to me.

Lord Bridges of Headley | 764 cc11-3GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Hodgson for his determination, if not doggedness,...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 764 c12GC (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my noble friend. Of course, I recognise that there has been progress. As I said ...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 764 cc12-4GC (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

22B: After Clause 13, insert the following ne...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 764 cc14-6GC (Link to this contribution)

I am afraid that this is another of my long-standing quarrels. It is about the Charity Tribunal. ...

Lord Bridges of Headley | 764 cc16-7GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is excellent to address another of my noble friend Lord Hodgson’s issues—I will not ...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 764 c17GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have not found many people who have said that Schedule 6 is easy to navigate. I did n...

Lord Moynihan | 764 c18GC (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Moynihan

23A: After Clause 13, insert the following new Clause—

“...

Lord Moynihan | 764 cc18-21GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the amendment is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Glentoran. The principles ...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 764 cc21-2GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will follow the line of argument raised by the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, which is th...

Baroness Pitkeathley | 764 cc22-3GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I must take issue with the statement from the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, tha...

Lord Lexden | 764 cc23-4GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my interest as a former general secretary of the Independent Schools Council ...

Viscount Bridgeman | 764 c24GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, while supporting the sentiments behind these two amendments, I have a small difficulty ...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 764 cc24-6GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, these are well-meaning amendments. Who cannot be swayed by the brilliant call from my n...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 764 c26GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I must remind the noble Lord that on the last day that this Committee sat he made a ver...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 764 c26GC (Link to this contribution)

I entirely agree that charitable status is a privilege. The question is whether that status is be...

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 764 cc27-8GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I feel that I could not have put the case for these two amendments better than the nobl...

Lord Bridges of Headley | 764 cc28-31GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I should start by saying that I am very much on side with my noble friend Lord Moynihan...

Lord Moynihan | 764 cc29-33GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I tread carefully in areas of disagreement with my noble friends Lord Lexden and Lord H...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 764 c33GC (Link to this contribution)

Tabled by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

23B: After Clause 13, insert the following new Cla...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 764 c33GC (Link to this contribution)

I will, if I may, very briefly second what the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, has said. We will take ...

Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 764 c33GC (Link to this contribution)

Forgive me, but if the noble Lord is speaking, he must move his amendment at the end of his speec...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 764 c33GC (Link to this contribution)

My apologies. I had not understood that that was the way Committee stages went. In that case, we ...

Baroness Barker | 764 c34GC (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Barker

26: Clause 14, page 18, line 6, at end insert—

“( ) Th...

Baroness Barker | 764 cc34-5GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Amendments 26 and 27 have been proposed by Social Enterprise UK. Many of us welcome the...

Lord Watson of Invergowrie | 764 cc35-6GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the Labour Party has no objection to Amendment 26, with the exception of the first six ...

Lord Bridges of Headley | 764 cc36-8GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this has been an interesting contribution to the debate. Let me start by setting out th...

Baroness Barker | 764 c38GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions. I am surprised by the statement by the...

Lord Bridges of Headley | 764 c39GC (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bridges of Headley

30: Clause 15, page 18, line 20, leave out “This Act...

Lord Bridges of Headley | 764 c39GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this is a minor and technical amendment to the commencement provision in Clause 15. At ...

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 764 cc39-40GC (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the Minister may say that it is a minor amendment but I happen to have a very long spee...

Lord Bridges of Headley | 764 c40GC (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful that that was not the speech that the noble Baroness was about to give. For on...

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