Enterprise Bill [HL]

My Lords, I was interested to see this amendment, and I understand what the noble Lord is proposi...

My Lords, the Minister has had a distinguished record in public service and in the private sector...

I support what the speakers so far have said, particularly the noble Lord, Lord O’Neill. This is ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, for opening the debate with his amendments. He...

My Lords, will the Minister clarify what she said about the Delegated Powers Committee report? Sh...

The noble Lord will be aware that the committee produced its report at the end of last week. When...

We are talking here about what could be quite sensitive business arrangements, where the skill se...

My Lords, departments could bring in outside experts to work for or with the Small Business Commi...

I thank the Minister for that reply. She cut to the heart of the problem when she talked about ou...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. Obviously, we both enjoyed meeting the Australian...

I thank the Minister for that intervention. That was about to be my next point. I have spent a la...

It is important to remember the other work that is going on on late payment. We are bringing in t...

I am sure that a court would back me up on this point. As elected Members of Parliament, we were ...

I thank my noble friend Lord O’Neill for that useful intervention. There are academic studies on ...

Moved by

Lord Stoneham of Droxford

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My Lords, this is a simple probing amendment. If we have confidence in the Small Business Commiss...

My Lords, this is an interesting amendment and worthy of further debate. Before I go any further,...

My Lords, I apologise to the Committee that I was unable to speak in the Second Reading debate. I...

My Lords, at Second Reading I referred to this question of public authorities. I repeat my view t...

I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Stoneham, on his presentation of this amendment and the baske...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Stoneham, for his contribution on the scope of the complaints handli...

I am disappointed that the noble Baroness missed the fact that during my speech I made specific r...

I thank the noble Lord for that clarification. I was just saying that I think that that responds ...

I thank the noble Baroness for giving way. I have just a very quick question to help us to unders...

I will come back on that point soon, if I can; otherwise I will write to the noble Lord with the ...

I thank everybody who participated in the debate. It was very interesting and I am very grateful ...

I was trying to make the point, with rather a long list of what we tried to do in the public sect...

My Lords, before the noble Lord comes back again, I thank the Minister for that clarification. In...

The mystery shopper and the arrangements I have described obviously cover local authorities as we...

The Minister made the point that the prime focus should be on where small businesses need to addr...

My Lords, the proposal before the House is set out in the Bill. I think we have all agreed that t...

Before the noble Lord, Lord Stoneham, finally withdraws this amendment, I hope that, if he is to ...

I have one final question. The Minister said that this of course addresses the issue about the im...

My Lords, small businesses caught by this Bill are those with less than 50 employees —so 49 or fe...

I am grateful for those various interventions. There were so many, I am not sure I can respond to...

Moved by

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

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My Lords, Amendments 6, 7 and 35 are probing amendments, designed to explore the Government’s thi...

I cannot resist the temptation to support the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, as he was so positive abo...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, on his excellent presentation of these iss...

My Lords, as always I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Hodgson for this probing amendment, whi...

Amendment 35 just says,

“including details of any visits to the different regions of the Un...

I thank my noble friend for that clarification. This is an eminently sensible approach: we need t...

I have a brief question before the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, rises. We are different from the Aus...

My Lords, that would be excluded in the approach we have adopted in the Bill.

I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Mendelsohn and Lord Stoneham, for their supportive remarks...

Tabled by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

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