Enterprise Bill [HL]

I do not think there is much more to say than was said by the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, in int...

My Lords, if there are very few complaints, I suppose that everything is operating well in market...

Will the Minister also take account of the fact that one of the big problem areas in relation to ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their amendments and welcome my noble friend Lord Eccles to our...

I thank the Minister for those comments and will just make a few points in reply. It is a limited...

Moved by

Lord Mendelsohn

20: Clause 5, page 5, line 35, at end insert—

“( ) Whe...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 20, I will speak to Amendments 21 and 22 and address some of the is...

My Lords, I have some sympathy with this amendment. It offers the possibility of speeding up the ...

I, too, lend my support to this series of amendments. I have a particular interest in Amendments ...

My Lords, briefly, Amendment 31 seems to introduce a new dimension to the responsibilities of the...

I thank noble Lords for their comments. I emphasise that the Government consider that a punitive ...

Before the Minister sits down, could she perhaps explain something to me? I understand that the c...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for his intervention and the opportunity to say that the commissi...

I was disappointed by some of the Minister’s comments at the very end, because arguments were set...

I will certainly look at the point that the noble Lord makes about avoidance contracts, as it wer...

The point that you can include things is the point that comes before, and the point that where yo...

Moved by

Lord Stoneham of Droxford

25: Clause 6, page 6, line 12, leave out “may” and...

I shall also speak to Amendment 26. Amendment 25 is another amendment on the same theme that we h...

This group of amendments is significant, in so far as it is another indication of the change of m...

My Lords, I add our support for the first of the measures. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Stoneham,...

My Lords, I just want to say a word about Amendment 30, to which the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn,...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their comments and the noble Lord, Lord O’Neill, for his hu...

I thank the noble Lords, Lord Mendelsohn and Lord O’Neill, for their support. The noble Lord, Lor...

Moved by

Lord Aberdare (CB)

39: After Clause 12, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I listened with great interest to the debates in Committee on Monday and was very struc...

Is the noble Lord’s definition of retention monies any monies that are retained after a completio...

That is indeed the most objectionable part: on practical completion of the project, a substantial...

There could be an interesting distinction between practical completion and the issue of a complet...

Another issue, beyond what the noble Viscount has said, is that very often there needs to be some...

I support the noble Lord, Lord Aberdare. As I mentioned at Second Reading, I have an interest in ...

My Lords, I too am sympathetic to the idea of a review of this subject. I do not go along entirel...

My Lords, I too support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Aberdare. I should decl...

I have a lot of sympathy with the amendment but, unlike my noble friend Lord Cope or the noble Lo...

I need to declare my interest as chair of Housing & Care 21. We built 1,000 homes last year. We h...

My Lords, I should declare an interest as my wife is a partner in a firm of solicitors and her ex...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Aberdare, for his Amendment 39 and for ...

Separately!

I was delighted that the noble Earl, Lord Kinnoull, could bring his own practical experience of t...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I have been ...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

44: After Clause 12, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, we seem to have reached the point at the end of the first part of the Bill where many o...

My Lords, I hope that my noble friend the Minister will take this point seriously. First, the fig...

I thank noble Lords for this amendment and, indeed, for the whole series of amendments on the Sma...

Before the Minister sits down, can I clarify that the amendment addresses none of the points that...

I thank the noble Lord. Indeed, you are looking at the overall millions owing rather than the ind...

Yes, certainly. For late payments, fines can be attendant to it. They tend not to be incurred, la...

My Lords, there might be merit in further discussion on the finer points of this. The point I wan...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Deben, for intervening in this debate. For his information, the figu...

Just to clarify, the payment regulations we are bringing in are statutory requirements to share i...

I was not trying to be antagonistic at all on this—I was simply trying to clarify this point. The...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

48A: Clause 13, page 10, line 32, at end insert—...

We now move to the next stage in the Bill—regulatory measures—which is progress of sorts. We had ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 49CA. I declare my interests as set out in the register, e...

I thank noble Lords for their amendments in this group. I am grateful for the noble Lord, Lord St...

I thank noble Lords for their contributions. On the point raised by the noble Earl, Lord Kinnoull...

There is an excellent report by the Regulatory Policy Committee with which the noble Lord may be ...

My Lords, that is the point: £1.6 billion is excluded from the Government’s target because it rel...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

48C: Clause 13, page 10, line 40, after “State” ...

My Lords, I am having a busy day. Again, this is a rewind in glorious technicolour, because we sp...

My Lords, having been given the lead-in, I will rise to speak at this point, and I do so very muc...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly to support the exclusion of the Equality and Human Rights Com...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their amendments and their constructive contribution to the Bil...

The Minister might like to look at the statutory objectives laid down in the Charities Act on the...

My noble friend, as always, makes a good point. We will certainly look at what is already happeni...

I thank the Minister for that full and comprehensive response, but I am afraid the answer to her ...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

48D: Clause 13, page 11, line 20, at end insert—...

My Lords, this group of amendments focuses on strengthening the work and role of the Regulatory P...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their amendments. I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Stevens...

I thank the noble Baroness for that very full response. These were of course probing amendments, ...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

48G: Clause 14, page 11, line 42, at end insert—...

My Lords, I do not think that these amendments will take up too much time. In moving Amendment 48...

My Lords, I rise to speak to my Amendment 49ZA. Earlier today we heard a lot of the arguments exp...

I thank noble Lords for these amendments and agree with the noble Earl, Lord Kinnoull, about the ...

My Lords, I just add one comment on this, prompted by the comments of the noble Earl, Lord Kinnou...

My Lords, I think that this session has been one of conciliation and support. I do not think ther...

Moved by

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

49: Clause 14, page 12, line 3, at end insert...

My Lords, this is a probing amendment directed at the same clause as Amendments 48H and 48G from ...

I thank my noble friend for tabling this amendment, which seeks to include in the Bill a specific...

I am grateful to my noble friend for that full response. One of the questions is, of course, that...

Moved by

Lord Mendelsohn

49B: After Clause 14, insert the following new Clause—