Bank of England and Financial Services Bill [HL]

My Lords, I shall speak also to the other amendments in this group. I will be brief. If ever I we...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Oldham, is being rather modest about these amendments. I...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Oldham, is always modest, but on this occasion he is exc...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Higgins, and the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes. I was a me...

My Lords, as my noble friend Lady Noakes said, the noble Lord, Lord Davies, is once again being i...

My Lords, I am not going to withdraw it without first expressing my enormous appreciation for the...

Tabled by

Lord Bichard

14: Clause 11, page 9, line 27, leave out from “section” to en...

My Lords, if I might be allowed a moment of personal explanation, I was advised earlier today by ...

I take that as a kind of personal statement.

My Lords, I shall move Amendment 14, which is in the group Amendments 14 to 18, concerning Clause...

I am having a slight problem with Amendment 14. It seems, effectively, simply to put back again t...

I did not quite pick up on the noble Lord’s point.

I will try again. Amendment 14 says,

“leave out from ‘section’ to end of line 28”,

wh...

In fact, the Comptroller and Auditor-General made clear to me that he does not want to question t...

My Lords, I will make a brief intervention in this debate as a former Treasury Minister and ex of...

My Lords, I will briefly join in the debate. We have two very highly regarded independent organis...

My Lords, I support the amendments. I was deeply shocked to see that the Government proposed to g...

My Lords, first, I express regret that I was not able to speak at Second Reading. I was preoccupi...

My Lords, I do not enjoy the role of opposition a great deal but, just for once, in the light of ...

My Lords, it is always nice to start off with some sympathy for my position from the noble Lord, ...

The Minister referred to the PAC. On the whole, we seem to be rather short of any input from the ...

My noble friend makes a good point and I will be happy to mull it over.

Turing to the Bill,...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply. He made a point about the Federal Reserve, in respe...

The Minister has suggested that there was a compromise. It would not appear to be a compromise as...

There cannot be a compromise when the court has the veto at the end of the day and this has been ...