Enterprise Bill [HL]

My Lords, I thank the Minister for sending a very useful letter on this amendment. It was a late ...

I am always suspicious when Governments introduce amendments rather late in the proceedings becau...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, for his questions and the noble Lord, Lord O’N...

Before the Minister leaves that point, is it not the case that the people engaged in this work, i...

The noble Lord makes a good point. Having worked, rather uniquely, in both the public and the pri...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

69: After Clause 25, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, Amendments 69, 70 and 74 relate to the Green Investment Bank. They intend to repeal som...

My Lords, before I make my remarks, I must declare a pecuniary interest in the Green Investment B...

My Lords, I support this amendment but I do so reluctantly and having thought about it a great de...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 70ZA, which is in my name and in this group. Following consid...

My Lords, I shall briefly follow the noble Lord, whose concerns I am sure we all share.

The...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, on his amendment. He covers a number of t...

My Lords, I rise to support the Minister’s amendment. The Green Investment Bank is a great succes...

My Lords, I am reluctant to take too much of the time of the House given the excellent speech of ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for coming forward with these amendments. I was very grateful that...

On that point of whether the Government should retain a stake, it is important, for example, in m...

I thank the noble Lord for that unusual intervention. He is absolutely right—it is important that...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Smith, for being here this evening and, on behalf of u...

I hesitate to interrupt the Minister but can she be very clear about exactly what she is offering...

My Lords, I can promise talks and I can promise that, if we find a way through that meets the con...

I am sorry to press the noble Baroness but she has to be very clear about this. She needs to say ...

While we are going into a sort of dialogue, and without drawing matters to a conclusion at this m...

My Lords, I do not think I can go any further. Of course, I can assert that if we can find someth...

Perhaps I may ask the noble Baroness a question. We are struggling with where in the legislation ...

My Lords, I do not think I can make a promise. Of course, the Bill is unusual in having been intr...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

70: After Clause 25, insert the following new Clause—...

Moved by

Lord Teverson

70ZA: After Clause 25, insert the following new Clause—

...

My Lords, I thank everyone who has contributed to this debate. I shall be very brief. We seem to ...

Moved by

Lord Mendelsohn

70ZC: After Clause 25, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, these amendments are concerned with matters related to pubs. It is regrettable that we ...

My Lords, those of us who sat through long—some may say interminable—debates on this topic in not...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, for telling your Lordships what would be...

My Lords—

I will give way in a second if the noble Lord can control himself while I finish this sentence. T...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. He knows, of course, that I cannot speak for every single pubco ...

Again, both of us have to stand by our remarks, but I reinforce mine by quoting the statement mad...

My Lords, the background to this short debate is that pubs around the country are closing at an u...

My Lords, I think we established in Committee that the current, ongoing consultation has departed...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, for his amendments, and the noble Lord, Lord S...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Snape for his excellent intervention, and I thank the nobl...

Moved by

Lord Mendelsohn

70ZE: After Clause 25, insert the following new Clause—

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

70ZG: Clause 26, page 44, line 26, at end in...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 70ZG, which stands in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Mend...

My Lords, in supporting my noble friend Lady Hayter and speaking to the two amendments in my name...

My Lords, I said in Committee that there are a number of aspects the Government should be looking...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Hayter and Lady Donaghy, for their amendmen...

I had anticipated some clarification on housing associations. I thought that had been arranged, b...

I am extremely sorry if that was the noble Baroness’s expectation. I will write to her, but I do ...

I thought that our relevant teams had coped with that. I think the answer the Minister is going t...

Moved by

Lord Low of Dalston

70AA: Clause 26, page 44, line 29, at end insert “except...

My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendments 70AA and 70AB. The noble Lord, Lord Wills, will speak to ...

My Lords, I support the amendments, which have been so persuasively argued for by the noble Lord,...

My Lords, I have a specific point for the Minister. These two amendments raise important issues a...

My Lords, the case for the amendments has been made by both my noble friend Lord Wills and the no...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Low and Lord Wills, for their careful scrutiny a...

I appreciate that the issue cannot be given greater clarity at the moment, but if she can, will t...

Perhaps I may pick that up at the end and deal now with the point on whistleblowing, which we tak...

I apologise to noble Lords for that hiatus. In my naivety about procedure, I rather thought the n...

My Lords, in calling Amendment 70AB, I must tell noble Lords that there is a printing error in th...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

70B: Clause 26, page 45, leave out lines 5 t...

My Lords, I spoke to this amendment when addressing an earlier group. It is the amendment that wo...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

71: Clause 26, page 46, line 34, leave out “to which ...

My Lords, these amendments address the recommendations of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Ref...

My Lords, as we moved them in Committee, I do not think the Minister will be very surprised to kn...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

72: Clause 26, page 46, line 39, leave out from begin...

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

74: Clause 29, page 49, line 16, at end insert—